Day 219: The Gift of Prayer

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

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

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Summary

We begin meditating on the words of the prayers as we pray our decades of the Rosary. Fr. Mark-Mary encourages us to focus on the words of the Our Father, recalling the gift of this prayer that Jesus gave to his disciples in Matthew 6:9. In these words, we sit with Jesus as he teaches us to pray, leading us to the Father. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Annunciation and the Visitation, 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 at the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.
0:08.5	We're through prayer and meditation.
0:10.1	The rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:15.6	The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by ascension.
0:18.7	This is Day 219. To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year,
0:25.0	visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text RIY to 3377777. You'll get an outline of how
0:34.1	we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to
0:36.8	listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app.
0:39.1	There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full Rosary with myself and other friars. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in a Year Prayer Guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast. you'll find all the daily readings from scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on.
1:00.3	Today we will be praying with the first and second joyful mysteries, the Annunciation and
1:08.2	the visitation. So the last 10 episodes, we were practicing the relational
1:14.5	component of our prayer, particularly practicing having some experience with focusing on the
1:21.8	Trinity, one of the persons of the Trinity, and then praying with our lady.
1:33.1	For these next five episodes, what we're going to do is shift focus to the words of the prayer. So we're just going to practice really praying with and paying attention to the words
1:37.9	of the prayers while praying the rosary. And again, as we're praying the rosary, we're trying to really pay attention
1:46.0	to raise our minds and hearts to, like the person, the one to whom we are praying to focus on
1:52.3	the words themselves. And then lastly, the mystery. So today and for the next five episodes,
1:59.6	we're just going to be praying a little bit more slowly,
2:02.9	really trying to extract the full grace, the full meaning, the full beauty of the prayers,
2:08.3	the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Glory B, and then the Fatima of Prayer.
2:12.6	We start with paying attention to really focusing on the words that Jesus gives us in Matthew
2:18.0	chapter 6 verse 9 on the sermon on the mount in response to the disciples request to learn how
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