Day 1: Responding to God (2026)

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

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Welcome to Day 1 of the Rosary in a Year! Today we begin our journey with Fr. Mark-Mary, as he leads us in a guided meditation to help us find the presence of God as we pray. This first phase, Forming the Relationship, will set the stage for your rosaries all year as we begin deepening our relationship with Jesus and Mary in prayer. Today’s focus is on finding the presence of God, and we will be praying one Our Father, three Hail Marys, and one Glory Be.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with the Franciscan friars of the renewal, and this is the Rosary in Year podcast.
0:09.7	We're through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:17.6	The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by ascension. This is day one. I am profoundly humbled
0:24.7	and overjoyed that you're joining me on day one of this year-long journey. What we're going to be
0:30.2	doing with the Rosary in the Year podcast is learning how to pray with the truths of our faith.
0:34.6	This is all going to be at the service of receiving the fullness of the grace that
0:38.2	they offer, including, but not limited to, entering into a profound union with the most Holy Trinity,
0:45.1	Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and all of this with the Blessed Mother, Our Lady.
0:53.2	In the announcement episode, the very first episode that we released, we talked about why
0:56.9	this podcast exists and how it's like taking the time to absorb all that a major
1:01.6	basilica like St. Peter's and Rome has to offer.
1:05.1	Today, I want to give a quick overview of how we're going to do that and then dive right
1:09.5	into talking about prayer and what we call
1:12.8	practicing the presence of God, really encountering the Lord and really encountering Jesus and
1:17.1	prayer. The Rosary in a Year podcast will have a six-phase structure. The first phase is called
1:24.6	forming the relationship and that's what we'll begin discussing today in
1:28.2	greater detail, working this basic movement of prayer, like raising the mind and the heart to God.
1:34.2	The second phase is called the biblical roots of the rosary. And this will be like a guided tour,
1:39.6	again, a pilgrimage through St. Peter's Basilica multiple times, beginning with art history professor,
1:45.8	then a priest. In other words, there's going to be formation regarding what the prayers or the
1:50.0	scripture passages associated with the mysteries actually mean. Like, we'll answer the question.
1:54.9	Like, what's actually happening? Why is it important in general? Then another movement, like homilies through all the mysteries, which explain, okay, why is it important in general? Then another movement like homilies through all the mysteries which explain,
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