Day 205: With Us Always
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Who is leading today's Rosary and what is the episode's focus?
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 205. 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 praying with him, meditating upon the second glorious mystery, the Ascension. So now a little review of what we have discussed and prayed with already regarding the Ascension before our time of prayer today. First, we noted a way to, if you will, traditionally understand what is happening in the Ascension is to see it as the fulfillment of Psalm 110. It's in Psalm 110, where the Lord says to David, the Lord says to my Lord, sit at my right till I make your enemies, your footstool. And in the ascent of our Lord, like his ascension, we see him returning to the right hand of the Father.
And Jesus' ascension, it's not a going away. Therefore, it's not a cause of sadness, but it is a cause of joy because through his ascension, Jesus is not absent to us, but there's a new way of his being present to us. As Pope Benedict XVI wrote, in Jesus Christ risen from the dead, God is not in one space along other spaces. Like God is God. He is the premise and the ground of all the space there it is, but he himself is not part of it.
How can I download the Rosary in a Year prayer plan and app features?
His presence is not spatial, but divine. But in Jesus' ascension, he's not just going into like a different space. He's going to participate in the Father's divine dominion over space, right? Again, a presence which is not spatial, but divine. And if you recall, Jesus, during his earthly life, he took on the limitations of like space and time. So for example, he could like make eye contact with one person at a time. He can have a conversation only to those who are immediately in his midst. But now he's present to all of us in a new way, like a fuller way, a more intimate way, a divine way. And that there's no contradiction, but actually fulfillment of Jesus being Emmanuel, God with us, and him saying, I will be with you even until the end of time and his ascension.
Again, not a contradiction, but a perfection of his being with us for all eternity. And secondly, in our review for today, we looked at the writing of St. Augustine. And St. Augustine, he wrote, run with the hearts of affection, journey with love, ascend by charity. cleave unto Christ who by descending and ascending has made himself the way. Do you wish to ascend, hold fast to him that ascends. And I propose that like, if we want to ascend, we are to cleave to Christ to remain with him. And one way in which we do this is going to be through our acts of charity. And what I believe St. Augustine helps us to connect is not only charity and the love of God, but love of neighbor. For example, the corporal and the spiritual works of mercy.
These are all ways in which we cling to Christ. These are all ways in which we are more deeply transformed by Christ. These are all ways in which Christ lives his life in us. These are all ways in which we encounter Christ. And so to remain in him, to cleave with him, to ascend with him, part of our participation in this, our response to this is going to be through our acts of charity.
What is the Second Glorious Mystery and why are we meditating on the Ascension?
So we can experience through the writing of St. Augustine and in our meditation and praying with the Ascension. To share in this invitation as Jesus risen, as Jesus glorified, is more intimately united to us, is serving us and loving us in a more deep and intimate way that we ourselves are called to share in this love.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is leading today's Rosary and what is the episode's focus?
0:04–2:09
2
How can I download the Rosary in a Year prayer plan and app features?
2:09–4:42
3
What is the Second Glorious Mystery and why are we meditating on the Ascension?
4:42–7:02
4
How does Psalm 110 help us understand Christ's ascension to the right hand of the Father?
7:02–12:15
5
Why is the Ascension described as a perfection of Christ's presence rather than a departure?
12:15–15:27