Bonus: Introduction to Phase One “Forming the Relationship”
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Are you getting ready to pray the Rosary in a Year? In this special pre-launch episode, Fr. Mark-Mary is joined by Fr. Mike Schmitz to explore why prayer is so essential to our relationship with God and how we can truly pray instead of simply saying the words of the Rosary. Fr. Mike shares how he first started praying the Rosary, and gives advice for anyone who wants to make the Rosary part of their daily life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year |
| 0:08.8 | podcast. Again, I am joined with Father Mike Schmitz. Father Mike, welcome back. Thanks, Father |
| 0:14.4 | Mark Mary. This is our second co-lab, which I'm really pumped about. And also I get to use that |
| 0:19.3 | word again. I don't know what it is about it, |
| 0:21.2 | but I appreciate the collaboration. You're using it very well, very natural. Very natural. |
| 0:26.4 | Thank you so much. So today's our first episode, introducing a phase. So we're introducing |
| 0:32.3 | phase one of the Rosary in your podcast. And phase one, the name that we've given it is forming the relationship. |
| 0:39.1 | So we're going to talk about really, if you will, keeping our praying of the rosary, not so much |
| 0:44.0 | just about recitation, but really about growing in relationship. But maybe just we can back up for a |
| 0:48.8 | moment and kind of just, if you wanted to share a little bit, Father Mike, your own, a little brief |
| 0:53.8 | history with the rosary, who taught you the rosary? Any great kind bit, Father Mike, your own, a little brief history with the |
| 0:54.8 | rosary, who taught you the rosary? Any great kind of, your old glory stories about the rosary? |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah, no, I, thank you for asking because it, the rosary has played a really big part in my life. |
| 1:06.1 | So I've shared, I think, maybe a number of places, but I raised Catholic, and I'm sure at some |
| 1:12.8 | point along the way someone had taught me how to pray the rosary. I know that I had a rosary |
| 1:16.6 | hanging from my bedpost as a kid, and my mom would pray the rosary on a regular basis, |
| 1:21.7 | because I'd come into a room and she'd be sitting up in bed praying the rosary. But it wasn't |
| 1:24.8 | until I was about 15 or 16 years old. I had just an |
| 1:28.1 | awareness of, I always described it like awareness of my own sin. It was like a brokenness kind of |
| 1:32.5 | situation where I was just like, oh my gosh, I know it was Holy Spirit and not the accuser, not the |
| 1:36.1 | evil one, because right when the evil one accuses us, he leaves us hopeless and helpless. But when the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin, he always leads us to hope. |
| 1:45.1 | And so it was a situation where I recognized, oh my goodness, like I have this brokenness in me that's |
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