I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars.

The renewal, and this is the Rosary in a 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 a Year is brought to by Ascension.

This is Day 97.

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That was designed to compliment this podcast.

You'll find all the daily readings from scripture, same reflections, and beautiful full page images of the sacred art will be reflecting on.

Today we'll be meditating upon and praying with the fourth luminous mystery, the Transfiguration,

enriched by a writing from Saint Anastasius of Sinai from his work homily on the Transfiguration.

The emphasis of our prayer and meditation today will be,

Come, let us climb the mountain of the Lord.

A little quick introduction and background to our saint, to our author today, St. Anastasius

of Sinai. We don't have his detail, there's like specific confirmed of biographical details about

him as we've had about some of our other saints and these doctors

of the church we've had readings from. We do know that he lived in the seventh century, I think died

a little bit after the seventh century, so that's the 600s, died probably in the early 700s. And he

founded a group of monks who led a very ascetical life, so a strict life of penance actually

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