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14: How The Rosary Will Transform Your Life
Episode 1419th June 2024 • Ever Be • Mari Wagner
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Mari shares the significance of the rosary in the Catholic faith and its transformative impact on her life. Mari speaks to her personal journey from viewing the rosary as an ancient tradition to experiencing its profound effects, including enhanced peace, a deeper desire for faith, and increased confidence in God's plan. You are encouraged to pray the rosary daily to experience it's power, graces, and promises, and Mari offers practical tips for incorporating this devotion into daily prayer routines.

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Hey, I'm your host, Mari Wagner, and you're listening to the ever be

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If you're a woman desiring to live

a Christ centered life in today's

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modern world, then this is for you.

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Welcome to Ever Be.

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mari-wagner_1_06-18-2024_134127: Hello.

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Hello, friends.

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Welcome back.

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It's so good to be with you today.

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It's just me today.

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And today we're gonna be

talking about the rosary.

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Um, I'm going to show a little bit

about my experience and just some of

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the amazing things that I have learned

about the rosary over the years.

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in hopes to hopefully encourage you and

convict you of its power of its beauty.

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Um, and just the amazing effects

and benefits and graces that you

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can see in your life when you start

praying the rosary every single day.

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And I want to talk about this, uh,

prayer and devotion specifically, because

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there's a lot of different devotions

to choose from in the Catholic faith.

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And that's a beautiful thing, but But

the rosary has been, I'll say like

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one of the most longstanding devotions

and probably one that, uh, Mary in

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her apparitions, uh, the different

saints have all spoken out in a very

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fervent way, a very convicting way.

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And it can't be for no reason, right?

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It can't be that saints time and time

again, talk about the power of the

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rosary and urging us to pray the rosary.

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It can't be that Mary and all of

her apparitions, especially, you

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know, in Fatima, her most well known

apparitions, where she urges her

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children, us, to pray the rosary

faithfully and devoutly every single day.

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And truthfully, I feel like it's a

prayer that a lot of people have a

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hard time with, which is another reason

why I want to talk about it, because

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I think that You're probably not alone

if you struggle to pray the rosary.

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And if that's you don't feel bad.

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I was there once as well and

still am there from time to time.

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Um, but I think it's a prayer that a lot

of people have trouble with, uh, either

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because of the repetition or because of

the link, they struggle to find time or

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really to know why is it such a big deal?

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Like, why are we supposed to

pray the rosary every single day?

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And so I hope that this

episode today really.

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Draws out some of that,

uh, conviction in you.

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Draws out some desire for you to

come to know Jesus's life more fully

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and love Jesus's life and love, uh,

meditating on his life through the

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eyes of his mother, through the rosary.

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So I grew up cradle Catholic, but not,

not very practicing until my later

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high school years, college years.

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So the rosary wasn't something that

I grew up praying and it wasn't

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something that my family necessarily

had as a practice within our family.

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Um, I kind of grew up thinking it

was just something that grandmas

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did and come to think of it.

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I feel like I remember my grandma

talking about it, but, um, I mostly

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just remember her talking about her

love for Mary and the importance

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that Mary plays in our life.

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Um, either way, I associated

the rosary as kind of like an

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ancient Catholic tradition.

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Not really something that was necessary

or something that I necessarily

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really needed to adopt in my life.

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And then my mom went through

her own reversion, uh, back

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to the faith, praise God.

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My sophomore slash junior year of college,

sorry, not college of high school.

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Times for her.

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She, it all really stemmed from, uh,

Mary and Mary working in her life and

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she wanted to pray the rosary more.

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And she started incorporating that

practice into our family's life.

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I will say it wasn't widely celebrated

or received by the family at first.

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Okay.

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But bless her heart.

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She had us all sit down and pray the

rosary every single Sunday after mass.

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And so that was when I was really

introduced truly to what it was

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like to pray the rosary, um,

and pray the rosary as a family.

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And uh, At this point, I'm starting

to grow in my faith as well.

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So I know that it's important in a sense.

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Like I know it's a quote unquote,

good thing to do to pray the rosary.

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And I've always loved Mary

and I loved Mary very much.

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So I was like, okay, I'm not going

to put up too much of a fight,

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but I didn't really, Love it.

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I didn't really engage in it that much.

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I remember thinking it was boring and

long and I kind of couldn't wait to

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get over with, you know, just kind

of get through the Hail Mary's recite

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them quickly and kind of, kind of just

check it off and be like, okay, we did

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a good thing and just be done with it.

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And it wasn't really until college,

my, Junior year that I started

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to pray the rosary more often.

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And it all really started with

Trey, my husband now, who was my

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boyfriend at the time, he learned

to make rosaries at a summer camp.

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He was working at, you can hear the

full story of how our baby was born.

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Business, west Coast Catholic

started another episode, but that's

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kind of where it all stems from.

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He learned how to make

these corded rosaries.

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And then for a birthday of mine, he

wanted to gift me a handmade rosary.

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And so he wanted me to pick out the beads

and kind of design what it looked like.

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And then he wanted to handcraft.

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And so we went to Michael's.

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We picked out some beautiful beads.

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And the beauty of this rosary,

the intentionality of this

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rosary, the way that I knew that

it was made and crafted for me.

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just had a power over it, right?

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And this is where I've come

to learn the power of beauty.

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Beauty is a transcendental, which means

that it kind of elevates our soul to

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heaven and allows us to see something

divine beyond what is just in front of us.

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So just the beauty of this rosary.

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Drew me to it.

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And at first it was just holding it.

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At first it wasn't like, I was like,

oh, let's pray the rosary all the time.

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At first I was just holding it, so I would

just put it in my pocket, I'd put it in my

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purse, I'd sleep with it under my pillow.

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Um, I had it in my backpack

on the way to class.

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I just had it with me often, and

I just felt a sense of peace and

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protection, even by just holding it.

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And I even just felt a.

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A greater desire for my faith, for the

things of the faith, even just by holding

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it, by being physically near the rosary.

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And at some point I realized, okay, I

have my rosary with me at all times.

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I should probably.

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Pray it myself.

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I should probably actually

include this in my prayer routine.

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And so I started praying it a little

more, more often, maybe twice a week.

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I remember there was a group of Catholic

students that would get together every,

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I think it was like Thursday morning.

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We called it a, uh,

Gosh, what was it called?

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A power hour or a prayer

hour or something like that.

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It wasn't an hour.

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It was like, you know, 20 minutes we

would walk on campus super early in the

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morning, like six or six 30 am to pray the

rosary before anybody was out on campus

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to pray for the conversion of our campus.

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Um, yeah, I was pretty nuts back then.

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Not really sure how I got out

of bed so early to do that.

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But The Lord gives us the grace and the

times that we need it for whatever it is

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that his mission is for us at that time.

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So I was praying it at least once a week

and then every once in a while, Trey

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would invite me to pray with him after

a Sunday mass or something like that.

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So maybe once, twice a week, um, you

know, Just sparingly here and there.

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And then I think, uh, COVID hit and when

COVID hit, I realized, you know, wow,

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like we don't have the sacraments anymore.

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The churches were closed.

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We couldn't go to mass or adoration

or confession and the rosary.

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in a different way than just like mental

prayer or journaling was, was kind of like

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this routine, uh, meditative prayer that

almost resembled the mass in a way, right?

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Like because of its structure, because

of its monotonousness and routine of it,

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which we'll get to The depth beyond that,

because there's so much more beyond that.

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But even just that as a starting point

during COVID, I felt so much more

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drawn to pray the rosary because I was

missing that routine way of worshiping

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and practicing my faith in the mass.

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And so.

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My friends and I would go on

rosary walks and at this point we

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would do it several times a week.

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We were so bored at home.

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We had nothing to do.

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We couldn't go to mass and we were

just, you know, trying to get out of

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the house, move our bodies and throw

a rosary in there at the same time.

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So I started praying it

more often during COVID.

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And the fruits that I began to see in my

life, they're almost instant, you guys,

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and I always explain it like it's math.

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Like, it just works, right?

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Like, every single time, the outcome in

a math equation is supposed to be the

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same, and the same goes for the rosary.

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Those graces and fruits I began to see in

my life, Pretty soon after just starting

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to pray it one more time, two more

times a week, three more times a week.

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Like I said, it even started

from when I just had the rosary

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physically in my presence, in my

hand, in my purse, under my pillow.

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And the largest overarching

one that I would say is peace.

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And that's something that I think

we can hear and kind of dismiss

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and be like, Oh, you felt peace.

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That's great.

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That's a nice feeling.

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We are all deeply yearning for peace.

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Our world is so deeply yearning for peace

and especially our young generation.

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I know I've said it before, but

we're struggling with depression,

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anxiety, worry, and stress

more than any other generation.

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I feel like, and we need peace.

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It's not just a light, happy go lucky

thing that, you know, is nice to have.

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It's a need.

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We need peace in our

hearts and in our souls.

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Um, we need rest.

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In like the depths of our soul.

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And I found that through the rosary.

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Like I said, I started praying it a

lot more often during COVID, which

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was a weird time for all of us.

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A little bit of an unrestful

time for all of us.

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And in the midst of worries and fears

that I had of what was going to happen

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or what was life going to look like?

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I was moving to a new

state to get a new job.

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I was in the middle of engagement.

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I didn't know what was going to

happen with our wedding in the

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midst of all that worry and unrest.

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I found peace.

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And I started going to the rosary so much

more often, literally to draw peace from

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the source of Jesus through his mother.

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Another fruit that I got from praying

the rosary that I experience all

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the time now, the more that I pray

the rosary, the more I feel this.

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And that is a deeper desire for the things

of the faith and kind of like, um, I call

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it like a spiritual sweetness sometimes.

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Like I'm sure you've experienced

this before where like mass becomes.

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Kind of old or like a drag, or

sometimes you have to like force

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yourself to go because you're like,

Oh my gosh, like, I don't know.

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I don't get anything out of her.

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It's boring.

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If that's where you're

at, like, that's okay.

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I encourage you to press on

because there's something

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so beautiful there for you.

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Or maybe you feel like a similar way

about the teachings of the faith and

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you're like, I just don't understand,

nor really have a desire to live the

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way the church teaches me to, or to have

a deeper understanding as to why we're

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taught to live the way that we should, or,

you know, why we believe certain things.

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Like if you have basically what I'm

trying to say, if you have a, an

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apathy or a distaste, or even like

a, some sort of resistance to the

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things of the faith, or they're just.

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Boring to you sometimes

the rosary changes that.

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And it changed that for me.

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It gave me a spiritual sweetness

and an easiness and a desire

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for the things of the faith.

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All of a sudden I started

appreciating mass more.

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I started to see the beauty

more of what was happening.

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The supernatural reality of, uh, a

simple bread and wine becoming the

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Jesus's body and blood given up for

us, the supernatural reality of Being

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joined to earth and Mary's in the angels

and saints, intercessions is communion

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of saints intercession for our life,

for our holiness, for our sanctity.

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I started to desire daily prayer.

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I started to actually desire time in

silence and meditation with the Lord

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and to kind of like retreat from the

everyday and retreat from the noise

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of the world to be in solitude, to

In prayer with Jesus, the, the rosary

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gave me these desires, you guys.

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And of course it just deepened my

relationship with Mary and Jesus.

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Like I said, I've always loved Mary, but

praying the rosary frequently gave me

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this deeper sense of belonging to her.

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Okay.

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Like when Jesus says on the

cross, John, behold, your

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mother, mother, behold, your son.

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I felt that to my core.

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The more I prayed the rosary, I

felt her motherhood in my life.

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I felt an embrace, maybe not like a

physical hug from a person, but I felt

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this like spiritual embrace of her

protection and her presence in my life.

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I was never alone anymore.

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And I'm saying this like totally honestly,

like if I ever felt alone, I knew like.

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My mom is with me like my heavenly

mother is just with me, whether she's

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just enjoying this time of silence with

me or cooking with me or on a walk with

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me or sitting next to me in the pew as

I pray to Jesus, she's always with me

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and protecting me and interceding for me

and the rosary just gave me that deeper

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sense of belonging to Mary as my mother.

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And I want that for you.

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I want you to seek that.

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I know that a relationship with Mary

is something that a lot of us seek

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and sometimes struggle with, you know,

for different reasons, but I want you

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to feel that motherhood in your life.

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And so the rosary is one of those avenues

where you can draw closer to Mary.

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And through loving Mary more, I

was drawn even closer to Jesus.

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And this is something I don't

necessarily feel like I have a tangible

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explanation as to how or why other

than that's just Mary's mission is

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to bring you to her son is to help

you love her son and know her son.

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Hey everyone, this is Trey.

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I edit Mari's podcasts and I'm just

coming in here to interrupt because I

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actually recently read something that

I felt was super powerful and super

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convicting that was a great explanation

to why going through Mary leads us

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closer to Jesus and why that is The

proper order in which to return to God.

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So God, in His all perfection, all

knowing omnipotence, He could have chose

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any way possible, any way that He wanted

to save us, to redeem us, but He chose

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to save us through encountering us and

redeeming us through His Son, Jesus.

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And the way that He did that, the

way that He encountered us and

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the means and the method by which

He encountered us and saved us.

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was through the person of Mary.

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Even further, as Christians we

are called to become like Christ.

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And in order to do that we need grace.

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And grace was given to the world

through Jesus and therefore through

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Mary because Jesus came through Mary.

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And so in God's plan, the most

perfect way to save us and to

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encounter us was through Mary.

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And so likewise, that should be

the perfect path to return to God.

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If God encountered us through Mary, then

we should just follow that same path back

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up to God and encounter God through Mary.

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So that is a very tangible explanation

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As to why going through Mary leads

us to God and why it is the most

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perfect way to return to God, because

we're not choosing to do that.

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We're just imitating God himself.

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If God goes through Mary to encounter

us and to save us, then we should

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go through Mary to encounter him.

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Now back to the podcast.

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happened.

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I think it was just a natural next step.

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As I drew closer to Mary through the

rosary, I began to desire Jesus more.

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I began to, to go to Jesus in

prayer more than seeking Mary.

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I think for a long time, I kind of had a

relationship with God, the father, and I

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had a very deep relationship with Mary.

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And Jesus's son as a person,

I knew who he was in a sense,

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I didn't know him personally.

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And so I wouldn't really be

like, dear Jesus in prayer.

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I wouldn't really address Jesus.

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Be like, Hey Jesus, here's my heart.

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It would always be like, God,

please provide in this way.

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Please hear my prayer.

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And then Mary was the one that I would

be like very vulnerable and open and

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just everyday casual conversation with.

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And through praying the rosary and

getting even closer with Mary, I just

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naturally desired to speak directly to

Jesus and to bring everything to Jesus

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and almost supplement that with Mary's

intercessions and her prayer for me.

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And then I think another grace that

I have felt, uh, throughout my entire

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journey of praying the rosary, but

more so the past few years, probably

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the past year or two is increased

confidence in God's plan for my life

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and increased confidence in God himself.

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This is something we all struggle with.

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You guys wanting to know what

the future holds, wanting to know

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what God has in store for us.

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Why things happen in our life, why he

allows suffering or, you know, when is

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he going to bring about this thing that

I've been praying for, for forever?

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We can all relate to that

in one way or another.

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And praying the rosary has given

me a blind trust, a deep sense of

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confidence and faith in who God is.

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What does that mean and who God is in

his goodness, in his fatherhood, in the

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fact that I am so loved and so important

to him that he has a plan for me.

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He never abandons.

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He doesn't, he doesn't forget about

me and I'm never overlooked by him.

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And I don't know why, again, I don't

know why praying the rosary has given

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me this grace, but it has, and I've

seen it because the past few years

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of our life have been a lot of.

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Big transitions, you know, into getting

married and moving states twice.

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Uh, our whole story of how we moved

from Nebraska to Colorado was wild and

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totally led by the Lord and literally

happened in the span of four weeks.

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Can you imagine moving states,

selling house, buying a house?

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We were in the middle of, you know,

holiday season for our business.

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We had seek that we were going to,

it was like the most crazy time.

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And.

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Praying the rosary gave me the

peace and confidence to know, yes,

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this is the voice of the Lord.

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This is what he's calling us to

continue to trust, continue to

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follow his call, continue to say yes.

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We felt that even more so in the past

few months with Trey quitting his

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job and coming full time West Coast

Catholic with me, um, and making that

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leap maybe a little bit earlier than we

thought we were going to be ready for.

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Praying the rosary, seeking Mary's

intercession in all things has

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given me that confidence and that

peace that God is God and I am his

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child and thank God I am not God.

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Thank God I don't have the power that

I sometimes think I would like to

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have over my life, my life, or even

have the foresight to know everything

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that's happening in the future.

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We think we want those things, but

in our humanity, we actually can't.

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Handle those things.

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And so it, it makes me realize the

beauty of God being God and the beauty

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of me being a child that depends

in a child that goes to him with

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open hands, just, just giving the

Lord everything that's on my heart

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through his mother and just receiving

comfort and grace and trust in him.

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And I think one of the most remarkable

things about the rosary is the

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protection that we can gain from it.

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The rosary is commonly, referred to

as a weapon, like a spiritual weapon

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against evil, against Satan, against sin.

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So what does this mean?

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A weapon, like what is this like

protection that it gives us?

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So according to the catechism of the

Catholic church, the rosary, can destroy

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vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

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demons, literally put demons to flight

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and protect you from any attacks of the

evil one, as well as just granting a

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special protection over those who pray

the rosary faithfully and devoutly.

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There's many testimonies of this and

I'll try and share some that just

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come to mind off the top of my head.

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But the one that I just heard recently

that really was the reason that I wanted

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to record this podcast on the rosary,

what convicted me of this topic and

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resharing my love for the rosary and

the power of the rosary was Matt Fradd's

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Pines of Aquinas podcast episode, the

interview that he did with Gabby Castillo.

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It was about Gabby's life and his

ministry, his love for the rosary

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in the blessed Virgin Mary and the

power that she holds, um, in the power

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that the rosary holds in our life.

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And he was just sharing like

his testimony and his story.

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I highly recommend you go listen to

it, but basically what really grabbed

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my attention was his, His experience

of being attacked by demons, you know,

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there was one time where he was in his

room and he heard this high pitched

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shrill voice, um, speaking to him.

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And I don't remember what he was

saying, but he knew it was the devil.

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Um, and then another night where

he was, Physically being attacked

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by a demon being choked in his bed.

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And he explains, it's not sleep paralysis.

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He didn't imagine it.

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It's not a dream.

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It was a physical.

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He was sitting upright in his bed and he

was, you know, pinned down by a demon.

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By a demon.

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And he felt in his

heart, like in his soul.

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Um, and he says that

it's his guardian angel.

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You know, something that told him,

pray to Mary, like, pray a hail Mary.

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And he couldn't, he

couldn't get the words out.

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I mean, he was being choked and he like.

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Physically couldn't speak the words.

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And so he, he felt that voice, like,

just say like in your head, like

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say the Hail Mary in your head.

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And so he started saying it and

he started saying Hail Mary.

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And as soon as he started saying, as

soon as he started saying the words,

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Hail Mary, he felt the grip on his neck,

loosening, and he was able to muster

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out the words, you know, choking like

Hail Mary, he was able to say the words,

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Hail Mary out loud in just a whisper.

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And the second he said that he felt the

everything release and this demon like

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fly across the room and he was saved.

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That's obviously a crazy example,

but an example of how Mary has a

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special protection over her children

and asking for her intercession and

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invoking her gives you that protection.

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But in a more practical everyday example,

we see and hear stories about the rosary

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protecting people from sin, which can

get just as harmful as, you know, an

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attack from a demon in a sense where sin

leads us straight to hell and praying the

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rosary more often has provided graces to

turn away from sin to have a stronger,

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aversion to sin, to not even desire it

in a stronger will over temptation and

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to be able to overcome temptation and

not even, you know, be tempted to sin.

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So just right off the bat, if you are

struggling with some sort of moral sin

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that you just feel like you're enslaved

to, or has a hold on you and you haven't

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tried praying the rosary every day, Do

that, do that, and I promise you that you

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will see graces come through and healing

come through in that area of your life.

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There is a special, a special protection

that comes through praying the rosary.

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And you also receive protection in

your earthly life as well as at your

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death at the moment of your death.

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Think of the words we actually

say when we pray a rosary, right?

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We say,

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holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us

sinners now and at the hour of our death.

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Amen.

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I know that when we say a Hail Mary,

sometimes we just rush through it

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and we don't actually even listen

to the words that we are praying.

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We're literally asking Mary to pray for

us now and at the moment of our death.

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And every time we say a Hail Mary,

we are begging Mary to do that.

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So praying a rosary is just

continuously begging Mary to pray

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for us now and at the hour of our

death at the hour of our death.

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And those prayers are all going, we

are going to see the fruition of all

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those prayers of Mary interceding for

us at the hour of our death, which is so

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important at the time of our judgment.

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You see, guys, Mary plays such a special

role in God's plan for salvation if you've

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ever heard of the Proto Evangelium, you

know where I'm, I'm going with this and

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it's basically the, the Proto Evangelium

is called the first gospel and it's

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that message in Genesis where it's.

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This sort of like first announcement

of the Messiah of the Redeemer

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and how there will be enmity

between a woman and the serpent,

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not just man in the serpent, right?

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Not just humanity and the serpent, which

we interpret to be the devil, but a

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woman in the serpent, but how she will

claim victory over him through her son.

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And this is said right

after Adam and Eve's sin.

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And so what theologians say

is that Mary is the New Eve.

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She is this woman that has spoken about

in the proto evangelism that will bring

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victory over Satan, salvation to the world

through her son Jesus, because whereas.

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Eve disobeyed God and didn't trust God and

turned away from him and chose herself.

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And brought sin into the world,

Mary gave her life for God said yes

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to him was blameless and brought

Jesus into the world and brought

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salvation and redeemed us from sin

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through her son.

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And so from the beginning, we see that

God has given Mary a special grace to

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protect her children from the evil one,

which is why you often see Mary depicted

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as her crushing the head of a serpent,

uh, crushing Satan ultimately.

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, so now that we've talked a little bit

about the power of the rosary, the

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graces, the benefits that it can bring

into your life and your spiritual life.

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Let's talk about how

to pray a good rosary.

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This is a prayer that can so often

just be rushed through and recited

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kind of mindlessly to get through it.

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But there's so much more beneath

the surface of the Hail Marys.

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It's not just reciting the Hail Marys.

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It's truly meditating on Jesus's life,

kind of through the lens of Mary.

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If you notice, the mysteries

are Moments in Jesus's life that

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we get straight from scripture.

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And as we meditate on each one of these

mysteries throughout the rosary, we're,

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we're meditating on Jesus's life.

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We're filling our mind and our hearts

with thoughts of Christ in his life.

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And so really the aim of the rosary

is to fall in love with Christ.

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It's to fall in love with his

mother and the role that she plays

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in our life to bring us to him.

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I was watching a video about the rosary

by Father Mark Mary on Ascension.

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And he said something that stuck

with me that I thought was really a

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beautiful way to talk about the rosary.

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And he said, it's about

relationship, not recitation.

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Like the rosary Aims for us to

grow in relationship more than

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it aims for us to just recite a

prayer that we're supposed to pray.

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And that's where I think actually

leaning into the mysteries really helps

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cultivate this love for the Rosary and

this love for Jesus and Mary, because

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we're not just solely praying Hail

Marys, but we're actually engaging in a

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deeper, more contemplative prayer Bye.

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Thinking about Jesus's life and

the fruits that can come from

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inviting him into our life.

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So a tip, if you struggle with praying

the rosary intentionally and you feel

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like you just kind of zoom through it or

just kind of want to get it over with, or

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even if it's not even a prayer that you

have in your daily practice of prayer, I

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would recommend that you start praying

with the different mysteries, like before

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you even dive into praying the Rosary,

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Pray through the ascension of Jesus

or the resurrection of Jesus or

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the descent of the Holy Spirit.

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Find these verses in scripture, these

passages in scripture and meditate with

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them and pray with them and ask the

Lord to reveal like, what he wants to

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speak to you through these passages.

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And once you really get to know the

gospels that we're pulling these from, or,

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you know, just these pieces of scripture

that reveal Jesus's life, then you can

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bring that into your prayer of the Rosary.

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Cause you actually know what you're

meditating and it's not just a title.

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You're not just saying, okay.

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Now we're , praying with the

next, you know, glorious mystery,

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the third glorious mystery.

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We're actually pulling from

the descent of the Holy Spirit.

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And what did that mean for the disciples

and how did that change their life?

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And how, you know, am I invited to

receive the Holy Spirit into my heart?

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How can he change my life and

send me out to evangelize and to

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bring people to Christ, right?

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It brings a lot more depth to your rosary.

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Once you actually know More about the

mysteries and pray with the mysteries.

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You can also just pray for the

desire to desire the rosary and to

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pray for the desire to pray period.

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It's okay if you don't

desire to pray the rosary.

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It's okay if you don't desire prayer.

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It's very human and normal.

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And we need the help of God to go

to prayer and to desire that time

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of silence and solitude, especially

because our day to day life

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doesn't necessarily encourage that.

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I feel like it doesn't encourage silence.

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We're inundated with messages and screens

and just, you know, The million things

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that we have on our to do list that

it's not supernatural for us to want to

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continually sit down and pray in silence

every single day or to take 15, 20

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minutes out of our day to pray a rosary.

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So pray for that desire every single

day and earnestly beg for it and ask the

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Lord, Lord, I desire to pray the rosary.

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Give me the desire.

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Mother Mary.

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Please intercede for me, soften my heart,

open my heart and help me to desire

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to pray the rosary and to pray with

you and to pray for your intercession.

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And if it does feel dry and

slow and boring, when you do

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pray the rosary, that's okay.

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Keep pressing on.

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There is so much fruit and merit to

praying when you don't feel like it.

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And I can't remember who gave

me this analogy, but a few.

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Few years ago, many years ago, maybe like

five or six years ago, somebody gave me

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this analogy of a master and his dog and

how we want to be like dogs in a sense.

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So I have a dog, he's a golden retriever.

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His name is Bodhi.

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He's adorable and he loves me and always

wants to be with me whether I pet him

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or not, whether I give him love or not.

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He's content by my side.

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He's content spending time with me.

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He could be laying at my feet and I

could be giving him pets and love and

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rubbing his belly or scratching his ears.

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And he would be so overjoyed that

he was getting all that love.

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But if I wasn't doing that, he

would still be by my feet and he

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would still be so content to be

near me and to be just with me.

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And so in a similar way, we want to be

like dogs and our master God, right?

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We want to go to him when we get praise

and when we don't, when we feel all

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those good and happy feelings and prayer.

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And even when we don't feel anything in

prayer, even when we don't feel like we're

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getting anything out of prayer, we want

to remind ourselves to go to Christ and

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be content in his presence regardless, and

to continue to pursue him and persevere

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Despite any feelings of dryness and

actually those times when we go to him in

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prayer and when we actually take the time

to pray and to be with him and to pray

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the rosary, even when it doesn't feel good

or fun or entertaining or, peaceful or

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whatever it is that you're looking for.

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Those times of prayer

actually have a lot of merit.

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I would even say more merit than

the times when it does feel good.

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When we do have a natural desire to

pray, because it's more of a sacrifice.

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It's more of a stretching of ourselves

to seek God and to seek rosary when

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we don't feel like it, when it's not

convenient, when it's not easy for us.

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So what is the thing that got me to

pray the rosary every single day?

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I will tell you, it was the

15 promises of the rosary.

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So the rosary was given to St.

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Dominic by Mary herself in an apparition.

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And with that, she gave him

the 15 promises of the rosary.

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I don't know why I had

never come across these.

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I came across these maybe

two, maybe three years ago.

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And when I read them, I was like, wow.

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Why aren't people teaching

this every single day?

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Why aren't people teaching this in

Sunday school or in Catholic school or

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in Sunday homilies, these promises blew

me away so much that literally that

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day I picked up my rosary and I prayed

it and I prayed it every single day

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for months without fail, just because

it convicted me so much of just like.

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If I pray the rosary every day, I get

access to these graces and these promises.

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They were that, that amazing you guys.

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And I'll just like read some of them just

to kind of show you the beauty of these.

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I won't read all of them, but I

encourage you to go look at them.

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Um, I have a freebie on our

West coast Catholic website.

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If you go to westcoastcatholic.

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there's a freebie that's called

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It's a packet that teaches you how to pray

the rosary and outlines the 15 promises.

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So I'll just read out a couple of

my favorite promises that really

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touched my heart and convicted

me to pray the rosary every day.

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So number one says, whosoever shall

faithfully serve me by the recitation of

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the rosary shall receive signal graces.

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A signal grace is a simple

sign to an answered prayer or

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to point you to God's will.

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Kind of like those God moments that we

feel, you start to see those more often.

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Basically, you start to see God's

work in your life more clearly.

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Promise number five, the soul which

recommends itself to me by the recitation

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of the rosary shall not perish.

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What does this mean?

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This basically saying that the

person that prays the rosary

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Faithfully , shall be saved from hell.

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I don't know about you guys, but I read

this one and I was like, sign me up.

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I'm gonna pray the rosary every day.

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Number six, , whosoever shall recite the

rosary devoutly applying himself to the

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consideration of its sacred mysteries

shall never be conquered by misfortune.

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God will not chastise him in his justice.

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He shall not perish by

an unprovided death.

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If he be just, he shall

remain in the grace of God and

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become worthy of eternal life.

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What this is saying is that anybody

who regularly praise the rosary.

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Mary will be promised a death

free of mortal sin on their soul.

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That's a big deal.

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You guys.

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Another one that I was like,

wow, okay, that's great.

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Number seven, whosoever shall have a true

devotion for the rosary shall not die

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without the sacraments of the church.

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Mary is promising you access to the

sacraments at the moment of your death.

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We're talking confession, anointing of the

sick, receiving Jesus in the Eucharist.

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This is huge.

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Like.

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I want this for me at

the moment of my death.

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So another huge check.

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Okay.

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Praying the rosary every

day to get access to this.

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Number nine, I shall deliver

from purgatory those who have

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been devoted to the rosary.

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Number 10, the faithful children

of the rosary shall merit a high

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degree of glory in heaven number

11, you shall obtain all you ask of

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me by the recitation of the rosary.

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Your prayers shall be answered you

guys by recitation of the rosary.

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15.

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Devotion to my rosary is a

great sign of predestination.

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This means that those who

devoutly pray the rosary are

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likely on the path to heaven.

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And that's no surprise because

Mary is such a sure and quick

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and efficient way to Jesus.

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So now you see why, when I came across

the 15 promises of the rosary, I

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was just totally like overcome with

emotion and Gratitude for this prayer

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and desire to pray in conviction of

its power, because I want those things

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and I want those things for you.

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And the Lord wants those things for you.

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The Lord wants you to be close to him,

to be in heaven with him, to be free

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of sin, to have graces and zeal for

your faith and for him and his mother.

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And that's what happens when you pray

the rosary, you come to know Jesus more.

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You come to love him more.

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You come to hate Satan, to hate sin,

to, to have power over temptation.

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You're more aware of the Holy Spirit

and able to receive him in your life.

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You have inner peace that is just

lasting and overcoming of all

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anxiety and worry and depression.

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Your eyes are opened to what God wants

to do in your life and you just desire

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God's will in your life more than

your own and you trust God and his

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plan for your life and so much more.

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You guys so much more and whatever it

is that you bring to Mary, whatever

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petition is on your heart, Whatever

you are desperately begging for

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in your life, the rosary shall be

an avenue to answer those prayers.

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Now that doesn't mean God gives us

everything we ask for on demand, right?

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But no prayer that is brought

to Jesus through Mary is

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too big, is too bad, right?

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No sin is too horrible to be freed from.

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No.

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Ask or petition is too impossible

for God and sister Lucia, she was

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one of the visionaries in Fatima.

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And in these operations in Fatima,

Mary talked about the rosary often and

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urged everybody to pray the rosary.

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And she's, um, one of the

visionaries from there.

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She has this quote that I want to

read off that just drives this point

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home, that nothing asked through the

prayer of the rosary is impossible for

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God or will be turned away from God.

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And she says, the most Holy Virgin

in these last times in which we

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live has given a new efficacy to

the recitation of the rosary to such

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an extent that there is no problem.

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No matter how difficult it is,

whether temporal or above all

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spiritual in the personal life of

each one of us, of our families

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that cannot be solved by the rosary.

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There is no problem.

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I tell you, no matter how difficult

it is that we cannot resolve by

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the prayer of the Holy Rosary.

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If you have something guys in your heart

that you have been yearning for, is

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there, if there is a healing that you

are searching for, if there is a cross

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in your life, a problem in your family or

in your relationship that you just find

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impossible, bring that to Mary through

the rosary and allow her to intercede for

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you to her son in that specific problem.

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I promise you, you will see the graces

and you will see and experience the

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fruit of peace and confidence in God

and how he will take care of that in a

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view through the prayer of the rosary.

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If you want to learn more

about the rosary, read the

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secret of the rosary by St.

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Louis de Bonfort.

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Uh, I'll I truthfully going to be honest

with you haven't read it, but it's next on

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my list and I have not heard anything but

good and amazing things about this book.

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So this podcast right here is

my kick in the butt to read it.

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I hope it's your kick in the butt

to read it because even though I

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love the Rosary so much and know its

power, I want to learn even more.

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I want to be convicted even more.

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I know Mary's plan for life.

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us.

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I know God's plan for Mary

is so pivotal in salvation.

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She wants nothing more than to see

us in heaven and we need her help.

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We need all the help we can get.

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So this is next on my book list.

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I hope it's next on your book list.

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The Secret of the Rosary by St.

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Louis de Montfort.

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I say that with all confidence,

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And I am proud to say that they're

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So specifically to you, just like

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the past few years is unbreakable.

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Okay.

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That's a huge problem for people is

their rosaries breaking all the time.

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And I remember when we were testing these

courts, Trey would literally grab the cord

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and try and pull as hard as he could to

test how hard you had to pull to break it.

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And we never broke it.

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So West Coast Catholic has the

most durable rosaries as well.

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Uh, when it comes to beauty and we do

have a guarantee that if your rosary

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does break for some reason, or if you

have one with an old cord that broke,

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reach out to us on customer service.

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We will replace it at no cost.

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Totally on us.

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All right, you guys enough about that.

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Uh, so good to chat with you today.

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I love these Wednesday hangouts with

you and I'm so excited for your journey

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with the rosary and what it will do in

your life, how it will change your life.

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I hope that this message was encouraging

to you and I hope that you draw

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closer to Mary more than ever before.

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Let's close in a prayer and ask

for her intercession as you begin

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your journey, praying the rosary.

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Every single day in the name of the

Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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Amen.

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Hail Mary, full of grace.

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The Lord is with thee.

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Blessed art thou among women and

blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

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Jesus.

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Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us

sinners now and at the hour of our death.

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Amen.

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Mary, I asked that you give a special

protection to all those who are

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listening and those who will seek

you out through the rosary more.

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And I pray that you just give us a

greater desire to seek you out in

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this prayer and to seek the Lord out,

um, through the rosary, through you,

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through meditating on his life, through

this wonderful and beautiful prayer.

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Amen.

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Name of the father, son,

and the Holy spirit.

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Amen.

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We'll see you next Wednesday, guys.

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