I am Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars, the renewal,

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the Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and to Mary.

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

the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

And now before our time of prayer, a review of what we have discussed up to this point.

First for today, when we were looking at Acts chapter 2, verses 1 through 13,

we read from one of the audiences from Pope John Paul II pontificate on the Holy Spirit,

giver of life and love.

And John Paul II, he invites us to see Pentecost as a prayer event.

Looking at the particular language,

especially the original Greek in which Acts was written,

John Paul is like, he proposes that not only is

Pentecost a prayer event, it's a prayer which is patient and assiduous.

And he says, in a certain sense, even a stubbornness

implying sacrifice in the overcoming of difficulty.

He says it was therefore a prayer of the most complete dedication, not only of the heart,

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