Maryam of Bethlehem
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:04.7 | Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. Today we will meditate on a wonderful modern saint, St. Maryam of Bethlehem. Her feast day is August 26th, in we normally celebrate the feast of our Lady of Chinstahova. |
| 0:26.6 | I hate when my saints conflict with each other. |
| 0:30.6 | Now, St. Miriam was from Ibelin, a small village between Nazareth and Haifa in Palestine, now Israel. |
| 0:43.3 | She was born in 1846. |
| 0:46.3 | And though her nickname was the little Arab, she is a Catholic Palestinian who is declared a saint in 2015. I want to share her life with you |
| 0:59.8 | because I think her motto, if you will learn to live it, will transform your life. Her parents |
| 1:08.0 | died when she was just three years old, leaving her and her brother Paul orphaned. |
| 1:12.6 | They were soon split up and given to different relatives. |
| 1:16.6 | Mariam went to live with her uncle's family who moved to Alexandria, Egypt in 1858. |
| 1:23.6 | As was the custom in the Middle East at the time a marriage was arranged for |
| 1:30.1 | Mariam when she was just 12 years old but she refused because from the time she was five |
| 1:36.8 | she had promised to give herself to Jesus in consecrated virginity to be his bride alone |
| 1:43.8 | she begged but her uncle would not change his mind, |
| 1:49.5 | so she turned to the Blessed Virgin Mary for guidance, and she was inspired to follow the example |
| 1:55.3 | of Catherine of Siena, who, facing a similar situation, cut off all her hair. So Mariam did the same and arrived at the |
| 2:05.4 | engagement party completely bald. Well, as you could imagine, the boy rejected her and her |
| 2:13.4 | uncle enraged, disowned her, and made her one of the servants of the family. |
| 2:20.3 | Longing to be reunited with her brother, who still lived near Nazareth, she learned of a Muslim |
| 2:27.3 | man who was going there, so she went to ask him to carry a message to her brother. |
| 2:34.1 | And during the conversation, the Muslim learned of her plight and treacherous. So she went to ask him to carry a message to her brother. |
| 2:39.7 | And during the conversation, the Muslim learned of her plight and tried to convert her to Islam. |
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