Day 291: The Luminous and Sorrowful Mysteries
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
Ascension
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We trace the path from Christ’s divinity revealed to His willing surrender as we pray with the final Luminous Mysteries and move into the Sorrowful Mysteries. In the Transfiguration, we glimpse His heavenly majesty. In the Eucharist, we receive His eternal gift of love. In the Garden, we witness His prayerful obedience. At the pillar, we see His patient endurance. Through these mysteries, we learn to trust God’s will, to find strength in suffering, and to walk with Christ in faith and love. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Transfiguration, the Institution of the Eucharist, the Agony in the Garden, and the Scourging at the Pillar. We will be praying four decades of the Rosary.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars at the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | We're through prayer and meditation. |
| 0:10.1 | The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. |
| 0:15.6 | The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:18.7 | This is Day 291. |
| 0:23.7 | To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year, |
| 0:32.6 | visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text RIY 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 |
| 0:35.4 | to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the |
| 0:40.6 | full rosary with myself and other friars. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in a Year |
| 0:46.2 | Prayer Guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast. You'll find |
| 0:50.9 | all the daily readings from scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on. |
| 0:58.6 | Today we will be concluding the luminous mysteries, and then we'll begin the sorrowful mysteries. |
| 1:04.6 | So we'll pray the fourth and fifth luminous mysteries, the transfiguration and the institution |
| 1:07.8 | of Eucharist, and then the first two sorrowful mysteries, the agony in the garden and the scourging at the pillar. |
| 1:14.6 | Let us begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:19.6 | Amen. |
| 1:21.6 | The fourth luminous mystery is the Transfiguration. |
| 1:25.6 | Our Father, who art in heaven, |
| 1:27.9 | howlough be thy name. |
| 1:29.9 | Thy kingdom come, |
| 1:31.1 | thy will be done, |
| 1:32.2 | on earth as it is in heaven. |
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