Day 204: Transcending Death
The Resurrection was a transformation of life that transcended death, bringing hope, healing, and renewal to all of creation. Fr. Mark-Mary emphasizes that this new reality is not just a return from death but a glorified existence that calls us into deeper trust and faith. Through this mystery, we can be confident in Christ’s pursuit of our hearts and His power to bring light even into our darkest moments. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Resurrection and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.
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Speaker 1 Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast where through prayer and meditation.
Speaker 1 The Rosary brings us deeper into a 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.
Speaker 5 And this is day 204.
Speaker 1 To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit AscensionPress.com forward slash Rosary in a Year or text RIY to 3377.
Speaker 1 You'll get an outline of how we're going to preach month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to the podcast is in the Ascension app.
Speaker 1 There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars.
Speaker 1 I encourage you to pick up a copy of the Rosary in a Year Prayer Guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to complement this podcast.
Speaker 1 You'll find all the daily readings of scripture, Saint Reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on.
Speaker 3 Today we will be meditating upon and praying praying with the first glorious mystery, the resurrection.
Speaker 13 And now a review of some of what we have covered before we go to our time
Speaker 4 of prayer today.
Speaker 5 Let's begin by a reminder of
Speaker 13 what Pope Benedict XVI wrote about the resurrection.
Speaker 3 He speaks of the resurrection as a type of evolutionary leap, a historical event that bursts open the dimensions of history and transcends it.
Speaker 5 It is a brand new, entirely new form of life that is no longer subject to the law of dying, but lies beyond it.
Speaker 13 And it affects everyone and opens up a new kind of future for mankind.
Speaker 5 So just a little reminder of the teaching of the understanding of what what has happened in the resurrection.
Speaker 5 The resurrection is not just about a corpse coming back to life.
Speaker 10 There's this, if you will, an elevated, a new form of life.
Speaker 13 It's a change which touches,
Speaker 4 if we could say, glorifies, all of reality.
Speaker 3 And if you recall, in one of our episodes, we looked at the paschal candle, which is like the symbol par excellence.
Speaker 1 of the entire liturgical season because it is this candle which which represents Christ, but also represents like the light of the resurrection.
Speaker 5 And we were reminded that
Speaker 2 there is no darkness
Speaker 5 which can overcome the light of that paschal candle, the light of the hope and of the joy and of the truth of Jesus Christ risen from the dead.
Speaker 19 The darkness has not and will not and cannot overcome the light,
Speaker 4 particularly the hope that we have
Speaker 12 in our risen Lord.
Speaker 8 And the hope as it is extended to us
Speaker 4 is the hope that
Speaker 10 whatever happens in life,
Speaker 5 if we bring it to him
Speaker 5 and if we journey with him in it, like all of it
Speaker 18 can be resurrected, can share in this glorified reality, can be healed redeemed renewed there is nothing nothing nothing
Speaker 6 that Jesus can't respond to
Speaker 20 and bring new life out of and bring healing out of and bring light and hope out of
Speaker 21 so also kind of in this vein in this space
Speaker 5 We have this writing from St. John Chrysostom.
Speaker 13 He wrote about Jesus. He destroyed death by enduring it.
Speaker 4 He spoiled hell by descending into it.
Speaker 11 He angered hell by allowing it to taste his flesh.
Speaker 13 Where, O death, is your sting?
Speaker 8 O hell, where is your victory?
Speaker 21 Christ is risen,
Speaker 5 and the demons are destroyed.
Speaker 21 Christ is risen, and the angels rejoiced.
Speaker 13 Christ is risen,
Speaker 2 and life is restored.
Speaker 2 There's so much in this world that is passing.
Speaker 13 We don't place our hope in this world in passing things,
Speaker 2 but in Christ risen from the dead.
Speaker 13 Even death itself does not have the final word,
Speaker 8 but Christ is risen,
Speaker 4 and we join the angels in rejoicing, because Christ is risen and life is restored.
Speaker 8 and then lastly for today we spent one episode one day with Caravaggio's quite famous painting entitled The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
Speaker 5 during that episode I focused particularly on the countenance of Jesus
Speaker 11 who lovingly, gently, tenderly you could say guides Thomas's hand to touch his wounds.
Speaker 17 And his face, his countenance, his disposition is saying, Thomas,
Speaker 5 these wounds are for you.
Speaker 17 We see Jesus returning to the disciples and coming to Thomas,
Speaker 5 revealing that Jesus is willing to come to meet us where we're at.
Speaker 4 and to help us make the next best step in faith in his resurrection.
Speaker 6 And what Jesus is like most worried about isn't that we get it right away, but that we get it and he's going to persevere in pursuing us and coming to us.
Speaker 6 Because like what's most important is that we come to believe.
Speaker 5 We believe in the power of the resurrection and we respond through total fidelity, total trust.
Speaker 7 total gift of self, total adoration, worship
Speaker 12 of our risen Lord.
Speaker 17 And so there's this invitation to find ourselves before the risen Lord with his glorified wounds.
Speaker 8 And to have confidence that he is going to reveal himself to us
Speaker 9 in a way that will allow us to get it.
Speaker 2 And so we hope in Jesus. We talk to Jesus.
Speaker 13 We're honest with Jesus, confident in his patience,
Speaker 13 and confidence in his seeking and his pursuit of us.
Speaker 6 So now we'll just take a moment of stillness
Speaker 13 of a leisurely resting here.
Speaker 3 And now we'll go through our
Speaker 8 our chosen roadmap of prayer for these episodes, the four R's.
Speaker 2 Today, what is the grace being offered?
Speaker 5 The truth being revealed
Speaker 2 that you are invited to receive.
Speaker 11 How can you respond?
Speaker 9 What's the grace that you would like to request, particularly at the service of this response?
Speaker 22 And then rejoice.
Speaker 8 Give thanks to the Lord for this time of prayer,
Speaker 2 for the grace given,
Speaker 11 and the divine life shared.
Speaker 5 And now, together with Mary, let us pray.
Speaker 11 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 13 Amen.
Speaker 4 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Speaker 15 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker 2 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us,
Speaker 11 and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Speaker 4 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 24 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 25 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 19 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Speaker 23 Amen.
Speaker 14 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 24 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 25 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 16 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Speaker 23 Amen.
Speaker 14 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 24 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 25 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 19 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.
Speaker 14 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 24 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 25 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 16 pray for us sinners,
Speaker 19 now and at the hour of our death.
Speaker 23 Amen.
Speaker 14 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 8 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 25 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 16 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Speaker 23 Amen.
Speaker 14 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 24 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 25 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 16 pray for us sinners,
Speaker 19 now and at the hour of our death.
Speaker 15 Amen.
Speaker 14 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 8 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 25 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 23 pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
Speaker 14 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 24 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 15 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 16 pray for us sinners,
Speaker 23 now and at the hour of our death, amen.
Speaker 14 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 8 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 25 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 16 pray for us sinners, now and and at the hour of our death.
Speaker 20 Amen.
Speaker 14 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Speaker 24 Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Speaker 15 Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Speaker 16 pray for us sinners,
Speaker 19 now and at the hour of our death.
Speaker 20 Amen.
Speaker 2 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 11 as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
Speaker 4 world without end.
Speaker 20 Amen.
Speaker 2 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 25 Amen.
Speaker 9 All right, thanks so much for joining me and praying with me again today.
Speaker 17 I look forward to continuing this journey with you again tomorrow.
Speaker 4 Poco, Poco, friends.
Speaker 3 God bless all.