Day 239: The Annunciation and the Visitation
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
Ascension
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
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Summary
Fr. Mark-Mary invites us to dive deeper into our meditation while we pray with the Annunciation and the Visitation. As we revisit these familiar moments, we’re invited to take a new angle each time, meditating on different details, characters, or movements of the Spirit. Whether it’s Mary’s yes, the angel’s greeting, or Elizabeth’s joyful welcome, each prayer opens the door to new graces. We deepen our rhythm of prayer, asking God to help us fall in love with these mysteries all over again. 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 of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in the Year podcast, |
| 0:09.5 | where through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary |
| 0:13.7 | and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by |
| 0:18.2 | Ascension. This is Day 2.39. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is Day 2.39. |
| 0:39.9 | To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text, R-I-Y to 3377777. 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 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 on behalf of myself. And the whole team here at Ascension, |
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| 1:08.5 | Today we will be praying with the first two joyful mysteries, the enunciation and the visitation. |
| 1:11.6 | And as we go through them and continue to build up the decades, my encouragement, while we're in this phase of kind of like training and practicing, |
| 1:18.6 | is to try and pick a different point of focus or meditation each time that we're going through these mysteries. |
| 1:26.6 | In my own years of praying the rosary, I find that |
| 1:29.7 | I tend to kind of connect and maybe latch on to like a particular emphasis in the mysteries. |
| 1:35.1 | But I would say that like part of the richness of this experience and doing this with you |
| 1:39.7 | has been coming to the different mysteries from all these different directions. |
| 1:45.5 | And so my hope and my encouragement is that |
| 1:47.5 | as we really intentionally pray with these mysteries |
| 1:50.4 | from different perspectives and with different focuses, |
| 1:53.1 | is that this will continue to enrich our prayer |
| 1:55.6 | as we go on really praying the rosary for the rest of our lives. |
| 1:59.0 | So I'll just encourage you to take a moment to find that place of focus in meditation, to ask the Lord to lead you. And then we'll begin to pray |
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