Day 185: Proclaiming Christ
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
Ascension
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🗓️ 4 July 2025
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Summary
Each of us is called to share the Gospel boldly through our witness, words, and love. Fr. Mark-Mary reflects on this mission through Duccio’s Appearance on the Mountain in Galilee, where Christ blesses and commissions his disciples before ascending. We are reminded that Jesus remains present with us, empowering our unique roles in building the Kingdom through prayer, service, and faithful proclamation. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Ascension 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 of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in the 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. |
| 0:16.8 | The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is Day 185. |
| 0:22.2 | To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash |
| 0:26.0 | rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33777-7. |
| 0:30.9 | You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month, and it's a great way to track your progress. |
| 0:33.9 | The best place to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full |
| 0:39.5 | rosary with myself and other friars on behalf of myself. And the whole team here at Ascension, |
| 0:44.7 | we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's helped support this podcast |
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| 0:54.4 | supporting us at ascensionpress.com forward slash support. Today we will be meditating upon |
| 1:01.8 | and praying with the second glorious mystery, the ascension, with help from painting |
| 1:08.0 | entitled Appearance on the Mountain in Galilee by the artist Duccio. |
| 1:13.7 | Okay, now a brief introduction to our artist and our artwork, Duccio di Buonensegna, was born in the year 1255, and he died around the year 1318 or 1319. |
| 1:25.1 | He was the founder of the Siennese school and a pivotal figure transitioning Italian art from Byzantine formalism to Gothic expressiveness. |
| 1:34.3 | Active primarily in Sienna, he blended Byzantine iconography with Gothic elegance and nascent naturalism. |
| 1:42.4 | So our painting today, again, entitled appearance on the mountain in Galilee, |
| 1:46.3 | was done by Duccio between the years 1308 and about 1311. And some of the styles that we'll see |
| 1:53.5 | of Duccio here are the Byzantine tradition. We see this, for example, with the gold backgrounds, |
| 1:58.8 | Gothic refinement, the delicate drapery, rhythmic lines, |
| 2:02.8 | and emotional nuance and faces, an early spatial depth, though less naturalistic than |
| 2:09.1 | Giotto Tuchio experiments with rudimentary perspectives as seen in, for example, the receding |
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