I am Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.

We're 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.

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Today we will be praying with and meditating upon the fourth glorious mystery,

the assumption of Mary with help from writing by venerable Fulton J. Sheen from his work

Meditations on the 15 Mysteries of the Rosary.

So today we have venerable. He's our first non-canonized author,

but he's a pretty special guy, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.

So he's born in 1895 and he passed from this life in 1979. So he was very popular, very popular, from the year in 1930 to 1950s.

So for 20 years, first his father, then as Monsignor Sheen, he'd be the host of a popular radio show

called The Catholic Hour. But then after being consecrated bishop in 1951,

he would begin his very, very, very famous show called Life is Worth a Living.

That would reach an estimated 30 million viewers a week.

He won an Emmy. He was on the cover of Time magazine. It was a bit of a different time

back then, but he was very popular. But more than being popular, he was a man of prayer

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