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Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Is Ignorance Bliss?

Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Dr. Mike Scherschligt

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🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 22 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 we've promised to pray for,

0:10.0

especially the healing of Olivia and Margot through the intercession of

0:13.2

blessed Pauline Jericho.

0:17.0

We've said that our conscience is only as good as our knowledge and that if our knowledge is deficient, then our conscience

0:25.2

will be deficient. In other words, if we don't know what's right, we won't be able to do what's

0:30.7

right. But it often happens that people are ignorant of some

0:34.9

teaching of the faith or of some moral principle through no fault of their own.

0:40.0

These people can't be blamed, they can't be held responsible for decisions made out of an ignorance that wasn't their fault.

0:49.0

But then that raises an interesting question.

0:52.0

If knowledge is what makes us responsible for our decisions,

0:57.0

then does that make knowledge of burden? Maybe knowledge, instead of liberating us actually weighs us down with

1:06.4

responsibility and just increases our guilt when we do something wrong.

1:10.8

To put the question another way is ignorance, bliss?

1:19.0

Our father who aren't in heaven, hallow it would be your name, thy kingdom combat will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

1:24.8

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

1:29.3

as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

1:36.5

Amen.

1:37.5

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

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