Day 87: It’s All True

Speaker 1 I am Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.

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Speaker 6 For today's Lexio Divina, we'll be praying with the fourth glorious mystery, the Assumption of Mary.

Speaker 14 Luke chapter 1, verses 46 through 56.

Speaker 17 And our point of emphasis is going to be: it's all true.

Speaker 18 It's all true.

Speaker 18 And for our Alexio.

Speaker 5 And Mary said,

Speaker 5 My soul magnifies the Lord.

Speaker 5 And my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior.

Speaker 17 For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.

Speaker 19 For behold, henceforth, all generations will call me blessed.

Speaker 4 For he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.

Speaker 11 And his mercy is on those who fear him from generation to generation.

Speaker 11 He has shown strength with his arm.

Speaker 4 He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Speaker 2 He has put down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of low degree.

Speaker 6 He has filled the hungry with good things,

Speaker 5 and the rich he has sent empty away.

Speaker 20 He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his posterity for ever.

Speaker 21 And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her home.

Speaker 9 So now let's go ahead and engage our gospel passage here for our meditato.

Speaker 9 So we're going to connect a couple of themes or a couple of threads.

Speaker 5 We're coming to the Magnificat, right, in the context of meditating on Mary and Mary's Assumption.

Speaker 20 A reminder of Mary's Assumption.

Speaker 5 It's Mary being assumed, body and soul, into heaven.

Speaker 4 She goes to heaven.

Speaker 11 She's united with her son in a beautiful way, as well as the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 5 It's the fulfillment, right, of the promises made to Mary and God's goodness and love and care for her.

Speaker 7 And so what we have here, the church gives us, or what we often go to is the gospel passage to reflect on the assumption of Mary is Mary's Magnificat.

Speaker 14 The time of the Magnificat, it happens, right, as she is still pregnant with Jesus.

Speaker 23 So it's early on in her life here.

Speaker 9 It's really broken up into the two parts.

Speaker 19 It's Mary rejoicing about what God has done and will do in her life.

Speaker 25 And it's a movement to what God has done and will do for all of the people of Israel and for all of us.

Speaker 5 Right. And so Mary says, like, my soul magnifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior.

Speaker 12 And this is really important for us.

Speaker 5 We come to this, remembering that as we come to Mary and engage her and allow her to be a mother to us, like the Lord is not minimized, but magnified.

Speaker 17 And Mary has this disposition of rejoicing.

Speaker 13 Why?

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

Speaker 10 Is that true? Yes, that's true.

Speaker 2 Behold, henceforth, all generations will call me blessed.

Speaker 1 Is it true that all generations call her blessed?

Speaker 10 Yes, that is true.

Speaker 5 Right. And in a particular way, we celebrate her blessedness in her assumption at this moment.

Speaker 4 For he who is mighty has done great things for me.

Speaker 21 Is that true?

Speaker 27 Yes. Holy is his name.
True, yes.

Speaker 5 He has mercy on those who fear him.

Speaker 6 True, yes.

Speaker 11 He has shown strength of his arm.

Speaker 21 True, yes.

Speaker 20 He scattered the proud.

Speaker 7 True, yes.

Speaker 6 Put down mighty from their thrones.

Speaker 7 True, yes. Exalted those of low degree.

Speaker 6 Yes. Filled the hungry.
Yes.

Speaker 11 The rich he sent to empty away.

Speaker 13 Yes.

Speaker 1 Remembered his promise of mercy.

Speaker 25 Yes.

Speaker 17 So the point of meditation, one of the gifts of Mary's assumption is that, is this, like, we go back to the words of Elizabeth just a little bit before this.

Speaker 7 Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.

Speaker 28 And so blessed are we who believe that what's true for Mary will be true for us if like Mary we are faithful, if like Mary we say yes to the Lord, we offer our ongoing fiat, let it be done unto me according to your word.

Speaker 5 A last little point of meditation, right? Like

Speaker 5 there's a lot of commotion and discussion of like some of the relics of St.

Speaker 25 Paul, of St.

Speaker 1 Peter, some of these early apostles.

Speaker 4 But there's none of this right for Mary, right?

Speaker 5 There's no one claiming to have Mary's body.

Speaker 11 Like Mary is truly body and soul assumed into heaven.

Speaker 5 And so the assumption is this reminder of how God keeps his promises, how he does it firstly in Mary in a most beautiful and privileged way, but that it is going to be true for us as well.

Speaker 11 So we're going to come with you.

Speaker 18 It's all true.

Speaker 17 It's all true. The Father is faithful.
So let us, like, Mary trust.

Speaker 5 Let us, like, Mary offer our fiat.

Speaker 5 And so we'll go to Alexia one more time.

Speaker 13 Behold,

Speaker 5 henceforth, all generations will call me blessed.

Speaker 6 For he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.

Speaker 5 We here participate in, give witness to that this is real, that this is true, as we come, you know, thousands of years after the life of our lady still calling her blessed the blessed mother

Speaker 11 he who is mighty has done great things for me and holy is his name

Speaker 5 and we too are invited we like mary to share in the blessedness of those who who share in jesus's resurrection in heaven for all eternity we too are heirs of the mighty works of god

Speaker 14 So we're going to we're going to really ask for this to increase our hope, our confidence in the Lord and his faithfulness, and increase our capacity again for this total yes, this imitation of Mary's Fiat.

Speaker 17 One more time for Alexio.

Speaker 21 For behold, henceforth, all generations will call me blessed,

Speaker 4 for he who is mighty

Speaker 6 has done great things for me.

Speaker 10 And holy is his name.

Speaker 5 Okay, we're going to transition now to our oratsu, our prayer following, our template, receive, respond, request,

Speaker 24 rejoice, receive.

Speaker 5 What is the good news being offered?

Speaker 17 What is God revealing about himself?

Speaker 17 Like his fidelity, his faithfulness.

Speaker 29 God has kept his promises.

Speaker 11 We've seen it again and again in salvation history.

Speaker 5 We celebrate it, in a particular here in the Assumption of Mary.

Speaker 5 And so we have confidence that he will continue to keep his promises.

Speaker 17 What's the invitation?

Speaker 29 What's the response?

Speaker 23 Let's begin with adoration and praise and our own magnifying of the Lord.

Speaker 24 Lord, we just love you. We bless you.
We trust you.

Speaker 5 We thank you for your goodness. We thank you for your particular care and love for the Blessed Mother.
We thank you, Lord, for fulfilling your promises made to her.

Speaker 24 And we rejoice in her assumption, Lord.

Speaker 5 Her share in your resurrection.

Speaker 24 And Lord, we just praise you for your fidelity. We praise you for your faithfulness.

Speaker 29 We praise you, Lord, for being a father who always keeps his promises.

Speaker 19 And so, and then, what's the next level of response?

Speaker 22 How about imitation?

Speaker 21 So, it's as we celebrate here what Mary has experienced, as we celebrate here, the Lord's fidelity in her life, let us also experience the invitation to imitate her yes, to imitate her fiat.

Speaker 5 And now we're going to ask for this grace.

Speaker 26 Lord, we're just going to ask for the continued grace of the Holy Spirit to be poured into our hearts through the prayers and the intercession of the Blessed Mother.

Speaker 27 That like Mary, we may have total trust in you and your fidelity, Father, that like Mary, we may share.

Speaker 27 in the riches of the beatific vision, the riches of being with you in eternity for all the great wealth of being with you, of praising you, of adoring you, of magnifying you for all eternity in heaven with all the angels and the saints.

Speaker 24 Maybe this be the source of the good news. Maybe this be the source of our trust and our confidence

Speaker 21 and bear fruit in a deeper surrender and a deeper yes, a deeper imitation of Mary's fiat.

Speaker 24 Now we rejoice. Thank you, Jesus, for this time of prayer.

Speaker 18 Thank you for the gift of the most holy gospel. Thank you for

Speaker 5 Mary's Magnificat.

Speaker 21 Thank you for this time of prayer, of encouragement,

Speaker 31 an opportunity to rejoice in the good things you have done in the life of Mary.

Speaker 13 May this give us hope, authentic, theological, sure hope in the good things and the mighty works you desire to do in our lives as well.

Speaker 10 Now we'll conclude our time of Lexio by our contemplatio, praying, the one decade of the Most Holy Rosary,

Speaker 15 really asking to receive just this grace of rejoicing, of confidence that it's all true.

Speaker 18 It's all true.

Speaker 1 In a particular way, we see it true.

Speaker 5 In Mary's life, it was true for Mary.

Speaker 21 It will be true for us as well.

Speaker 16 So we're going to ask to receive that grace.

Speaker 17 As we pray with the Blessed Mother in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

Speaker 5 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Speaker 28 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Speaker 30 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Speaker 5 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Speaker 8 Amen.

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

Speaker 33 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 16 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 22 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 16 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 33 Blessed art thou thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 16 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 33 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 16 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 33 Blessed Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 16 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 28 Amen.

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

Speaker 33 Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 21 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 33 Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 16 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 28 Amen.

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

Speaker 33 Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 16 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 28 Amen.

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

Speaker 33 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 16 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Speaker 28 Amen.

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

Speaker 33 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Speaker 16 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Speaker 11 Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Speaker 13 Amen.

Speaker 33 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 6 Amen.

Speaker 5 All right, that's going to conclude our time of praying, Lexio Divina, together. Certainly you've...
You've been able to get to a place of prayer and conversation, rejoicing in the Lord.

Speaker 11 And if you're able to continue that, very much encourage you to do so.

Speaker 1 But that's going to end end our time together.

Speaker 11 So, thank you so much for joining me and praying with me today.

Speaker 5 I look forward to continuing this journey with you again tomorrow.

Speaker 9 All right, Poco Poke, friends.

Speaker 30 God bless y'all.