Day 18: Our Sweetness, Our Hope
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 18 January 2025
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Summary
Jesus gives us not only what we need, but in his abundance, gives us more than what we need so that we might have joy. Fr. Mark-Mary meditates on the Hail Holy Queen, exploring the relationship between the Eucharist and Mary, the mother of God, to help us meditate during the Rosary. Today’s focus is “Hail Holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope,” and we will be praying one Our Father, three Hail Marys, and one Glory Be.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with the Franciscan friars of the renewal, and this is The Rosary in the Year podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | We're through prayer and meditation. |
| 0:11.0 | The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. |
| 0:16.0 | The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Day 18. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in the Year, visit to you by Ascension. This is Day 18. To download the prayer plan for |
| 0:22.3 | rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text RIY to 3377. You'll get an |
| 0:28.9 | outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best |
| 0:32.5 | place to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. Their special features built just for this podcast, and also recordings |
| 0:37.7 | of the full rosary with myself and other friars. I'd encourage you to pick up a copy of the rosary |
| 0:42.8 | in-year prayer guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to compliment this podcast. |
| 0:46.9 | You'll find the daily readings from scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful full-page |
| 0:50.7 | images of the sacred art will be reflecting on. |
| 0:55.0 | Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. |
| 1:04.0 | Where the next couple days we'll be taking a look at the Hail Holy Queen often referred to in Latin as Basolvah Regina. |
| 1:14.4 | And to begin our reflection on these opening words of the Hail Holy Queen, |
| 1:20.0 | I'm going to share with you some words that I have been reflecting on in Scripture, |
| 1:24.8 | rightly so, especially these last couple years of my priesthood. And this is from |
| 1:29.6 | Matthew 26, verse 26. Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke it, and gave it to the |
| 1:39.6 | disciples and said, take, eat. This is my body. And he took a chalice and we had given thanks. He gave it to them |
| 1:47.4 | saying, drink of it, all of you, for this is the blood of my covenant, which is poured out for many |
| 1:52.0 | for the forgiveness of sins. All right, Father Mark Mary, make it make sense. We're talking about the |
| 1:57.7 | Hail Holy Queen and you are talking about the institution of the most holy Eucharist. Here's where I think they're connected. Jesus gives |
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