I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Frarers with Renewan. This is the Rosary in Year podcast. We're through prayer and meditation.

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Today we will be meditating upon

and praying with the first sorrowful mystery,

the agony in the garden.

And so let's go ahead and dive into our review

of what we have covered to this point.

As you may recall, in one of our journeys through the

Sarful mysteries, I kind of overlaid and interwove

some reflections on the prodigal son.

And for our mystery today, the agony in the garden, what was highlighted is what we could call

the nature of sin, what we do when we sin. And we looked at the younger son in the parable, the prodigal son.

And what does he do?

He goes to his father and says, give to me my inheritance.

And then he goes to a distant land.

He wants his inheritance, but he doesn't want his father.

And again, it's his inheritance. It's all that the father has sort of saved up for him.

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