Offer It Up
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 20 November 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 | Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:10.0 | It's called in mind all those we've promised to pray for, |
| 0:12.0 | especially we all continue to |
| 0:14.7 | pray for the healing and full recovery of Olivia Caneli. |
| 0:19.1 | She's had over 50 days without a cluster seizure and now we're asking for the intercession of Pauline Jericho for the complete recovery of this little wonderful girl. |
| 0:32.0 | Now pause for a moment you can call to mind your own petitions. |
| 0:38.0 | In Colossians 124 St. Paul wrote |
| 0:42.0 | It makes me happy to suffer for you, as I am suffering now, and in my |
| 0:47.7 | own body to do what I can to make up all that still has to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the church. |
| 0:57.5 | If the suffering of Jesus is sufficient to save the world, why would Paul say he wants to make up all that is still to be |
| 1:06.7 | undergone by Christ? |
| 1:09.2 | Because God invites us to participate in all he does. This idea of participation is where we get the |
| 1:14.7 | phrase offer it up and it is why Jesus says we cannot be his disciples unless we |
| 1:20.7 | take up our own cross and follow him every day. |
| 1:24.0 | Still offering it up is a very misunderstood Catholic thing, |
| 1:28.0 | but once we understand how God has given us a way to participate in his being in action, our suffering can become a powerful |
| 1:36.0 | force to give meaning, purpose, and hope, and even happiness to our life including our suffering. |
| 1:45.0 | But to understand how we can help others by our suffering, |
| 1:48.0 | we have to grasp this idea, this theological idea of participation. |
| 1:54.3 | That's the idea that God has enabled us |
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