here last october. one of the most sacred and solemn and yet hello on question half of san francisco welcome to mosaic. today we follow-up on something we discussed here last october. one of the most sacred and solemn and yet vibrant and vigorous moment. we had a concentration to the -- consecration, our videos, slide shows, prayers and articles, documenting and celebrating that day, october 7th. now on that day the archbishop spoke to us and said if this wonderful day becomes a cherished memory i don't know if it will make a difference. i am convinced it will make a difference if people heed to

make this appropriate in their daily lives. how do we accomplish that? we'll discuss this with one of our priests. a deep student mary, mother of jesus, blessed mother. one of her favorite children and favorite priests, since we find ourselves in the middle of represent, how do we combine our lent observance of a gift we can give to our mother mary. after this brief pause, please rejoin us for a discussion of living the consecration every day.

welcome to mosaic, today my guest is kevin kennedy. a priest of the arch diocese of san francisco. father kennedy i mentioned the consecration to the virgin mary, you were there with your parish. >> yes. i had celebrated mass at st. monica church that morning, so i wasn't able to be there at the cathedral on time for the mass celebrated by the archbishop, i came during his wonderful homily and stayed of course and part of the

procession which extended blocks around the cathedral afterwards. and such a great representation from various parishes and communities of the arch diocese on that beautiful morning. >> it was quite a day. you are in the byzantine catholic right. you have an interest in byzantine art. i wanted to show you a few things, one of the consecration events was a student art contest, so the students could make artistic representations of the blessed virgin mary, i would like to run those as slides, father and i can look at the student art and give the students credit. the cathedral of mary above it and that is the bishop with his arms spread in blessing, a 7th grader. and this we use as a cover of the pdf file. let's see the next one. now, father, you recognize that, that is going to be the

heart of the blessed mother with a sword piercing it symbolizing her sorries, that is an icon or theme about what which we'll talk about more today. and this is by mary -- this is elana san gabriel. and the next one if you, please. this rosary encircling the world is nice. my notes say this is from a second grader at our lady of the visitation school. next one, please. and this i think this is the favorite one that i have that i have seen, miley salrvatore, a motherly mary. what about another one? and another representation of mary with roses around her, sort of on a cloud. and this is by peter, a 4th grader at holy name of jesus

school. and we have another i think. this is a children of fat a ma. waterfall, moon, all kind of symbols and this is by theresa nathan from our lady of mere see school. interesting member member mercy school -- mercy school of art. let's get to the question i raised, how do we live with the consecration? now he spelled out a request or program for living the consecration in concrete ways. let me show this. there we are. i hope it's readable. so this is living the consecration by the archbishop. this is a holy card or prayer card you can download from our website. and why don't you read out for me, father, the elements of this, can you see from there?

>> prayer, of course, is central. the daily rosary, the recommendation of the weekly family rosary. these are actually the same things that we are encouraged to do during the season of lent. so they coincide, living the consecration and our lent practices. >> i know the last segment you are going to explain to us about the rosary or bring us deeper into it. >> so fasting and prayer an penance on fridays, -- penance on fridays, we abstain, works of charity, confession at least once a month. prayer before the blessed sacrament. star of the sea church has of course adoration, that is a wonderful place to go for prayer. but for the blessed sacrament exposed at least once a week if someone is able to do that in any parish. and the devotion of the five first saturdays which is specific to the phatama

devotion that our lady requested to go to confession, celebrate mass, receive the eucharist and meditate on the rosary for 15 minutes, especially in union with her heart, the mystery of her heart which we'll talk about when we reflect upon the rosary. >> fasting an penance we associate with lent typically also and of course and then the question of confession, it seems to me that catholic practice of confession has fallen off. as a pastor, what can you say about that? >> the invitation to come and see. and to overcome any nervousness that a person might have that this is an opportunity to be free and to enter into a new fresh start and new beginning of one's life. what the lord forgives he forgets. he takes it away as if it never

happened. sins cast off as far as from the east as from the west. people say they are nervous going into the confessional. they leave and presumably after a good confession, leave walking on a cloud because there is a great joy in being restored to the moment of one's baptism. and it's a great great joy, indeed. >> i think that should be be bedder known. the question of adoration, a term we use without thinking about it twice, it's deep. i mean, what am i adoring if i'm in front of the blessed sacrament. >> that the blessed sacrament is the presence of the lord himself. that outside of the eucharist we reserve outside of the mass we reserve the eucharist for the sick, especially. but that is the sacramental presence of the lord. and so we offer that presence, our worship, our loving adoration, especially this is the tradition in the western

church of exposition and adoration of the blessed sacrament, and so it's a wonderful time to have that intimate prayer with the lord, sacrament alley pre-- sacramentally present. >> in a sacred thing, the universe, the world, god himself. i really respond to that. >> right. >> so we'll come back after this brief break and we'll talk more about lent, mary and devotion and making the consecration visible in our lives every day. >> wonderful. >> please come back and join us. [piano playing slow tune]

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welcome back to mosaic, father kevin kennedy, you are a priest of the arch diocese of san francisco, a roman catholic priest. many of us, including myself,

don't know much about of the byzantine world, you got involved, got interested in this rite and method of worship. >> i became interested in and more so in college. visiting orthodox churches, i always thought what a beautiful form of worship, the icons, the liturgy, i thought i wished to be of course in full communion with rome, wouldn't it be be wonderful to have this tradition in that full communion that is what byzantine orthodox is, throughout the centuries have sought to reenter into that unity that exited in the first millennium, the between east and west. the byzantine catholic communities have their own hierarchy, separate from the

rome hierarchy, the russian byzantine catholic church is so small it doesn't have it own hierarchy. so we are entrusted to the hollywood rhode island call latin ordinary, archbishop corteleone, and he was visiting us just this last january 7th for our christmas. so we were delighted to have him and we rejoice in his support for us. and to me it's an exotic world. can you reassure us, the services are english. >> it's the catholic eucharist in the byzantine form and fulfill your sunday obligation by joining us. we have a lunch afterwards to which everyone is invited. and we are getting more and more people coming because they enjoy it. >> i think i will be there. now, it's interesting in my view, last year was the year,

anniversary of phatama, it is a western event, but your church is russian catholic -- byzantine catholic church of lady of phatama. fill us in what it means we have consecrated ourselves to her heart. i know you have byzantine icons. >> the heart in the biblical sense refers to the person himself or herself. and in this case our lady. her intimate, her unique self. no one else. mary, what is unique about her? the center and core of her interior life, of her love for god, wholehearted dedication to the mystery of her son. her love for us, the members of the body of christ. and so that love that obedience of faith, her memory, intellect, her will or her heart all of that is the

treasure that we are invited through phatam to focus upon as a way to lead us ever closer to god. >> and let me ask you about the icons have you chosen to show. because these seem to have to do with her sorries, her pain. and explain that, please, if you will. >> in the second chapter of the gospel of luke inverse 19 and again inverse 51, our lady is described as holding, pondering, treasuring all of these things in her heart. the heart as i just described it in the biblical sense. what things? her son. the whole mystery of christ and its entirety is held in her heart. as a vast treasure. and so with a mother's love she contains, she reflects upon, she treasures all of this to we to you this -- bestow this

memory, this living memory for us to her heart. >> let's bring up the icons, here is a lady with swords piercing her heart. and this is a reflection of the prophesy of simeon as the lord is presented in the temple, simeon says to her, you yourself a sword shall pierce her soul, her heart, her inner most being is pierced with the reality that we were talking earlier about greek. you started greek, the can iosis in the -- kinosis in the lord that he enters the human condition on our behalf. selfing emptying love is a model for us and redeems us. and so mary enters into that kinosis in a unique and intimate way. she shares hip his pain, sorry and suffering in the way that the church has seen in her heart a model of that kinosis.

>> this is also byzantine in origin. same i think -- and the title this icon is interesting, it's called the softener of evil or cruel hearts. mary is the softener. >> she is the softener of cruel or hardened hearts, she softens the hardened hearts, the cruel or most evil heart looking for her participation in the so sorry of her son. her unique partaking in that suffering for us would soften even the most hardened the hearts. >> i think it would. let's look at the next slide as well. the western style slide? >> no, this is a variation of that. once again you see seven swords patterned after the 7 traditional sorries of our lady. this is from ecuador. again, it shows this depiction

that -- it depicts this prophesy of simeon a sword shall enter your soul. there are a variety of sorries that are depicted, symbolized through seven swords. the flight into egypt, the loss of the child and the temple. the meeting of our lady on the villadelarosa. the crucifiction itself. the taking down from the cross as he is laid in her arms. the famous piata would depict that reality. all of these express her sharing in the passion of her son in a way unique to herself. her sorryful heart. >> when i see the innocent woman, i feel if my heart were evil and cruel, why inflict that on her? >> and yet she because she enters into that passion is able to know the fullness of

joy, the joy of resurrection, she who shares fully in the cross and burying of the tomb shares fully be the resurrection, she is known as the joy of all who sorry. the comforter of the afflicted. the searcher for those who are lost. quick to hear. quick to listen to and respond to the needs of her children. so, all of this is not modeling so much as the reality that out of this pain and/or row is born a new life, the joy of life in the spirit which is the resurrection itself. >> she is the model of the mother. when we come back after this break, we'll talk about the way we meet mary through the rosary. please rejoin us. [ cell phone rings ]

>> yeah, i'm watching it too. i see them every day. >> the curtains, they're always drawn in this place. >> i know. >> that guy, it seems like he's in charge of them. i don't know, i don't feel very good about this. >> we have to report this. >> yes, absolutely.

welcome back. we are going to talk with kevin with the rosary. everyone knows the rosary consists of saying the hail mary over and over. there is a different thing going on with the rosary. we have mysteries. and this is what we contemplate. can you explain that to us? >> again, getting back to the heart of our lady and why we should pray the rosary through

her heart as it were is because she is the first one described in the gospel of luke who holds, who ponders, who treasures all these things in her heart what thing as soon as christ. the mystery of christ and its fullness. she is the treasury of those mysteries. so she is the best one to lead us through her heart into the life, death and resurrection of her son, the whole mystery of christ through joy, through sorry, through glory. she leads us through each of those mysteries. >> and these mysteries, events in the life of jesus christ is what they are, is that right? >> yes. >> so as you are saying the rosary, reciting with your group, you are also meditating on the distinctive episode, mystery, event in jesus' life, why do we call them mysteries? >> a mystery is not so much something that conceals but

reveals a profound depth and meaning that takes us beyond the money design but to the reality of god's love, hit presence in the world which so many times we forget about. so mystery takes us into the riches and the depth of love hidden within the heart of the lord himself. >> and i can't recite all 15 of these mysteries, but i think they take an ark through life through our lives itself. there is a set of five -- >> five joyful. >> sorry full. >> glorious. >> glorious. >> coming to christ in his glory. >> yes. >> i have taken up the rosary more frequently during lent as the archbishop requested, it's a soothing and interesting prayer full. >> the central event of the sourer full is passion and death on the cross is burial in the tomb, burial in the tomb. and the central event of the glorious is the restriction.

from the resurrection comes pentecost, the gift of the holy spirit and our lady as a spirit bearer in her own unique way. the gift of the spirit after restriction and ascension of the lord is the ability to have god's own love within us that we are not just reflecting on past historical events, but in the mystery of the eucharist and in the mystery of the eucharist and of the rosary we enter into christ, we relive, actualize his life, death and restriction. in the eucharist we become he who we receive. we are entering into the life of christ, his death in order to share fully in our goal which is the resurrection. risen life, transformed life, life in god. >> lent is a pathway toward the crucifiction,. >> but that is the gate to the restriction. >> exactly. >> and that is the gate to the

beginning of the church and our participation in a brand new life. >> yes. >> so, interesting article in the catholic san francisco newspaper, the students at our lady of the visitation school have started daily rosary, so 8:15 every day there is a rosary said, cool hushes down, they say a rosary and contemplate a mystery and the principal says it has become a soothing and up lifting experience every day in the school. >> it's calming and centering in a world in great need of that kind of peace. and the an gel i can sal you station itself. -- salutation itself, she says, yes to this great plan of reconstituting the human race and bringing it to its goal which is one necessary with god. >> now i want to show one slide to let people know where they can find resources for the observe in of lent, go to our of website, u.s. conference of

bishop catholics, rich resources there. you are a pastor, not just atheology in, what would you want someone to take away. >> what we began with, the images of the children. because any child understanding the love of a mother, a mother's heart, her compassion, her presence, her caring. and those images of a rosary around the globe, the images of our lady bringing children in. hovering over the cathedral, all the people of god. it shows she is with us. she is present to us, she cares about us. she is in fact what those icons say of her, the searcher for the lost. the comforter of the afflicted. >> all right. thank you, father thank you very much. and thank you for watching us on mosaic and have a wonderful lent and easter.

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