Day 206: Promise of the Father

Speaker 1 I am Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast, where through prayer and meditation, the Rosary brings us deeper into a relationship with Jesus and to Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.

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Speaker 8 today.

Speaker 5 We will be meditating upon and praying with the third glorious mystery, the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

Speaker 7 And now, before our time of prayer, a review of what we have discussed up to this point.

Speaker 12 First, for today, when we were looking at Acts chapter 2, verses 1 through 13,

Speaker 14 we read from one of the audiences from Pope John Paul II's pontificate

Speaker 16 on the Holy Spirit, giver of life and love.

Speaker 7 And John Paul II, he invites us to see Pentecost as a prayer event.

Speaker 9 Looking at the particular language, especially the original Greek in which Acts was written,

Speaker 5 John Paul II, he proposes that not only is Pentecost a prayer event, it's a prayer which is patient patient

Speaker 12 and assiduous.

Speaker 12 And he says, in a certain sense, even a stubbornness implying sacrifice in the overcoming of difficulty.

Speaker 13 He says it was therefore a prayer of the most complete dedication, not only of the heart, but also of the will.

Speaker 12 And there's this invitation and a reminder and hopefully a consolation and a source of hope because so much, right, of the Christian life

Speaker 5 is a prayer of waiting.

Speaker 14 But can it be an assiduous, maybe even a stubborn, a sacrificial waiting, a waiting that is a prayer of the most complete dedication of the heart and will

Speaker 12 as we wait upon the Lord to come to us,

Speaker 7 to fill us, to strengthen us, to encourage us, to carry us.

Speaker 12 And so today there can be an invitation to go to the upper room with Mary and the disciples to bring our needs, to bring our hearts, to bring our unfulfilled desires,

Speaker 4 our desire for

Speaker 7 sanctity,

Speaker 14 for healing, for knowledge, for understanding.

Speaker 12 And we come and we wait with Mary and the apostle saying, come, Holy Spirit.

Speaker 6 Come, Holy Spirit.

Speaker 9 And then secondly, you know, we talked about how

Speaker 12 after Pentecost, some of the witnesses accused Peter and some of the disciples of being drunk, right?

Speaker 12 And they say,

Speaker 12 what do you mean? It's, you know, it's early in the morning. Like, that's not what's going on at all.

Speaker 9 But there's these fruits of the Holy Spirit, particularly this like boldness.

Speaker 16 and these signs that confuse people.

Speaker 14 And we made the connection back to the second luminous mystery, the wedding feast of Cana, where Jesus reveals himself to be the new bridegroom who gives to us the new wine.

Speaker 14 And we see the Holy Spirit as being this new wine.

Speaker 19 The Holy Spirit,

Speaker 12 the promise of the Father who comes at Pentecost,

Speaker 14 comes and he fills the disciples with the new wine.

Speaker 12 And so like, so what is new wine and why is that important?

Speaker 14 It's a new joy, right? It's a new boldness. It's a new life.

Speaker 12 It's a new hope.

Speaker 14 It comes with a new law and a new kingdom.

Speaker 12 But maybe for today, we can focus on that cause of joy, right?

Speaker 14 Back at the wedding feast of Canaan, the good wine, the wine that came second, the wine that was the fruit of Jesus, changing water to wine, right?

Speaker 1 It added a joy to the celebration.

Speaker 12 And for those who understood what was happening, it was a sign of Jesus' power, his goodness, his care.

Speaker 16 And a share in the joy here and now of the wedding banquet to come.

Speaker 8 So we give thanks for the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 2 We give thanks to Jesus, the new bridegroom, for the new wine,

Speaker 1 and we rejoice in the promise of the Father who has come to us.

Speaker 10 And finally, for today, as we looked at Jean-Rousseau's painting of the Pentecost,

Speaker 12 we looked at the contrast between the response.

Speaker 13 of Mary and the rest of the disciples and the apostles.

Speaker 14 If you recall, like in the room, there's a bunch of really, really kind of drastic responses.

Speaker 16 Whereas Mary was quite calm,

Speaker 18 quite still,

Speaker 18 very rooted, confident, you could say.

Speaker 12 And in part, I propose that when someone is experiencing something for the first time, it can be quite scary, dramatic, even disorienting.

Speaker 14 But as one becomes a veteran of a particular situation, there's an invitation and opportunity to have a greater stability, boldness, confidence.

Speaker 12 And we called to mind that this wasn't the first time that Mary had been overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, as happened to her back

Speaker 12 at the first joyful mystery, the Annunciation.

Speaker 12 And so, Mary,

Speaker 12 at the time of Pentecost,

Speaker 14 the descent of the Holy Spirit,

Speaker 2 Mary is able to just receive

Speaker 18 with confidence

Speaker 2 and to drink deeply of this new wine, to drink deeply of the Holy Spirit, to drink deeply of the answer to her assiduous and complete and sacrificial prayer.

Speaker 6 And I believe for us, there's this invitation to just open our hands, open our hearts

Speaker 14 to receive totally, deeply, to drink deeply of the new wine, the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 19 As we continue that prayer, come, Holy Spirit.

Speaker 6 Come, Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit.

Speaker 11 So now today we'll just take a moment of rest, of stillness, of

Speaker 5 leisurely prayer

Speaker 13 as we enter into our roadmap of prayer, our four hours today.

Speaker 8 In this moment, as we meditate upon this mystery, what is the grace being offered?

Speaker 8 The truth being revealed that you are invited to receive.

Speaker 12 How can you respond?

Speaker 2 What's the grace that you would like to request?

Speaker 2 And then rejoice.

Speaker 8 Give thanks to the Lord for this time of prayer, for the grace given

Speaker 19 and the life shared, namely today, the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

Speaker 12 Now, together with Mary,

Speaker 7 let us pray.

Speaker 8 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 19 Amen.

Speaker 11 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Speaker 10 Thy kingdom come,

Speaker 9 thy will be done,

Speaker 23 on earth as it is in heaven.

Speaker 2 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses,

Speaker 9 as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Speaker 10 And lead us not into temptation,

Speaker 16 but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Speaker 3 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is is with thee.

Speaker 23 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 5 pray for us sinners,

Speaker 22 now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 17 Amen.

Speaker 3 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 11 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 22 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 3 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 23 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 23 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 21 Amen.

Speaker 3 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 23 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 5 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 21 Amen.

Speaker 3 Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 4 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 Holy Mary, mother of God,

Speaker 5 pray for us sinners

Speaker 17 now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 20 Hail Mary full of grace,

Speaker 3 the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 23 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 20 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 5 pray for us sinners

Speaker 22 now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 17 Amen.

Speaker 3 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 4 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 5 pray for us sinners,

Speaker 17 now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 3 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 4 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 22 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 3 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 4 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 5 pray for us sinners,

Speaker 17 now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 3 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Speaker 23 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Speaker 22 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 17 Amen.

Speaker 10 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now,

Speaker 6 and ever shall be, world without end.

Speaker 21 Amen.

Speaker 10 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 21 Amen.

Speaker 10 Okay, thanks so much for joining me and praying with me again today. I look forward to continuing this journey with you again tomorrow.

Speaker 11 Poco, Poco, friends.

Speaker 4 Cabasio.