St. John Damascene
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the movement of the Holy Family. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to our rosary meditation. |
| 0:06.0 | So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:09.0 | Amen. |
| 0:09.8 | And let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:15.5 | Today is the feast of one of my favorite Marian saints, St. John Damascene. He promoted consecration to Mary more |
| 0:25.8 | than 1,400 years ago. He was born of a Catholic family in Damascus, Syria, and in the year |
| 0:34.1 | 675, excuse me, he was born in the year 675, and he spent the entirety of his life under |
| 0:46.9 | Muslim civil rule. |
| 0:49.4 | Now, early in his professional career, he was the chief revenue officer and counselor of the Muslim Caliph |
| 0:56.9 | in Damascus in Syria. In the year 726, the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, in Constantinople, |
| 1:08.1 | issued a law that all sacred images and icons of Jesus and Mary and the Saints |
| 1:14.1 | must be destroyed. John worked to prevent this unjust law from being enacted by widely |
| 1:23.4 | distributing articles and pamphlets to explain that sacred images and icons are good and should be venerated and protected because they remind us of the presence of God and the help of Mary and the Saints. |
| 1:39.2 | Crucifixes, pictures, statues, icons are vital reminders that we have not been left alone in this world. |
| 1:48.5 | God is with us, and he continues to care for us by His providence. |
| 1:54.4 | But when we remove all these visible reminders of God's presence, it's amazing how quickly we forget about God. And we fall |
| 2:04.1 | pray to pride in the form of self-reliance. We think that we control everything. And then we live in |
| 2:13.5 | the fear and anxiety because we realize we can't control everything. |
| 2:20.9 | We need to know that someone has our back. |
| 2:24.9 | But we've stripped our culture of its visible reminders that God is with us. |
| 2:31.2 | Have you placed a crucifix or a beautiful image of the sacred heart of Jesus or of Mary in a prominent place in your home? |
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