We are All Afraid to Die
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Thank you for joining us as we lead people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation, and the Rosary!
We depend on donations from exceptional listeners like you. A small monthly gift goes a long way to help us deliver this podcast. To donate, click here
To find out more about The Movement and enroll: https://www.schooloffaith.com/membership
If you want to listen and pray along with the One Decade version of this Rosary, click here.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | 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 | Amen. |
| 0:09.0 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:12.0 | The Bible tells us Jesus came to set free all those who had been |
| 0:17.8 | held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death. |
| 0:23.4 | Yet we are all afraid to die. |
| 0:28.4 | Last night I watched the movie A Hidden Life |
| 0:30.8 | about Blessed Franz Yeagerstater, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic |
| 0:36.7 | who refused to swear allegiance to Hitler and fight for him. |
| 0:41.4 | For this, he was put to death in 1943 he has since been declared a martyr and |
| 0:47.0 | beatified by the Catholic Church I was deeply disturbed by this movie and it kept me up all night. Why? Because it reminded me that we all will die and we fear it. People say oh I'm not afraid of death. Yes, yes |
| 1:10.1 | they are they just haven't faced it so they are. They just haven't faced it, so they are blissfully ignorant, |
| 1:15.9 | maybe willfully ignorant. |
| 1:19.6 | And the way the whole world reacted to COVID showed us we are slaves to the fear of death. |
| 1:29.0 | Are you ready? How will you die? |
| 1:32.0 | Nobly or ignobly. |
| 1:35.0 | Our Father who art in heaven, |
| 1:41.0 | hallow would be your name. |
| 1:42.0 | Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. |
| 1:45.9 | Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us for me |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Mike Scherschligt, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Mike Scherschligt and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.