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The Rosary in a Year – Day 161 – Sharing Eternal Victory

Christ is depicted in Caravaggio’s Ecce Homo with quiet dignity amid humiliation, as He is crowned with thorns and presented to the crowd. Fr. Mark-Mary encourages a prayerful examination of conscience, recognizing our personal role in Christ’s Passion while holding fast to the light and hope that remains even in darkness. Through repentance and faith, we are called not only to witness His suffering but to share in His rising and ultimate victory. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Crowning of Thorns and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

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The Rosary in a Year – Day 159 – Surrender Your Suffering

As we meditate with the painting entitled Prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane Garden by Alessandro Maganza, Fr. Mark-Mary notices that all of the movement, lines, and action in the painting points towards Jesus. Sharing a story about one of his fellow friars, Fr. Mark-Mary explains how we can direct ourselves to Jesus and surrender our fears, worries, and pain. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Agony in the Garden and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

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The Rosary in a Year – Day 158 – Wash All of Me

Jesus gives himself totally to us in the Eucharist, body, blood, soul, and divinity. Today’s art, The Last Supper, by Juan de Juanes (Vicente Juan Masip) includes the bowl and urn used for the washing of feet, reminding us of Peter’s request that Jesus wash him entirely. This is the attitude, Fr. Mark-Mary says, that we should bring as we receive the Eucharist. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Institution of the Eucharist and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

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The Rosary in a Year – Day 157 – We Have Authority

Fr. Mark-Mary notices that The Transfiguration, painted by Raphael, contains a very interesting Biblical reference. Raphael has chosen to depict the beginning of Jesus’ exorcism of a demon in Matthew 17 alongside the Transfiguration. This parallel reveals the truth that Jesus can give us all spiritual authority to resist temptation, through our faith in him. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Transfiguration and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.

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It is Never Out of God’s Control

Are you facing a situation that seems to be slipping out of your hands?

If so, may I gently, but boldly, remind you not to worry?

When you feel least in control, rest in the truth that God is STILL in control.

His plans supercede the plans of man.

Our God will move mountains to accomplish His will.

Instead of fighting to hold on, release your grip, surrender your fear, walk away from your worry, and place it all in the nail-scarred hands of Jesus.

Trust the one who loves you more than life itself.

Trust His wisdom.

Trust His power.

Trust His hands.

Trust His heart.~❤

~Stacy L. Sanchez / Heartprints of God