Day 336: The Sorrowful Mysteries
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Congratulations! You have arrived at the last Phase of the Rosary in a Year, Phase 6: Praying Together. As we step into this final phase, we’ll begin praying a full Rosary together, and Fr. Mark-Mary will share brief meditation prompts before each decade. We will also begin praying the mysteries on the days they are traditionally prayed, beginning with the Sorrowful mysteries for Tuesday today. Fr. Mark-Mary will walk us through the full mystery of Christ’s passion, sharing meditations on communion with the Father, Simon’s choice to help Jesus carry the cross, and what Jesus’ last words on the cross mean for us. Today's focus is the Sorrowful Mysteries.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars of renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast. |
| 0:08.9 | We're through prayer and meditation. |
| 0:11.0 | The rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. |
| 0:15.5 | The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:18.9 | This is day 336. 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 33-777-7. 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. |
| 0:37.9 | There are special features built just for this podcast and also recording to the full |
| 0:40.5 | rosary with myself and other friars. |
| 0:42.8 | I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in the Year prayer guide, |
| 0:46.2 | a book published by Ascension that was designed to compliment this podcast. |
| 0:49.8 | You'll find all the daily readings for scripture, |
| 0:51.4 | St. Reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art |
| 0:54.6 | will be reflecting on. |
| 0:58.2 | Hey, everybody. So, you've made it. You've made it to phase six, the final phase of our |
| 1:04.8 | rosary in a year journey. And I, as I'm going out and about and meeting folks who are doing |
| 1:09.5 | rosary in a year, I've been really particularly moved, especially kind of in phases four and five, to hearing people who are saying, hey, Father, you know, you're the first thing I'm doing the morning, waking up and praying with you. Or Father, last thing I'm doing at night is, you know, praying with you. And I love, because right, you know, this last phase, it's really just been praying together. And we're going to make two slight adjustments as we go into phase |
| 1:29.7 | six, which are going to make two slight adjustments as we go into phase six, |
| 1:30.3 | which are going to break from the pattern that's been established previously. |
| 1:34.3 | And the first is this is, while I'm grateful and moved by those who have been praying with me |
| 1:40.3 | through this last phase, there's also been just some encouragement and feedback |
| 1:43.3 | that folks were missing some of the little meditations. And so we're going to add just kind of a little praying with me through this last phase. There's also been just some encouragement and feedback that |
| 1:44.1 | folks were missing some of the little meditations. And so we're going to add just a kind of little |
| 1:47.8 | sentence or two with each of the mysteries to help encourage and offer a direction for our meditation |
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