Day 342: The Joyful Mysteries
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As we enter into today’s meditation, Fr. Mark-Mary guides us through the Joyful Mysteries with reflections on grace, trust, and the hidden beauty of God’s work in our lives. We reflect on Mary’s humble courage at the Annunciation, the transforming joy of her encounter with Elizabeth, and the gentle invitation to draw close to Christ in the Nativity. We’re called to seek Jesus with the same relentless love shown by Mary and Joseph in the Finding in the Temple. God meets us in our littleness and invites us into deeper trust and wonder. Today’s focus is the Joyful Mysteries, and we’ll be praying the full Rosary.
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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. |
| 0:18.7 | This is day 342. 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. 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's special |
| 0:37.7 | features built just for this podcast and also recording to the full Rosary with myself and other |
| 0:41.1 | friars. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in the Year prayer guide, a book published |
| 0:46.3 | by Ascension that was designed to compliment this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings |
| 0:50.3 | for scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art will be |
| 0:55.0 | reflecting on. Today we will be praying the joyful mysteries. Let us begin in the name of the |
| 1:03.2 | Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, |
| 1:12.9 | creator of heaven and earth. |
| 1:19.1 | And in Jesus Christ, His only son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontch of Pilate, was crucified, die, and was buried. |
| 1:24.2 | He descended to hell. |
| 1:25.7 | On the third day, he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven |
| 1:29.5 | and is seated at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty. From there he will come to judge |
| 1:34.2 | the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, |
| 1:40.1 | the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and a life everlasting. Amen. |
| 1:47.0 | For a Holy Father, His health and intentions, our Father who art in heaven, |
| 1:51.9 | hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. |
| 1:58.4 | Give us this day our daily bread, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive |
| 2:03.4 | those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen. |
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