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Foreign. Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the.
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Renewal and this is the Rosary in.
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A Year podcast where through prayer and meditation, the Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day365. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.com rosary in a year or text R I Y to 33777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month, and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to podcasts is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars. On behalf of myself and the whole team here at Ascension, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's helped support this podcast financially. Your support is so appreciated and helps us to reach as many people as possible. And if you haven't already, please consider supporting us@ascensionpress.com support well, friends, we have made it day 365 unprompted. Just saying it got a little emotional. The old tear ducts went up a little bit. But I'd like to take a moment here in this concluding episode of this Rosary in a Year journey that we've been on to essentially join my own Magnificat to Mary's. As we've looked at Mary's Magnificat, we notice this movement of her giving thanks for all that God has done for her, and then like celebrating what God is gonna do, all the good things God is gonna do for all of us. And Mary does so without neglecting to notice her lowliness. But that of course, her lowliness was not an obstacle to God's goodness and his generosity. And certainly this Rosary year journey has been for me very much an experience of being the little lad with its loaves and fish who gives them to Jesus, keenly aware of all that I had were some ordinary loaves and fish. But Jesus took it and multiplied it and did something beautiful with it. And this is a fulfillment for me of certainly a word that God spoke to my life when I was a young man first pursuing God's will. And it comes from Matthew, chapter 19, verses 29. And following essentially is this. Peter says, like those of us who have given up everything to follow you, what can we expect? And this is a paraphrase, but Jesus basically says, if you've given up lands or brothers or sisters or mothers like whatever you've given up for my name, you will receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life. And the word the Lord spoke to me is never be afraid to give up anything to follow me because it's too good, because I'll never be outdone in generosity. Jesus promises to never be outdone in generosity. And this was true for Mary. This was true for that little lad who gave up his loaves and fish, and it fed thousands of people, and there was baskets overflowing. And my brothers and sisters, nothing has been more true. For my life, I only had some loaves and fish, but I gave everything more through my consecration than through this podcast. And I risked everything on this promise of Jesus, and God has been faithful. And so I just conclude by giving thanks to Jesus, who has revealed to us and to me in the most concrete and real parts of my life that God is our Father, that he is the best of fathers, that he is worthy of our trust, and that he is never outdone in generosity. One expression of his generosity and his goodness is the gift of Mary, his own mother, to be our mother. What a gratuitous gift of God to give us Mary, to accompany us, to care for us, to mother us on this journey. As God turns our own lives of prose into poetry and our ordinary yeses into a beautiful song of praise as we continue this pilgrimage of life, learning to write with Mary to God, our own magnificence. And now we conclude praying not our last rosary, but our last rosary here in day 365 as we pray together the glorious mysteries. Let us begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.