Day 179: Discouragement, Distraction, Despair

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

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

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Summary

Today’s painting, The Arrest of Christ by Giotto di Bondone can be somewhat unsettling. Giotto di Bondone captures the moment of Judas' betrayal with intense emotion, reminding Fr. Mark-Mary that any of us could be in Judas’ place. Supplemented by a quote from St. Augustine, we meditate on the realization that all of us have the capacity to be great sinners or great saints. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Agony in the Garden 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 179. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, brought to you by Ascension. This is day 179.
0:22.6	To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text.
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0:39.8	rosary with myself and other friars. On behalf of myself and the whole team here at Ascension,
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1:01.5	Today we are meditating upon and praying with the first sorrowful mystery, the agony of Jesus in the garden,
1:09.7	with help from a painting entitled The Arrest of Christ,
1:14.6	Kiss of Judas by the artist Joto.
1:18.9	So our artist today is Jot do de Bondone.
1:24.3	I don't know a lot of these names, so I'm looking them up how to say it, you know,
1:27.9	and they're saying it in the accent, so I feel a little ridiculous.
1:30.9	But Joto di Bondone is my closest I can get to it, and that's the name Joto is what I'm going to call him.
1:37.4	So anyway, he's born in the year 12, 67.
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