Day 201: Thorns for Love

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

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Mocked and spat upon, Christ crowned with thorns fulfills the image of the suffering servant—humble in agony, yet still the King, still victorious. Fr. Mark-Mary invites us to behold Him, as Pilate once did, and examine our own heart. Are we offering our worship and loyalty to the Lord or to the world? Are we burdened by sins of indifference or misplaced priorities? Let us respond with renewed fidelity, offering our whole selves to the King. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Crowning with Thorns and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

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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.
0:18.7	This is day 201.
0:22.9	To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.com
0:26.9	forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 3377777.
0:33.3	You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track
0:36.0	your progress.
0:36.5	The best place to listen to the podcast podcasts in the Ascension app.
0:39.5	There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in a Year Prayer Guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast. you'll find all the daily readings from Scripture, Saint Reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art
0:57.0	we'll be reflecting on.
0:59.0	Today we'll be meditating upon and praying with the third sorrowful mystery,
1:05.0	our Lord being crowned with thorns.
1:10.0	And now as a review and to aid us in our honor being crowned with thorns.
1:18.4	And now as a review and to aid us in our ongoing prayer and reflection as we pray a mystery of the rosary, let's just kind of go back and remember some of what we've discussed
1:24.4	pertaining to this mystery.
1:28.3	First and foremost, I'm simply just going to invite you to call to mind in your imagination.
1:32.3	Jesus, our Lord, crowned with thorns, mocked, spat upon.
1:42.3	We looked at Jesus as the fulfillment of the prophesied suffering servant from the book of Isaiah.
1:52.5	And what we want to do is just behold our king.
1:58.6	Behold your king.
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