I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars of 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 198.

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Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the fifth movement's mystery, the institution of the most holy Eucharist.

So a review and reflection today, I'd like to begin with the language we use when looking at the Eucharist, namely the creativity of love.

I shared this story of a kind of a monastic sister in response to one of the brothers asking, like, how can we pray like we did on this mountain top back in the friary in the South Bronx?

And she gave us this phrase, the creativity of love.

When you love someone, you create a way, a space to be with them.

But we have to always remember that the creativity of our love is always a response.

It's a response to the creativity of God's love.

And how beautiful an expression of the creativity of love is Jesus remaining with us in the form

of bread and wine through the mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist

and how Jesus gives himself totally to us in the Holy Eucharist.

He remains to us in our neighborhood parish missions.

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