Day 92: Waiting in the Temple

The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

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Summary

When Jesus was presented in the Temple, Simeon was ready to receive the long desired savior. With a reading from St. Cyril of Alexandria, Fr. Mark-Mary asks us how we’ve been preparing to receive our savior: are we waiting in our metaphorical temples, or have we become distracted by the world? To help us place ourselves in the fourth joyful mystery, Fr. Mark-Mary leads us in imaginative prayer, setting the scene for a place of prayer we can always return to. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Presentation and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars through renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast.
0:08.6	We're through prayer and meditation.
0:10.5	The Rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and to Mary and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.
0:15.6	The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.1	This is Day 92.
0:19.6	To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text,
0:25.2	R-I-Y to 33777-7. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to
0:31.3	track your progress. The best place to listen to the podcast in the Ascension app. Their special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full Rosary on behalf of myself, the whole team here at Ascension,
0:40.7	we wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's helped support this podcast.
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0:57.3	Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the fourth joyful mystery, the presentation of Jesus in the temple, and to enrich our time of prayer and reflection.
1:09.4	We'll have an excerpt from reading from St. Cyril of Alexandria from homily number four
1:16.0	in his commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke.
1:21.4	Some brief background on St. Cyril of Alexandria is born in the year 379 and died in the year 444.
1:31.2	He's particularly known as being a leader in the fight against the heresy called Nestorianism,
1:36.7	which tried to teach that in Christ.
1:38.8	There were two persons, one human and one divine.
1:43.2	At the council of Ephesus in the year 431, St. Cyril there as the Pope's representative
1:49.8	combated the heresie of Nestorianism, properly upheld the teaching of Jesus
1:54.0	one person with two natures, and he championed the title of Mary as Theotokos, which means Godbearer or Mother of God. He's a doctor of the
2:05.7	church. And he doesn't have like a real popular title, but he could be understood to be the defender of
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