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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 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 60. To download the prayer plan for Rosary in a year, visit ascensionpress.com rosaryinayear 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. No matter what app you're listening in, remember to tap, follow or subscribe for your daily notifications. The second sorrowful mystery is the scourging at the pillar. Matthew, chapter 27, verse 26 Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged, Jesus delivered him to be crucified. We're going to continue our journey, reflecting on the passion of our Lord as it reveals the true nature of sin and the true nature of the heart of God. And to help with this, I'm going to continue to reference the Parable of the Prodigal Son. So this is the parable of the Prodigal son, Luke, chapter 15. Starting at verse 13, he squandered his property and loose living, and when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country and he began to be in want. So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country who sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate.
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The Son, he took the inheritance and he spent it, right? And he spent it and he spent it and spent it. And instead of it satisfying his desires, it just inflamed them more. And we see this in the nature of sin. Like the more in which we try and accommodate sin or satisfy sin, the more distorted it gets. And eventually the sin, it loses its sweetness, right? And it becomes something actually very harmful and very ugly that leaves us empty, desolate, despairing. You know, unfortunately, I think we have some insight into this as we see our brothers and sisters who have been caught up in addiction. You know, in a lot of our work here in New York, we see those who have been like the Son who has spent everything they had in addiction. And you see the way in which that life, it begins to reflect itself externally. You see them cut up and having open wounds, losing teeth, like bent over, beat up. Sin has this effect until you see this prodigal son like this, like the person who's been caught up in addiction, who has nothing, who is dirty, who's been spending days and nights out on the field, stealing, robbing, to try and get what he can, fighting the sw. And again, he's just. You see this man now who is dirty, who is beat up, who is sick, who is frail, who is bent over. This is theologically, we talk about this like by sin we become bent over, we become beat up. This is what happens when we really give ourselves over to the pursuit of our passions. My brothers and sisters, what we see in Jesus scourged at the pillar, we see him becoming what the prodigal son became through sin. We see him becoming through love. We see our Lord again, the innocent one, scourged, beaten, frail, bent over so many of us, right? We're not going to be going full blown into addiction. We're not going to have this clear visibility of the effects of our sin.