Bonus: Introduction to Phase Four: “Finding Focus”

The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

What’s the difference between a commitment and a devotion? How can we grow in love for the rosary? In this special bonus episode, Fr. Mark-Mary is joined by Sr. Miriam James Heidland SOLT, to discuss prayer quality over quantity, overcoming discouragement in prayer, and the beauty of Mary and her motherhood.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan, Friars with the Nuel, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.
0:09.5	Welcome to another bonus episode as we begin phase four of our journey of prayer together.
0:17.3	Phase four is called Finding Focused and we are all blessed, and I am extremely blessed
0:23.2	and grateful to be joined by our dear friend, Sister Miriam James Heidland of the Society of
0:29.7	Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity. Sister Miriam, hey, welcome.
0:34.2	Hi, friend. How delightful to be with you, and thanks to all your listeners and all the people that are taking this journey to heart.
0:41.4	It's a great adventure to be part of.
0:43.8	Yeah, I'm grateful for you sharing in it.
0:45.8	You were in some ways there at the beginning.
0:48.7	And so far as when this actually launched and kind of made its big splash, we were together
0:52.8	at a conference and met you in the
0:56.1	line of an elevator and you were very encouraging, sister. So thank you for that. Do I have to say
1:01.3	your publication team is doing a great job because I've been to parishes all over and like
1:04.8	there's life-size posters of you. Every time I go into the vestibule of parishes and it just makes
1:09.2	me giggle. Like every time I took a picture
1:11.2	one time like, get next to Father Mark Mary. My friend's like waving. It's great. Like you're larger
1:14.8	than life. It's wonderful. Yeah, I have a lot of friends who are taking pictures, catch me out in the
1:18.8	wild. It's a little bit embarrassing, but it's also kind of sweet. It's wonderful. For those who don't know, you do want to give a brief introduction to yourself, particularly your religious community?
1:29.0	Sure. As you mentioned, I'm a member of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, more affectionately known as Salt, S-O-L-T, and we're a missionary community consisting of priest, sisters, and laity.
1:41.0	And we serve in what we call family teams, ecclesial family teams, and areas of
1:44.7	deepest apostolic need. So we serve here in America, in Central America, and Belize in Guatemala,
1:50.5	and then we serve in the Asian region, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, the Philippines. And we serve in areas
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