Day 290: The Joyful and Luminous Mysteries
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mark-Mary offers a reflection on the ordinary and hidden nature of the beginning of Jesus’ life. As we pray today, there is an eighteen year gap between the Finding in the Temple, and the Baptism of Jesus. We’re encouraged to ponder and pray with those hidden, quiet years of the holy family. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Finding in the Temple, the Baptism in the Jordan, the Wedding Feast at Cana, and the Proclamation of the Kingdom and Call to Conversion. 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, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | We're through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and to Mary, |
| 0:13.0 | and 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 290. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is Day 290. |
| 0:39.6 | 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 33-7777. 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 |
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| 1:00.0 | All right, today we will be finishing the joyful mysteries and then we'll begin praying the luminous mysteries. |
| 1:06.0 | So we'll pray the fifth joyful mystery, the finding of Jesus in the temple. And then we'll pray the first three luminous mysteries, the baptism of Jesus, the wedding at Cana, |
| 1:16.6 | and then the proclamation of the kingdom and the call to conversion. |
| 1:19.6 | And just call to mind like one point that could be a part of your meditation |
| 1:24.6 | and how we are kind of going through the mystery somewhat uniquely |
| 1:28.3 | is we're going to end the joyful mysteries |
| 1:30.3 | with the finding of Jesus in the temple |
| 1:32.3 | when he's 12 years old. |
| 1:34.3 | And then we will jump to the baptism of Jesus |
| 1:37.3 | when he's approximately about 30 years old. |
| 1:39.3 | So there's those 18 years, those hidden years. |
| 1:42.3 | And just take a moment to reflect on that, those 18 years where Jesus was at home in Nazareth with the Holy Family. |
| 1:50.9 | And particularly allow that to be a source of blessing on some of the ordinariness, some of the hiddenness of our own daily lives. |
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