This is the movement of the Holy Family, meeting people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary. The Rosary.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

All those we've promised to pray for, especially for Sidney Dugan,

29-year-old young woman in Ancany, Iowa, who's awaiting a kidney transplant.

And we continue to pray for Olivia Caneli and

little Damien and in special way this evening for Charlotte and Russ

Austerman Charlotte is in the hospital.

Now today is the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Around the year 1250, Mary appeared to St Simon stock with a multitude of angels holding in her hands the

scapular of the order. She said,

This will be for you and for all Carmelites the privilege that he who dies in this will not suffer eternal fire.

They will be saved.

Then in the year 1322, Mary appeared to Pope John the 22nd

with the message that all the faithful, not just the Carmelites who wear a brown scapular

while striving to live a life of faith and virtue, will gain their purification from purgatory

by her merits an intercession on this Saturday immediately after their death.

Now that is a pretty good deal.

This feast, the scapular,

this feast and the scapular, and what Mary offers us is a powerful reminder that she is our spiritual mother who brings Jesus to us and forms him within us.

But it's also a reminder that we do have a part to play.

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