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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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. I'd like to frame and form our approach to this part of the Our Father

with a reading from the Holy Gospel, according to Matthew.

This is chapter 18, verses 1 through 4.

At that time, the disciples came to Jesus saying,

Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children,

you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child. He is the greatest

in the kingdom of heaven. I'd like to begin this reflection

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