I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in the 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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The second joyful mystery is the visitation.

Luke chapter 1, verse 39 through 56.

In those days, Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country to a city of Judah,

and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of

your womb. And why is this granted me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

For behold, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the child in my womb leaped for joy.

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.

And Mary said,

My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior.

For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.

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