I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars at the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.

We're through prayer and meditation.

The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.

The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.

This is Day 243.

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. 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, saint reflections,

and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on. Today we'll be praying the fourth and the fifth

luminous mysteries, the transfiguration and the institution of the Eucharist. One of the

struggles that comes up with people who are trying to pray or have been in seasons of prayers,

maybe an experience of not hearing God's voice.

And I guess the first question I always ask people,

like, are you not hearing his voice or are you not recognizing it?

Because there's this, somewhat of this idea of that,

if I close my eyes and I pray,

they don't have any sort of thing guiding my

prayer. I'm going to hear God speak in a very, very clear, in particular and unique way.

Like, you should do this. You shouldn't do this. Here's like my heart for you, et cetera.

And that's just not, I would say, guaranteed. But the place for us to objectively,

foundationally, hear God's voice is by actually going to his word.

And so there is a mental prayer and praying of the rosary,

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