I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars with Renewal, and this is the Rosary in 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 22. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text RIY to 33777. 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 podcasts 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. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in a Year prayer guide,

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

reading from scriptures, saint reflections, and beautiful full-page images of the sacred art

will be reflecting on.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us, our sins save us from the fires of hell.

Lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.

This prayer is what's often referred to as the Fatima prayer.

It's attributed to Our Lady of Fatima, and an apparition where she gave this prayer to the visionaries, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta. Our Lady of Fatima said a number of times to the visionaries, like, you need to be praying the rosary, and you need to get everybody to be praying the rosary. And part of that was for the conversion of sinners and salvation of souls. And she asked, our Lady Fatima,

asked that this prayer be included at the end of each decade. These days, that's probably where most of us are familiar with the prayer, is we're familiar with it from the rosary, and that we say

it is the last prayer of each decade. The approach that I'd like to invite to us to take to reflecting on the Fatima prayer

is it's going to be another application, another exercise in keeping in harmony, two principles,

two values, which can at times be felt to go into some sort of tension. And these are going to be

authentic Christian hope, an authentic Christian gravitas, sense of the stakes of things.

The hope that comes from God, but also right relationship and sobriety before the four last things.

Death, judgment, heaven and hell. Let's start with hope. My brothers and

sisters, Christians are people of hope. It is a work of grace within us. It is the hope that comes

from God himself. It is a hope for our salvation. It's a hope for the salvation of our brothers and sisters. And it's the hope that comes from God himself. It is a hope for our salvation.

It is a hope for the salvation of our brothers and sisters.

And it's the hope that comes from Romans 828.

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