Day 230: The Nativity and the Presentation

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

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we continue praying simply and slowly with the mysteries themselves. Fr. Mark-Mary guides us in reflecting on the birth of Jesus, God made flesh, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and the joy and warmth surrounding the Nativity. We then turn to the Presentation in the Temple, where Simeon and Anna recognize the Messiah and Mary hears the first prophecy of her coming sorrow. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Nativity and the Presentation, 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.
0:19.7	This is Day 230. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year you by Ascension. This is Day 230.
0:22.3	To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash
0:26.3	rosary in a year or text RI.I.
0:29.1	3-3-777.
0:31.4	You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month, and it's a great way to track your progress,
0:34.2	the best place to listen to the podcast in the Ascension app.
0:36.9	There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full
0:39.8	rosary with myself and other friars. On behalf of myself and the whole team here at
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1:01.6	Today we will be praying the third and the fourth, joyful mysteries, the nativity, and the presentation.
1:12.2	So today we'll be really practicing, focusing on the mysteries themselves
1:16.9	and these events in salvation history and the life of our Lord.
1:23.7	As we meditate upon the nativity,
1:27.3	we call to mind Mary and Joseph.
1:30.3	And the newborn babe of Bethlehem, the king and the Messiah, wrapped in swaddling cloth,
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