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What Memento Mori Means for Christians!
Memento mori and Christian spiritual discipline
What does "Memento Mori" - the ancient practice of remembering our mortality - have to do with the Christian faith? 🤔 In this Short, we dive into the powerful and often misunderstood concept of Memento Mori and explore how it's not a morbid or depressing idea, but a profound spiritual discipline for Christians. This is more than just a history lesson; it's a call to live with an eternal perspective.
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[0:00] And one of the things that I that I've
[0:02] put here as a a little bit of a reminder
[0:05] for us on this table here is is this
[0:07] skull. And it may seem a little morbid,
[0:10] but throughout history, Christians have
[0:12] understood that the the the skull is a
[0:16] sign of of our death. It's for us to
[0:19] remember that we're going to die. And
[0:21] there's a a Latin word that's uh two
[0:24] words. It's momento mori, which means
[0:26] remember your death. Remember that
[0:27] you're going to die. And why is that
[0:29] important? Because our earthly pil
[0:31] pilgrimage here is going to end for all
[0:33] of us. And it's whenever that pilgrimage
[0:37] on this earth is completed, um we're not
[0:40] going to return to another life. There's
[0:41] no such thing as incarnation. There's
[0:43] some that believe in that. But as as
[0:46] Christians, as believers, we know and
[0:47] understand that um you know, the church
[0:51] teaches us in the catechism of the
[0:53] Catholic Church in 10:13 that uh it's
[0:55] appointed for us to die once and after
[0:57] that, you know, we're going to be
[0:59] judged. There is no reincarnation after
[1:01] this death. But also, the word of God
[1:03] tells us in Hebrews chapter 9:27 that
[1:06] it's appointed for us to die once and
[1:08] then comes judgment. So, you're not
[1:11] going to get another chance at life uh
[1:13] after this one.
[1:15] >> I've always wanted to come back as a f
[1:17] famous rodeo bucking bull, so I don't
[1:18] have a shot of doing that.
[1:20] >> No, you're not.
[1:21] >> I mean, you eat hay all day and you you
[1:22] buck for 8 seconds about once a week.
[1:24] Pretty good life.
[1:25] >> Yeah, pretty good life. Except whenever
[1:26] they start making ribe eyes and and
[1:29] >> when you quit when you quit buckets.
[1:30] >> That's right.
[1:31] >> Ground meat. But either way, your gun