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 to seed for me.

Lord, as we again focus our attention on you,

and as we focus our attention on you,

we want to bring a main reason, not the ultimate reason,

but the main reason we have you here. And that's because a teenage girl gave a colossal yes, and hence moved by the Holy Spirit,

St. John Paul made the institution of the Eucharist a mystery of the rosary, the last mystery,

the fifth luminous mystery, because ultimately we have the Lord because of Mary's yes.

She was not the ultimate cause. We will proclaim the ultimate cause, who is the third person of the Blessed Trinity, the Holy Spirit.

He was conceived by the Holy Spirit in concert with Mary's yes.

We're going to title this time of prayer, of meditation, as the mother of the fisherman.

We have the protagonist of the miraculous catch because a woman brought him into the world,

translated an infinite, transcendent, incomprehensible God into one of our own,

because she was generous and she said yes, and everything's allegorical.

I mean, these are real events, but they're allegorical at the same time

because we bring Christ into the world by imitating her, by being generous.

That's why sanctity is the answer. That's why holiness is what brings

Christ into the world. And so she's, as the Second Vatican Council teaches us, she is the

model of discipleship. That's now solemnly declared by the church.

How do we want to look at this?

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