I'm Father Mark Mary with the Franciscan friars through 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.

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This is Day 59.

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The first sorrowful mystery is the agony in the garden.

Matthew chapter 26 verses 36 through 46.

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gessimini, and he said to his disciples,

sit here while I go over there and pray.

And taking with him Peter, and the two sons of Zabidi, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.

Then he said to them,

My soul is very sorrowful, even to death.

Remain here and watch with me.

And going a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed.

My father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass for me, nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.

And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, so could you not watch

with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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