Welcome to our daily rosary meditation.

These meditations were recorded just this past June in the Holy Land.

And one of my favorite things in the world is to lead people to a deep encounter with Jesus and Mary in

Bethlehem at the home of the Holy Family in Nazareth on the Sea of Galilee in the

garden of Ghemeany and in the empty tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem.

And I want to invite you to this same encounter this December

2003 for the best Christmas preparation ever.

Just go to School of Faith.com,

click on pilgrimages, and you can get all the information.

So let's begin in the name of the Father all the information.

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

Amen.

And let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

We are literally sitting on the shore of the sea of Galilee just a few meters away from Peter's house and the headquarters of Jesus. It was in this synagogue that Jesus taught the bread of life discourse, that the Eucharist really is his body, blood, soul, and infinity.

So in the sixth chapter of John, Jesus gives this great teaching on the Eucharist,

and he tells his listeners that they must eat his flesh and drink his blood

if they are to have eternal life. This is understandably a very

strange teaching for them to hear. How they say can this man give us his flesh to eat or his blood to drink?

And why would we want to do such a thing?

So they say, this is a hard saying. Who can accept it? And right then, many of those who used to follow Jesus decide they aren't going to follow him anymore. And Jesus

lets him go. And then he turns to his apostles and he doesn't ask them to stay.

He doesn't thank them for staying.

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