Slaves of Pleasure
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary. Welcome to our Rosary meditation. |
| 0:19.8 | Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:28.0 | Yesterday, we heard Jesus begin his public ministry with the message, |
| 0:33.4 | repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. |
| 0:36.2 | And today we celebrate the conversion of St. Paul. |
| 0:39.6 | I was reflecting on my own need for deeper conversion as I was working out in my gym in my |
| 0:46.6 | garage when two mice joined me. Now they refused to wear masks in my gym, so I set two traps with peanut butter one next to the other. |
| 0:58.0 | Now I'm certain the mice didn't run out at the same time and get killed. |
| 1:02.0 | Clearly one was caught before the... didn't run out at the same time and get killed. |
| 1:03.1 | Clearly one was caught before the other. |
| 1:05.8 | But there they were, dead. |
| 1:07.6 | Side by side. |
| 1:09.2 | I thought, surely, when the second mouse came out to the bait and saw his buddy dead, |
| 1:15.6 | wouldn't he think, hey, I don't want to end up like him. |
| 1:19.8 | So I better not go for the peanut butter. |
| 1:22.4 | Nope. The allure. So I better not go for the peanut butter. |
| 1:23.0 | Nope. |
| 1:24.0 | The allure of the pleasure of eating that peanut butter |
| 1:27.0 | overcame its instinct to danger. |
| 1:30.0 | The mouse had no power of resistance against temptation and snap that was all she wrote |
| 1:38.4 | Then I thought you know we are exactly the same we know the danger we face with temptation and what will happen when we sin, but we do it anyway. |
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