I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in New 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. The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by

Ascension. This is day 209. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in Year Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 209.

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supporting us at ascensionpress.com forward slash support. All right, everybody, welcome back. We

have just completed phase four. Congratulations, everybody who's made it this far. Thank you again

for persevering in this journey with me. Now we are going to be beginning phase five, building up the decades.

And so what we'll be doing here is slowly but surely, poco, poco, if you will, like just

practicing, like prayer, practicing meditation and applying to prayer, like what we have

discussed and covered up to this point while building up our capacity. So we're going to start

again small and focused at the service of depth. But little by little as we go through phase five and then into phase six,

we're going to be building up the amount of decades. We're going to be praying at each time.

How we're going to begin, though, phase five is going to be like somewhat of a callback all

the way back to the very beginning of our journey. If you recall, in our

introduction to the rosary, I pulled from what I had been taught by one of our founders,

Father Andrew Apostley. In his class and his encouragement with the rosary, he was reminding us

and teaching us that we want to be focused on one of or a collection of these three things in prayer.

The one to whom we are speaking, the words which we are saying, and the mystery that we are

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