Day 166: Ordinary, Yet Called
6/15/202615 min
Titian’s Renaissance painting, Pentecost, focuses on St. Peter kneeling beside Mary with the keys of the Kingdom in hand. Fr. Mark-Mark contemplates Peter’s transformation from a flawed man to the first pope to highlight the power of the Holy Spirit working through ordinary people. We are reminded that despite our limitations, each of us carries a mission and is invited to entrust it to the Holy Spirit. Today’s focus is the mystery of the Descent of the Holy Spirit and we will be praying one decade of the Rosary.
All of the Sacred Art we’ll be meditating with can be found in the Rosary in a Year Prayer Guide, for free linked in the complete prayer plan, or in the Ascension App. For the complete prayer plan, visit https://ascensionpress.com/riy.
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First 90 secondsMark-Mary Ames· Host0:00
[gentle music] Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast, where through prayer and meditation, the Rosary brings us deeper into a 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. This is day one sixty-six. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a Year, visit ascensionpress.com/rosaryinayear or text R-I-Y to three three seven seven seven. You'll get an outline of how we're gonna pray each month, and it's a great way to track your progress. The best place to listen to this 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 meditating upon and praying with the third Glorious Mystery, the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, with help from a painting entitled Pentecost by the artist Titian. This is our second painting from Titian, so just a brief reminder. He was born around the year fourteen eighty-eight or fourteen ninety, and he would die in the year fifteen seventy-six. He was a leading artist of the Italian Renaissance and the most important member of the sixteenth century Venetian school. Our painting of Pentecost was done in the year fifteen forty-five, and it is an oil painting and its style is Renaissance art.