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Join the Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage on September 30, 2023, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC

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00:00 What are you doing on September 30th?
00:05 I'll tell you, if I were in the United States, I would be going to the Basilica of the National
00:11 Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., for an astonishing event, the Dominican
00:18 Rosary Pilgrimage, which is being sponsored by the Dominican Friars of the province of
00:23 St. Joseph, which is also my province.
00:26 It's a day of prayer, it's a day of worship, it's a day of community, it's a day of reveling
00:33 in the many graces that come uniquely through the great mystery and gift of the Holy Rosary.
00:40 Pope St. John Paul II wrote a beautiful letter about the Rosary, and he said, "Of all the
00:44 many benefits, two that stand out to me is that it's through the Rosary that Christ shapes
00:52 our existence."
00:53 And I don't know about you, but I need my existence shaped a lot, and I have trouble
00:57 doing that, but the Rosary really helps to do that.
01:01 And to pray the Rosary with thousands of people who are expected to attend, what a tremendous
01:07 honor and privilege and unique opportunity, an encounter like we rarely have a chance
01:14 to participate in.
01:15 And he says also that it's through the Rosary that we're given an increasing knowledge
01:23 of Jesus Christ, united with the Blessed Virgin Mary, who brings us, taking us by the hand,
01:30 if you will, through all the saving events of Jesus' life that are recounted in the Gospel.
01:35 Because the Rosary is like a living Gospel, and when we pray it, we're brought into a
01:39 great integration of saving events, of union with holy people, and with an awareness of
01:46 the Holy Spirit moving us and working in our life to make all things new.
01:51 So rosarypilgrimage.org, that's how you find out about it, rosarypilgrimage.org, September
01:59 30th, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington,
02:06 DC, for a day of grace like you almost will never have otherwise in your life.
02:14 Get there.
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