Day 191: Unworthy Yet Welcomed
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I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. And this is the Rosary in the 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. The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 191. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash Rosary in a Year or text R-I-Y to 33777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full Rosary.
with myself and other friars. On behalf of myself and the whole team here at Ascension, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's helped support this podcast financially. Your support is so appreciated and helps us to reach as many people as possible. And if you haven't already, please consider supporting us at ascensionpress.com forward slash support. Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the third joyful mystery, the nativity. So again, today we will begin with a bit of review calling to mind some of what we've covered up to this point. Now, if you call one of our meditations or early meditations on the nativity, or we're looking at Luke chapter two, verses one through 20, I shared the story of the man named Fitz.
Fitz who had come to the homeless shelter, just getting out of prison after a number of years. And it's the evening that we are having our Christmas party. And he comes in that night and he joins us and slowly but surely he kind of sees everything happening. And then it's his opportunity to go and to get a couple of gifts. And he comes back and the brothers work in the shelter. They find him with his head in his palms, like in tears. And as the brother goes up and say, hey Fitz, are you okay? He says, it's just too much. It's just too much. And we saw our brother there, our brother Fitz, overwhelmed with joy, overwhelmed by the heaviness of the gift. So aware of his unworthiness, but experiencing so deeply the gift.
And how right this response is before the nativity, where we encounter, where we receive the gift par excellence, the gift of Jesus. My brothers and sisters, it's a joyful gift, but it is a heavy gift. And I can't help but think that Fitz's response to what he received is right and just for us. It is a fitting response before the gift of God. Before our Savior, Jesus, born in Bethlehem. And in some ways consistent with this theme is the writing specifically from St. Leo the Great, where he wrote, our savior dearly beloved was born today. Let us be glad for there's no proper place for sadness. When we keep the birthday of the life, which destroys the fear of mortality and brings us the joy of promised eternity.
And I do believe there is this invitation to great joy, joy on behalf of all of history, of all of humanity, but also joy for you and me. It is an invitation to a personal joy. And to each of us, St. Leo says these words, there's no proper place for sadness before the nativity. But also we recognize we're all here on a journey. And that's the place, that's the invitation. That's where we're headed. Perhaps today we don't experience that joy, but can we receive the invitation to be drawn deeper and deeper into this joy of who Jesus is, of what he has come to do and the joyful news of who he is, of what he has come to do And that this is truly a cause and source of joy for all of us. And then particularly with our artwork, we took a moment to kind of look at the eyes, to look at the people present.
And we saw, for example, in the painting of the Nativity by the artist Pellegrini, we saw Joseph and Mary and their eyes on Jesus. And the ways in which for Joseph and Mary to Jesus, there is worship. There is adoration. They see before them in the manger, their God, their savior, but also their son, Joseph as foster father, Mary as mother.
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