Day 54: My Beloved Son (2026)
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The waters of the Jordan in our lives must always precede the sands of the desert. Fr. Mark-Mary explores the mystery of Jesus’ Baptism, highlighting that Jesus’ baptism immediately precedes his temptation in the desert. We are invited to recall our own baptisms and the gifts we received as we meditate on the Rosary and face difficulties in our lives. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Baptism of Jesus 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 Year podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | We're 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. |
| 0:16.0 | The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Day 54. 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 are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full |
| 0:40.1 | rosary with myself and other friars. No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap, |
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| 0:50.3 | The first luminous mystery is the baptism of Jesus. Matthew chapter 3, verses 13 through 17. |
| 0:59.0 | Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. |
| 1:06.0 | John would have prevented him saying, |
| 1:09.0 | I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me? |
| 1:13.7 | But Jesus answered him, let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. |
| 1:21.7 | Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him, and behold a voice from heaven saying, |
| 1:37.9 | This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased. |
| 1:48.9 | Before diving in specifically with our reflection on the first luminous mystery, I just wanted to share a little bit of background on the luminous mysteries |
| 1:54.9 | and give them a little bit greater context. They were introduced as mysteries of the rosary, |
| 2:00.1 | or mysteries to be prayed with the |
| 2:01.5 | rosary back in 2002 with Pope John Paul II's apostolic letter on the Most Holy Rosary. |
| 2:09.6 | And I think there's two things worth highlighting that all five of these mysteries have in common. |
| 2:15.6 | The first is that they are all significant moments during the public |
| 2:21.1 | life of Jesus. So all five of these are going to be part of the public life of Jesus. And secondly, |
| 2:27.4 | as John Paul II says, each of these mysteries is a revelation of the kingdom now present in the very person of Jesus. |
| 2:39.0 | So all five are going to be a revelation of the kingdom now present in the person of Jesus. |
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