OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY ON TUESDAY OF WEEK 27 IN ORDINARY TIME - 2025

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee!
Blessed art thou among women. LK 1:28

ACTS 1:12-14

My Soul's Beloved,

All that is necessary to pray fruitfully is laid out very clearly in these short verses. We do not need to make long pilgrimages and go to far-off places to experience the power of God. After witnessing Your ascension, the disciples returned from the Mount of Olives to the upper room where they resided, which means they went to the place that was home to them at the time. The Apostles gathered together as a community to pray, and with them were Your Mother, Your relatives, and the faithful women who had accompanied You and served You and the group during Your public ministry and remained steadfastly united with Mary at the foot of the Cross and until You were buried. They gathered in obedience to Your instructions to pray until they received the Gift of the Holy Spirit. They had no idea how long that would take or how quickly their prayers would be answered; they just had to do as You asked, and they did. 

Wherever we are, with whoever we are, we can unite with one another with one heart and mind, as we gather as one body, we will resemble the infant Church that gathered in the Upper Room, over 2000 years ago, and God who is always true to His promises will send the Holy Spirit upon us and renew us, strengthen us, and equip us to go forth into the world and cast a fire upon it that will bring all God's children back to Him through the power of Your atoning Sacrifice and glorious resurrection.

After Jesus was taken up into heaven the apostles went back from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, to Jerusalem, a short distance away, no more than a sabbath walk; and when they reached the city they went to the upper room where they were staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Jude son of James. All these joined in continuous prayer, together with several women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

PSALM LUKE 1:46-55

Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who bore the Son of the eternal Father.

My soul glorifies the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God, my Saviour.

He looks on his servant in her nothingness;
henceforth all ages will call me blessed.
The Almighty works marvels for me.
Holy his name!

His mercy is from age to age,
on those who fear him.
He puts forth his arm in strength
and scatters the proud-hearted.

He casts the mighty from their thrones
and raises the lowly.
He fills the starving with good things,
sends the rich away empty.

He protects Israel, his servant,
remembering his mercy,
the mercy promised to our fathers,
to Abraham and his sons for ever.

Blessed is the Virgin Mary, who bore the Son of the eternal Father.

LUKE 1:26-38

My Soul's Beloved, 

This passage from the Gospel is the most fascinating, most thrilling prologue to the fulfillment of every prophecy ever made to humanity after the fall of our first parents. The words of the prophet Isaiah have come to pass when the Angel Gabriel comes to Mary and reveals to her that she was the one spoken of by the prophet, “Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel.” The most gifted writers and poets, and a multitude of holy men and women, have pondered this glorious mystery and written soul-stirringly about this wondrous, unrepeatable moment in time when God waited in humble anticipation on a young maiden to give her consent before He could put into effect His plan of salvation of the whole world.

Heaven has raised her up to be honored above and before all creatures. She is higher than all the angels and lower only to the Triune God. This is the Woman clothed with the Sun of Justice, whom the angel Gabriel hailed with the greeting, ‘Rejoice, so highly favoured! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her, ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Listen! You are to conceive and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ And to her inquiry as to how it would come about since she was a virgin, he replied,  ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you’ the angel answered ‘and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God.’ And Your Mother,, knowing that with God all things are possible, replied, not thinking about herself, about God's will for her life, ‘I am the handmaid of the Lord, let what you have said be done to me.’ And because of her fiat the whole world that was created by the Father has been redeemed by You, and through You it is sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 

The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, so highly favoured! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her, ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Listen! You are to conceive and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since I am a virgin?’ ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you’ the angel answered ‘and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. Know this too: your kinswoman Elizabeth has, in her old age, herself conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.’ ‘I am the handmaid of the Lord,’ said Mary ‘let what you have said be done to me.’ And the angel left her.