Day 241: The Finding of Jesus in the Temple and Baptism of Jesus

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

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

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Summary

Many of us struggle with distraction in prayer. Fr. Mark-Mary offers encouragement for cultivating a more focused and peaceful prayer life by examining the noise we allow into our daily routines. He shares a quote from St. Charles Borromeo to illustrate how a distracted life often leads to distracted prayer, suggesting practical ways to foster inner stillness and effective meditative prayer. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Finding of Jesus in the Temple and Baptism of Jesus 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 with Renewal, and this is the Rosary in Year podcast.
0:08.2	We're through prayer and meditation.
0:10.0	The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary, and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:15.2	The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.1	This is Day 241.
0:20.9	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 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. No matter what app you're listening in,
0:22.3	remember to tap,
0:42.1	follow or subscribe for your daily notifications. Today we'll be praying with the fifth
0:48.2	joyful mystery and the first luminous mystery, the finding of Jesus in the temple and the baptism
0:53.6	of Jesus at the Jordan.
0:56.8	In phase five, as we're leaning more and more towards a more independent guiding of your own
1:03.1	prayer, a couple of questions I'm sure going to come up. And so I'm just going to go ahead and
1:07.4	offer just a little bit of encouragement and guidance, just about prayer in general, particularly more meditative prayer. So a question is going to go ahead and offer just a little bit of encouragement and guidance just about prayer in
1:11.1	general, particularly more meditative prayer. So questions that can come up a lot is like what
1:15.8	would I do with distraction and prayer? And we gave one answer yesterday. But if you're really kind of
1:19.8	trying to root it out, and I do think that there is some encouragement and some wisdom to trying to
1:25.9	have a more recollected and focused time of prayer.
1:28.3	It's really just, there's one of my favorite quotes.
1:30.3	It comes from St. Charles Borromeo and he's writing a letter to priests.
1:33.3	And it's about like, hey, you're complaining about being distracted while you're at Mass,
1:37.3	but what were you just talking about in the sacristy?
1:39.3	And the idea being that if we are living distracted lives, we're going to have distracted prayer.
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