Day 149: Littleness Before the Lord

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

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

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Summary

Henry Ossawa Tanner’s depiction of the Annunciation is distinctly unique. Fr. Mark-Mary directs our meditation to an observation of Mary’s youth and littleness before the Lord, contrasted with her complete trust and confidence. This, he says, can help us trust God despite our own littleness. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Annunciation 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, the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.
0:08.0	We're through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and to Mary.
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0:39.3	rosary with myself and other friars.
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1:00.9	Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the first joyful mystery, the enunciation,
1:07.5	with help from a painting entitled The Annunciation by the artist Henry Oswa Tanner.
1:15.4	And before getting into our reflection, a brief introduction to our artist and artwork.
1:21.9	The artist, his name again is Henry Oswa Tanner, born in the year 1859, died in the year 1937, and he was an American painter
1:31.4	from Pittsburgh who spent most of his career in Philadelphia and Paris. He was one of the first
1:35.9	African-American painters to be recognized internationally. This painting that we'll be looking at
1:42.2	if the annunciation was done in the year 1898 and its style it is in oil on canvas and the style is realism.
1:51.0	And now a visual description.
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