I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars of renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.

We're 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 a Year is brought to you by Ascension.

This is day 216. 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. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in the Year prayer guide, a book published

by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings

for scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art will be reflecting on. Today we will be praying with the fifth sorrowful mystery and the first

glorious mystery, the crucifixion and death of our Lord and His resurrection.

So today we're on, I guess, what we call day three of our review, of our kind of prayerful focus on praying with a particular person, particularly today of the most holy Trinity.

So we're going to really be focusing again on praying with and praying to the Holy Spirit. As a reminder, the Holy Spirit has

been revealed to us with a couple of different names and titles and images as the cloud that overshadows

our lady for example during the annunciation the holy spirit who comes in power who comes and works

this miracle in our lady's life.

We have the Holy Spirit as fire as a dove.

The Holy Spirit is referred to as the promise of the Father.

We see the Holy Spirit at work, for example, in the Apostles, the day of Pentecost, filling them with courage and boldness.

So I'm going to invite you to be open to any way in which you're feeling prompted or called to pray with the Holy Spirit.

A preferred way of prayer for me, again, is coming to the Holy Spirit in my imagination,

imagining myself being overshadowed by the power of the Most High, the promise of the Father by the Holy Spirit, bringing to him any relationships where there's concern where there needs healing

or wisdom any decisions any places of my heart which have grown cold become hardened

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