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

We're through prayer and meditation.

The rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary.

It becomes a source of grace for the whole world.

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Today, we're going to be praying with reflecting on the second joyful mystery, the visitation,

with help from a writing by St. Alphonse's Liguri called on the visitation of the Blessed Virgin.

Before getting into the writing itself, just a very brief introduction to our author, to our saint today.

St. Alphonseus Liguri was born in 1696, and he lived a long life dying in the year 1787. He is the founder of the congregation

of the Most Holy Redeemer, which is often called the redemptress. Something interesting about

St. Alfonso's Ligori, among many interesting things about St. Alfonso Ligori, is that he was a bit

of a law

prodigy. He obtained a degree in civil and canon law by the age of 16. And apparently, he won all of the

cases he defended for the following eight years. My source on this is none other than our friend,

Pope Benedict, the 16th.

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