In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here,

that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

I ask your pardon for my sins

and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My immaculate Mother St. Joseph, my Father, and Lord, my guardian angel, and deceitful.

As we fix our attention on Jesus, truly present with us in the blessed sacrament, we ask him to aid us and assist us with the help of the guardian angels

and making a fruitful time of prayer.

And our topic of conversation is the traditional theme of October.

There's two months of the year that are devoted to the Blessed Mother.

May, with a special focus on Mary's motherhood, October special focus on the devotion of the rosary.

Traditionally, October is devoted to Mary, but vis-a-vis the Rosary.

And this topic reminds me of an excursion I went on a number of years ago

to, I think, starved rock, it doesn't matter, but probably starved rock. Not exactly Mount Everest.

Not exactly London or Paris.

Starved Rock.

That's the best we could do then.

And I was driving and shortly into the ride.

I said, okay, boys, it was a van full of teenage boys.

All right, let's say the rosary.

And one of the boys had a knee-jerk reaction of protest.

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