St. James the Great
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 34 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. |
| 0:05.4 | Amen. |
| 0:06.4 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:10.6 | Today is the feast of James the Great, the brother of John, and one of the three |
| 0:15.9 | apostles who were the closest friends of Jesus. The Gospel of Matthew relates this. |
| 0:25.0 | Then the mother of James and John came with her sons to make a request of Jesus and |
| 0:31.0 | bowed low and he said to her what is it you want? She said to him |
| 0:37.0 | promise that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right and the other at your left when you come into your kingdom. |
| 0:47.1 | You do not know what you are asking, Jesus answered. |
| 0:51.4 | Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink? |
| 0:55.0 | We can, they replied. |
| 0:58.0 | Very well, Jesus said, |
| 1:00.0 | you shall drink my cup, but as for the seats at my right and my left, these are not mine to grant. |
| 1:09.4 | They belong to those to whom they have been allotted by my father. And when the other ten heard this, they were |
| 1:17.7 | indignant with the two brothers. Now you might be tempted to think James and John had given in to vain ambition, |
| 1:27.0 | especially since the other apostles were angry. |
| 1:30.0 | But St. John Henry Newman gives us a very different perspective. |
| 1:35.0 | He says this was not vain ambition, it was courage. |
| 1:42.0 | Courage is the willingness to risk and even sacrifice what is lesser |
| 1:48.4 | for the sake of what is greater. Courage requires that we risk or venture something to gain the prize. |
| 1:58.0 | Can you drink the cup? Jesus said. |
| 2:02.8 | Are you willing to risk and even lose what you hold most dear? |
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