I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars, the 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 to Mary.

It becomes a source of grace for the whole world.

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Today we'll be praying with the first two sorrowful mysteries, the agony in the garden, and the scourging at the pillar.

For this next set of focused prayer, another five days, what we'll practice

is praying with intentions. It's a common form of prayer is that people come to the rosary

and they bring particular intentions. They may offer up their rosary for one

intention or different decades for different intentions. And so let's just go ahead. What I'd like

to do is just kind of have a moment to kind of explore this with the Lord in a way which can be

hopefully most efficacious and fruitful for our own prayer, our own hope, and for those we're praying

for. And so what we're going to do

is we're going to kind of go back to praying with the different persons, Father's Son, Holy Spirit,

or the Most Holy Trinity, the Trinity itself, and then praying with our lady. What we're going to do is

we're going to bring to each of the decades a different situation person, apart from us, so separate from us.

And kind of the image I have is a little bit of like a parent taking a child to the doctor,

where the parent presents the child fully aware of the doctor, fully aware of the child being

offered, and their kind of heart is invested in it.

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