This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the rosary. So welcome to our rosary meditation.

I am so blessed tonight to be at Lake Latawana.

For those of you who are outside of the Kansas City area,

it's the most beautiful place on the planet.

Well, it's a nice place.

It's a really nice place.

And I am with my friends, the Theseings, we've had great barbecue, good conversation, and now we're

going to pray the rosary on the back deck here.

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those that we promised to pray for, especially for Jim Deering,

for a little Olivia canily for Damien and for all those that we've promised to pray for.

Now there's a reason the gospel can only be proclaimed by a priest or deacon, and I bet you don't know why.

At his ordination, the bishop laid hands on the priest or deacon and this laying on of hands is called an

epoclesis and when the bishop did so it conveyed a sacred power to make Jesus present to the people through the

sacred minister but that's not all the sacred power also makes the events from the life of Jesus proclaimed in the gospel.

It makes those events present.

So when, for example, at mass, when the beatititudes are read it is Jesus through the priest who's actually

speaking but there's more. Not only do we hear the event from the life of Jesus, but during

the reading of the gospel were transported to that place.

So in the beatitudes, when they're read at mass,

we are transported to the north shore of the Sea of Galilee where we take part in the Sermon on the Mount.

So if you want to understand what's going on at the Mass, we have to understand two words, an amnesis and epiclesis.

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