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Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

The Rosary is Supposed to be a Meditation

Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers

Dr. Mike Scherschligt

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🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This is the movement of the Holy Family.

0:03.0

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

0:05.0

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

0:08.0

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

0:11.0

Asking through the intercession of Blessed Pauline Jericho, for the

0:15.0

asking through the intercession of blessed Pauline Jericho for a successful surgery and healing for Olivia Canelie

0:20.0

the healing of Damien and that Margot will wake up.

0:27.0

Now the Rosary is supposed to be a meditation on the word of God,

0:32.0

not a mindless saying of words. It makes the Rosary what it

0:37.2

should be to derive all its power when we do pray it as a meditation. But we need to better understand

0:48.4

what Catholic meditation is, especially taught by Teresa of Avalon, John of the Cross.

0:58.0

Now the great spiritual theologian Jordan Aaman

1:01.8

sums up the nature of meditation.

1:05.8

Meditation is a reasoned application of the mind

1:09.7

to some supernatural truth in order to penetrate its meaning, to love it, and to carry it into practice

1:16.2

with the assistance of grace.

1:19.0

In other words, meditation is to turn your attention to God, to think about what he has said or done in order to understand it,

1:29.0

but even more to love God for these things that leads to forming firm convictions that we put into

1:38.6

practice with the assistance of grace.

1:41.6

Now there are three essential parts to meditation. First to read or

1:46.7

listen to something from the word of God found in scripture tradition or the

1:50.8

teaching of the church and then to reflect or think about what struck you, to try to understand, to apply it to your life, to draw practical conclusions for yourself.

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