The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames) - Day 241: The Finding of Jesus in the Temple and Baptism of Jesus

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

Many of us struggle with distraction in prayer. Fr. Mark-Mary offers encouragement for cultivating a more focused and peaceful prayer life by examining the noise we allow into our daily routines. He shares a quote from St. Charles Borromeo to illustrate how a distracted life often leads to distracted prayer, suggesting practical ways to foster inner stillness and effective meditative prayer. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Finding of Jesus in the Temple and Baptism of Jesus and we will be praying two decades of the Rosary. For the complete prayer plan, visit https://ascensionpress.com/riy.

I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan friars with 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 a Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is Day 241. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 3377777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month

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Today we'll be praying with the fifth joyful mystery and the first luminous mystery, the finding of Jesus in the temple and the baptism of Jesus at the Jordan. in phase five as we're leaning more and more towards a more independent guiding of your own prayer. A couple of questions I'm sure going to come up. And so I'm just going to go ahead and offer just a little bit of encouragement and guidance, just about prayer in general, particularly more meditative prayer.

So questions that can come up a lot is like what would I do with distraction and prayer? And we gave one answer yesterday. But if you're really kind of trying to root it out, and I do think that there is some encouragement and some wisdom to try and, to have a more recollected and focused time of prayer. It's really just, there's one of my favorite quotes. It comes from St. Charles Borromeo, and he's writing a letter to priests. And it's about like, hey, you're complaining about being distracted while you're at Mass,

but what were you just talking about in the sacristy? And the idea being that if we are living distracted lives, we're going to have distracted prayer. And so within the immediate time of prayer, we don't overreact, we don't overdwell in the distraction, but more kind of remotely, not just in the time of prayer, but in general, it's good to just pay attention to how much noise I'm filling my life with and seeing if there's some invitation from the Lord

to take a step back from some of the noise and a little more peaceful and quiet life. And the more peaceful, the more quiet we have outside of our times of prayer, most likely the more peaceful and quiet and focus we're going to have in our times of prayer. So we'll go ahead and take a moment just to call to mind our hopefully new point of reflection,

something we haven't prayed with yet. in this phase. And we'll begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The fifth joyful mystery is the finding of Jesus in the temple. Our Father, who art in heaven, I'll be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen. Will my Jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of hell? Lead all souls to heaven especially those in most need of thy mercy. The first luminous mystery is the baptism of Jesus. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is one. with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary,

Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners. now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God.

Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of our death. of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Holy Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

All right, thanks so much for joining me and praying with me again today. I look forward to continuing this journey with you again tomorrow. Poco, Poca, Poca, Poca, friends. God bless y'all.