Day 204: Transcending Death

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

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

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Summary

The Resurrection was a transformation of life that transcended death, bringing hope, healing, and renewal to all of creation. Fr. Mark-Mary emphasizes that this new reality is not just a return from death but a glorified existence that calls us into deeper trust and faith. Through this mystery, we can be confident in Christ’s pursuit of our hearts and His power to bring light even into our darkest moments. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Resurrection 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 of Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.
0:08.9	We're through prayer and meditation.
0:11.0	The rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:15.5	The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension, and this is Day 204.
0:37.5	To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33-777-7. 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 to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There's special features built just for this podcast and also recording to the full Rosary with myself and other friars.
0:41.9	I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in the Year prayer guide, a book published by
0:46.0	Ascension that was designed to compliment this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings
0:49.8	for scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art will be reflecting on.
0:57.0	Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the first glorious mystery, the resurrection.
1:05.2	And now a review of some of what we have covered before we go to our time of prayer today.
1:12.6	Let's begin by a reminder of what Pope Benedict XVI wrote about the resurrection.
1:21.7	He speaks of the resurrection as a type of evolutionary leap, a historical event that bursts open the dimensions
1:32.5	of history and transcends it. It is a brand new, entirely new form of life that is no longer
1:39.7	subject to the law of dying, but lies beyond it. And it affects everyone and opens up a new kind of future for man to kind.
1:49.0	So just a little reminder of the teaching, of the understanding of what has happened in the resurrection.
1:57.0	The resurrection is not just about a corpse coming back to life. There's this,
2:03.5	if you will, an elevated, a new form of life. It's a change which touches, if we could say,
2:12.9	glorifies all of reality. And if you recall, in of our episodes, we looked at the pascal candle, which is like
2:22.0	the symbol par excellence of the entire liturgical season because it is this candle, which
2:27.7	represents Christ, but also represents like the light of the resurrection.
2:36.7	And we were reminded that there is no darkness
2:42.9	which can overcome the light of that pascal candle,
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