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

and with the match, that is $2 million. And now all of us together are going to build a worldwide movement of the Holy Family.

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

wonderful rest of Advent.

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

Welcome to our daily rosary meditation.

We are in Jerusalem.

We are at the cave of Gisemone, where Jesus asked eight of the apostles

to watch and pray, while he took Peter, James, and John, a stone's throw away to the garden

of Gisemone for the agony in the garden. So let's begin in the name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. The Garden of

Gisemone is the place where Jesus begins what is called his passion, his suffering and death by which he saved the world.

And normally we think of Jesus as a victim, which of course he is.

In fact, the word passion comes from the same word as passive,

as though Jesus were simply overpowered and ultimately destroyed by the forces of wickedness.

But we get a reminder, even at the beginning, here in the garden, that throughout the entire passion,

Jesus is actually the one who is in control.

When Judas and the soldiers come to arrest him, Jesus, knowing all that was to befall

him, he went out to meet them and he confronted them, saying, who are you looking for?

And when they answered Jesus of Nazareth, he said to them, I am. He pronounced the divine name.

And when he did so, they were all knocked to the ground.

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