Welcome to daily Rosary meditations with Dr. Mike Schurslick, where you learn how to meditate

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Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today we are meditating on the virtue of faith.

We're sometimes told we shouldn't believe everything we hear or read or see and that's true.

But it's also true that we are designed so that we can't survive without believing other people.

The truth we know firsthand, or by our own reasoning,

just isn't enough for us.

All of human history, for instance, consists in events we weren't at, and we can't mathematically

prove. Or think of geography. How many places do you know exist versus how many places you've personally been to?

Even scientists must rely on the testimony of other scientists.

Since no one can do all the experiments themselves.

And the reason we want our children to be educated is because we know that the only way

they can have access to the wealth of human knowledge is if they receive it from others.

And that only happens through belief.

A person who doesn't want to believe anybody should just shut themselves up in a padded room and rock back and forth saying lies, it's all lies.

But if we want a richer life than that, the only way to get it is by accepting that what other people say is normally true.

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