I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars of the renewal, and this is the Rosary in Year podcast.

We're 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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This is Day 9.

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reflecting on. Blessed are you among women. And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Where do these

words come from? These words come from what we know as,

or referred to as the mystery of the visitation found in Luke chapter one starting at first 39.

To help us grow in our deeper understanding of these words, I'd like us to reflect upon what's happening

in their sort of greater context. And so we go to verse 39. In those days, Mary arose and went with

haste into the hill country to a city of Judah. And she entered the house of Zachariah 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.

So I know we're familiar with this mystery in this passage,

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