Day 166: Ordinary, Yet Called

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

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

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Summary

Titian’s Renaissance painting, Pentecost, focuses on St. Peter kneeling beside Mary with the keys of the Kingdom in hand. Fr. Mark-Mark contemplates Peter’s transformation from a flawed man to the first pope to highlight the power of the Holy Spirit working through ordinary people. We are reminded that despite our limitations, each of us carries a mission and is invited to entrust it to the Holy Spirit. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Descent of the Holy Spirit 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	Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the renewal and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast,
0:08.6	where through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary
0:13.9	and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:16.0	The Rosary in a Year is brought to by Ascension.
0:18.7	This is Day 166.
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.
0:30.6	You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your
0:33.4	progress. The best place to listen to this podcast is in the Ascension app. There's special
0:37.4	features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other
0:42.1	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 third
0:53.7	glorious mystery, the descent of the Holy Spirit of Pentecost,
0:57.1	with help from a painting entitled Pentecost by the artist Titian.
1:02.2	This is our second painting from Tishin, so just a brief reminder.
1:05.3	He was born around the year 1488 or 1490, and he would die in the year 1576. He was a leading artist of the
1:15.4	Italian Renaissance and the most important member of the 16th century Venetian school. Our painting
1:21.2	of Pentecost was done in the year 1545 and it is an oil painting and its style is Renaissance art.
1:30.5	Now a description of our painting.
1:34.0	A white dove beats its open wings high up beneath the arch of a grand room.
1:41.0	Behind it emerges beams of blindingly white light.
1:45.0	The burst of light, almost like a divine flame, radiates from above,
1:50.0	symbolizing the Holy Spirit descending upon those present.
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