Day 237: The Ascension and the Descent of the Holy Spirit

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

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

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Summary

We pray with the Second and Third Glorious Mysteries: the Ascension of Jesus and the Descent of the Holy Spirit. As Jesus ascends into heaven, we reflect on the mystery of his closeness, how his union with the Father makes him even more present to each of us. Then, with Mary and the disciples in the Upper Room, we await the coming of the Holy Spirit in prayerful hope. The fire of Pentecost renews and transforms the fearful into bold proclaimers of the Gospel. We pray these decades of the rosary with them, asking for that same courage and renewal in our own lives. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Ascension and the Descent of the Holy Spirit 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.
0:08.6	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 237. To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year,
0:24.7	visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33777. You'll get an outline
0:33.4	of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place
0:36.3	to listen to the podcast is 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, a book published by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings from scripture, St. reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on.
0:59.6	Today we'll be praying with the second and the third glorious mysteries,
1:02.6	the ascension and the descent of the Holy Spirit.
1:08.0	As we pray with the second glorious mystery, we're reminded that Jesus' ascension into heaven,
1:11.9	it's not a going away, but a new way of being, a way that allows him to be even more present,
1:18.4	more close to each of us, as he doesn't go to some far off place, but he goes to the right hand
1:26.6	of his father. So we celebrate the entry of the hypostatic union,
1:32.8	Jesus' body and soul ascending to heaven. We see Jesus with his human glorified body ascending into heaven,
1:42.5	taking his place at the right hand of the Father.
1:44.8	And each of us has even more intimate, profound, immediate access to our risen Lord.
1:53.7	As we pray with the third glorious mystery to the sense of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost,
2:00.4	we see ourselves with Mary and the other disciples
2:04.6	waiting on the Lord, an ardent, persevering prayer,
2:10.6	this model of prayer and of hope
2:15.6	of waiting in anticipation and confidence on the coming of the Holy Spirit.
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