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Foreign Mark May with Franciscan Friars the Renewal and this is the Rosary in.
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Here podcast where through prayer and meditation.
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The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a.
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Source of grace for the whole world.
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The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
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This is day 56.
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To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.com Rosarine 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 podcast is in the Ascension app. There's special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full Rosary with myself and other friars. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary Near Prayer Guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings from Scripture, same reflections and beautiful full page images of the sacred art will be reflecting on.
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The third luminous mystery is.
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The proclamation of the Kingdom and the call to conversion.
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Mark 1:14:15.
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Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the Gospel of God and saying, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the Gospel. I'd like our meditation on this third luminous mystery to be built upon two foundational truths. The first is this. And this is going back to what Pope Saint John Paul II said in his Apostolic Letter on the Rosary where he's introducing the luminous mysteries. He reminds us each of these mysteries is a revelation of the kingdom now present in the very person of Jesus.
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Right?
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The kingdom of God that is being proclaimed is Jesus. So when Jesus is saying the kingdom of God is at hand, he's talking about himself. And the second is this, that the proclamation of the kingdom of God is done by both word and deed. It's not just done by saying here it is something new is happening. He actually makes something new happen. And this isn't perfect, but I do think that in our praying of the third luminous mystery, most of what Jesus says and does actually can fall under the proclamation of the kingdom. For example, his parables. Many of the parables are introduced as the kingdom of heaven is like this is a proclamation, the teaching of what the kingdom is also a breaking through of the kingdom, his teaching, his giving of the law, establishing, manifesting, his authority, giving a new law, his miracles. And I think actually the Gospel of Mark is beautiful and a perfect place to understand this as we look at what immediately follows. Right this initial proclamation, the time is fulfilled and kingdom of God is at hand. Repent. Believe in the gospel. What's the first thing that happened? The first thing that he does is that he calls his first disciples. He calls Simon and Andrew and James and John. So the first thing he does, and this is the end of the proclamation, is he says, come to me. And then look what happens. The next thing that happens is Jesus casts out demons. He manifests his authority. The next thing that happens is that he heals Simon's mother in law. That is followed by this statement of, like everyone's looking for you, Jesus. He heals a leper, he heals a paralytic. Then he calls Levi, he calls a sinner, gives the sinner a new way of living, a new life, a new hope. And then immediately after that, he establishes, in responding to the question about fasting, he identifies as the bridegroom. And then he refers to himself, saying, the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. Like all of this is the proclamation of the kingdom of God. All of this is Jesus manifesting who he is by word and by deed. I am the one that you are looking for.