What to Do When You're Surrounded by Trials

0:00Welcome to the morning offering, your daily call to prayer. Pray with us every day, right here on the podcast and in your inbox. Learn more at morningoffering.com. Hey y'all, welcome to your morning offering. My name is Father Brad Doyle and today is September 3rd, the Memorial of St. Gregory the Great. Let's pray. And the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day for all the intentions of your sacred heart and union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. For the salvation of souls, the reparation of sins, the reunion of all Christians and in particular the intentions of the Holy Father this month. Amen. And the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. St. Gregory known as the Unifier of the Roman Right, the legendary prop mind and not happened but he did unify things in the right.

1:02He loved music, he gathered, all chants and stuff. Is the gradually Romanum that we have the official chants right now? Is it from Gregory? He write them all maybe not. But he did start this move to codifying the music in the Latin right. So that's why it's Gregorian chant. Did you know that? St. Gregory the Great. And so I was like, oh, on his feast day, what is the Gregorian chant? And it is from Daniel chapter three. Okay. So most of the time for memorials, so not feast days, feast days and salimities they'll have their own propers. For memorials, the propers, right? The reading sometimes the insurance chant, the communion chant, the off the tour chant, they'll be taken for what's called the common of propers, the common of saints, the common of pastors, right? And this one is from the common of pastors because he was Pope and they have certain ones

2:02for popes. And it's from Daniel three. Listen to it in the Latin. So chair dotez, satcho dotez, dey, venadice te dominum, santi ed, humilez, corde, laudate deyum. Okay. So what does that mean? I love doing this because it's like, you get to like, you're like, oh, that sounded cool, but what does it mean? Bless the Lord, you priest of the Lord. Sing praise to him. Well, actually it skips down. So as bless the Lord, you priest of the Lord. Bless the Lord. You who are holy and humble of heart. Sing praise to him and highly exalt him forever. So that is why we choose it for the common of pastors because they're the priests of the Lord and really the high priest. Remember in the Old Testament, you had the high priest and then you had the high priest under him. You had like Moses and then you had, where you had Aaron and then you had the three sons

3:02and then you had the Levites. And so there was this gradation. So you had the bishop and the in the highest bishop is the is the pope. Then you had the priests under him. Then you had the Levites are associated with the dekins. And so we're going back into the Old Testament, which is what they do a lot of times for the proper. The typology just keeps coming. And what's beautiful about this is this comes from a section of the book of Daniel that is scripture that is inspired, but it's not in every Bible in the world because not only were seven books removed, but even parts of other books. I think of the prayer of Esther or this is from the prayer of the three men in the fire. Radshak, Misha, and Abinda Go are in their Syrian names. Hananiah as Araya and Misha. No, I think the first one was their Syrian names and Hananiah as Araya and Mishaah was

4:03their Hebrew names. And so this is their prayer, the context. When you're praying on today, the feast day of Pope Gregory the Great, and you're praying for the Holy Father, Pope Leo, pray from that context. So priest to the Lord bless the Lord. Where were they? They were in the fire. They were praising God in the fire. So the church is himdened sometimes from all sides. Like David talks about, obviously Daniel expresses, like Jeremiah will talk about the Lord himself, right? My God, my God, why you've forsaken me? He had the true high priest. Yet he can sing God's praises even in the midst of the fire. This has been your reflection for today. If it was helpful for you, go to morningoffering.com and sign up. We'll be in your inbox every morning. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be gladin' it.

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