Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast,

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All right, today we will be praying

the third and fourth, joyful mysteries, the nativity,

and the presentation of our Lord in the temple. And this will be day two of the five days in which

we are really committed to focusing on praying with meditating upon the words of the prayers, the Our Father of the Hail Mary, Glory

be, and the Phantom of Prayer at the service of really kind of practicing and really come

to appreciate the words themselves. Part of the genius of the rosary in the ways of which we repeat the prayers again and again is the way in which it can create space for a deeper meditation and contemplation upon the mysteries.

But we do also want to have some of the experience and the habit of praying with the words themselves,

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