St. James the Less
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the movement of the Holy Family. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to our Rosary meditation. |
| 0:05.0 | Today is a big day for Teresa, who normally praise the Rosary with me because the hockey playoffs start. the is a huge Bruins fan. |
| 0:25.3 | But that's not the topic of this Rosary. |
| 0:27.8 | For today is also the Feast of St. James the Less |
| 0:32.1 | and St. |
| 0:33.3 | So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:36.5 | Amen. |
| 0:37.1 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:42.1 | Now, James the Less was the cousin of Jesus and the first Bishop of Jerusalem, and he's not to be confused with James the Greater, the brother of St. John. |
| 0:55.0 | Remember our Lord called James the Greater and John, the Sons of Thunder? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, this is the other James. |
| 1:04.8 | This other James preached the gospel with exceptional zeal in Jerusalem for over 30 years where he |
| 1:11.0 | was the Bishop, but his success was met with fierce opposition by the leaders of the Jews who wanted to kill him. |
| 1:21.0 | And in 62 AD, a group of furious scribes and Pharisees demanded that James renounce |
| 1:29.3 | his faith in Jesus, and when he flatly refused, they arrested him, took him to the pinnacle of the temple |
| 1:39.3 | and threw him down to the angry mob below. Still alive the mob began to stone him and as he |
| 1:46.8 | prayed for their forgiveness he was bludgeoned to death with clubs. He's buried in the Cathedral of St. James in the Armenian |
| 1:56.8 | quarter in Jerusalem where we will visit this June. |
| 2:05.7 | St James, pray for us. |
| 2:10.2 | Our Father who art in heaven, |
| 2:11.6 | hallow it would be your name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. |
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