Day 161: Sharing Eternal Victory

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

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

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Summary

Christ is depicted in Caravaggio’s Ecce Homo with quiet dignity amid humiliation, as He is crowned with thorns and presented to the crowd. Fr. Mark-Mary encourages a prayerful examination of conscience, recognizing our personal role in Christ’s Passion while holding fast to the light and hope that remains even in darkness. Through repentance and faith, we are called not only to witness His suffering but to share in His rising and ultimate victory. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Crowning with Thorns 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, the renewal, and this is The Rosary in a Year podcast.
0:08.3	We're through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and to Mary.
0:13.8	It becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:16.2	The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:19.7	This is Day 161. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, by Ascension. This is Day 161.
0:22.2	To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash
0:26.0	rosary in a year or text RI.W. to 33777.
0:31.1	You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress,
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0:36.6	There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full
0:39.5	rosary with myself and other friars.
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1:01.0	Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the third sorrowful mystery,
1:06.3	the crowning of thorns with help from a painting entitled etche homo by the artist caravaggio.
1:16.6	So our artist as we had yesterday is Caravaggio. And again, he was born in the year 1571, died in the year 1610.
1:33.9	This particular painting was done in the year 1605,
1:39.7	and it was likely commissioned by Cardinal Massimo Massimi as part of a competition between Caravaggio and a couple other artists.
1:44.8	It later became part of King Philip the fourth private collection in Spain.
1:49.6	And it was misattributed for centuries.
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