Day 31: No Other Savior (2026)
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes it’s difficult to see how God can work through the hard situations in our lives. In the Mystery of the Nativity, the Holy Family was faced with an incredibly hard situation: traveling 90 miles to participate in a Roman census right before Jesus’ birth. However, Fr. Mark-Mary explains how God was working with these struggles to fulfill an Old Testament prophecy, reading from the book of Micah. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Nativity 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 Franciscan Friars of the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast. |
| 0:08.7 | We're through prayer and meditation. |
| 0:10.6 | The rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. |
| 0:16.9 | The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:19.7 | This is Day 31. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text RIY to 3377. 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 is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full |
| 0:39.2 | rosary with myself and other friars. |
| 0:41.1 | No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap follow or subscribe for your daily |
| 0:45.2 | notifications. |
| 0:47.6 | The third joyful mystery is the nativity. |
| 0:51.5 | Luke chapter 2 verses 1 through 20. |
| 0:55.6 | In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. |
| 1:03.0 | This was the first enrollment when Quirinius was governor of Syria, and all went to be enrolled each to his own city. And Joseph also went up from |
| 1:14.0 | Galilee, from the city of Nazareth to Judea, the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, |
| 1:21.6 | because he was of the house and lineage of David to be enrolled with Mary his betrothed, who was with child. |
| 1:30.3 | And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered, and she gave birth to her |
| 1:36.3 | firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a major, because there |
| 1:42.7 | was no place for them in the inn. |
| 1:45.7 | And in that region there were shepherds out in the field keeping watch over their flock by |
| 1:49.8 | night and an angel of the lord appeared to them and the glory of the lord shone around them |
| 1:55.2 | and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, be not afraid for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy |
| 2:03.9 | which will come to all the people. |
| 2:07.3 | For to you is born at this day in the city of David a Savior |
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