am father mark Mary and I'm father John
Anthony
we are the Franciscan friars the renewal
and this is essential while John Anthony
is with us to talk about why period the
Rosary well joining well firstly today
I'd like to do a little bit of
myth-busting and then show one of the
greatest power tools that we guys and
women as well can have in the church
right there's been 90 or more letters
written about the Rosary by Pope's Our
Lady and every one of our major
apparitions says hey take out your
rosary and pray it's your best weapon in
these days especially these days st.
Padre Pio called it his weapon he said
hey tech give me my weapon and the
brothers would bring out as a rosary
I've got a rosary right here this made
out a gunmetal in fact it's marvelous
why is it so powerful that's the the
myth is that it's somehow a mindless
repetition that's a thing for little old
blue-haired ladies and nothing more and
that's a myth it's a weapon because it
gives us direct access to the power of
Jesus Christ for us for you in your day
today well there's a few things that we
need to keep in mind one Jesus as we all
know and we've heard a million times all
those two ad nauseam if only one person
sinned he would have died for that one
person and that's a fact that's part of
our faith Jesus in his divinity also can
keep you in mind and does as if you were
the only person that ever existed not
only that every moment of your every day
of every bit of your life he has in
focus equally every moment of your life
he has an equal focus that's an amazing
concept to think about the Jewish rabbis
would say that to God one soul is an
entire universe unto itself now holding
on to that thought which is kind of big
then we think of Jesus who as a man
lived outside of time but as a man and
God that means at every moment of his
life when he was on this planet he had
you in mind not just generally but every
moment of your life in mind that means
that every moment of your life
he's thinking I'm doing this for Susie
I'm doing this for Jim I'm doing this
for Jim today in the day that he wants
to strangle his boss yeah and I got
graces for him right it's an amazing
concept to hold on to and that's what
the rosary is so powerful it's a weapon
that we can take into any situation and
and recognize that Jesus from across
2,000 years outside of time at the same
time wants to catch my eye and give me
the graces I need for the situation I am
at now when I take the Rosary in hand
and I begin to pray and meditate and I
focus on that event of 2000 years ago I
catch Jesus's eye or rather he catches
mine and said and communicates exactly
what I need in my day today and tomorrow
my day is gonna be different I can pray
the same mystery but as a different set
of Grace's that I'm getting because
tomorrow's a different day for me the
situation for tomorrow is different how
powerful is that so that's why the
Rosary I think in many ways is so
efficacious it's why it's been talked
about so much by our lady it's why it's
the tool and the weapon of this day and
age so our lady and mote and and all of
our major apparitions is inviting us and
begging us in fact to take up the rosary
every day and fight and some of her or
her mysteries she says take up the
rosary three times a day take up do
three rosaries st. Padre Pio did I think
15 full rosaries that means 15 sets of
three sets of mysteries I mean amazing
he did a lot of things at the same time
but I'll give you an example of a man I
know who took up that challenge in the
many of you may know that the name
Carlos Slim one of the wealthiest men of
the world runs neck-and-neck with Bill
Gates all the time who's the most
wealthy his son who runs all his
business his name is petruchio Slim and
I had lunch with him one day in an event
and we were talking about this challenge
that our lady gave to pray three
rosaries in a day go to Mass every day
do Lexi o Divina every day
he's like I'm Patricia Slim I have very
little time how am I going to do
three rosaries er today that's 45
minutes
I don't get it and so but then he told
me something very interesting he said I
decided to take our lady up on her
challenge she never lies so he started
building up to three rosaries a day and
he says you know what happens is when I
take this weapon in hand and I start to
pray those three rosaries a day and I
space it out throughout the day you know
one decade here one decade there each
decades maybe three minutes you spread
it out through the entire day I find
that our lady goes ahead of me and cuts
out all the interference that I would
normally have so the devil is trying to
give us interference all the time
miscommunication between people all
sorts of different kinds of things he
brings up but when we pray the three
versus a day when we catch the eye of
Jesus in those mysteries him giving us
the graces that we that he won for us
today this day through the Rosary then
it's like our lady goes through and
hacks away all that interference and
Patricia said something really
fascinating he said you know at the end
of the day when I pray the three
rosaries I finally have extra time I can
read a book that I want to read I
haven't been frustrated all day because
everything's been going against me all
day long and even if it has been I'm at
peace he says I can honestly say that if
I don't pray the three razor today or I
can honestly say that that I don't have
time not to pray three rosaries a day
that's an amazing amazing claim from one
of the wealthiest men in the world who's
got to be one of the busiest guys on the
planet and a great cafe personally your
own experience with the Rosary I don't
know why why do you preach on it so
strongly why you feel so passionately
about
well rosary as a convert to Catholicism
I met Catholics who knew their faith and
I was introduced to Our Lady through an
apparition sight and megaria supposed to
have fresh insight and I was introduced
to the rosary and I remember - and with
knock knees praying my first rosary
going
literally Lord I don't know if this is
pleasing to you or not but if it's not
don't strike me dead but if it is can
you help me with this inextricable
problem that I have and I saw that
problem just disappear like smoke before
the wind
I realized that the Lord it was pleasing
to him so I began to take up the rosary
at that time and I and I can tell you
I've seen the power of the rosary
through my life more and more and more
and more yeah my brothers and sisters
this this month we're heading into a
month dedicated to the rosary October
7th October 7 our Lady of the Rosary
which also right coincides with a big
battle battle Lepanto and yeah and if
there's a day that we're I mean I guess
always we've always been in the big
spiritual battle but we're in a big
spiritual battle again these days and as
father John Anthony mentioned like the
rosary is weapon par excellence or the
spiritual warfare that we're in so my
brothers and sisters pick it up pray
that rosary fight with us get up there
and fight get in there get in there we
thank you for watching we'll see you
again next week remember somos
peregrinos poco a poco a little by
little bumps there you go we're gonna
make it
god bless y'all peace