This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

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

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

Today is the Feast of Saint Jerome. Now it should give us hope that Jerome

did not start out as a saint, none of them ever do.

He lived from 347 to 420, was baptized and became a Christian

at the age of 19.

As a young man, he had a hunger for knowledge so he dedicated himself to

learning Greek and Hebrew so that he could read the ancient writers.

Most of all, he loved reading the Roman and Greek philosophers such as Cicero,

to which he devoted all his time and energy. While on his way to Jerusalem to study Hebrew,

Jerome fell gravely ill and most thought he was on the brink of death. It was then that God gave him a vision of his particular judgment which he would receive at the moment of his death.

Of this Jerome writes,

Suddenly I was caught up in the spirit

and dragged before the judgment seat of the judge.

And here the light was so bright

and those who stood around were so radiant

that I cast myself upon the ground

and did not dare to look up.

Asked who and what I was I replied I am a Christian

but he who presided said, you lie.

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