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Hey, everybody, welcome back.

So today we're making the next step in our building up the decades.

We've been on this journey of this slow build from praying one decade a day to two decades,

and we just had a series where we're playing three decades, and today we begin praying four

decades a day. As we move into four decades and then praying five decades, the whole rosary

every day,

one of the things you may notice is a slight increase in the pace with one, two, three decades.

I wasn't going slow, but I was going a little bit slower.

And so I'm going to kind of go to a little bit more of like a normal pace as we're getting

again into four and five decades.

And my reference point for this being a normal pace is just like the pace we pray in the friary when we're praying the communal rosary.

And so it might be a little slow for some people, it might be a little bit quick.

I think people as we're praying just by ourselves, we might go a little bit slower.

But in communal context, there's a little bit slower, but in communal context,

there's a little bit of a steady rhythm to it. And so that's kind of my reference point for the

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