Bonus: Introduction to Phase Three: “Meditating with the Mysteries”
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
Ascension
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How do we really dive into meditation while we pray the rosary? In this special bonus episode, Fr. Mark-Mary is joined by Fr. Gregory Pine to discuss Franciscan and Dominican prayer, accessing grace through the rosary, and the much debated question: “If you fall asleep in the middle of prayer, does your guardian angel finish the rosary?”
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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 the Year podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | Today, we are beginning phase three, which is called meditating on the mysteries. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm very, very happy to be joined here by Father Gregory Pine, the Dominican friar of the province of St. Joseph. |
| 0:26.0 | Father Gregory, welcome. |
| 0:27.5 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 0:29.2 | You got it. |
| 0:29.8 | So I had a chance to be on your podcast, Godsplining, and I began there how I'm going to begin here, because I'm very self-conscious of this, by saying to you and you |
| 0:39.6 | representing all Dominicans who have lived in the last 800 years. |
| 0:44.6 | The world over. |
| 0:45.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:47.3 | Certainly the success of the Rosary in your podcast is the fruit of the popularity of the |
| 0:53.3 | rosary, which is the fruit of centuries of work and preaching by the Dominicans. |
| 0:59.0 | So thank you. |
| 1:00.0 | Hey, we're here for it. The Rosary. It's great. |
| 1:03.0 | Our religious traditions and orders in general have a tendency of stealing people's stories and stealing people's, or the other order of successes. |
| 1:12.7 | And so I'm trying to break the trend and be very clear that I'm not, |
| 1:18.0 | the Franciscans are not trying to steal the rosary from the Dominicans. |
| 1:22.0 | We learned in our preaching class, |
| 1:24.0 | there's no real, like, plagiarism in preaching. |
| 1:26.7 | So you know how sometimes people, like, overanxiously narrate their sources. And they, like, plagiarism in preaching. So you know how sometimes people |
| 1:28.1 | like over-anxiously narrate their sources, and they're like, as I read, you know, four days ago while sitting in my Bark Alonger from ancient Christian commentaries, a collection of quotations. It's like, holy smokes, just say the thing, you know. So too, with pious devotions, you don't you don't have to attribute it man you can just send it i think it's our ladies |
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