Friendship Deficit Syndrome
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our Rosary meditation. I am blessed today to have had supper with my parents, |
| 0:08.3 | Art and Erla and my sister Julie came down from Minneapolis. |
| 0:13.2 | For my birthday. |
| 0:16.1 | And we're here with Xavier, Teresa the Great, my son John, first time on your audio Rosary John. |
| 0:28.0 | With my Mej Nune and Sarah, my daughter has joined us from Richmond. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh actually she's in North Carolina today by phone. |
| 0:41.0 | So let's begin to the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:45.4 | Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. I want to give a |
| 0:50.7 | shout out to Moira, Henry, Genevieve, and Anna. |
| 0:59.0 | Thank you for praying the Rosary with me every day. |
| 1:05.0 | Today's meditation is on a growing crisis in our country and in the world. The Surgeon General has declared loneliness in isolation of public health crisis. |
| 1:21.0 | Roughly half of Americans suffer from this disease, |
| 1:24.9 | which I call Friendship Deficit Syndrome, |
| 1:28.7 | in which people have no one to share deeply with. |
| 1:32.1 | In 2017, 47,000 Americans died of suicide, number two killer |
| 1:38.1 | of teens behind motor vehicle accidents. Another 70,000 died of drug overdose, the number one killer of Americans |
| 1:47.3 | under 50. |
| 1:49.9 | Do we see loneliness around us? |
| 1:53.3 | What about within us? |
| 1:56.2 | Do we share deeply with anyone on a regular basis? |
| 2:01.1 | And who is God put in our life so that we can share deeply with them? |
| 2:10.0 | Our Father who aren't in heaven, hallow would be your name. |
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