Day 49: How Can This Be? (2026)
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
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Summary
How do we move forward when we can’t see God’s plan ahead of us? Fr. Mark-Mary leads us in a meditation on the mystery of the Annunciation, explaining how Mary can show us the way. She may not have had perfect understanding, but she had perfect faith, and can teach us this faith through the Rosary. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Annunciation 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. |
| 0:09.0 | 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. |
| 0:16.7 | The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:18.9 | This is Day 49. |
| 0:42.1 | 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 3377777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month, and it's great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app. Their special features, but just for, and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars. In behalf of myself and the team here at Ascension, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's helped support |
| 0:46.1 | this podcast financially. Your support is so appreciated and helps us to reach as many people as |
| 0:50.9 | possible. And if you haven't already, please consider supporting us at |
| 0:54.1 | ascensionpress.com forward slash support. Before reflecting on the passage, here's what we're |
| 1:00.6 | going to be doing as we go through the mysteries again. Beginning today, we're going to visit |
| 1:06.6 | all of the mysteries of the rosary and the scriptures associated with them one more time. As you know, |
| 1:12.2 | we just looked at them a little bit more of an exegetical, looking at the literal sense of like |
| 1:16.8 | what's actually happening, what's being fulfilled, et cetera. We're going to be focusing now as we |
| 1:22.5 | move through the mysteries on what we historically call the spiritual sense. So I'll be reading |
| 1:27.2 | the gospel passage and then essentially giving a homily, |
| 1:30.9 | a little reflection of a spiritual reality, spiritual grace that we can focus on and ask for |
| 1:36.2 | as we pray with these particular mysteries. |
| 1:40.4 | We're going to begin here with the joyful mysteries. |
| 1:43.8 | And so I'll read the Gospel. |
| 1:45.0 | This is starting at Luke chapter 1, verse 26. |
| 1:50.0 | In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, |
| 1:59.0 | to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David. |
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