Day 42: Sent into Exile (2026)
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In the Old Testament, the scapegoat was led outside of the city, bearing the sins of the people. In a striking parallel, the fourth Sorrowful mystery of the Rosary features Jesus being led outside of the city, bearing the people’s sins. Fr. Mark-Mary dives into this parallel, leading us in a meditation for our Rosary. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Carrying of the Cross, 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 with renewal and this is the Rosary in New Year podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | We're through prayer and meditation. |
| 0:10.5 | 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. |
| 0:17.5 | This is Day 42. |
| 0:19.0 | To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a year, visit Essential Press.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 in the Ascension app, their special features built just for its podcast and also recordings with a full rosary with myself and other friars. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the rosary in the year prayer guide, a book published by ascension. |
| 0:42.2 | That was designed to compliment this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings from scripture. |
| 0:46.2 | Same reflections and beautiful full-page images of the sacred art will be reflecting on. |
| 0:52.3 | The fourth sorrowful mystery is the carrying of the cross. |
| 0:56.3 | Matthew chapter 27, verse 32. |
| 1:02.2 | As they were marching out, they came upon a man of Syrene, |
| 1:07.2 | Simon by name, this man that compelled to carry his cross. |
| 1:15.6 | Let's begin by just looking at the literal sense, literally what's happened here. |
| 1:19.6 | They're marching them out. |
| 1:21.6 | It was customary for a crucifixion to take place outside of the city walls. |
| 1:26.6 | Again, the ones who are behind this |
| 1:28.6 | ultimately are the Romans. This is a Roman expression of capital punishment, but it will have |
| 1:34.6 | meaning for the Jewish community and Judaism as well. So we'll take a look at that. But they're |
| 1:40.6 | taking them out, and it was often done in a major crossroads, and the reason for this is the maximizing of public shame of the person, and those condemned to die usually |
| 1:50.7 | carried the cross beam. Okay, so we have the scripture telling us that they came upon a man |
| 1:55.8 | of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to carry the cross. |
| 2:02.1 | Cyrene is a North African city on the coast of what today is Libya, but it had a Jewish |
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