Day 207: Fiat by Fiat

Speaker 4 Pam Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast where through prayer and meditation, the Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.

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Speaker 11 Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the fourth glorious mystery, the Assumption.

Speaker 3 Now, before and in preparation of our time of prayer today, let's review some of what we have already discussed and prayed with regarding Mary's Assumption.

Speaker 12 If you recall, we looked at Mary's Magnificat back in Luke chapter 1 towards the end of the visitation.

Speaker 8 And we noted like the pattern of Mary's Magnificat.

Speaker 11 There is this praising God

Speaker 14 for what he has done in Mary's own life.

Speaker 9 And then there's this praising, this blessing of God for that which he will do for all of God's people.

Speaker 7 And Mary like experiences in herself the promises of God, the faithfulness of God.

Speaker 4 Here,

Speaker 8 the assumption into heaven, like her going body and soul into heaven.

Speaker 9 And we see what Mary experiences as a precursor to what all of the church is going to be called to experience.

Speaker 16 And in Mary's assumption,

Speaker 20 we see that God

Speaker 21 keeps his promises.

Speaker 9 You could say, like, we see that it's all true.

Speaker 8 Mary said, right, all generations will call me blessed.

Speaker 9 Is that true?

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 7 God has regarded the lowest state of his handmaiden.

Speaker 11 Is that true?

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 16 He who is mighty has done great things for me.

Speaker 8 Is that true? Yes.

Speaker 14 Holy is his name? True, yes. He has mercy on those who fear him.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 7 We see that everything that Mary praised God for and prophesied, it's all come true.

Speaker 14 And we see Elizabeth's words to Mary when they greet during the visitation.

Speaker 9 Like, blessed is she who believed.

Speaker 3 that there would be fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.

Speaker 12 Like, we see this is all true.

Speaker 8 And that which has been true for Mary

Speaker 9 will be true for us.

Speaker 21 And so, those of us who wish to go where Mary has gone, those of us who wish to experience the fulfillment of God's promises in our lives, we're called to journey and to make this journey just like Mary did.

Speaker 17 And how does Mary make that journey?

Speaker 8 Like fiat by fiat, yes by yes, be it done unto me according to your word.

Speaker 19 She follows, she receives, she believes,

Speaker 19 she prays,

Speaker 13 and God is faithful. God keeps his promises.

Speaker 8 So there's this invitation as we meditate upon the assumption

Speaker 8 to receive the gift of hope and of confidence that what Mary is experiencing, we ourselves are called to experience.

Speaker 21 And for the sake of today, namely

Speaker 21 the complete and perfect fulfillment of the promises of God.

Speaker 22 And now, second, for a review today, we'll pull from the episode where we had a quote from Bishop Fulton Sheen.

Speaker 26 Fulton Sheen, he wrote,

Speaker 8 Her mystical flight is the event to which our whole generation moves.

Speaker 7 Our age of carnalities, which loves the body beautiful, is lifted out of its despair by the assumption to honor a body that is beautiful.

Speaker 8 Because it is a temple of God.

Speaker 16 And Bishop Sheen pointed out, and it's easy for all of us to see, sort of this emphasis on the preservation of the body, the fulfillment of the body.

Speaker 11 There's just so much time and effort and money being put into like our physical form in the modern world today.

Speaker 1 But as we noted, that is necessarily like a losing battle.

Speaker 9 Our body will decay, at least our physical youthfulness.

Speaker 2 There's something good of this desire for preservation, for youthfulness, for eternity.

Speaker 21 But it's not going to be fulfilled, like in this world.

Speaker 22 And it's not going to be fulfilled by our own effort, by medical advancements, by supplements, etc.

Speaker 9 But it will be fulfilled, like in heaven.

Speaker 4 We believe in the resurrection of the body.

Speaker 11 We celebrate in the assumption, Mary's body and soul being assumed into heaven, where Mary, who is the all-beautiful one, one,

Speaker 8 is beautiful for all eternity

Speaker 25 because of the faithfulness of God, because her body is a temple of God.

Speaker 12 And so we receive in the assumption that the properly ordered and directed desire for

Speaker 16 perpetual health, for youthfulness, etc.

Speaker 25 that it is something given to us by God.

Speaker 9 It is a, if you will, like a little seed of our hope in the resurrection of the body.

Speaker 7 But we don't trust in our own efforts, but we trust in God.

Speaker 13 And that which will make us truly beautiful is God, like alive and present in us, because we are temples of the Lord and his transformative power.

Speaker 17 Now, lastly, for today,

Speaker 21 we had a quote from St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
St.

Speaker 23 Bernard wrote, The glorious virgin who mounts to the heaven today has without a doubt heaped joy upon joy for the citizens of the world above.

Speaker 8 And we took a moment just to pray with and to reflect on the joy of the angels, the joy of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Mary's Assumption to heaven and the joy of, as the saints fill the choirs of heaven themselves, the joy that they have.

Speaker 11 in being reunited with the Blessed Mother.

Speaker 8 And I pulled that image from the documentary about when Mother Teresa returned to the mother house and this wave and wave and wave of young nuns came to greet her with love and affection as a little bit of a

Speaker 19 foretaste,

Speaker 9 a preview of what that reunion in heaven would be like.

Speaker 1 And there's this invitation for ourselves to reflect upon like what do we think the joy of the citizens of heavens was like in hearing her voice and seeing her face and enjoying her blessed presence

Speaker 1 and for ourselves through the grace of the Holy Spirit to have this desire to be reunited with our blessed mother in heaven

Speaker 21 so now we'll just take a moment

Speaker 16 of rest here of reflection here of stillness

Speaker 3 And then we'll move through these four hours of prayer.

Speaker 16 Today, what is the grace being offered?

Speaker 2 The truth being revealed that you are invited to receive

Speaker 16 How can you respond?

Speaker 1 What is the grace that you would like to request at the service of this response?

Speaker 16 And then rejoice. Give thanks to the Lord for this time of prayer,

Speaker 15 the grace given, and the life of God shared.

Speaker 11 And now, together with Mary, let us pray.

Speaker 25 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 24 Amen.

Speaker 12 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Speaker 17 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Speaker 10 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Speaker 12 Amen.

Speaker 26 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 25 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 3 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 28 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Speaker 26 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 6 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 3 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 28 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 15 Amen.

Speaker 26 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 6 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 5 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 26 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 6 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 3 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 18 pray for us sinners,

Speaker 15 now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 19 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 25 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 3 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 18 pray for us sinners,

Speaker 15 now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 26 Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 6 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 3 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 28 pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 26 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 25 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 18 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 26 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 6 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 3 Holy Mary, Mother of God

Speaker 15 pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen

Speaker 26 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee

Speaker 25 blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus

Speaker 3 holy Mary mother of God

Speaker 15 pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen

Speaker 26 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee

Speaker 25 blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus

Speaker 18 Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen

Speaker 24 Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning, is now,

Speaker 25 and ever shall be,

Speaker 23 world without end.

Speaker 28 Amen.

Speaker 16 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 28 Amen.

Speaker 16 All right, thanks so much for joining me in praying with me today.

Speaker 17 I look forward to continuing this journey with you again tomorrow.

Speaker 5 Poco, Poco, friends.

Speaker 25 God bless y'all.