Day 196: Invited to the Kingdom
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What is the Rosary in a Year podcast and who leads today's episode?
Hi, I'm Fr. Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast, where 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 196. 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 33777. You'll get an outline of how we're going to pray each month and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to this podcast is in the Ascension app. There are special features built just for this podcast and also recordings of the full rosary with myself and other friars.
No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap follow or subscribe for your daily notifications. Today we'll be meditating upon and praying with the third luminous mystery, the proclamation of the kingdom and the call to conversion.
What is the focus of Day 196: the Third Luminous Mystery?
Now a quick review of some of what we have brought to the table in our discussion about the third luminous mystery in the episodes up to this point. Back at day 36, when we were looking at Mark 1, verses 14 through 15, based on the writings and the explanation of the kingdom of God, particularly through Pope Benedict XVI writing, we came to look at the kingdom of God as this, right? The kingdom of God is Jesus. And the proclamation of the kingdom of God is not just establishing some sort of worldly reign or worldly territory, but proclaiming Jesus himself as the new kingdom. The proclamation of the kingdom of God takes place by, as we talked about, like God being God or God God-ing, if you will, the shepherd shepherding, the teacher teaching, the savior saving.
And through all of this, we see the king reigning. And so the proclamation of the kingdom of God, right? We see this throughout the gospels and it's beautiful lens to come to a variety of the healings of Jesus, the teaching of Jesus, the various works of Jesus. Jesus is ultimately calling us to faith in himself. He's calling us to become residents of the kingdom of heaven, to be united to him, to be under his Lordship, under his care, under his law, to experience his freedom. And so we see this in salvation history, and we're invited to experience this in our own lives in a variety of ways. This proclamation of the kingdom, the call to conversion, as we experience God-godding, the shepherd shepherding, the teacher teaching, the healer healing, et cetera, in the world and in our own lives.
And one particular focus of this new kingdom is the new law and the new love and the new kingdom being proclaimed by Jesus. As we looked at a writing of St. Augustine, St. Augustine wrote, it was God who through his holy prophets and servants, according to a thoroughly arranged distribution of times, gave the lesser precepts to a people as yet required to be bound by fear. And through his son gave the greater ones to a people whom it had now become suitable to set free by love. And so that's us, my brothers and sisters, those who are invited to receive the new law with a new love and a new freedom. If you pay attention to the words of Jesus, often you'll hear him say like, you heard X, but I tell you why.
He's talking about some sort of law, particularly of the Mosaic covenant. And then he's proclaiming its fulfillment, its fulfillment, which is possible with the coming of Jesus. And I think that's something that's so important. We have the grace, the capacity to, to live this new law because we have access to a new love in Jesus and a new strength, a new grace, particularly through the power of the Holy Spirit. And so we can experience these calls to a different way of life. We can experience a call to a type of living, a following of a type of law, which can feel quite lofty. and even difficult. There can be a particular temptation to discouragement if we think that we're going to fulfill it and live it and persevere in it all by our own strength and our own accord.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Rosary in a Year podcast and who leads today's episode?
0:04–0:59
2
What is the focus of Day 196: the Third Luminous Mystery?
0:59–5:07
3
How does the episode define the Kingdom of God as 'Jesus'?
5:07–6:33
4
What does St. Augustine teach about the new law and new love?
6:33–9:39
5
How can we live the new law through grace and the Holy Spirit?
9:39–13:18
6
What lessons does Rembrandt’s Storm on the Sea of Galilee illustrate?
13:18–15:50
7
How are we invited to respond to personal storms with confidence in Jesus?
15:50–17:02
8
How is the decade of the Rosary prayed and what closing prayers are said?
17:02–17:03