Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute, and joining me today is Professor Lucas Policy, who directs our leadership program here at the Augustine Institute's graduate school, as well as our curriculum endeavors. And so he wears many hats here, and he stays very, very busy, producing an incredible curriculum for our First Communion, First Confession, K through 8, our

Word of Life curriculum, as well as our Signs of Grace curriculum. So it's a great joy to have

Lucas join us. And we're going to talk about the rosary, especially St. John Paul II's

Apostolic Letter on the Rosary, because right now many people, many of our church leaders, from Pope Francis to our local archbishop here, Archbishop Aquila, has called all Catholics to really pray the rosary during these times especially.

And I know that there's all kinds of different movements right now to encourage the

praying of the rosary. There's the Million Rosary March, which you can find at Million Rosarymarch.com,

and they're trying to gather people from August 15th for 100 days to pray the rosary. So there's a lot

of calling from our different church leaders and different apostolets and groups to pray the rosary. So there's a lot of calling from our different church leaders and different

apostles and groups to pray the rosary. And we at the Augustusans who love the rosary, of course,

on August 15th, we celebrated our 15th anniversary. We consecrated the institute to our lady,

that she would guide us and intercede for us, that we be faithful to Christ. And so the rosary is one of my favorite forms of prayer.

I know St. John Paul II, in his apostolic letter, it talks about his deep personal devotion to the rosary

and what a powerful tool it is for prayer.

And, you know, I think it's something that St. John Paul II would recommend us now to pray during our difficult times.

And so, Lucas, let's just talk about this incredible letter from St. John Paul II.

Let's just talk about the big picture.

I mean, he wrote this a couple of years after the Jubilee year in 2000.

And, you know, it came in in year 2002, and he dedicated a whole

year to the rosary. And, you know, for St. John Paul II, he really had a pastoral program

for the church, you know, leading up to the great Jubilee year. And then after the Jubilee year,

kind of the prayer and fruits of his praying during the jubilee

he gave us that great apostolic letter novo millennio annuente you know at the advent of the third

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