Day 202: Scapegoat and Savior

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

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mark-Mary connects Jesus carrying His cross to Christ as the new scapegoat, freely taking on the exile, rejection, and sins of all humanity and carrying them to His place of crucifixion. Simon of Cyrene had the opportunity to let his suffering draw him closer to Jesus—an invitation extended to each of us in our own crosses of loss, illness, or pain. When we unite our suffering with His, our crosses too can become salvific, glorified, and trophies of shared victory in Christ. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Carrying of the Cross and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

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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 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.
0:16.0	The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is Day 202.
0:22.1	To download the prayer plan for Rosary in the Year, visit ascensionpress.com
0:25.9	forward slash rosary in a year or text R-IY to 33777.
0:31.4	You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress.
0:35.3	The best place to listen to this podcast is in the Ascension app.
0:37.8	There are special features built just for this podcast
0:39.6	and also recordings of the full rosary
0:41.7	with myself and other friars.
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0:52.0	Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the fourth sorrowful mystery,
0:58.7	Jesus carrying his cross.
1:03.0	And before our time of prayer, let's review what we have prayed with and meditating upon up to this point. A theme that we touched on
1:15.1	in a variety of different ways was looking at Jesus as the fulfillment of the new scapegoat.
1:25.0	And we talked about back in the Old Testament for the Day of Atonement, there was a scapegoat,
1:30.7	a literal goat that the high priest would place his hands on on the Day of Atonement.
1:36.0	And then this goat would be offered by sending it off into the wilderness. And there's many ways in which we looked at Jesus
1:46.3	becoming the fulfillment of this,
1:48.6	taking upon himself all of the sins of humanity.
1:56.1	And this is a fitting reflection for the fourth sorrowful mystery
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