Hi, I'm Edward Sari, and welcome to All Things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.

Welcome to the special edition of All Things Catholic. I'm your host, Edward Sree, and today we have a special guest joining us in this Jubilee year. He has been

the host, the vision behind the great rosary in the year that you may have heard about. We have

with us, Father Mark Mary Ames. Father Mark Mary is a director for the priors of the renewal.

He's the author of a number of books. He's a great Catholic

speaker. I know that we've been blessed to have him in focus, whether it's at our Sikh

conference or at our summer trainings. It's always a blessing to get to have him. We've had

him on the show before. And we're going to talk today about the rosary. So, Father Mark

Mary, welcome to the show. Hey, Dr. Surrey. Great to be with you again. So rosary. So, Father Mark Mary, welcome to the show.

Hey, Dr. Surrey, great to be with you again.

So, rosary in the year, let's talk about that. Why the rosary of all the things we could have done? We've done the Bible. We've done the catechism. Why the rosary?

Yeah, it's a great question. Really, it's, first and foremost, it's actually about prayer.

Like, my desire and so much of the desire of the work I do is to get people praying and

accompanying people in praying and teaching people to pray. And I think, so I kind of look at the

rosary in the year as like a school in prayer with the rosary itself as like the textbook

and the classroom.

And it's through the work of so many great, great saints and preachers, especially the Dominicans, the rosary is so popular.

But it's also just, it's, I know it's not the liturgy, but it really is like a perfect

prayer.

And it gets just to the core mysteries of our faith.

And so I think it's just, if we're going to, we've got to be praying.

And I think a beautiful, beautiful place to learn and to grow in prayer has to be the rosary.

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