I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars at 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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This is Day 195.

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Today we will be praying with and meditating upon the second Illuminous Mystery, the Wedding Feast

at Cana.

All right, to begin, we'll go ahead and call to mind again some of what we have already reflected on pertaining to the wedding feast at Cana.

And of course, the gospel account that correlates to this mystery comes from John chapter 2 verses 1 through 12.

And one detail that we noted that I'd like to highlight again are Mary's words, right?

Mary sees that they're out of wine.

She goes to Jesus, tells him the situation,

they have a conversation.

And then Mary's last contribution in the context

of that conversation, the last word she speaks, are do whatever he tells you. Do whatever he tells you. And these are Mary's last words in scriptures. These words that we want to continue to like echo in our minds, in our hearts, do whatever he tells you. Do whatever he tells you. And how great these words are when we are

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