Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation. Thanks to you, 3,257 people have given $1 million,

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People who belong entirely to Our Lady are committed to personal transformation and helping others through friendship to God. So thank you, everyone, and thanks be to God

for bringing this Advent challenge to a successful completion. And now I pray that you have

a wonderful rest of Advent. And I hope that you have a wonderful rest of Advent.

And I hope you enjoy this rosary from the Holy Land.

Welcome to our daily rosary meditation.

We are at the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus delivered the parable of the sower.

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

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

Now the parable of the sower and the seeds, this is one of our Lord's first parables,

and it takes his apostles off guard.

Afterwards, they asked Jesus privately, what was that all about?

And he explains, the sower is God offering the grace of conversion and salvation.

But some seed lands on a footpath.

It takes no root, and eventually birds just take it away.

Jesus says these are the people who hear the word, but it makes no impression.

They don't get it.

And so the devil has no problem taking salvation away from them.

Some seed lands on rocky ground.

It springs right up.

But when the sun beats down, when suffering happens,

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