I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in New Year podcast,

where 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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we have made it day 365 unprompted just saying it got a emotional. The old tear ducts won up a little bit.

But I'd like to take a moment here in this concluding episode of this Rosary in the Year journey

that we've been on to essentially join my own Magnificat to Mary's.

As we've looked at Mary's Magnificat, we noticed this movement of her giving thanks

for all that God has done for her.

And then in like celebrating what God is going to do, all the good things God is going to do for all of us.

And Mary does so without neglecting to notice her lowliness.

But that of course her lowliness was not an obstacle to God's goodness and his generosity.

And certainly this Rosary New Year journey has been for me very much an experience of being the little lad with its loaves and fish who gives him to Jesus.

Keenly aware of all that I had were some ordinary loaves and fish. But Jesus took it and multiplied it and did something beautiful with it.

And this is a fulfillment for me of certainly a word that God spoke to my life.

When I was a young man first pursuing God's will.

And it comes from Matthew chapter 19 versus 29 and following.

Essentially is this.

Peter says, like, those of us who have given up everything to follow you, what can we expect? And this is a paraphrase, but Jesus basically says, if you've given up

lands or brothers or sisters or mothers, like whatever you've given up from my name, you will

receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life. And the word the Lord spoke to me is never be

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