Joy of Contemplating the Truth
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Holy Family School of Faith. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to our Rosary meditation. |
| 0:07.0 | I am blessed to be with a group of friends. |
| 0:09.0 | We've had great conversation and now we're going to pray the Rosary together. So let's begin in the name of the |
| 0:14.4 | Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:16.6 | Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:20.6 | The theme of our meditation today is the joy of contemplating the truth. |
| 0:25.0 | Things that bring true fulfillment we should do. Things that leave us empty, angry, and full of anxiety we should stop doing. |
| 0:36.0 | The mind was made for truth like the stomach was made for food. |
| 0:40.0 | And since the mind is higher than the stomach, the pleasure and satisfaction of knowing the truth should be higher than the satisfaction of having a full belly. |
| 0:50.0 | Knowing the truth, grasping reality, seeing the big ideas that put everything in a new light, |
| 0:57.0 | now there's food for the soul. |
| 0:59.0 | Think about the last time a talk or a book or even a movie blew your mind. |
| 1:05.0 | Probably at Wolf together large pieces of your experience, |
| 1:09.2 | stuff that you knew already, and connected them to some larger principle in a way that brought it all together. |
| 1:17.3 | We gain our knowledge piecemeal and when we're able to put the pieces together in a coherent picture, it's enormously gratifying, |
| 1:26.0 | one of the most fulfilling experiences. |
| 1:29.4 | On the other hand, the countless contradictory statements and bits of information we receive from the news, blogs, |
| 1:36.7 | podcasts, sports stats, random debates, bits of gossip. |
| 1:41.8 | These are not satisfying. They are like bad appetizers with no main |
| 1:46.2 | course. My mind is hungry for truth, but all I get from the news are bits and pieces of garbage. |
| 1:54.0 | The news gives us a counterfeit to the truth. |
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