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

So welcome to our Rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit.

Let's offer up all of our Lenton prayer and sacrifice for all of the loved ones that have been submitted to the prayer list for their deep conversion.

And I want to continue to pray for a little Thomas Lauer, who's had a little bit of a setback.

So we need to redouble our efforts for him

and for the continued intercession of little Olivia

to be healed of her seizures.

Today we're reflecting on how to live our consecration to Mary, how to live a deeper relationship

with Mary, because consecrating oneself to Mary is just the beginning.

From there, we must go on to live a personal relationship with Mary.

This is what Jesus lived moment to moment, day after day,

for about three years in Egypt and then 27 years in Nazareth.

So imagine what the relationship between Jesus and Mary was like as he grew up under her care.

Imagine his first words each morning.

They would have been Mama.

And where would you have found Jesus throughout the day if not in her arms or clinging to her leg, like any toddler?

And he wasn't anxious. I'll bet you anything. As a little toddler, he never woke up at 3 a.m. worrying about his life.

He wasn't anxious about what to wear or eat or do. He just turned to his

mother for all his needs and remained close to her. He lived in her constant presence and she took

care of him. So if we want to live an imitation of Jesus, then live an imitation of that.

But we, on the other hand, we live in pride.

The radical self-reliance that results in anxiety, worry, exhaustion.

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