Day 209: Praying With the Father
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I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. And this is the Rosary in the 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 the Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 209. 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 on behalf of myself and the whole team here at Ascension. We wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's helped support this podcast financially. Your support is so appreciated and helps us to reach as many people as possible. And if you haven't already, please consider supporting us at ascensionpress.com forward slash support. All right, everybody, welcome back. We have just... Completed phase four. Congratulations, everybody who's made it this far. Thank you again for persevering in this journey with me. Now we are going to be beginning phase five, building up the decades. And so what we'll be doing here is slowly but surely, poco a poco, if you will, like just practicing like prayer, practicing meditation and applying to prayer, like what we have discussed and covered up to this point while building up our capacity.
So we're going to start again, small and focused at the service of depth. But little by little, as we go through phase five and then into phase six, we're gonna be building up the amount of decades we're gonna be praying at each time. How we're gonna begin though phase five is gonna be like somewhat of a callback all the way back to the very beginning of our journey. If you recall in our introduction to the rosary, I pulled from what I had been taught by one of our founders, Father Andrew Apostoli. In his class, in his encouragement with the rosary, he was reminding us and teaching us that we want to be focused on one of or a collection of these three things in prayer. The one to whom we are speaking, the words which we are saying,
and the mystery that we are meditating upon with, I would say the foundational one is like the relational part that we're not just, you know, talking on a phone that's not plugged into the wall or doesn't have any service. Like our prayers heard and our prayers in relationship. We're not alone in our prayer. And then with that, like we can focus on, you know, the words and or the mysteries. And so what I'm going to be, how we're going to begin is this, is really, really just practicing the relational components of our prayer. And really, really focusing on the fact that we're not in it alone. And so for this first 10 episodes of the building of the decades, we're going to be praying two decades together.
But what we're going to be doing is focusing on like particular relationships. So today we're going to focus on like being in a relationship with the Father. Tomorrow, the Son. The next day, the Holy Spirit. The next day, the entire Trinity. And then lastly, being in relationship with Mary. And we'll repeat this twice and then we'll move on to the words and then bringing it all together. So for today, we're going to really focus these two decades on our relationship with the Father. What hasn't been revealed, you could say, is like the physical face of God the Father. Certainly we have a lot of artwork we can pull from if that's helpful. But what we do have very clear access to is the heart of our Father, which has been revealed to us, particularly through His Son.
And who do we know the Father to be? One who sees in secret. One who sees us. One who is with us. One who loves to give his children good gifts. One who loves to hear our voice. One who delights in us. And one who always hears us.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–5:03
2
What is the purpose of Phase 5: Building Up the Decades?
5:03–6:34
3
How will we practice contemplative, relational prayer poco a poco?
6:34–11:35
4
Which three focuses should guide our prayer (who, words, mystery)?
11:35–14:59
5
Why is the relational component of prayer emphasized in these episodes?
14:59–15:27