14: How The Rosary Will Transform Your Life

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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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Um.

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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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mari-wagner_1_06-18-2024_134127:

And that's just what naturally.

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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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As well as provide protection from

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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And it was wild to hear.

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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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co hit the more tab freebies,

there's a freebie that's called

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15 promises of the rosary.

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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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: 00:37:17

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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: 00:38:37

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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: 00:38:48

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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: 00:39:09

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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: 00:39:44

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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: 00:39:59

So this podcast right here is

my kick in the butt to read it.

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: 00:40:03

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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: 00:40:10

I want to be convicted even more.

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: 00:40:12

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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: 00:40:23

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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: 00:40:29

So this is next on my book list.

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: 00:40:31

I hope it's next on your book list.

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: 00:40:32

The Secret of the Rosary by St.

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Louis de Montfort.

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: 00:40:35

Um, And if you are looking for a beautiful

rosary to help you in prayer, to motivate

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you to pray, you know where to find them.

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: 00:40:44

Westcoastcatholic.

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: 00:40:44

co.

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: 00:40:45

They hands down, why do I say they?

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: 00:40:47

We, we hands down have the

most stunning rosaries.

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: 00:40:52

I say that with all confidence,

you guys, I've never seen more,

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: 00:40:54

more beautiful rosaries than ours.

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: 00:40:57

And I am proud to say that they're

all designed by me for you.

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: 00:41:02

So intentionally thought of each

different design has a different, um,

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: 00:41:06

theme or devotion that might speak

so directly to one person or another.

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: 00:41:11

So sweetly to you.

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: 00:41:12

So specifically to you, just like

that first rosary design that Trey

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: 00:41:16

made for me, spoke so directly to me.

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: 00:41:19

I hope that you find a rosary

that will motivate you and draw

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you closer to Mary and her son.

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: 00:41:25

Again, you find those

at westcoastcatholic.

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: 00:41:27

co.

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: 00:41:28

I promise you, you won't regret it.

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: 00:41:30

Another amazing thing about our

rosaries is that they are so durable.

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: 00:41:34

Uh, we've gone through many different

types of cord and the core that

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we have landed on officially, uh,

the past few years is unbreakable.

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: 00:41:41

Okay.

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: 00:41:41

That's a huge problem for people is

their rosaries breaking all the time.

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: 00:41:44

And I remember when we were testing these

courts, Trey would literally grab the cord

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: 00:41:48

and try and pull as hard as he could to

test how hard you had to pull to break it.

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: 00:41:54

And we never broke it.

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: 00:41:55

So West Coast Catholic has the

most durable rosaries as well.

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: 00:41:59

Uh, when it comes to beauty and we do

have a guarantee that if your rosary

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: 00:42:03

does break for some reason, or if you

have one with an old cord that broke,

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: 00:42:07

reach out to us on customer service.

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: 00:42:09

We will replace it at no cost.

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: 00:42:11

Totally on us.

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: 00:42:13

All right, you guys enough about that.

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Uh, so good to chat with you today.

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: 00:42:17

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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: 00:42:27

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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: 00:42:35

your journey, praying the rosary.

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: 00:42:37

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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: 00:42:42

Hail Mary, full of grace.

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: 00:42:43

The Lord is with thee.

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: 00:42:44

Blessed art thou among women and

blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

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: 00:42:47

Jesus.

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: 00:42:48

Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us

sinners now and at the hour of our death.

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: 00:42:52

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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: 00:43:04

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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: 00:43:13

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.