Marian Vigil - Part 2 - Side A

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There is a river there.
 
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You don't have to die of thirst.
 
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There is a river.
 
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It's your option for your family.
 
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Because I want to say too that the uniqueness of my life is the family.
 
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The family.
 
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The family.
 
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The one little community without which we cannot live.
 
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Church or state or anything else.
 
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And that's the poor little community that's neglected the most of all.
 
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We make little communities of this group and that group and steal them out of the little
 
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anemic ones that's left behind.
 
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It's the easiest way.
 
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But the family rosary crusade starts at the hardest, the most severely in need of the
 
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water.
 
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to reach him, to make God change him.
 
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At a diocetan crusade, when the bishop gathers his priests
 
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and that he puts me in front of them,
 
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that I say, it isn't the saint you're after.
 
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The one that I want you to begin with,
 
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and I'm speaking in the name of our blessed Lord,
 
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is the worst, the worst, the hardest, the cruelest,
 
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the most diabolical man, but he's Mary's son.
 
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And one day Christ said,
 
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love that man as much as you love me. Be as much concerned about that man as
 
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about me because he's my brother. That's where you begin and you can answer,
 
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dear father John or Michael, you're ridiculous. He would tar and feather me.
 
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He would drive me from his house and my answer is, do what I did. Make our Lord
 
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do it and that's the key of our diocesan crusades. The ability of that pastor or
 
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that bishop to do such a violence to God that he has to change the whole face of
 
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the earth and the bishops that put this through will testify that that's right.
 
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And so dear people it's to make an awareness to keep ever aware of all
 
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peoples there is water for you to drink and you don't have to despair and I will
 
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finish with this last little thing.
 
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Some man said to me the other day, I want to do what you say because I want to
 
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protect my children. I'm concerned for my children. I want them to grow up safe and
 
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sane and secure to follow the path of faith. And I said, were I to stand before
 
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a seven-year-old child or her grandfather, the 70-year-old man, with the
 
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pretense that I was able to convert her, able to change her or him, I would be so
 
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laughable, so ridiculous. If I had the pretense and the snobbishness and the
 
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insanity to think that I'm so so above that person, I must convert him. I must
 
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changes ways. That's God's job.
 
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And so the explanation why my security lies and my safety lies and my sureness
 
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relies on the interior conviction that I am the donkey. The driver is the one that
 
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has to do the converting, the changing, so long as I do not refuse the bridle or
 
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to be guided where to go. Where did I find such a tremendous sureness? Was it
 
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some great priest that taught me in the seminary? Was it some great library book
 
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that I pulled down by accident? Was it some sermon or mission? And my answer is
 
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no, no, no. It was a poor little man in a little village in the mountains of Mayo,
 
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my father, with his wife, my mother, who could not read or write. And every child
 
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that God wished them to have, they opened their door and hearts and her womb to
 
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that child. I was away down the line of the nine and when it came to my turn in
 
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God's design to come, my mother and my father didn't stop me coming. They
 
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welcome me, even though that they could say his coming will make it harder for
 
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those that came before him. He'll take some of their bread. But they did more
 
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than welcoming. They gave me a home of love to live in. They gave me a home of
 
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love to live in for 19 years.
 
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How did they do it?
 
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Buying beautiful clothes?
 
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No. My mother had to patch and repatch and repatch my clothes.
 
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I went down to take the cast-off shoes
 
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of the neighboring schoolmaster's boy to fit myself.
 
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There were destitute, two little rooms in a shack.
 
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The kitchen held the bed where the four brothers slept.
 
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But I wouldn't change it for a palace.
 
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It was like Bethlehem.
 
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God was there.
 
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Mary was there.
 
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My father and mother made sure they were there, obliged them to be there, compelled them to
 
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be there, persecuted them daily to be there, so that they wouldn't have a spark
 
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of sensitivity after hearing that humble mother saying, Mary, I believe you're
 
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alive, I believe you have a son that's my God, will you take care of these little
 
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kids for us, will you bring him into our midst? And so that's what I heard, that's
 
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what I saw. That's what made the Holy Home, the happy home, the United Home, the
 
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home of justice, the home of fidelity, the home that like the garden where the
 
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roses grow, rich with soil and sun and rain, the family rosary. I die for it. I'm
 
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living for it because to that I give, I owe my heaven on earth and it
 
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It isn't an insane man saying it, but the security that I have of who am I, where am
 
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I going, why am I here, what is the Trinity, what is the Blessed Sacrament, who in the
 
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world is Mary, that that blessed rosary more than priests or teachers or bishops or anybody
 
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else in that tiny little shack of a home for 19 years burned it into me like the farmer
 
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in Wyoming that uses a red-hot iron to put his name on his calf. That's the
 
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rosary in the family. It taught me. It inspired me. It made a home for me. It
 
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branded me. It made me go that road directly to God because Mary was
 
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persecuted and we would judge her if she said no after saying 53 times
 
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the night, our needs to her, our joys with her, our love for her, and for her to turn
 
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her back on us. She lifted us in her arms and her eyesight became ours, her purity
 
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became ours, her strength became ours, her love became ours, her powerful prayer
 
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became ours, and in spite of the superficial little annoyances that come
 
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the way to everyone, down deep like the Mississippi, our hearts, the whole nine
 
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kids that were born and trained and formed and fashioned in that little shack
 
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by the Rosary are like the Mississippi River, deep down, solid, safe, and on its
 
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journey to the sea, even though that the waves at the top might say it's full of
 
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distress and sorrow. I'll finish with gratitude to you and love for you and I
 
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ask you for one beautiful thing because you're known to the poor prisoner of
 
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2,000 years ago that had to stand through the night to be killed the next
 
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day and he's watching you and he knows you and he'll answer you. Next January
 
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the family Rosary Crusade will be 35 years old.
 
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I want to make the most of it for Mary, to serve her,
 
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to help her perform her second role.
 
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And so I have come to the conclusion
 
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that I will kill myself to deliver a trilogy for the television of the world,
 
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but especially for the English world,
 
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that will comprise three half hours for Christmas, Passion Week, Easter Week,
 
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when the hearts of men are open.
 
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And the three mysteries that I want to recreate,
 
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not as a show, but as a prayer, as a spiritual experience,
 
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are the three basic truths that gives us the courage to go on.
 
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the incarnation represented by the nativity,
 
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the redemption represented by the crucifixion,
 
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and eternal life for you and me represented by the resurrection.
 
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I want them to be classics.
 
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I want to put into that song, story, prayer, reading, drama.
 
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And that it's true, that it's the rosary, that it's three mysteries of the rosary that
 
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are, that will be reflective for all peoples.
 
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But it's no wonder that the rosary has come down through the centuries, has been in the
 
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hands of the saints and the missionaries and the martyrs and the families and the widows
 
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and the dying and that of all Christendom it's the most popular prayer.
 
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I ask your support in prayer, in prayer that this will happen, this trilogy, and that that
 
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to me will be the crown, the thanksgiving, the love to God and Mary for letting me serve
 
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them and men for 35 years, the rosary glorified, glamorized, dramatized, prayed, sung, presented
 
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in a trilogy that can be repeated every Christmas, Passion Week, and Easter.
 
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I will say a Hail Mary in thanksgiving.
 
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Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
 
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Blessed art thou among women
 
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and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
 
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Glory be to the Father and to the Son
 
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and to the Holy Spirit.
 
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In the name of the Father and of the Son
 
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and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
 
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My dear brothers in Christ, let us go spiritually to the Shrine of Loreto in Italy.
 
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Let us go to the humble house of Nazareth where Mary said yes, where the Word was made
 
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flesh and dwelt amongst us.
 
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At this moment, before beginning our brief meditation on the Feast of the Yes of Mary,
 
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I would like to suggest a change in the third verse of the Angelus.
 
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We say, The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.
 
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We should say, And he dwelt amongst us.
 
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Here he is, our Savior Jesus Christ.
 
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At the opening of this solemn Eucharistic vigil, the priests said the words of the
 
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consecration and Jesus answered, Yes, and the bread was made flesh.
 
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By the grace of Mary, we have Jesus.
 
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By the grace of Jesus, we have the Holy Eucharist.
 
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Oh Lord, tell us where you live, ask the disciples.
 
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We cannot ask, we know.
 
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Here is where he lives.
 
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And many do not know it.
 
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Many ignore him.
 
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Paul VI at the Eucharistic Congress of Bombay said,
 
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Jesus is here! God is here!
 
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He wanted to be one of us in order to make us like him.
 
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He became food in order to nourish us.
 
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We accept him, we believe in him, we adore him as Mary did in the house of Nazareth.
 
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We should carry him within ourselves as Mary did in her womb.
 
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We should bring him to our brothers as we leave this stadium this morning.
 
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just as Mary brought him to Elizabeth,
 
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so that Jesus will be for them their home,
 
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redemption and salvation.
 
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Let us meditate more often on the yes of our Lady
 
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to the plan of God and to the carrying out
 
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of the divine plan, that is on the incarnation,
 
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so as to understand better the sacrament of the love of Jesus, the Holy Eucharist.
 
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In these 10 Hail Marys, we shall ask Mary to help us to be faithful to the yes we say during this Holy Night.
 
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By her yes to the Archangel Gabriel, she gave herself completely to God and has become the
 
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Tabernacle of the Lord.
 
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By the same token, she gave herself without reserve to all of us, becoming the Mother
 
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of the Savior and the Ark of the New Alliance, the Mother of the Eucharist, Our Lady of the
 
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Eucharist, as Pope Pius X said. She has become the first tabernacle to give Jesus for our
 
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nourishment. She has become the first monstrance to teach us to be living
 
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monstrances to our brothers. As Mary obeyed God and gave herself to the
 
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service of God and to us, her children, so should we say yes to Jesus who has given
 
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who is giving his life for us, who lives in our midst to help us, to nourish us with his bread of life.
 
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From the house of Nazareth have gone forth the yes of Jesus and Mary, a yes of obedience to God.
 
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and through these yeses we have the incarnation, the redemption, and the Holy Eucharist.
 
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Amen.
 
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All hail Mary.
 
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Our Father who art in heaven,
 
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hallowed be thy name.
 
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Thy kingdom come...
 
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It's been trying hard to rain tonight.
 
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It was pouring rain across the river in New Jersey.
 
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And we expected to see showers here.
 
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But apparently Our Lady is holding back the tears from the sky
 
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as we're trying to dry her tears over the sins of the world.
 
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The second decade of the Rosary will be led
 
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by Father Philip Higgins,
 
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a priest of the Holy Cross Fathers,
 
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who for the first 14 years of his priestly life
 
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was an assistant to Father Patrick Payton
 
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in the Crusade of the Family Rosary,
 
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and who is now chaplain of the Blue Army's National
 
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Center in Washington, New Jersey.
 
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In this second meditation for the visitation,
 
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the intention will be for the aged and social justice.
 
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I will conduct this with the thought of those who are sick, in hospitals, that are infirm,
 
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and who are dying.
 
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What impulse of love made you hurry to visit your cousin Elizabeth, kind mother, at a moment
 
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when you had every right to rest in the jubilant news
 
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that you would be the mother of the Messiah.
 
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You left the place of your exaltation.
 
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No doubt, the advanced age of Elizabeth
 
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caused you concern.
 
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Your compassionate heart turned toward her.
 
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Elizabeth, in her old age, needed the comfort of your youth.
 
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The child in your womb, conceived by the Holy Spirit,
 
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began his work of redemption by sanctifying John.
 
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Your zeal, dear mother, to carry Jesus to others, no matter what the cost,
 
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embarrasses us and causes us to blush with shame.
 
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We neglect the aged because we are too busy.
 
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We permit the generation gap to widen because we do not possess the love to bridge the distance.
 
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We permit social injustice because we do not wish to be our brother's keepers.
 
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Holy Mary, bring Jesus to us through the merits of your visit to Elizabeth.
 
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Obtain for us the graces we need to magnify the Lord by our humility in dealing with our neighbor,
 
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our concern for the aged, our zeal for social justice, and our courage when duty calls for sacrifice.
 
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
 
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We'll be led by Father Armand D'Asseville, a Capuchin father of the New York Province,
 
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spiritual director of the Blue Army of Our Lady in New York, who has led the all-night
 
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vigils consecutively at St. John's Church in New York City for the past five years.
 
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Armand D'Aseville.
 
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And the third, a joyful mystery.
 
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Bethlehem, where the Savior of the world was born in a stable, reminds us of one of our
 
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first obligations, to worship and to adore.
 
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This theme of Bethlehem has always been reflected in the Christmas liturgy.
 
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Christ is born for us.
 
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Come, let us adore.
 
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And in the Christmas hymns, O come, all ye faithful, let us adore him, Christ the Lord.
 
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The very first adorer of the newborn Son of God was Mary, his virgin mother, who lovingly
 
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laid him in the manger for all to behold.
 
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Next came St. Joseph, his foster father and guardian,
 
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who is depicted on his knees before him in the manger.
 
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And then the angels, the lowly shepherds,
 
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young and old, and finally the Magi and their retinue, all wrapped in wondrous
 
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worship. Adoration, therefore, is the dominant sentiment of Christmas. The urge
 
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to adore is certainly a great grace, because only believers adore. Only the
 
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faithful know by faith that Christ is the Son of God, true God of true God,
 
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begotten, not created. Worthy is he to receive honor and glory and praise, for
 
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he is the Son of God become man, the Word made flesh, the Son of God and Mary.
 
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These first and true friends of Christ at the stable of Bethlehem teach us the
 
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spirit of adoration. It is a spirit that must become an imminent part and a
 
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constant practice of our lives if we want truly to be like them, his friends.
 
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This Congress reminds us that the Holy Eucharist gives us many chances to adore,
 
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opportunities to worship him by visits to the Blessed Sacrament where the Christ in
 
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the crib is now the Christ in the host, truly and really the same God and Emmanuel.
 
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Here he waits for us to come and to sing to him with the angels, glory to God in the highest.
 
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Here he looks for us as he did for the shepherds to visit our divine neighbor.
 
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And here he draws us, as the Magi were drawn, to come, to fall down, and to worship him.
 
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Every day at Holy Mass he is lifted high at the consecration and is placed often in the
 
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demonstrants for benediction and processions for us to behold and to adore.
 
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Is our response one of adoring love, such as marked the worship of Mary, Joseph, the
 
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the angels, the shepherds, and the magi on that very first Christmas.
 
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And so, as we meditate on the third joyful mystery of the Rosary, ask Our Lady, the newborn
 
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Savior's first and most ardent worshiper to teach us to adore him, to glorify him,
 
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and to love him always at Holy Mass, in the Tabernacle, and especially when he is present
 
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within us in Holy Communion.
 
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Our Father, who art in...
 
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The fourth decade of the Rosary
 
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will be led by Father Francis Litz, Redemptorist,
 
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who is the custodian, as it were,
 
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of the body of Blessed John Newman
 
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here in Philadelphia.
 
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Father Litz is the vice postulator
 
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of the cause of Blessed John Newman,
 
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who is believed will soon be canonized,
 
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the third American saint.
 
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Bishop Newman was the first to introduce
 
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the 40 hours devotion in the United States.
 
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Father Litz was one of the first to introduce
 
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the all night vigils in the United States.
 
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And it was at St. ...
 
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Almost said St. John Newman.
 
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in the Blessed John Newman Shrine here in Philadelphia.
 
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Father Litz.
 
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You will now hear the Vice-Postulant
 
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of the Beatification of a Bishop of Philadelphia.
 
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The fourth joyful rosary mystery, the presentation of the child Jesus in the
 
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temple. So important according to the minds of the church is this fourth
 
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joyful mystery of the rosary that it is commemorated 40 days after the birth of
 
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Christ by the entire church each succeeding year on February the 2nd by a
 
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liturgical feast entitled the presentation of the Lord popularly
 
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known as Candlemas Day. The reason for this important liturgical feast day is
 
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is the clear and detailed narration of this outstanding event in the early days
 
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of Christ's life on earth by Saint Luke, the great evangelist of the infancy of
 
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Christ. Saint Luke tells us how Mary and Joseph brought the 40-day-old child
 
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Jesus to Jerusalem, so that he could be presented to the Lord. They came also to
 
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offer in sacrifice two young pigeons. During the ceremony, a just and pious man
 
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named Simeon, entered the temple and inspired by the Holy Spirit, took the
 
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child in his arms and blessed God for this great privilege, saying,
 
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Now you can dismiss your servant in peace, for you have fulfilled your work.
 
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My eyes have seen him who is the glory of your people and a light to all the nations.
 
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Then Simeon said to Mary in prophetic tones, This child is destined to be the downfall
 
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and the rise of many, a subject of contradiction.
 
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you yourself shall be pierced with a sword.
 
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St. Luke also mentions the presence in the temple as a witness of this event.
 
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An 84-year-old widow by the name of Anna, who was constantly in the temple, worshipping
 
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day and night, and St. Luke tells us how she could not stop thanking God for and
 
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telling others of the privilege that was hers. Tonight, as we meditate on the deep
 
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significance of this mystery of the presentation of the child Jesus in the
 
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Temple, we naturally turn our thoughts to the day of our presentation in the
 
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Temple, the day of our baptism, when our Godparents took us to the church to
 
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present us at the very beginning of our lives to the Lord. On that day of our
 
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initiation into the mystical body of Christ, our grandparents in our name
 
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made an offering for us in the name of our baptismal promises to renounce Satan,
 
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all his works, all his empty promises, to renounce sin so as to live in the
 
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freedom of the children of God, to reject the glamour of evil, and refuse to be
 
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mastered by sin, and to adhere throughout life to the faith of the Church of
 
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Christ. As Mary carried the child Jesus to the temple, so we too were pledged
 
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then at our baptism to carry Christ and his saving doctrine to many, to as many
 
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as possible. Like Christ, we too are destined, each in our own life, by our
 
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Christian life through edification or dis- edification for the rise or the
 
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fall of many. No one goes to their reward in God or to their rejection by God
 
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alone. The prophecy of Simeon that a sword of sorrow would pierce Mary's
 
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heart has likewise its echoes in our own personal life, for the cross is the
 
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characteristic mark of every Christian life, whose reward we enjoy only after
 
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having passed through many tribulations. With Mary, the tabernacle of the Lord, as
 
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as our model and guide in bearing with patience and with profit the sufferings,
 
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the hardships, the trials of everyday living, and eventually accepting death as
 
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a stepping stone to an ending happy association with Jesus, Mary, Joseph, with
 
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with Holy Simeon, with prayerful Anne.
 
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May this, the greatest of all night vigils
 
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in the history of America,
 
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since that first vigil of the American martyrs
 
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on the Feast of the Assumption at Aureusville, New York.
 
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May this all-night vigil encourage each one of us, through Mary's intercession, to remain loyal and true to our presentation in the temple to the promises of our baptism.
 
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Our Father who art in heaven,
 
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hallowed be thy name.
 
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The fifth decade of the Rosary
 
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will be led by Father Hubert Schiffer,
 
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a Jesuit who was eight blocks from ground zero
 
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when the atomic bomb exploded 31 years ago today.
 
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that is August the 6th when we began the vigil.
 
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He was in a house in which there were 16 people including himself.
 
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They are all still living.
 
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Every other person within a mile is dead.
 
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More than 200 experts have tried to find out
 
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what was different about that house.
 
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There was one thing, only one thing that was different.
 
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In that house they said the daily rosary.
 
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Father Schiffer wrote the booklet,
 
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The Rosary of Hiroshima.
 
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At Fatima, Our Lady predicted that if her requests
 
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continue to be ignored, the world will go even down the road of war to the annihilation
 
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of nations. Father Schiffer is in himself a living proof of that special protection
 
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of Our Lady in this atomic age to those who lovingly say her rosary. Let us join with
 
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him to pray for America.
 
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were killed. He and all 16 people in the house are still alive. He wrote a book,
 
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The Rosary of Hiroshima. We listen to it with great attention.
 
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Thank you, John, and merci beaucoup, mon père.
 
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Dear friends of our blessed mother,
 
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especially all of you here who are forming the living
 
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Rosalie at this all-night vigil.
 
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I'm very happy to be with you today or tonight.
 
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It's a beautiful occasion, a beautiful opportunity
 
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for our blessed mother to show her motherly concern.
 
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So, some years ago, Bishop Sheen, when he was speaking about the Rosary, said,
 
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you know there are all kinds of people who find it difficult to say the Rosary.
 
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You repeat the Hail Mary and another Hail Mary.
 
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And why do you have to repeat that?
 
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And then he added a very beautiful thought.
 
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He said, let's not forget that Mary is a woman.
 
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And to a woman, you say, I love you.
 
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And she would say, do you really love me?
 
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I say, yes, indeed, I love you.
 
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Do you love me more than anybody else?
 
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Yes.
 
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I love you.
 
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I love you.
 
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I really love you.
 
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And I have a strange feeling today.
 
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I had a beautiful preparation all typed up.
 
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And it just got lost an hour ago.
 
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How it fell out of my pocket, I don't know.