Day 121: The Cost of Compromise

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

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

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Summary

Pilate tried to compromise on truth. His concern was not justice, but instead self-preservation. Fr. Mark-Mary reads from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, emphasizing that we must not compromise on Jesus. We have to commit to the truth. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Crowning with Thorns and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars of the renewal and this is the Rosary in the Year podcast,
0:08.6	where 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.
0:16.0	The Rosary in a Year is brought to by Ascension.
0:18.7	This is Day 121.
0:21.1	To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com
0:24.5	forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress.
0:34.3	The best place to listen to this podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features
0:37.6	built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars.
0:43.0	No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap, follow, or subscribe for your daily
0:47.8	notifications. Today we'll be meditating upon and praying with the third sorrowful mystery,
0:54.2	the crowning with thorns with help from a meditation by venerable Archbishop Fulton J.
1:00.2	Sheen from his book, Life of Christ.
1:05.6	And the focus of our prayer today is going to be the true cost of compromise.
1:12.2	And now our reading from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen,
1:16.9	Pilate tried to strike a balance between satisfying the Sanhedron and his own conscience.
1:25.0	But Pilot was wrong in thinking that the drawing of blood would calm their
1:29.9	passions and melt them to pity. Some compromises in the face of justice rarely achieve
1:35.8	their ends. If guilty, Pilate should have condemned him to death. If innocent, he should have
1:42.9	released him. Our Lord looked forward to giving his life
1:47.9	as a ransom for sin. He had described himself as having a baptism wherewith he was to be baptized.
1:55.0	John gave him the baptism of water. But the Roman soldiers now gave him his baptism of blood. After opening his sacred
2:04.1	flesh with violent stripes, they now put on him a purple robe which adhered to his bleeding
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