Day 289: The Joyful Mysteries
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mark-Mary offers us a word of encouragement, reminding us to continue to draw our prior meditation topics into our prayer of the Rosary, grounding ourselves in true meditation from our mental archives. Beginning again with the Joyful mysteries, we walk through the beginning of Jesus’ life and the story of the holy family. The Joyful mysteries provide us a beautiful foundation of joy for our lives, teaching us how to journey through all of our mysteries, luminous, sorrowful, and joyful. 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 with Renewan. |
| 0:06.4 | 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 |
| 0:13.8 | grace for the whole world. |
| 0:15.3 | The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:18.3 | This is Day 289. 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. |
| 0:41.3 | No matter what app you're listening in, |
| 0:39.4 | remember 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. |
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| 0:46.6 | Today we are going to be beginning and praying the first four joyful mysteries, the |
| 0:53.5 | enunciation, the visitation, the nativity, and the presentation of Jesus in the temple. |
| 1:00.1 | Maybe a little word of encouragement before we get into our prayer today. |
| 1:04.1 | So for a couple of weeks now, we've been praying and kind of strictly praying during these rosary and year episodes. |
| 1:11.9 | And I'm going to encourage you to pay attention to your experience and to your prayer as a reminder. Part of the worldview of the format |
| 1:18.2 | of the rosary and the year journey that we've been on was to at the beginning have a number of |
| 1:23.6 | talks, meditation, prayers to fill up our mental library so that we can go there |
| 1:28.9 | and pull from what we have talked about and discussed and prayed with to feed our prayer, |
| 1:34.2 | that our prayer may be richer. If you're finding yourself back into kind of a routine where |
| 1:39.6 | you're really kind of strictly just moving through the decades and maybe lost sight of some of the richness |
| 1:47.1 | of the meditation and what we have kind of spent time with up to this point, it may be |
| 1:51.3 | advantageous for you to go back and to review some of the previous episodes, particularly |
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