Day 36: The Kingdom and the Gospel (2026)
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The Lord is here and he is at work! Fr. Mark-Mary reminds us that we don’t have to save ourselves: Jesus is proclaiming the Good News and acting for good in our lives, just as he acts in this third Luminous Mystery of the Rosary. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Proclamation of the Kingdom and the Call to Conversion and we will be praying one Our Father, three Hail Marys, and one Glory Be.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast, where through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world. |
| 0:15.3 | The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is Day 36. |
| 0:19.9 | To download the prayer plan for rosary in a year, visit |
| 0:21.8 | ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y 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 and the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full Rosary with myself and other friars. |
| 0:38.2 | I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in the Year Prayer Guide, a book published by Ascension |
| 0:42.3 | that was designed to complement this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings from Scripture, |
| 0:46.3 | saint reflections, and beautiful full-page images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on. |
| 0:52.3 | The third Illuminous Mystery is the proclamation of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on. |
| 0:54.3 | The third Illuminous Mystery is the proclamation of the kingdom and the call to conversion. |
| 1:01.7 | Mark chapter 1, verses 14 through 15. |
| 1:07.9 | Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God and saying, |
| 1:14.5 | The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel. |
| 1:23.9 | All right, friends, welcome back. Third luminous mystery, rosary in the year podcast, also known as Pope Benedict the 16th Jesus of Nazareth in a year. I don't know if you saw Bible in the year had some merchandise created with one of Father Mike's catchphrases. Like, man, oh man, what a gift. |
| 1:45.6 | I think mine could be Pope Benedict said, or as Pope Benedict wrote. So we're going to be pulling a lot |
| 1:51.3 | from Jesus of Nazareth from Pope Benedict to look at this third luminous mystery. And he's just |
| 1:56.4 | he's just so good at what he does. So, more Pope Benedict. |
| 2:01.8 | Here's where we're going to begin. |
| 2:06.5 | Okay, the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel. |
| 2:10.3 | So essentially today's episode is going to be a bit of a word study on two words. |
| 2:11.3 | The first is gospel. |
| 2:14.1 | The second is the kingdom of God, more specifically the kingdom. |
| 2:20.5 | So the gospel, gospel the word, it's an English translation of a Greek word, |
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