Day 181: Grace Amid Thorns

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

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Witnessing Christ crowned with thorns reveals a striking contrast between worldly might and divine strength and humility. Through the lens of Anthony van Dyck’s dramatic painting and the words of scripture and Pope John Paul II, Fr. Mark-Mary’s meditation unveils the redemptive power found in suffering. We are invited to see our own suffering as a means to draw nearer to Christ and receive His transforming grace. 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	Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast, where through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 181.
0:22.1	To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year,
0:24.0	visit ascensionpress.com
0:25.9	forward slash rosary in a year or text rIY to 33777.
0:31.4	You'll get an outline of how we're gonna pray each month
0:33.3	and it's a great way to track your progress.
0:35.2	The best place to listen to this podcast
0:36.7	is in the Ascension app.
0:37.8	There are special features built just for this podcast
0:39.3	and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars.
0:43.9	No matter what app you're listening in,
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0:51.4	Today we will be meditating upon and praying with a third sorrowful mystery, the crowning of thorns,
0:58.1	with help from a painting entitled The Crowning with Thorns by the artist Anthony Van Dyke.
1:05.7	Now brief introduction to our artist and artwork, our artist, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, was born in the year 1599 and he died in the year 1641.
1:18.2	He was a Flemish Baroque master and the foremost portraitist of the 17th century.
1:24.4	He was an art prodigy who eventually became a protege of Peter Paul Rubens.
1:31.7	He'd travel a little bit, eventually ended up in England where he became the court painter to Charles I.
1:39.5	His legacy lies in revolutionizing aristocratic portraiture and religious drama with psychological depth
1:47.3	and fluid brushwork.
1:49.9	The time period of the painting we're looking at today,
1:52.6	the crowning with thorns is between the years 1618 and 1620,
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