Hello, welcome to Form Now. My name is Dr. Ben Acres.

And we're beginning a new series of the biblical foundations, the biblical roots, a Bible study

on the Joyful Mysteries. My guest today is Dr. Elizabeth Klein. You're familiar with her. We always enjoy, I always enjoy having a great conversation with you, Liz.

And hopefully these studies have been helpful for you.

We've done the other mysteries of the rosary, and so people have asked us to do all the mysteries of the rosary.

And with John Paul II's edition of Illuminous Ministries, we have 20 shows now.

We're going to be doing on the rosary.

And October is known as the month of the rosary.

There's a feast of our lady of the rosary that we celebrate on October 7th.

And the rosary has always been a devotion that's very popular for Catholics to do.

And even my own life has a testimony. I have a ebb and flow relationship with the rosary. I know some people just wake up and they can't wait to say the rosary. For me, it's a little bit harder to say the rosary. But I think that when I know, when I go return to the scriptural roots of each of the passages as I go through the mysteries of the rosary, it makes me, it makes it easier for me to meditate on because I've realized like, I'm just actually reliving these scenes with our lady, with our Lord. Yeah, I mean, I find the rosary in general very intimidating for the same reason, you know, especially something like the enunciation. I asked to do this one. I was like, well, what are you supposed to say about that? I mean, it's such an important moment in salvation history, such an important passage. So much has been said and written about it, that it is kind of, yeah, it's kind of intimidating to try and hold those things, but hopefully we'll give you lots of things that little bits and pieces that you can meditate on when you're, when you're praying the rosary. So one of the first mystery of the joyful mystery is the enunciation because this is actually

the one that starts off, Mary's yes, starts everything out for us in recreation and new creation

and salvation. That gives us all the luminous mysteries, the sorrowful mysteries, the glorious mysteries, all are rooted in this mystery, begin with this mystery. Yeah, I actually think I'll let's start maybe with talking about that yes or what people often say Mary's yes, but it's actually interesting for she doesn't, there's no question and answer in the actual enunciation story. She doesn't say yes. She says, let it be done

to me according to your word. And that in itself is kind of interesting to say something like,

I hope that happens to me. You know, I mean, things happening to us isn't generally the kind of thing

that we talk about or we want, you know, we don't want to say, I hope that happens to me.

We don't like things happening to us.

I hope I win the lottery.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, but we don't generally like things happening to us.

We want to be the one deciding what's going to be done.

The active agent.

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