Welcome to our daily rosary meditation.

These meditations were recorded just this past June in the Holy Land.

And one of my favorite things in the world is to lead people to a deep encounter with Jesus and Mary in

Bethlehem at the home of the Holy Family in Nazareth on the Sea of Galilee in the

garden of Ghemeany and in the empty tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem.

And I want to invite you to this same encounter this December

2003 for the best Christmas preparation ever.

Just go to School of Faith.com,

click on pilgrimages, and you can get all the information.

So let's begin in the name of the Father all the information.

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

Amen.

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

Today. to pray for. Today we are in Jerusalem and we are at the Praetorium where pilot can where Pilot condemned Jesus to death, where he scourged him, had him crowned him, and where Jesus took up his cross.

But Jesus told all of us that we cannot be his disciple unless we take up our cross and follow him.

That if we want to reach the glorified life for the resurrection,

we have to die with him.

The seed must die. Now it was after Palm Sunday the time for the Passover was approaching and Christ's enemies

were preparing their plans to having put to death.

And yet despite the danger Christ was present, not hiding, not afraid.

And some Greeks came to Philip and said, sir, we wish to see Jesus.

Now we don't know for sure why they wanted to see him.

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