Day 204: Transcending Death
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How does Father Mark‑Mary introduce Day 204 and the Rosary in a Year?
I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of Renewal. And this is the Rosary in a 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 a Year is brought to you by Ascension. And this is day 204. 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 the Year Prayer Guide, a book published by Ascension that was designed to compliment this podcast. You'll find all the daily readings of 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 first glorious mystery, the resurrection. And now a review of some of what we have covered before we go to our time of prayer today. Let's begin by a reminder of what Pope Benedict XVI wrote about the resurrection. He speaks of the resurrection as a type of evolutionary leap, a historical event that bursts open the dimensions of history and transcends it. It is a brand new, entirely new form of life
that is no longer subject to the law of dying, but lies beyond it. And it affects everyone and opens up a new kind of future for mankind. So just a little reminder of the teaching, of the understanding of what has happened in the resurrection. The resurrection is not just about a corpse coming back to life.
Where can listeners find the Rosary in a Year prayer plan and app features?
There's this, if you will, an elevated, a new form of life. It's a change which touches, if we could say, glorifies all of reality. And if you recall, in one of our episodes, we looked at the Paschal candle, which is like the symbol par excellence of the entire liturgical season, because it is this candle, which represents Christ, but also represents like the light of the resurrection. And we were reminded that there is no darkness 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. The darkness has not and will not and cannot overcome the light, particularly the hope that we have in our risen Lord. And the hope as it is extended to us
is the hope that whatever happens in life, if we bring it to him and if we journey with him in it, it's like all of it can be resurrected, can share in this glorified reality, can be healed, redeemed, renewed. There is nothing, nothing, nothing that Jesus can't respond to. and bring new life out of, and bring healing out of, and bring light and hope out of. So also kind of in this vein, in this space, we had this writing from St. John Chrysostom. He wrote about Jesus. He destroyed death by enduring it, He spoiled hell by descending into it. He angered hell by allowing it to taste his flesh. Where oh death is your sting? Oh hell, where is your victory? Christ is risen and the demons are destroyed. Christ is risen and the angels rejoiced.
Christ is risen and life is restored. There's so much in this world that is passing. We don't place our hope in this world, in passing things, but in Christ risen from the dead. Even death itself does not have the final word, but Christ is risen and we join the angels in rejoicing because Christ is risen and life is restored. And then lastly, for today, we spent one episode one day with Caravaggio's quite famous painting entitled The Incredulity of St. Thomas. And during that episode, I focused particularly on the countenance of Jesus, who lovingly, gently, tenderly, you could say, guides Thomas's hand to touch his wounds. And his face, his countenance, his disposition is saying, Thomas, these wounds are for you.
We see Jesus returning to the disciples and coming to Thomas, revealing that Jesus is willing to come to meet us where we're at and to help us make the next best step in faith in his resurrection.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How does Father Mark‑Mary introduce Day 204 and the Rosary in a Year?
0:04–2:03
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Where can listeners find the Rosary in a Year prayer plan and app features?
2:03–7:22
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What is the focus of today’s meditation on the First Glorious Mystery?
7:22–10:10
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How does Pope Benedict XVI describe the Resurrection as a new form of life?
10:10–14:27