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Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Heroism and Human Sexuality

Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Dr. Mike Scherschligt

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🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This is the movement of the Holy Family.

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Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation.

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

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Amen.

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

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What is heroism?

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Heroism means being willing to sacrifice great goods and great pleasures

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for the sake of a greater good and a greater joy.

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Christ is the supreme hero. He lays down his life. He allows all respect for his dignity and his physical life to be taken from him

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He's willing to let go of all physical comfort and the very breath of his lungs. He does that in order to

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save the world, which is to him a greater good. He dies so that he can rise again and lead all willing men and women with him to heaven.

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The most vivid and striking form of heroism comes in the act of a physical martyrdom where the

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saint imitates Christ by preferring death to sin, choosing God over physical life. This is the Christian's greatest triumph, and very few people

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have the opportunity to realize this kind of heroism. But all of us, every Christian, is called to the

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heroism of living our sexuality in a chaste and holy way. And down through the ages the world shows its

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in comprehension and its hatred for the heroism of the man or woman

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who upholds God's design for marriage and sexuality.

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Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it would be your name.

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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, hollow it would be your name, by kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us

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from evil, amen.

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Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women.

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