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Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Joy and Sorrow

Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Dr. Mike Scherschligt

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 23 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.

0:08.0

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

0:11.0

We were made for joy and not for sorrow. Joy or delight is the response to something

0:20.6

experienced as good and it invites us to rest in that good. Joy is the

0:28.3

emotion that prompts you to rest, to stop, to sit down and delight in the magnificent 360 degree view once you've

0:38.3

reached the summit of a mountain. It says this is a good place to be. Let's stay here.

0:45.0

Sorrow, on the other hand, is the response to something experienced as evil.

0:52.0

And it clamors that somebody do something to fix the situation.

0:57.0

Joy means delighting in things that are good and it prompts us to rest.

1:05.0

Sorrow prompts us to action and never lets us rest.

1:10.0

Our screens give us a constant reminder of all that is wrong in the world, prompting

1:18.2

sorrow, destroying rest, creating anxiety and worry. Furthermore, our screens constantly confront us with sorrows

1:28.1

that are not our responsibility, things that are beyond our ability to fix.

1:35.0

As we continue to put all that is wrong in the world before our mind by our screens,

1:42.0

sorrow continually tells us there is something to fix so we can never

1:47.7

rest. Then the cycle of watching a broken world and the response of sorrow and the anxiety to fix it

1:56.9

continue. Have you had enough already because you were made for joy, not for sorrow.

2:07.0

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

2:11.0

By kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

2:15.0

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

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