The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames) - Day 242: The Wedding Feast at Cana and Proclamation of the Kingdom and Call to Conversion

Episode Date: August 30, 2025

Are you feeling bored in your prayer life? Many experience a sense of spiritual dryness during mental prayer or while praying the Rosary. Fr. Mark-Mary reminds us that love often calls for perseverance, encouraging us to remain faithful in prayer even when it lacks emotional sweetness. He suggests exploring new approaches—such as meditating on sacred art, Scripture, or Church teachings—as fresh ways to reconnect with the mysteries and the Lord. Today’s focus is the mysteries of the Wedding Feast at Cana and Proclamation of the Kingdom and Call to Conversion 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, 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 to Mary. It becomes a source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 242. 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 33-7777. It will get an outline of how we're going to pray each month

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your generosity is so appreciated and helps us to reach as many people as possible. And if you haven't already, please consider supporting us at ascensionpress.com forward slash support. Today we'll be praying with the second and the third luminous mysteries, the wedding at Cana, and the proclamation of the kingdom.

So while people are praying and doing, we call like mental prayer, like prayer in which you're thinking, contemplating for an extended period of time, or something like the rosary, there might be an experience of boredom. And so a question is, like, so what do I do with this boredom? kind of my most honest immediate response is that's okay you know everything doesn't have to be like sugary and sweet and fun and so part of prayer and part of love in general is going to be persevering and persevering in what we could call like a dryness or a type of dryness that is boredom and so we still stay we still make the offering of our time we still are there like receptive

and open, making this act of faith and hope and charity of just remaining with the Lord, not just because, like, it feels good, but because the Lord is worthy of our prayer and our offering. So if you're experienced some, what we call like a boredom or an overarching, like, dryness and prayer, I do think part of the response is accepting this is probably going to be part of the reality and part of the journey. But also, this could be an invitation to, who tried to come to the mysteries and the type of prayer from like a different direction. And so this could be, okay, like I'm going to try for a season, really praying again, particularly the rosary with a focus on the person to whom I'm speaking

as we've practiced with Father, Son, Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity, Our Lady. We can review some of the meditations, look at some art again, read some church fathers, do a little Bible study. I think if we are experiencing a bit of like a drying up of some of the sweetness of the prayer that we've been making to this point. Again, I think a response is to just kind of do some more exploring and try to come to prayer

and come to these mysteries from some different approaches pulling from some new and sweet founts of grace and prayer. So we'll take a moment and call to mind our point of reflection. Invoke the Holy Spirit and begin in the name of the Father and of the Son

and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The second Luma's mystery is the wedding at Cana. 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 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. 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 are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy wound, 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. 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 oh 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 the third luminous mystery is the proclamation of the kingdom 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 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. 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 with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and bless it, 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. 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 today. I look forward to continuing this journey with you again tomorrow. Poca, Poca, Poca, friends. God bless you all. Thank you.