I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in the 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 the Year is brought to you by

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meditating upon and praying with the third joyful mystery, the nativity. So again, today we

will begin with a bit of review calling to mind some of what we've covered up to this point.

Now, if you're calling one of our meditations, our early meditations on the nativity, where we're looking at Luke chapter 2 versus 1 through 20,

I shared the story of the man named Fitz, Fitz who had come to the homeless shelter,

just getting out of prison after a number of years.

And it's the evening that we are having our Christmas party.

And he comes in that night and he joins us and slowly but surely,

he kind of sees everything happening and then it's

his opportunity to go and to get a couple of gifts and he comes back and the brothers work in the

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