This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

I am blessed to be with Teresa the Great, Mason the Militant, the Coffee King is with us this evening and tonight my wife is not my habea because she said she's feeling wild and beautiful tonight

So she wanted to be my Mej-Nuni

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Let's offer this Rosary for and in support those we've promised to pray for.

Our meditation for today arises from my own reflection upon the approved apparitions of Our Lady to Sister

Sazagawa in Akita, Japan in 1973, but also from a profound conversation at

lunch with Christopher West on Thursday and the way in which these two come

together in the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

But it begins with 101 instances of a statue of Mary bleeding and weeping in 1973 in Akitah Japan.

Then Sister Agnes Sazaagawa received visions of her guardian angel and messages from Mary, the mother of God and our mother.

Bishop John Edo approved this apparition in 1984 after extensive years of investigation.

But the context into which we must situate

the apparition of Mary in Akata

is the cosmic struggle between Mary and the devil. This great battle begins with the

prophecy in Genesis 315 that in the end the woman would crush the head of Satan.

It's found again at the end of scriptures in the book of Revelation chapter 12

where we are told of this battle between the woman clothed with the sun and the great red dragon.

In 1830 God revealed the miraculous medal apparition and on this medal we have

married depicted crushing the head of Satan with her heel.

In 1858 Pope Pius 9 proclaimed the Immaculate Conception of Mary that the devil never had nor never can have any power over her.

And then in 1950 Pope Pius the 12th proclaimed the assumption of Mary,

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