Phase 5 Bonus: Introduction to Phase Five: “Building Up the Decades”
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What is Phase Five ‘Building Up the Decades’ and who is the guest introducing it?
Hey, I'm Father Mark Mary with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast. Today, we are back with another bonus episode because we are beginning a new phase. This is phase five, which is called Building Up the Decades. And I'm very, very grateful that we are joined today by Dr. Edward Sri. Oh, thanks so much for having me, Father. I think I've maybe mentioned this to you in one of our previous conversations, particularly early on in some of the initial episodes. I was pulling from a number of your books that you've written on the rosary or mysteries of the rosary. You're obviously somebody who has spent time studying it and its biblical roots and Marian devotion.
And so just before we kind of get into maybe the main body of our episode as part of an introduction to your own background with the rosary, Do you have any maybe favorite stories or kind of about the rosary in general for saints who are out there or from your own personal like life that you can give a bit of a testimony about?
Oh, I mean, there's of course the famous battle, you know, of Lepanto where the rosary feast day came from. Maybe a fun story that's not as well known I'll share and then I can give a story from my own life. But story from JP too, you know, JP2 was in the underground seminary and they were looking, you know, for people and the Nazis came in and invaded his house. And, you know, he hid in one closet. And he was praying. And it was the one closet where that was the only thing that they didn't search. And they would have found him. I mean, the world would be such a different place. I don't know if I'd be here. I mean, JP2 has been such a big part of my life, probably yours and many others. In his autobiography or biography that George Weigel wrote, which is very detailed, it doesn't say exactly what he was praying about.
But it did say he was praying. And I've got to believe he was praying his favorite prayer. Because, you know, he talked about the very beginning of his pontificate, how he put the whole of his pontificate in the rhythm of the rosary. And he shared about how the rosary... was so important to him in moments of trial and moments of suffering that he always turned to the rosary throughout his life and found great strength there. So that's a fun story, not as well known. Maybe my own life, nothing really dramatic other than just how maybe I grew in my own rosary devotion. I was blessed. I grew up in a good Catholic school and a good Catholic parish in a time where maybe a lot of people weren't promoting the rosary.
Our parish was. I think it was a priest maybe in confession suggested Every night, pray a decade of the rosary. And so as a little kid, I remember in seventh grade starting to pray one decade of the rosary every night. And I kept that up throughout my life. My high school years, before I go to bed, I always do one decade. And I like to say, I don't know how my devotion is to Mary, but I know she's been very devoted to me. And I'm thankful for that priest and others who've spoken in. And I think just by keeping and clinging to that decade of the rosary and continuing that in college, it just kept me going. closer to god than i would have otherwise maybe kept me out of more trouble than you know i got into trouble maybe it would have been a lot worse uh without just mary being close to me so i've always had that sense of the importance of the rosary and started growing my later college years and young adult years and starting to pray putting the decades together as we're going to be talking about and praying the rosary as a whole and but a big turning point in my life in the rosary was
When John Paul II, toward the end of his pontificate, gave us those new mysteries of the rosary, And he gave us a beautiful document, an apostolic letter about the rosary. And it just transformed the way I think about it. It was just so beautiful, talking about how the rosary is so Jesus-centered. It's all about Jesus. The Hail Mary we're reciting is all from Scripture.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is Phase Five ‘Building Up the Decades’ and who is the guest introducing it?
0:04–5:09
2
Which memorable stories illustrate the rosary’s power in Pope St. John Paul II’s life?
5:09–11:49
3
How did Dr. Edward Sri develop his personal devotion to the rosary?
11:49–15:54
4
Why did John Paul II’s apostolic letter change how the rosary is prayed?
15:54–34:48