Hello, welcome to Form Now. We are in the middle of a Bible study on the Joyful Mysteries. My name

is Dr. Ben Acres. I'm the executive director of Formed, and joining me today is Dr. James Prothro,

who's a professor at the graduate school here in Denver, Colorado. Thanks for joining me, Joe.

Thanks for having me. Well, it's always great. I really enjoy learning from you and going through the scripture passages. You as well. And it's always great to talk about, well, scripture and prayer. And we get to do it all together with the rosaries. It's wonderful. Right. So we've been going through the mysteries of the rosary and helping people hopefully pray more deeply these mysteries where some people have a habit of justaries. And I don't know what that is. I just look at the nice little pious prayer card. And our Lord works with that, of course. But our hope is that we go deeper into these passages of Scripture. So some of the echoes in the Old Testament and some of these passages to help people that are meditating on the rosary to bring to mind these things.

Yeah, absolutely. And we're going to get a lot of that, particularly in the fourth joyful

mystery today. Yeah, so we're in the presentation of Jesus in the temple. Fourth joyful mystery.

Where should we start? Where we go in the New Testament? So we're going to go for this to Luke

Chapter 2. I think maybe you've mentioned it already.

But for the joyful mysteries, you really can just read the first two chapters of Luke's gospel and get basically everything.

It's all in there, the enunciation, the visitation, all of it.

So we're going to look now at Luke chapter 2.

So Luke's the third gospel in the New Testament. Luke chapter 2. We're going to start particularly at verse 22. Don't me start reading?

I can do it and then you can reflect if you're good with that. So this is after Jesus has been circumcised, but not right after. Okay.

So he circumcised on day eight. That's the tradition. So we're past that. Yeah, we're past that.

Now we're coming to his presentation and we can talk about what that is and when that happens in a moment.

So starting in verse 22, and when the time came their purification, according to the law of Moses,

they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.

As it is written in the law of the Lord, every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord.

And to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons. Should we take a break there? Yeah, so it seems like there's

a couple things going on in this passage. Luke is also drawing our attention to that we're

kind of some fulfillment of the law in the Old Testament that they're being observant of.

Yeah, that's right being observant of.

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