Day 201: Thorns for Love
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What is the focus of Day 201: Thorns for Love and how can I access the Rosary in a Year resources?
I'm Fr. Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars at 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 201. 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.
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. You'll find all the daily readings from scripture, saint reflections, and beautiful images of the sacred art we'll be reflecting on. Today we will be meditating upon and praying with the third sorrowful mystery, our Lord being crowned with thorns. And now as a review and to aid us in our ongoing prayer and reflection, as we pray a mystery of the Rosary, let's just kind of go back and remember some of what we've discussed pertaining to this mystery. First and foremost, I'm simply just going to invite you to call to mind in your imagination, Jesus, our Lord, crowned with thorns, mocked, spat upon,
we looked at Jesus as the fulfillment of the prophesied suffering servant from the book of Isaiah. And what we want to do is just behold our King. Behold your King. Behold His suffering, His humility, While yet he is the King. He is a victorious one. Secondly, if you recall, aided by a reflection from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, we looked at Pilate who had Jesus crowned with thorns and then Pilate who brought him out and said, ecce homo, behold the man. And what we discussed about was Pilate and all of his energy, trying to manipulate his freely compromising of the truth, just trying to make everybody happy, trying to appease everybody, but without any conviction, without any moral core, moral grounding, right?
Without any concern for truth or justice, but how he was simply driven by self preservation. And this leads to this mockery, this great suffering of our Lord. And we behold again, Jesus, our King crowned. And I'm reminded of like the truth about what compromise looks like. particularly compromise like towards our Lord and all of the ways in which we can try and serve so many masters, except the one master, the one King of the new kingdom, Jesus. And here's what compromise accomplished through Pilate. And here as well, you can say like what compromise of the truth and integrity and goodness looks like in our world. this ongoing sort of crowning of thorns, this violence done to the world, to the body and to our own dignity as Christians.
So we bring any temptation to compromise before our Lord here and ask that his witness speaks to us truth and light and conviction and the grace of conversion. And then somewhat related. We looked at Titian's rendition of Christ crowned with thorns. And in his painting, if you recall, there was the bust of Tiberius Caesar and then Jesus crowned with thorns. All of this sort of communicating and echoing these words of scripture, render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. And the question that comes is like, where are you offering your worship and where are you offering your loyalty? To God or to Caesar? To the Lord or to the world? Similarly, there's this invitation to a deeper repentance.
Especially a repentance from our sins of indifference. Sins of the ways in which we've prioritized, like things of the world over things of the Lord, particularly the esteem of men and the ways in which we have compromised our fidelity and loyalty to the will of God out of fear or self-preservation. All these ways in which it could be said that we have rendered to Caesar what is proper to God.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
What is the focus of Day 201: Thorns for Love and how can I access the Rosary in a Year resources?
0:04–9:53
2
What mystery are we meditating on today and why is the Crowning with Thorns significant?
9:53–12:54
3
How should I imagine Jesus crowned with thorns and what prophetic fulfillment does this portray?
12:54–14:08