Day 242: The Wedding Feast at Cana and Proclamation of the Kingdom and Call to Conversion

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

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🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Are you feeling bored in your prayer life? Many experience a sense of spiritual dryness during mental prayer or while praying the Rosary. Fr. Mark-Mary reminds us that love often calls for perseverance, encouraging us to remain faithful in prayer even when it lacks emotional sweetness. He suggests exploring new approaches—such as meditating on sacred art, Scripture, or Church teachings—as fresh ways to reconnect with the mysteries and the Lord. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Wedding Feast at Cana and Proclamation of the Kingdom and Call to Conversion 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.
0:19.8	This is Day 242. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 242. 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 33-77777. 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. On behalf of myself and the whole team here at Ascension, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's helped support this podcast financially, your generosity is so appreciated and helps us to reach as many people as possible. And if you haven't already,
0:55.1	please consider supporting us at ascensionpress.com forward slash support.
1:01.7	Today we'll be praying with the second and the third luminous mysteries,
1:05.4	the wedding at Cana, and the proclamation of the kingdom.
1:10.2	So while people are praying and doing, we call like mental prayer,
1:13.7	like prayer in which you're thinking,
1:15.2	contemplating for an extended period of time or something like the rosary,
1:19.0	there might be an experience of boredom.
1:21.6	And so a question is, like, so what do I do with this boredom?
1:24.7	Kind of my most honest, immediate response is, is that's okay. You know, everything doesn't
1:33.1	have to be like sugary and sweet and fun. And so part of prayer and part of love in general is going
1:40.4	to be persevering and persevering in what we could call like a dryness or a type of dryness
1:45.7	that is boredom. And so we still stay. We still make the offering of our time. We still are there
1:52.0	like receptive and open, making this act of faith and hope and charity of just remaining with the Lord
1:58.6	not just because like it feels good, but because
2:02.2	the Lord is worthy of our prayer and our offering. So if you're experiencing some, what we
2:09.4	call like a boredom or an overarching like dryness in prayer, I do think part of the response is
2:16.7	accepting this is probably going to be part of the
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