Day 145: He Must Increase

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

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🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

St. John the Baptist said in John 3:30, “he must increase, I must decrease”. In today’s mosaic of the Ascension, Fr. Mark-Mary draws our attention to St. John the Baptist and Mary, who in turn direct our attention to Christ. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Ascension 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	I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars with Renewal, and this is the Rosary in Year podcast.
0:08.2	We're through prayer and meditation.
0:10.0	The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:15.3	The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.1	This is Day 145.
0:23.0	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 3377777. You'll get an outline
0:29.4	of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress, the best place
0:32.2	to listen to the podcast in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars. No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap
0:41.8	follow or subscribe for your daily notifications. Today we will be meditating upon and
0:48.3	praying with the second glorious mystery, the ascension of our Lord, with help from an ascension mosaic at St. Mark's
0:59.8	Basilica in Venice. Now a brief introduction to our artwork and our artist, which is actually
1:10.8	unknown. So we'll take a little moment to give a little bit
1:15.2	more background into mosaics, specifically the mosaics in St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. Well,
1:21.4	the mosaics in St. Mark's Basilica that were created by various artists over a period of about
1:26.7	eight centuries. While many of the artists
1:29.7	remain unknown, we can identify several key contributors. So in the early mosaics from the 11th,
1:35.9	12th centuries, these were likely executed by Byzantine artists in mosaics who had just
1:41.7	left Constantinople. The 12th century mosaics are from just left Constantinople.
1:50.0	The 12th century mosaics are from highly skilled mosaics, probably Greek trained, and they created figures in the dome of Emmanuel.
1:56.6	The 15th century mosaics were done by Florentine artists,
2:00.1	including Paolo Ucello and Andrea del Castagno,
2:05.2	who worked on repairs and new mosaics, and then the 15th and 16th century mosaics were done by
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