Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with the Franciscan friars at the renewal, and this is the Rosary in New Year podcast.

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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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This is Day 13.

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Hail Mary, full of grace,

the Lord is with thee.

We're continuing on in phase two of the Rosary in a Year podcast that we're calling

the biblical roots of the rosary.

And we're going to transition now from our prayer and reflection on the Our Father to the Hail Mary.

And we'll cover the Hail Mary over the next three episodes, beginning today with Hail Mary,

full of grace, the Lord is with thee. And these words, of course, come from the mystery that we know of

as the enunciation. These are the words spoken in greeting by the angel

Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Hail full of grace. The Lord is with thee. An angel is a messenger

of God. And the message that the angel carries isn't their own message. It's the message that God gave them to carry.

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