Day 284: The Joyful Mysteries
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We enter the Joyful Mysteries, rejoicing in the wonder of the Incarnation. At the Annunciation, Mary receives the angel’s message and responds with her humble “yes,” and the Word becomes flesh within her. In the Visitation, she carries Christ to Elizabeth, and His presence brings joy and blessing even before His birth. At the Nativity, the Savior is born in humility yet shines forth as the Light of the World. In the Presentation at the Temple, Mary and Joseph offer the Child to the Father, and Simeon and Anna rejoice to see God’s promise fulfilled. They invite us to welcome Christ with faith, to proclaim His joy, and to live each day as an offering to the Father. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, and the Presentation in the Temple. We will be praying four decades of the Rosary.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars, the renewal, |
| 0:05.0 | and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | We're through prayer and meditation, |
| 0:10.0 | the Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and to Mary. |
| 0:13.0 | It becomes a source of grace for the whole world. |
| 0:16.0 | The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by ascension. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Day 284. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text. R-I-2-33-777. 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 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. It's so appreciated and helps us to reach as many people as possible. |
| 0:58.1 | And if you haven't already, please consider supporting us at ascensionpress.com forward slash support. |
| 1:02.0 | Today we will begin praying the joyful mysteries. |
| 1:06.0 | We'll pray the first four joyful mysteries, the enunciation, the visitation, the nativity, and the presentation of Jesus |
| 1:12.9 | and the temple. Let us begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. |
| 1:21.0 | The first joyful mystery is the Annunciation. Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name |
| 1:28.5 | Thy kingdom come |
| 1:30.5 | Thy will be done |
| 1:32.0 | On earth as it is in heaven |
| 1:34.1 | Give us this day our daily bread |
| 1:37.0 | And forgive us our trespasses |
| 1:39.3 | As we forgive those who trespass |
| 1:42.1 | against us and lead us not into temptation, |
| 1:46.3 | but deliver us from evil, amen. |
| 1:49.2 | Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. |
| 1:54.1 | Blessed art thou among women, |
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