Day 178: Open the Door

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

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In Tanner’s painting, Christ and the Disciples Before the Last Supper, we see Jesus and a few disciples before they enter the upper room to eat the Passover. In moments, the institution of the Eucharist will occur. Fr. Mark-Mary invites us to experience the incredible love Jesus is inviting them into before they enter and share the Passover meal. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Institution of the Eucharist 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.
0:06.4	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	grace for the whole world.
0:15.3	The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.2	This is Day 178. To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year, visit
0:22.9	ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33777. You'll get an outline of
0:29.5	how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress, the best place
0:32.1	to listen to the podcast in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this
0:35.0	podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars. No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap
0:41.7	follow or subscribe for your daily notifications. Today we will be meditating upon and praying
0:48.7	with the fifth luminous mystery, the institution of the Most Holy Eucharist, with help from a painting by the artist Henry Oswa Tanner entitled Christ and the disciples before the Last Supper.
1:07.1	All right, we've had a painting by Tanner before, but again, just a brief introduction to our artist again.
1:12.3	And then the artwork, Henry Oswald Tanner was born in the year 1859, died in the year 1937, and he was an American painter from Pittsburgh who spent most of his career in Philadelphia and Paris.
1:23.8	And he was one of the first African-American painters to be recognized internationally.
1:28.3	This particular painting was done in the year 1909.
1:35.3	So today's painting, right, Christ and the disciples before the Last Supper,
1:39.3	it is lesser known than some of his other works like the enunciation that we looked at or one of his
1:44.6	paintings that we're not going to look at for obvious reasons entitled the banjo lesson.
1:48.3	This particular painting we're looking at today, it does. It exemplifies his signature blend of
1:52.8	spiritual depth, modernist technique, and nuanced humanity.
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