Day 189: Beginning Our Meditation

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

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

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Summary

We begin Phase 4: Finding Focus today, reviewing several topics for meditation on the Annunciation. Putting the mental meditation archive we’ve been building into practice, Fr. Mark-Mary leads us through prayer prompts and a decade of the rosary. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Annunciation and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

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 at the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.
0:08.6	We're through prayer and meditation.
0:10.1	The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:15.6	The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.5	This is Day 189.
0:23.8	To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year,
0:32.7	visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 3377777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place
0:35.6	to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the
0:40.8	full rosary with myself and other friars. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the rosary in a year
0:46.3	prayer guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast. You'll find
0:51.0	all the daily readings from scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on. Today we will be meditating upon and
1:01.0	praying with the first joyful mystery, the enunciation. Well friends, welcome. We've made it
1:07.5	to phase four, which is a big deal. Give yourselves a round of applause.
1:13.9	A little clap for everybody. The fourth phase is called finding focus. And so up to this point,
1:19.8	we've been doing quite a bit of work to build up our mental meditative archive with a variety
1:26.0	of teachings about the mysteries with reflections,
1:29.3	Lexio devenas, saint writings, artwork, etc. And now we're going to be applying these very
1:35.5	deeply into prayer. We're just going to be pulling from what we have received and going deeper.
1:42.0	I think a very natural sort of common analogy would be like
1:45.1	studying. You go to class, you receive all the material. And then there's a point where it's midterms
1:49.4	or it's finals where you really do like a deep dive, the end being like assimilating, really owning
1:55.1	the information. In this case, not just owning the information, but actually being transformed and changed by
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