James the Great

Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Dr. Mike Scherschligt

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 July 2022

⏱️ 24 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	Today it's the feast of St. James, the Greater, the Apostle.
0:10.0	Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
0:13.4	Amen.
0:14.4	Let's call the mind all those we've promised to pray for, especially the healing of
0:18.3	Olivia and Margot through the intercession of Blessed Pauline Jericho.
0:24.0	In Matthew chapter 20, then the mother of James and John came with her sons to make a request of Jesus, and said to her what is it you want?
0:36.3	She said to him,
0:37.3	promise that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right and what at your left in your kingdom.
0:45.1	You do not know what you are asking, Jesus answered.
0:48.7	Then turning to the apostles, he said,
0:51.7	Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?
0:55.4	They replied, we can.
0:58.3	Very well, he said, you shall drink my cup, but as for my seats at my right hand and my left, these are not mine to grant.
1:07.0	They belong to those to whom they have been allotted by my father.
1:12.0	When the other ten heard this they were indignant with the two brothers.
1:17.0	Now you may be tempted to accuse James and John of vain ambition, especially since the other apostles were indignant.
1:28.0	But I like what St. John Henry Cardinal Newman has to say here. He says this was not vain ambition, rather noble ambition,
1:40.8	the virtue of magnanimity, the desire to do great things for the love of God and souls.
1:52.0	Recall that fortitude or courage is to be willing to sacrifice what is lesser for the greater to gain the long-term goal.
2:02.0	Courage requires that we risk or venture something to gain the prize.
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