Magnificat: "The Visitation" + Fr. David Michael prays the First Luminous Mystery of the Rosary in new video draft.

5th National Eucharistic Conference begins in Braga on the Feast of the Presentation, led by Dom. José Cordeiro w/ Archdiocese of Braga; procession highlights from the past week in Porto Region of PT

THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST NEWSLETTER | 31 MAY 20241

NOTES ON "THE MAGNIFICAT" & EVENING PRAYER FOR LITURGY OF THE HOURS led by FOUNDING SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR on MAY 31, FR. ANTHONY GRAMLICH, MIC. 

The video draft adds reading of the following prayer recited in the video by Amelia for our subscribers: 

In today’s sermon for “the Visitation”, Fr. Nuno Rocha spoke of the Eucharistic reality in relation to the Magnificat. For a reminder about the “Power of Eucharistic Adoration”, listen to Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon - 14 minutes of argument for this important daily visit we can make to offer our Rosaries to Jesus.

This teaching on adoration and Our Lady is further emphasized by St. John Paul’s encyclical ECCLESIA DE EUCHARISTIA (and then deepened with Fr. Anthony’s lesson):

ENGLISH: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_20030417_eccl-de-euch.html

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He states:

55. In a certain sense Mary lived her Eucharistic faith even before the institution of the Eucharist, by the very fact that she offered her virginal womb for the Incarnation of God's Word. The Eucharist, while commemorating the passion and resurrection, is also in continuity with the incarnation. At the Annunciation Mary conceived the Son of God in the physical reality of his body and blood, thus anticipating within herself what to some degree happens sacramentally in every believer who receives, under the signs of bread and wine, the Lord's body and blood.

55. De certo modo, Maria praticou a sua fé eucarística ainda antes de ser instituída a Eucaristia, quando ofereceu o seu ventre virginal para a encarnação do Verbo de Deus. A Eucaristia, ao mesmo tempo que evoca a paixão e a ressurreição, coloca-se no prolongamento da encarnação. E Maria, na anunciação, concebeu o Filho divino também na realidade física do corpo e do sangue, em certa medida antecipando n'Ela o que se realiza sacramentalmente em cada crente quando recebe, no sinal do pão e do vinho, o corpo e o sangue do Senhor.

As a result, there is a profound analogy between the Fiat which Mary said in reply to the angel, and the Amen which every believer says when receiving the body of the Lord. Mary was asked to believe that the One whom she conceived “through the Holy Spirit” was “the Son of God” (Lk 1:30-35). In continuity with the Virgin's faith, in the Eucharistic mystery we are asked to believe that the same Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Mary, becomes present in his full humanity and divinity under the signs of bread and wine.

Existe, pois, uma profunda analogia entre o fiat pronunciado por Maria, em resposta às palavras do Anjo, e o amém que cada fiel pronuncia quando recebe o corpo do Senhor. A Maria foi-Lhe pedido para acreditar que Aquele que Ela concebia « por obra do Espírito Santo » era o « Filho de Deus » (cf. Lc 1, 30-35). Dando continuidade à fé da Virgem Santa, no mistério eucarístico é-nos pedido para crer que aquele mesmo Jesus, Filho de Deus e Filho de Maria, Se torna presente nos sinais do pão e do vinho com todo o seu ser humano-divino.

“Blessed is she who believed” (Lk 1:45). Mary also anticipated, in the mystery of the incarnation, the Church's Eucharistic faith. When, at the Visitation, she bore in her womb the Word made flesh, she became in some way a “tabernacle” – the first “tabernacle” in history – in which the Son of God, still invisible to our human gaze, allowed himself to be adored by Elizabeth, radiating his light as it were through the eyes and the voice of Mary. And is not the enraptured gaze of Mary as she contemplated the face of the newborn Christ and cradled him in her arms that unparalleled model of love which should inspire us every time we receive Eucharistic communion?

« Feliz d'Aquela que acreditou » (Lc 1, 45): Maria antecipou também, no mistério da encarnação, a fé eucarística da Igreja. E, na visitação, quando leva no seu ventre o Verbo encarnado, de certo modo Ela serve de « sacrário » – o primeiro « sacrário » da história –, para o Filho de Deus, que, ainda invisível aos olhos dos homens, Se presta à adoração de Isabel, como que « irradiando » a sua luz através dos olhos e da voz de Maria. E o olhar extasiado de Maria, quando contemplava o rosto de Cristo recém-nascido e O estreitava nos seus braços, não é porventura o modelo inatingível de amor a que se devem inspirar todas as nossas comunhões eucarísticas?

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56. Mary, throughout her life at Christ's side and not only on Calvary, made her own the sacrificial dimension of the Eucharist. When she brought the child Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem “to present him to the Lord” (Lk 2:22), she heard the aged Simeon announce that the child would be a “sign of contradiction” and that a sword would also pierce her own heart (cf. Lk 2:34-35). The tragedy of her Son's crucifixion was thus foretold, and in some sense Mary's Stabat Mater at the foot of the Cross was foreshadowed. In her daily preparation for Calvary, Mary experienced a kind of “anticipated Eucharist” – one might say a “spiritual communion” – of desire and of oblation, which would culminate in her union with her Son in his passion, and then find expression after Easter by her partaking in the Eucharist which the Apostles celebrated as the memorial of that passion.

What must Mary have felt as she heard from the mouth of Peter, John, James and the other Apostles the words spoken at the Last Supper: “This is my body which is given for you” (Lk 22:19)? The body given up for us and made present under sacramental signs was the same body which she had conceived in her womb! For Mary, receiving the Eucharist must have somehow meant welcoming once more into her womb that heart which had beat in unison with hers and reliving what she had experienced at the foot of the Cross.

57. “Do this in remembrance of me” (Lk 22:19). In the “memorial” of Calvary all that Christ accomplished by his passion and his death is present. Consequently all that Christ did with regard to his Mother for our sake is also present. To her he gave the beloved disciple and, in him, each of us: “Behold, your Son!”. To each of us he also says: “Behold your mother!” (cf. Jn 19: 26-27).

Experiencing the memorial of Christ's death in the Eucharist also means continually receiving this gift. It means accepting – like John – the one who is given to us anew as our Mother. It also means taking on a commitment to be conformed to Christ, putting ourselves at the school of his Mother and allowing her to accompany us. Mary is present, with the Church and as the Mother of the Church, at each of our celebrations of the Eucharist. If the Church and the Eucharist are inseparably united, the same ought to be said of Mary and the Eucharist. This is one reason why, since ancient times, the commemoration of Mary has always been part of the Eucharistic celebrations of the Churches of East and West.

58. In the Eucharist the Church is completely united to Christ and his sacrifice, and makes her own the spirit of Mary. This truth can be understood more deeply by re-reading the Magnificat in a Eucharistic key. The Eucharist, like the Canticle of Mary, is first and foremost praise and thanksgiving. When Mary exclaims: “My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour”, she already bears Jesus in her womb. She praises God “through” Jesus, but she also praises him “in” Jesus and “with” Jesus. This is itself the true “Eucharistic attitude”.

At the same time Mary recalls the wonders worked by God in salvation history in fulfilment of the promise once made to the fathers (cf. Lk 1:55), and proclaims the wonder that surpasses them all, the redemptive incarnation. Lastly, the Magnificat reflects the eschatological tension of the Eucharist. Every time the Son of God comes again to us in the “poverty” of the sacramental signs of bread and wine, the seeds of that new history wherein the mighty are “put down from their thrones” and “those of low degree are exalted” (cf. Lk 1:52), take root in the world. Mary sings of the “new heavens” and the “new earth” which find in the Eucharist their anticipation and in some sense their programme and plan. The Magnificat expresses Mary's spirituality, and there is nothing greater than this spirituality for helping us to experience the mystery of the Eucharist. The Eucharist has been given to us so that our life, like that of Mary, may become completely a Magnificat!

THE LUMINOUS MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY: PART 1
FR. DAVID MICHAEL MOSES PRAYS the FIRST LUMINOUS MYSTERY

ON TODAY’S SHOW
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NOW LET’S PRAY TOGETHER! IN TODAY'S POST (7 P.M. PST, Reviewed by Izzy Nunziato & Karen Rocha)

FR. DAVID MICHAEL MOSES: LIVE RECORD; CO-PRODUCED BY: CAROLINE TERESE with SESSION SUPERVISORS, ASHER KAUFMAN and FR. DAVID MICHAEL MOSES; Thanks to Pilgrim Rosary USA.

“THE MOST HOLY ROSARY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY”

ON THURSDAY WE PRAY THE LUMINOUS MYSTERIES
A SOLEMN ROSARY WITH A GUARDIAN ANGEL LITANY

“33-DAY CONSECRATION JOURNEY”
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Fr. David Michael Moses w/ FÁTIMA PRAYERS curated by Padre Nuno Rocha (Portugal)

FR. DAVID MICHAEL: “THE MOST HOLY ROSARY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY”

+ In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:	
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee. 

AMELIA
I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee.” 

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:	
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee.

AMELIA: 	
I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee.” 

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:	
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee.

AMELIA: 	
I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee.”            

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:	
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created and you shall renew the face of the earth. 

Let us pray.

O God, who has taught the hearts of thy faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that in the same Spirit we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolation. 
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:	
I believe in God, the Father the Almighty,
Creator of Heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, 
and born of the Virgin Mary,
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, 
was crucified, died and was buried;
He descended into hell;
on the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven, and is seated 
at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; 
From there He will come to judge the living and the dead.

AMELIA: I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:	 
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. 
Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.

AMELIA. (ALL): Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL: 	For an increase of Faith. 

+ Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. 

AMELIA: Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL: 	For an increase of Hope. 

+ Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. 

AMELIA: Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL: 	For an increase of Love. 
+ Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. 

AMELIA: Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:		
Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

AMELIA: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL: 	The 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Our Lord Jesus

..."And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, 'This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased"' (Matthew 3: verses 16 to 17).

We offer Thee, O Lord Jesus, this first decade in honor of Thy Baptism in the River Jordan, and we ask of Thee, through this mystery and through the intercession of Thy most Holy Mother, a profound openness to the gifts of the Holy Spirit this day, and throughout our lives. 

(Based on the text of  St. Louis Marie de Montfort, “The Secret of the Rosary '' with notes from Children’s Rosary by: Dr. Blythe Kaufman, pg. 17. Spiritual Director: Fr. David Michael Moses, Pilgrim Rosary; Recording on February 2nd, 2024 - Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple; for The Rosary Hour Podcast)

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:	
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, 
Hallowed be Thy Name. 
Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done, 
on earth as it is in Heaven.

AMELIA:  Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
 
FR. DAVID MICHAEL [REPEATS X10 on the ten (10) beads of the Rosary] w/ AMELIA

FR. DAVID MICHAEL: Hail, Mary, full of grace,  the Lord is with thee.  Blessed art thou among women,  and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. 

AMELIA:	Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:  	
Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

AMELIA: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL: 	Oh Mary, conceived without sin, 

AMELIA: Pray for us who have recourse to thee.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL: 	Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, 

Amelia: 	Lead all souls to Heaven, 
and help those most especially in need of thy mercy.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:  	Our Lady of Most Holy Rosary

AMELIA: Save us. Save all the people of the world.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:  	Oh, Glorious St. Joseph

AMELIA: Pray for us.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL:  	St. Michael the Archangel	

AMELIA: Pray for us.

FR. DAVID MICHAEL: 	“The 2nd Luminous Mystery: The Wedding at Cana”

"On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, 'They have no wine.' And Jesus said to her, 'Woman, what concern is that to you and me? My hour has not yet come.' His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever he tells you."' (John 2: verses 1 to 5).
 
We offer Thee, O Lord Jesus, this next decade in honor of the memory of You turning the water into wine; and we ask of Thee through this mystery and through the intercession of Thy Blessed Mother, an openness to recognizing and embracing the miracles and graces you wish to bestow. Help us Trust in Your Divine Mercy, a task quickened with our fervent consecration to your Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. 

(Based on the text of  St. Louis Marie de Montfort, “The Secret of the Rosary '' with notes from Children’s Rosary by: Dr. Blythe Kaufman, pg. 18. Spiritual Director: Fr. David Michael Moses, Pilgrim Rosary; Recording on February 2nd, 2024 - Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple; for The Rosary Hour Podcast; True Devotion, St. Louis Marie de Montfort; Diary of St. Faustina)
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NEWS IN PORTUGAL

TODAY IN BRAGA, PORTUGAL

5th National Eucharistic Conference begins in Braga on the Feast of the Presentation:

The following prayer has been recited for months during the Rosary:

Oração para a preparação do
5.° Congresso Eucarístico Nacional

Bendito sejais, Senhor, que nos saciais com os vossos dons sagrados e em cada domingo nos convidais a participar na celebração da Ceia do vosso Filho, Ele que, como outrora aos discípulos de Emaús, nos explica o sentido da Escritura
e nos reparte o pão da vida.

Despertai em nós um desejo vivo da Eucaristia, e tornai alegre, consciente, ativa e frutuosa a nossa presença na assembleia cristã,
onde Vos queremos louvar, bendizer e adorar, Deus eterno, Pai, Filho e Espírito Santo.

Fazei com que a preparação e a celebração do Quinto Congresso Eucarístico Nacional alimentem a nossa esperança e levem a uma autêntica renovação espiritual das comunidades cristãs.

Amen.

Blessed are you, Lord, who fills us with your sacred gifts and every Sunday you invite us to participate in the celebration of the Supper of your Son, He who, as in times past to the disciples of Emmaus, explains to us the meaning of Scripture and shares with us the bread of life.

Awaken in us a living desire for the Eucharist, and make our presence in the Christian assembly joyful, conscious, active and fruitful, where we want to praise, bless and adore You, eternal God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

May the preparation and celebration of the Fifth National Eucharistic Congress nourish our hope and lead to an authentic spiritual renewal of Christian communities.

The May 31 mass was led by Archbishop Dom. José Cordeiro at the Sé in the Archdiocese of Braga and Marian gathering with the Rosary also took place. Note pilgrimage on 2 June to Sameiro which starts at 07h00 sharp:

Video draft contains procession highlights from the past week in Porto Region of PT from various sources, also capturing yesterday’s city-wide Eucharistic Adoration processions that were part of many celebrations for the National Holiday for Corpus Christi in Portugal. Below is a short video on the Santúario do Santíssimo Milagre.

EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES EXHIBITION by: BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS

Read about FREE EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES site created by Bl. Carlo Acutis here and consider installing this presentation in your parish or sharing with others on SM:

http://www.miracolieucaristici.org/

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