Day 28: Be Joyful, Be Free (2026)
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Do you fully believe in the forgiveness of sins professed in the Creed? Fr. Mark-Mary tells us that so often we receive forgiveness but continue to carry the internal burden of sin. Drawing from the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15, Fr. Mark-Mary encourages us to recall that we have been freed from sin. In praying the Rosary, we can set down our burdens as the Father accepts us into his home. Today’s focus is “The forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen,” and we will be praying one Our Father, three Hail Marys, and one Glory Be.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Father Mark Mary with the Franciscan friars of the renewal, and this is the Rosary in the Year podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | 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. |
| 0:15.0 | The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Day 28. |
| 0:20.0 | To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year, |
| 0:22.6 | visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text RIY to 3377. You'll get an outline |
| 0:30.5 | of how we're going to pray each month. It's great with track your progress. The best place to |
| 0:33.4 | listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast |
| 0:36.9 | and also recordings of the full |
| 0:38.3 | rosary with myself and other friars. |
| 0:41.4 | No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap, follow, or subscribe for your daily |
| 0:45.5 | notifications. |
| 0:48.6 | The forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen. I'm going to be a little creative |
| 0:59.0 | in choosing our scripture passage by which we will approach these articles of the creed. This |
| 1:06.0 | comes from James chapter 2 versus 18 and some of the falling but someone will say you have faith and I have |
| 1:15.2 | works show me your faith apart from your works and I by my works will show you my faith |
| 1:21.4 | and then going down for as the body apart from the spirit is dead. |
| 1:32.2 | So faith apart from works is dead. |
| 1:37.8 | Sometimes I want to look in the mirror and ask myself this question. |
| 1:40.2 | Oh, hey, Father Mark Mary. |
| 1:42.1 | Can I ask you a question? |
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