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Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Greed and Generosity

Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Dr. Mike Scherschligt

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🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the movement of the Holy Family.

0:03.0

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

0:05.0

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

0:07.0

Amen.

0:08.0

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

0:11.0

especially for Jack Goshay who died suddenly just the other night and for his family.

0:19.2

We also pray for the recovery of Cardinal Burke.

0:24.8

I owe him a great debt because he with Archbishop Naman

0:29.1

came up with the perfect structure for the School of Faith back in 2005.

0:37.2

And for a successful surgery for Olivia Caneli

0:39.7

on September 20th and for the healing of little Damien.

0:45.0

Today we continue our examination of conscience on the deadly sin of avarice or greed.

0:58.0

greed is the least confessed sin, and it's funny. No one thinks they suffer from greed because everyone suffers from greed. Now greed is not the desire

1:07.0

to be wealthy and you are not greedy just by being wealthy. In fact St. Louis, whose feast will celebrate next week, was King of France

1:17.4

and very wealthy, but not greedy. Greed is the excessive preoccupation with money and the things money affords, or the undue worry

1:30.2

over not having enough money.

1:32.4

Therefore, you can be rich or poor and suffer from greed,

1:37.0

since it is a preoccupation with money or the lack thereof.

1:42.0

Now, how do we know if we suffer from greed? Well, we can measure

1:46.5

it by our anger or worry over financial or material things. We get envious or angry when someone has more money than

1:56.8

we do or when they make more than us or they have nicer stuff than we have.

2:03.0

And we get angry at how much stuff costs.

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