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So last night, Father John Mark spoke to us about God preparing Mary for her unique

vocation to become the mother of Christ our Lord, the mother of our Savior.

And I'm going to be picking up on a number of points that he laid

out, so he laid out a great foundation for this morning's talk. But my particular focus this morning

is going to be more to give a brief historical overview on how devotion to Mary developed in the early church through the Middle Ages and how it

came to a full blossoming really in the medieval period. But the roots of Marian devotion are there

from the very beginning, and that's an important point. And then we're going to end with the

development of the rosary devotion in the high Middle

ages.

And we'll be talking about the history of the rosary, and then why praying the rosary

is so important.

But I'd like to begin with this very crucial point, first and foremost. all Catholic teaching on Mary and all the

essential elements of Catholic devotion to Mary are grounded in scripture right so

none of what Catholics believe about our blessed mother just popped out of nowhere you

know or suddenly appeared you know in the middle ages or later it's all there and father

john mark alluded to this last night right everything that we believe believe about Mary and all our devotional practices

are actually rooted in Scripture. I'm going to point out a few, just to give you an example,

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