Day 160: Choose Your Side

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

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

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Summary

We are in a war with darkness, and we must choose to take up the side as sons and daughters of God. Fr. Mark-Mary describes Caravaggio’s painting, The Flagellation of Christ, relating each of Jesus’ assailants to a personification of sin. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Scourging at the Pillar 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 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 Renewan.
0:06.5	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
0:13.8	graves for the whole world.
0:15.3	The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.1	This is day 160. To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year, visit
0:22.8	ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33777. You'll get an outline of
0:29.4	how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress, the best place to listen
0:32.2	the podcast in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also
0:35.6	recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars. No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap,
0:41.7	follow or subscribe for your daily notifications. Today we will be meditating upon and praying
0:48.9	with the second sorrowful mystery, the scourging of our Lord at the pillar, with help from a painting entitled
0:58.1	The Flagellation of Christ by the artist Caravaggio.
1:04.4	Now, an introduction to our artist and artwork, Caravaggio was born in the year 1571.
1:09.7	He died in the year 1610, and he was an Italian painter active
1:14.2	in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between
1:20.0	Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. And his paintings have been characterized by art
1:26.0	critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state,
1:29.2	both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
1:37.7	This painting was done in the year 1607, and just a quick note on its style is the style is Baroque and Caravaggio employed close physical observation with dramatic use of Kuroskuro that came to be known as Tenebrism.
1:54.0	And he made the technique a dominant stylistic element transfixing subjects and bright shafts of light, and darkening shadows.
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