'Rosary' beats Rogan: Is faith-based media becoming mainstream? Self-described 'country club kid' turned friar hosts the new 'Rosary in a Year' podcast that’s beating the best of them

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-07 21:52:51 | Updated at 2025-01-13 02:35:43 5 days ago

'Rosary' beats Rogan: Is faith-based media becoming mainstream? Self-described 'country club kid' turned friar hosts the new 'Rosary in a Year' podcast that’s beating the best of them
Fox news ^ | 7th January 2025 | Laura Carrione

Posted on 01/07/2025 1:17:03 PM PST by Cronos

The number one podcast in the world to start off the new year doesn’t belong to Joe Rogan.

It belongs to Father Mark-Mary Ames of Ascension Press. Or, really, as he told Fox News Digital, it belongs to God.

In a time when Bible sales are seeing a sudden spike amid research that suggests people are unsubscribing from religiosity at large, it comes as somewhat of a surprise that "The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR)" climbed to #1 on Apple Podcasts to start off the new year — holding that spot for three consecutive days before falling to a noteworthy #2 on January 4.

Its humble host is the director of communications and the director of Priestly Studies of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR)

...Father Mark-Mary Ames, who was born and raised in Orange County, California in what he described as a "wealthy family," said he was inspired by Mother Teresa to give up a life of privilege for the service of others.

"I heard that there's a group of Franciscans in New York who are hardcore and sleep on the ground. And I looked them up, and I read our constitutions — which are what we say we're about — and I’m like, 'if that's true, that's everything I'm looking for.' So I was a very, very normal kid, on a normal path. And then God just sort of made this happen."

"I'm made to give my life to the poorest of the poor," he added. "The big, deep experience of my life is what God's done in generosity. And so there's nothing I've left behind or sacrificed that he hasn't been repaid a hundred-fold. It's in new and deeper ways."

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Ecumenism; General Discusssion
KEYWORDS: markmaryames; podcast

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1 posted on 01/07/2025 1:17:03 PM PST by Cronos

To: Cronos

Admittedly, I’m not a religious scholar but the interest in religion goes back and forth, I believe belief in God and Jesus Christ is on the upswing, it’s a natural response with the evil that exists in the world today.

I wonder if traditional organized religion will be the beneficiary of this upswing in religious beliefs.

The Catholic Church with this Pope is not exactly inspiring people to the Catholic faith, the Episcopal Church I was raised in is unrecognizable, other traditionally mainstream Christian religions seem to be going in the same direction.

2 posted on 01/07/2025 1:26:08 PM PST by srmanuel ( )

To: Cronos

I signed up yesterday. I have been praying the rosary twice every day for the past year. Has made a huge difference in my life. Fr. Mark Mary also has a You tube video of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

3 posted on 01/07/2025 1:28:52 PM PST by notaliberal ((St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.))

To: All

Reminds of what Milton Berle said when asked why Bishop Fulton Sheen got better ratings than him “Sheen had better writers”

4 posted on 01/07/2025 1:32:45 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)

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