Day 212: Eternal Exchange of Love

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

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

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Summary

Opening with prayerful reflection, Father Mark-Mary invites listeners to contemplate the Holy Trinity not as an abstract concept but as a living communion of love—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Drawing from the Catechism, he highlights that God’s innermost secret is His very being as love, revealed through Christ and the Holy Spirit. We are personally invited to enter and share in this love. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Wedding Feast at Cana and Proclamation of the Kingdom and Call to Conversion and we will be praying two decades of the Rosary.

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0:00.0	I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars, the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.
0:08.3	We're through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and to Mary.
0:13.8	It becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:16.2	The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by ascension.
0:19.9	This is Day 212. 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 33-77777. 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 in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars. On behalf of myself and the whole team here at Ascension, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's helped support this podcast financially, your generosity. It's so appreciated and helps us to reach as many people as possible. and if you haven't already, please consider supporting us at ascensionpress.com forward slash support.
1:02.0	Hey everybody, welcome back today as we practice praying and building up the decades, particularly practicing relational prayer in the context of our recitation
1:12.5	of the rosary, or more specifically two decades of the rosary. Today we're going to be focusing
1:19.9	on praying with the Holy Trinity. We've prayed with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
1:26.6	Now we're just going to practice coming to the Trinity as one, right?
1:32.6	And to help us, I'm going to pull from the catechism.
1:38.0	This is paragraph 221.
1:41.7	God's very being is love.
1:45.0	By sending His only Son and the Spirit of Love and the fullness of time, God has revealed
1:54.0	His innermost secret. God Himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
2:04.2	And he has destined us to share in that exchange.
2:10.0	I do think there's something we can relate to of when somebody shares something with us,
2:15.1	perhaps a secret and insight into their lives, their heart. We feel honored by it.
2:22.6	And God has entrusted to us. He is shared with us as the catechism says, like his innermost
2:28.7	secret, who he is in himself.
2:36.9	And sort of as I alluded to yesterday,
2:39.2	there can be a temptation to coming to the Most Holy Trinity as an abstraction.
2:40.5	There can be a movement towards this depersonalization.
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