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hello, and on behalf of the archdiocese of san francisco, welcome to mosaic. we will follow up on something from last october, one of the most sacred and vigorous moments of the archdiocese. we had a consecration to the immaculate heart of mary. our art and music, musicals and homilies documenting that day. on that day the archbishop spoke to us and said, if this wonderful day becomes just a cherished memory i don't know if it will make a difference. i'm convinced, he said, that it will make a difference if people begin to heed the request duper appropriate this in their various lives. we will discuss this with one of our priests, a deep student of the blessed mother, mary and i

have no doubt, one of her favorite children. since we find ourselves in the middle of lunch, as well, the question, how do we combine our lenten observance with the special gift we can receive from and give to her mother mary. after this reef pause please rejoin us for a discussion on living the consecration every day.

welcome to mosaic. today my guest 's father kevin kennedy, the pastor of our lady of catholic church and preach of the archdiocese of san francisco. i mentioned the consecration to the virgin mary on october 7th, and you were there, i presume? >> yes. i celebrated mass at st. monica church that morning so i was not able to be at the cathedral on time for the mass is celebrated by the archbishop. i came during the homily. and stayed, of course during the procession and that extended locks around the cathedral afterwards. such a great representation from various parishes and communities of the archdiocese on that beautiful morning. >> i know you have an interesting byzantine art and

you will show us some icons later. but i want to show you a few things you haven't seen. one of the consecration events was a student art contest so students can make artistic representations of the blessed virgin mary. i'd like to run those as slides. this is quite beautiful. the cathedral with mary about it and that tiny figure is the bishop , i believe. and this is by ernest, a seventh grader. and we used this as the cover of a pdf file. father, you recognize that, that is the heart of the blessed mother with a sword piercing it, symbolizing her sorrows. that's a theme about which we will talk more today. this is done by a sixth

grader. in the next one, if you please. this rosary encircling the world is quite nice. this is from a second grader at the lady of visitation school . the next one please. i think this is a favorite that i've seen, this is by a third grader at st. veronica. such a motherly mary. and what about another one. there is another representation of mary with roses around her, and this is by peter, a fourth grader at holy name of jesus school. and we have another, i think. and this is the children of fatima, and a representation of the blessed mother, water, the moon and this is by teresa from our lady of mercy school. very interesting student art.

and we have used these on our website and made use of them in that way. but let's get to the question i raised in the beginning, is how do we live in that consecration. he spelled out a request or program to live out in concrete ways. let me show you these. there we are. i hope that it is readable. this is living the consecration by the archbishop. this is a holy card or prayer card you can download from the website. 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 we are encouraged to do during the

season of lent, so they coincide, living the consecration in the lenten practices. >> and i know that you will explain to us about the rosary, i look forward to that. >> fasting and prayer and penance and on fridays we abstain from meat or do some other bodily fasting, works of charity. confession at least once a month, prayer before the blessed sacrament, adoration, that is a wonderful place to go for prayer to have 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 fatima devotion that our lady requested people to go to confession to celebrate mass and receive the eucharist and meditate on the rosary for 15

minutes, especially in union with her heart, the mystery of her heart. which, again, we will talk about as we reflect upon the rosary. >> fasting and penance we associate with lens, typically , and then the question of confession. it seems to me that the catholic practice of confession has fallen off somewhat, what can you say about that? >> the invitation to come and see and to overcome any nervousness that a person might have . this is an opportunity to be free and enter into a new fresh start, a new beginning of one's life. what the lord forgives, he forgets. our sins are cast off as far as the east is from the west. people oftentimes say they are nervous going into the confessional and they leave, presumably after a good confession, walking on a cloud because there is a great joy being restored to the

moment of one's baptism. >> i think it should be better known. and the question of adoration, a term we use in catholicism, but it is deep. what am i adoring if i'm in front of the blessed sacrament? >> the blessed sacrament is the presence of the lord himself. outside of the eucharist we reserve the eucharist for the sick, especially, but it is the sacramental presence of the lord. so we offer that presence, our worship, our loving adoration, especially a tradition in the western church of the exposition and adoration of the blessed sacrament. it is a wonderful time to have that intimate prayer with the lord sacramentally present in the reserved eucharist. >> something very attractive

about it, in a tiny, sacred thing, the universe and the world, god himself. so we will come back after this brief break and talk more about lent, mary and devotion and making consecration visible in our lives every day. please come back and join us.

welcome back. father kevin kennedy, you are a priest of the archdiocese of san francisco, a roman catholic priest, and many of us don't know much about the byzantine world. but you got involved and interested in this method of worship. >> i became interested in high school and even more so in college. visiting orthodox churches, i always thought,

what a beautiful form of worship, the icons, the liturgy, i wish to be of course, in full community with rome, what an it be wonderful to have this tradition in the full communion and that is what byzantine catholicism is. there are groups of orthodox christians that throughout the centuries have sought to re-enter into that unity that existed in the first millennium of christianity, the union between east and west. so these byzantine catholic communities have their own hierarchy separate from the roman catholic , but the latest of these communities to form in the early 20th century, the russian byzantine catholic church, it is so small that it does not have its own hierarchy so we are entrusted to the local ordinary, and this capes the bishop who appointed me pastor of this byzantine

catholic parish. and he was visiting us just last january 7th for our christmas and we were delighted to have him and we joyce in his support for us. >> to me, it is an exotic world but can you assure us, the services are in english? >> everything is in english. and you fulfill your sunday obligation by joining us. and 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. it is interesting, last year was the anniversary of fatima. i think of that is a very western event. but your church is the byzantine catholic church of our lady of fatima. you combine

eastern and western and you are a great student of mary. i wanted to ask you to fill us in on what it means that we have consecrated ourselves to her heart. and i know you have some 17 icons to share with us. >> the heart in the biblical sense refers to the person himself or herself. in this case, our lady and her intimate, unique self. no one else, mary, what is unique about her, the center in core of her interior life, her wholehearted dedication to the mystery of her son, her love for us , the members of the body of christ. so that love, that obedience of faith, her memory, intellect, her will and her heart, all of that is the treasure that we are invited to focus upon as a way to lead us ever closer to god. >> let me ask you about the icons you chose to show because it seems to have to do with her

sorrow and her pain. can you explain that please come if you will . >> in the second chapter of the gospel of luke in verse 19 and nifty one, our lady is described as holding , pondering, treasuring, all of these things in her 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 the mother's love she contains, reflects upon and treasures all of this to bestow this memory, a living memory, this reality to us, through her heart. >> here is the lady of swords piercing her heart. >> this is the reflection of the prophecy of simeon as the

lord is presented in the temple. simeon says to her, you yourself, shall pierced her heart, her innermost being, is pierced with the reality of , we were talking earlier about greek, it is his humility, that he enters into the human condition on our behalf. that his self emptying love is a model for us and redeems us. so mary enters into that in a very unique and intimate way. she shares in his pain, sorrow and suffering in such a way that the church has seen in her heart a model of that. >> the next slide, also byzantine, >> the title of this icon is very interesting. it is called the softener. of evil or

cruel hearts. the softener of cruel and hardened hearts. she softens the most hardened of hearts. looking upon her participation in the sorrow of her son. her unique partaking in that suffering for us would soften even the most hardened of hearts. >> i think it would. >> this is a variation, once again you see seven swords after the seven traditional sorrows of our lady. again, it shows this depiction, it depicts this prophecy of simeon. a sword shall enter your soul, and through a variety of sorrows that are depicted, symbolized through

these seven swords. the flight into egypt, the loss of a child, the meeting of our lady, the way of the cross, the crucifixion itself, the piercing of his heart, the taking down from the cross as he is late in her arms. and it depicts that reality. all of these express her sharing in the passion of her son in a way that is unique to herself. her sorrowful heart. >> and i see an innocent woman with swords piercing her heart, i feel like if my heart were evil and cruel, it would be softened, but why inflict that on her. >> yet, because she enters into that passion, she's able to know the fullness of joy, the joy of resurrection. she who shares fully in the cross and the burial and the tomb shares fully in the resurrection. so she is also known the joy of all who sorrow, the comforter

of the inflicted, the searcher for those who are lost, quick to hear and listen to and respond to the needs of her children. all of this is not modeling so much as it is reality that out of this pain and sorrow is born a new life, the joy of life in the spirit which is the resurrection. >> she is the model of a mother. when we come back we will talk about how to meet mary through the rosary. please rejoin us.

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we are going to talk about the rosary with father kevin. everyone knows the rosary consists of saying the same mary over and over , but there is a deeper thing going on in the rosary. we have these things called 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, ponders and treasures all these things in her heart. what things? christ, the mystery of christ in its fullness, she is the treasury of those mysteries and 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, sorrow, glory. she leads us through each of these mysteries. >> these mysteries, the events of the life of jesus christ. that's what they are. so as you are seeing the rosary, 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 mundane but to the reality of god's love and his presence in the world, which so many times we forget about. it takes us into the riches and the depths of love hidden within the heart of the lord himself.

>> i cannot recite all 15 of them mysteries but i think they take an arc through our lives as well. there are a set of five sorrowful, joyful and glorious coming to christ in his glory. i must say, i've taken up the rosary more more frequently during lent, it is a soothing and interesting in prayer. >> the central event of the sorrowful is his passion and his death on the cross, his burial in the tomb and the central event of the glorious resurrection. from the resurrection comes pentecost, the gift of the holy spirit , and our lady is the spirit beare. the gift of the spirit after the resurrection and ascension of the lord is the ability for us 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 the mystery of the rosary we enter into christ, we relive and re-actualize his life, death and resurrection. the eucharist we become and we received. we are not just remembering past events but entering into the very life of christ, his death, in order to share fully in our goal, which is the resurrection, transformed life, life in god. >> lent is a pathway toward the crucifixion and that is the gate to resurrection. and that is the gate to the beginning of the church and participation in a brand-new life. interesting article in the catholic san francisco newspaper, they have started a daily rosary at 8:15 every day. the school hashes down, they say the rosary and

contemplate the mystery and say it's become a soothing and uplifting experience every day. >> it is calming and centering in a world in great need of that kind of peace. the angelic salutation itself when we recite the hail mary we are repeating the words of the archangel gabriel, to our lady. she says yes to this great plane of reconstituting the human race and ringing it to its goal, oneness with god. >> i want to show one site to let people know where they can find resources. they can go to our website and they can go to the u.s. conference of catholic bishops, very rich resources. father, you are a pastor, what would you want someone to take away from watching the show? >> i would say, what we began with, images of the children. any child understands the love of a mother, a mother's heart,

her compassion, presence and caring. those images of a rosary around the globe, the images of our lady ringing children in, hovering over the cathedral, all the people of god, it shows that she is with us, present to us and cares about us, and she is in fact what the icons say of her, the searcher of the lost and comforter of the inflicted. >> thank you, father, very much. and thank you, for watching us on mosaic, and have a wonderful lent and easter.

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