Day 240: The Nativity and the Presentation

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

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We dive back into the joyful mysteries of the Nativity and the Presentation, drawing upon our mental archive and praying with Fr. Mark-Mary. Fr. Mark-Mary also explores distraction in prayer and how we can handle distractions while praying the rosary. With simplicity and encouragement, we return to the basics: surrendering, refocusing, and letting the repetition of prayer shape us from the inside out. 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 of renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.
0:08.9	We're through prayer and meditation.
0:11.0	The rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:15.5	The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.7	This is day 240.
0:41.3	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 33-777. 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's special features built just for this podcast and also recording to the full Rosary with myself and other friars. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in the Year prayer guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to compliment this podcast.
0:48.3	You'll find all the daily readings for scripture, St. Reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on.
0:57.0	Today we'll be praying with the third and the fourth, joyful mysteries, the nativity,
1:00.2	and the presentation of Jesus in the temple. So for those of you particularly fall in along
1:06.1	with the rosary in your prayer guide, at this, as we entered into phase five here, you have been promised a little bit of guidance
1:13.9	and maybe some mentorship in prayer.
1:15.5	And so throughout these episodes, we're gonna go ahead
1:17.1	and just answer some basic questions that come up
1:19.1	about prayer, particularly more longer form meditative prayer
1:23.4	like the rosary.
1:26.0	So a common question is like, how do I combat distraction while I'm praying the rosary. So a common question is, like, how do I combat distraction while I'm praying the
1:30.3	rosary? Distraction is praying the rosary. It's really going to be kind of the same type of
1:35.0	of distraction that we come across with other distraction and prayer. But whenever we're trying to pay
1:40.3	attention to something for an extended period of time, especially nowadays, but it probably
1:44.3	wasn't much different back in the day. Here and there, we're going to be distracted. So first,
1:48.7	we can just kind of distinguish against kind of what we call like willed distraction versus kind of
1:54.0	the natural human distraction. Kind of will distraction would be like, okay, I'm, you know,
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