Day 32: A Total Offering (2026)
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 1 February 2026
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Summary
The Mystery of Jesus’ Presentation signifies an important moment of fulfillment between the Old and New Covenant. Fr. Mark-Mary leads us through this mystery, pointing out parallels between Simeon’s words to Mary and Old Testament prophecies in Isaiah, giving us a meditation on entrusting our lives to God through the Rosary. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple 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 at the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | We're through prayer and meditation. |
| 0:10.3 | 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. |
| 0:18.4 | This is Day 32. |
| 0:20.5 | To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a |
| 0:22.1 | year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text RIY to 33777. 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's special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full |
| 0:37.5 | rosary with myself and other friars. On behalf of myself and the whole team here at Ascension, we want |
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| 0:56.4 | The fourth joyful mystery is the presentation of Jesus in the temple. |
| 1:02.1 | Luke chapter 2, verses 22 through 39. |
| 1:07.8 | And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. |
| 1:15.6 | As it is written in the law of the Lord, every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord, and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle doves or two young |
| 1:28.6 | pigeons. Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and |
| 1:35.1 | devout, looking for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been |
| 1:41.2 | revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. |
| 1:47.0 | And inspired by the Spirit, he came into the temple. |
| 1:51.0 | And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him according to the custom of the law, |
| 1:56.0 | He took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, |
| 1:59.0 | Lord, now let your servant depart in peace according to your |
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