Hey, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan, Friars the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in Year podcast.

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.

The Rosary in the Year is brought to you by Ascension.

This is Day 69.

To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text RIY 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 in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars. I encourage you to pick up a copy of the rosary in a year prayer

guide, a book published by attention that was designed to compliment this podcast. You'll find

all the daily readings from scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful full page images

of the sacred arts will be reflecting on. All right right, everybody, congratulations and welcome to phase three.

You've made it. Thanks for journeying with me and praying with me over these first two phases.

Why don't you give yourself a little hand. Well done, everybody. So with phase three,

what we're going to begin with is a time of Lexio-Divina on the scripture passages associated with each of the mystery. So for the next 20 episodes, we're going to be doing a guided Lexio-Divina. Lekio-divina is basically a spiritual reading of the scriptures. And we're going to be following the traditional Lexio structure. But in a way that's slightly adapted for the scriptures. And we're going to be following the traditional lexio structure, but in a way that's

slightly adapted for the podcast medium. So the traditional lexio structure is lexio, meditatio, or

ratio, contemplatio. So lexio, it means reading. So we're going to read and prayerfully read

the scriptures. And the flow of it is going to be, we're going to read and prayerfully read the scriptures and the flow of it is going to be,

we're going to read the entire passage in its entirety. And then I'm going to focus on a particular,

maybe paragraph or sentence. And so we'll read that again, kind of prayerfully sit with it,

and have one third reading, which might be that same small section or even a smaller section,

getting down

to a word or a couple of words.

And in our Alexio, we certainly want to be prayerful.

We want to be receptive to the Word of God, starting with the literal sense, starting with

what is like objectively being communicated?

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