I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars with our new one. This is the Rosary in Year podcast where through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary and comes to source of grace for the whole world. The Rosary in Year is brought to you by Ascension. This is day 136. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in Year visit ascensionpress.com forward slash rosary in a year or text R-I-Y to 33777. To get an outline of how we're going to pray each month, 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 meditating upon and praying with the proclamation of the kingdom of God with help from a painting entitled, Healing of the Leppers at Capernaum by James Tissot. Now a brief introduction to our painting and artist, our artist is James Tissot. It was born in the year 1836. He died in the year 1902. He was born and died in France, but he lived in London for a time as well. Tissot's work, he combines an elements of impressionism and realism and even spent some of his time working as a characterist under a pseudonym. Generally, he focused on several subjects for most of his career, but he turned to religious art near the end of his life after experiencing a reversion to Catholicism. In this particular painting, Healing of the Leppers at Capernaum, its style is realism and goate. Now a description of our painting. On a cobblestone street, a man in tattered bandages falls to his knees. His arms are upraised and he faces a group of men, one in a pure white garment, facing and placing his hand on the head of a young boy. Another in fine yellow clothes, staring, gawking at the drama of the bandaged man. A tree grows in the midst of the stone town, casting shade on the throughway. An older woman comes out of a humble stone home on the street, her posture exuding promptness and care. The road is shadowed, but the home is bathed in light. And in the foreground is the solitary leper kneeling on a cobblestone street, reaching out, crying out to Jesus. Before getting into the painting specifically, let's go ahead and begin with a reminder of what we mean by the kingdom of God, the proclamation of the kingdom of God. It is God being God. It is the teacher teaching it as the shepherd, shepherding the savior, saving and the healer healing. What's happening in this painting, right? It's entitled, Healing of the Leppers at Capernaum. The healer just healed 10 lepers, but as the gospel tells us and as this painting depicts, only one returns, only one leper returns to give things. And here we encounter the foundational question or we're offered a richer understanding of why we refer to the third lemus mystery as the proclamation of the kingdom of God and the cult of conversion. Like the kingdom of God, it is going to be proclaimed, but we have to receive it. We have to respond to it. It can be proclaimed to us as profoundly as a leper being healed of his leprosy, but it doesn't guarantee that we will actually receive it. It doesn't guarantee that we'll actually come to Jesus to see him and to repent from all of the ways in which we are trying to enjoy the riches of the kingdom or the perks of the kingdom without relationship, loyalty and obedience to the king. And as God will be God, the Christian needs to be a Christian. To like this solitary leper that we encounter in our painting today to come to Jesus, to give thanks to Jesus, to live with a heart filled with gratitude to God. God is going to God, but are we like the Christian going to Christian? And by this mean, like we who are called to live in the skin of God, like we need to worship the king. We need to remain in relationship with the king to be obedient to the king, to trust the king. Like he is God, he will lead us home, he will shepherd us, he will save us, he will have mercy on us. He will work for the good in all things if we let him. But we have to repent and believe the good news. We have to let him. As we pray today, let's kneel down next to the solitary man, just healed of his leprosy. And let us too raise our hands in our hearts in gratitude, in worship, in adoration, in surrender, in confidence, and hope filled dependence. Even today, the kingdom of God is being proclaimed in our midst. Let us repent, let us run to Jesus, let us believe in the fullness of the gospel. Emmanuel, God is with us. And when we place our hope in him, we never hope in vain. And now with Mary, let us pray. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not in temptation, but deliver us from evil, amen. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God.哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Alright, thanks so much for joining me and praying with me today. I look forward to continuing this journey with you again tomorrow. Poco a poco friends. God bless y'all.
