Day 336: The Sorrowful Mysteries

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I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast where through prayer and meditation.

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This is day 336.

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Hey everybody, so you've made it. You've made it to phase six, the final phase of our Rosary in a Year journey.
And I, as I'm going out and about and meeting folks who are doing Rosary in a Year,

I've been really particularly moved, especially kind of in phases four and five, to hearing people who are saying, hey, Father, you know, you're the first thing I'm doing in the morning, waking up and praying with you.

Or Father, the last thing I'm doing at night is, you know, praying with you. And I love, because right, you know, this last phase, it's really just been praying together.

And we're going to make two slight adjustments as we go into phase six, which are going to break from the pattern that's been established previously.

And the first is this is while I'm grateful and moved by those who have been praying with me through this last phase, there's also been just some encouragement and feedback that folks were missing some of the little meditations.

And so we're going to add just a kind of little sentence or two with each of the mysteries to help encourage and offer a direction. for our meditation during the different mysteries.

Instead of moving through the pattern of the mysteries from joyful, luminous, sorrowful, glorious back to joyful and kind of going through that, we're going to kind of move to the current sort of traditional format of praying the joyful mysteries on Mondays and Saturdays, the sorrowful mysteries on Tuesdays and Fridays, the luminous mysteries on Thursdays, and then the glorious mysteries on Wednesdays and Sundays.

And so we've lined up, you know, the days with the day of the week. They're scheduled to come out.
And we're going to pick and pray the mysteries which correspond to that day of the week.

The last adjustment is that now we're moving from praying five decades to praying the whole Rosary with the opening and then closing prayers of the Rosary.

So let us begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, was buried.

He descended to hell. On the third day, he rose again from the dead, and he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.

From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and a life everlasting. Amen.

For our Holy Father's health and intentions, 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.

For an increase in the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. Hail 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 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.

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.

Today we will be praying the sorrowful mysteries.

The first sorrowful mystery is the agony in the garden.

As we pray this decade, we can meditate on Jesus' prayer in the garden.

Even in this moment of stress and of great sorrow,

He stays in dialogue with the Father, beginning his prayer again and again and again. My Father, my Father, my Father.

Let us ask for the grace to stay in this dialogue with the Father throughout the agonies we may encounter.

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.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Holy Mary, Mother of of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, 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.

The second sorrowful mystery is the scourging at the pillar.

Let us call to mind St. Faustina's vision of the scourging of our Lord, where Jesus asked her to be the one who mourns for him.

In this decade, let us lean into that, bearing witness to our Lord's pain and telling him how grateful we are for his love for us.

As we pray today, let us be the one who receives the gift, who remains with him

with love

as he is scourged for our sins.

Our Father who art art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Amen.

The third sorrowful mystery is the crowning with thorns.

Let's call to mind our reflection on Titian's painting, Christ crowned with thorns,

and witness anew Christ's suffering as he is crowned under the unaffected gaze of a statue of Caesar.

Are we rendering to God God what is God's, and to Caesar what is Caesar's?

Can we be moved to ask what Jesus is asking of us today

and how we can give homage and adoration and crown our king with love and affection and obedience today

instead of the thorns of sin and selfishness and apathy?

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us, sinners,

now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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 art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

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.

The fourth sorrowful mystery is the carrying of the cross.

As Jesus carried his cross, the gospel tells us that a man named Simon was compelled to carry Jesus' cross. In that moment, Simon was given a decision.
He was going to have to carry the cross.

But was he going to just do it constantly, exclusively, with resentment, with the door closed, to this potentially bearing any fruit in his life?

Or would he receive it with a certain openness, a certain surrender, and for us, a certain knowledge that through grace, this can bring us into intimate contact with Jesus?

Today, as we take up our cross, or as the world throws many crosses upon us,

can we ask for the grace of the Holy Spirit to be open to God using these crosses

and be open to them being means in bringing us even more intimately into contact with our Lord.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.

Now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

The fifth sorrowful mystery is the crucifixion.

Let's take a moment and call to mind Jesus' words on the cross, citing Psalm 22: My God, my God,

why have you forsaken me?

Recognizing, as Pope Benedict XVI points out, that Jesus is bringing the cry of every suffering person to the Father.

He takes all of our anguish, all of our suffering, all of our experience of a silence from God

upon himself.

And he makes this cry to the Father,

but also with the absolute and certain confidence that he is heard by God.

Whatever struggles or suffering you may be facing right now,

let's find consolation and hope in Christ's cry to the Father.

That we know a certainty that God sees us and that he hears us

as Jesus died to save us.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Amen.

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, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.

To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

O Clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary, pray for us, most holy mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray, O God, whose only begotten Son, by his life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life.

Grant, we beseech thee that meditating upon these mysteries of the most holy rosary of the blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise through the same Christ, our Lord.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
All right, thanks everyone for joining me in praying with me today.

I look forward to continuing this journey with you again tomorrow. Poca Poca, friends.
God bless y'all.

Day 336: The Sorrowful Mysteries

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