Day 130: Joy in the Darkness

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

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🗓️ 10 May 2025

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Summary

So often, our futures are shrouded in mystery and darkness. It can be hard to see where God’s plan is leading. Fr. Mark-Mary highlights the dynamics of light and darkness in Rembrandt’s painting, The Visitation, revealing two women who may not see every step of God’s plan, but trust in him regardless. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Visitation and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

All of the Sacred Art we’ll be meditating with can be found in the Rosary in a Year Prayer Guide, for free linked in the complete prayer plan, or for free in the Ascension App. For the complete prayer plan, visit https://ascensionpress.com/riy.

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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, 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 the Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.7	This is Day 130.
0:22.3	To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 3-777.
0:30.5	You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track
0:33.2	your progress. The best place to listen to this podcast is in the Ascension app.
0:36.9	There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other
0:42.0	friars. No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap, follow, or subscribe for your
0:47.4	daily notifications. Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the second joyful mystery, the visitation,
0:56.0	with help from the artist Rembrandt and his painting entitled The Visitation.
1:03.0	A little background to our artist.
1:08.0	Rembrandt lived from the year 1606 to 1669 and he is a very famous Dutch painter who created
1:19.2	hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings during his lifetime. He gained fame initially
1:24.9	as a portrait painter and gradually began to paint biblical scenes as a self-portrait as well.
1:30.5	He taught many well-known Dutch painters and his career marked the beginning of the Dutch Golden Age.
1:37.0	His mother was a Catholic and his father belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church.
1:41.3	This domestic division was a microcosm of the religious division of the time and certainly
1:46.5	influence Rembrandt's biblical paintings. And now a visual description of the painting, the visitation.
1:55.9	And Rembrandt's painting, a group gathers in front of an impressive stone house at night.
2:05.1	There's a city in the distance, a peacock and fowls in the foreground, and a donkey led away in the background.
2:13.8	The action centers on a newcomer, Mary, depicted as a young woman whose blue cape is being removed by a servant.
2:25.3	She's greeted with a warm embrace as her cousin Elizabeth, a dignified older woman, draped in layers of garments wraps her arms around Mary and raises
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