Every year it's a great practice to renew our consecration to Mary.

And St Louis de Monfort suggests that we we really should take 33 days in preparation and that it's great to do the consecration

on a major Marion feast day. So today being November 5th, 33 days prior to the Great Feast Day of the Immaculate

conception on December 8th, we're going to begin our preparation to renew our consecration to

our consecration to marry simply by praying this

daily rosary podcast.

Even if you've never consecrated yourself to Mary,

this would be a great way to do it.

All you have to do is just enter in to this daily Rosary podcast and then with us on

December 8th we will renew our total gift to our lady so that she can form Jesus within us.

Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to

pray for. A well-rounded and balanced life requires good leisure. It

requires that we do activities that make us feel more alive, more connected to the goodness of the world, more alert, and

more engaged. Good leisure is where we pursue a delight in truth and goodness in beauty.

That's why there's a real sense in which good leisure is next to prayer and love,

the thing that makes us most fully human and most fully alive.

But instead of that, instead of pursuing good leisure, what do we often do?

We come home from work, we eat a quick meal while we look at our phones, maybe get the

kids to bed, and then veg out.

Isn't that an incredible phrase, veg out?

Instead of living like a human being who is fully alive we act like a plant. We use our

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