Day 199: What the Garden Reveals
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What is the focus of Day 199's Rosary meditation on the Agony in the Garden?
I'm Fr. Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in the 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 the Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 199. 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 the 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 will be meditating upon and praying with the first Sorrowful Mystery, the agony in the garden. And so let's go ahead and dive into our review of what we have covered to this point. As you may recall, in one of our journeys through the Sorrowful Mysteries, I kind of overlaid and interwove some reflections on the prodigal son. And for our mystery today, the agony in the garden, what was highlighted is what we could call the nature of sin. What we do when we sin. And we looked at the younger son in the parable of the prodigal son. And what does he do? He goes to his father and says, give to me my inheritance.
And then he goes to a distant land. He wants his inheritance, but he doesn't want his father. And again, it's his inheritance. It's all that the father has sort of saved up for him. And so it's basically like, make mine what is yours so that I can use it by myself. And that's what we're doing with sin. Okay, all of the good things that you have given us, all of the good things that you've prepared for us, the gifts that you have given us, I'm going to take them into my own hands. I'm going to use them all for my own means, for myself, for my self-grandizement, my self-protection, et cetera. And I don't want relationship with you. So we saw this as the nature of sin in contrast to Jesus. Jesus in the garden comes to his father and says, your will be done.
Everything's going to be taken away from Jesus. But, but what? But his relationship with his father, he's going to stay there. He's going to remain obedient. The one thing he wants relationship to his father, because Jesus's inheritance that he wants to receive and not take to use on his own is his sonship. And that's what he invites us to share. And so we, we contrast, right? Like the obedience of Jesus who says, father, thy will be done. Here I am. I'm going to stay in relationship. No matter what's going to happen, I'm going to stay in relationship. That's number one, most important thing. versus sin, which says, okay, all of the good gifts that you've given me, I'm going to take them and I'm going to go to a distant land.
I'm going to go into isolation. I'm going to go and break this relationship and use them for my own devices, which ultimately ends up right with the prodigal son, broken, desperate, fighting pigs for slop. So there's an invitation here to recognize what we're actually doing with sin in contrast to Jesus and his obedience and his remaining and abiding in the Father's goodness and the Father's will. And the second sort of review today is when we were looking at St. Alphonsus Liguori's writing on the passion and death of Jesus Christ. And St. Alphonsus writes this prayer. take upon thee our fearfulness in order to give us thy courage." And what we see Jesus doing in the garden, right? Is he's not focusing on like the pain, the suffering, the betrayal.
Where is his attention? His attention is on his father, who he goes to in the garden and prays to like three times, right? Saying, my father, my father, my father. At that point, I shared the story of one of the brothers who was rappelling in the desert. And he was nervous and afraid with his attention being drawn to the heights, being drawn to the worst case scenarios as he's about to sort of on this rope, rappel down, climb down this mountain.
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