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Friends of the Rosary, Today’s Gospel (Matthew 10:16-23) continues Jesus’ mission discourse, with apostles sent “like sheep in the midst of wolves,” so Christ calls them to be both wise and innocent. Catholic discipleship is not naivety. It is courage without fear. In the first reading, "Return, O Israel, to the LORD," we observe that God does not merely demand repentance; He promises healing. “I...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Gospel (Matthew 10:7-15), Jesus’ apostles are sent to proclaim that the Kingdom of heaven is near. They are also told to travel lightly: no gold, no extra tunic, no dependence on worldly security. The lesson is clear: mission begins in trust. We give because we have first received. The first reading shows the heart of God as a Father who loved Israel from childhoo...

Friends of the Rosary, Today’s Gospel (Matthew 10:1-7) shows Jesus summoning the Twelve and giving them authority to drive out demons and cure every disease. "As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’" Discipleship is an invitation to all of us. Christ calls, names, equips, and sends. And the mission begins close to home: “the lost sheep of the house of Israe...

Friends of the Rosary, As we read today (Matthew 9:32-38), Jesus was driving out demons from possessed people; in today’s passage, He healed a man who was unable to speak. But the Pharisees, full of pride and no mercy, rather than rejoicing when God works in unexpected ways, contrary to our expectations, responded with suspicion, accusing Jesus of acting by the power of demons. They said, “He driv...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, July 6, Catholics honor Maria Goretti (1890-1902) as the saint of the day, a paramount example of virtue, courage, and holiness who met a martyr's death. St. Maria was born near Ancona (Italy), the daughter of a poor peasant family. Maria was well known to her neighbors for her cheerfulness and piety. When she was twelve, she was a victim of assault; she preferred...

Friends of the Rosary, As we read today (Matthew 11:25-30), Christ declares, "All things have been handed over to me by my Father." Things of heaven are "revealed to little ones," while hiding them from the wise and the learned Why is that? Because they are the ones who refuse to rely on themselves and are disposed to receive all that God is eager to give. In addition, Our Lord...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, July 4, the United States celebrates Independence Day. It’s an iconic day: the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. That day, the Congress issued a Declaration of Independence, announcing "that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." With France's help, the Americ...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, July 3, we celebrate the Feast of St. Thomas, the Apostle, who at first did not believe, but immediately after became, for the Church, one of the first witnesses to her faith. He expressed the fervor of his regained faith: "My Lord and my God." Pope St. Gregory the Great said, "Thomas' unbelief has benefited our faith more than the belief of the oth...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, in Matthew 9:1–8, the Gospel's main reading, Christ the Lord heals a paralytic after first forgiving his sins.  "Your sins are forgiven." The Son of God forgives our sins because he doesn't want us to be paralyzed by darkness. He is bringing us to a new future, a deeper life of peace, hope, and fulfillment.  Sin is our nonsense refusal to live in accordance with the b...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, July 1, the Feast of St. Junípero Serra (1713–1784), we read in the Gospel (Matthew 8:28-34) how Jesus confronted the demonic torment of two possessed men. The most unsettling part was not only the presence of evil but the reaction of the townspeople: after witnessing Christ’s power, they preferred that He leave. Grace has arrived, but they experience it as a disrupti...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, June 30th, the Universal Church celebrates the Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church to honor the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the evil Emperor Nero as scapegoats for the fire in Rome. Historians tell about a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D.) when in the imperial parks Christians were brutally attacked and made into living torche...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, June 29th, the Universal Church celebrates the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, apostles. They are the solid rock, the principal pillars, on which the Church is built. Both apostles were martyred under the reign of Emperor Nero, in Rome, then the capital of the Empire, around the year 64. Peter was crucified upside down, while Paul, a Roman citizen, was beheaded. S...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Sunday Gospel (Matthew 10:37-42), Jesus lays down the requirement for discipleship, for being a true Christian: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and...

Friends of the Rosary, The centurion in Capernaum, whose servant was healed, said to the Lord, as we read today (Matthew 8:5-17), when we celebrate the Memorial of Saint Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor of the Church “Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed." Jesus responded to him: “Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel h...

Friends of the Rosary, The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975), founder of Opus Dei, which opened a new path of holiness based on carrying out ordinary work and daily duties with a Christian spirit. He died on June 26, 1975, and was canonized a saint on October 6, 2002. Ave Maria! Come, Holy Spirit, come! To Jesus through Mary! Here I am, Lord; I come to do...

Friends of the Rosary, As we read today (Matthew 7:21-29), Jesus said to his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” Not because we attend mass, receive the sacraments, and do deeds in the name of Jesus does it mean that we are holy and will attain salvation. Our good Lord is abundant in gr...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, June 24, the Universal Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, called the Precursor or Forerunner of the Lord in the three synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, as well as in the Book of John. Like Mary, who already in the first moment of her existence, was free from original sin, John was cleansed of original sin in the womb of...

Friends of the Rosary, Three key messages from Our Lord in today's main reading of the Gospel (Matthew 7:6, 12-14) are still related to the Sermon on the Mount: "Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine." "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the Law and the Prophets." "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wi...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, while we honor three prominent saints — John Fisher, Thomas More, and Paulinus of Nola — the Lord says to us in Matthew 7:1-5: "Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you." Gossiping and criticizing others are a superextended psychological pastime.   It's a resul...

Friends of the Rosary, Happy Father's Day! As we read today, Sunday (Matt 10:26-28), Jesus, the Lord, is asking each one of us to be fearless apostles. To the Twelve, He revealed: "Fear no one.” “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; Rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” “Even all the hairs of your head are counted. So...

Friends of the Rosary, Anxious about the future? Trapped by preoccupations? Christ the Lord reveals in today's Gospel (Matthew 6:24-34) how to face our non-stop concerns: "Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil." Having faith is the answ...

Friends of the Rosary, As we read today in the Gospel (Matthew 6:19–23), Christ the Lord revealed to us: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.” Every one of us...

Friends of the Rosary, Salvation means alignment between heaven and earth, with the Divinity reigning on earth as it does above. That should be our inner desire, and that's why we constantly say in the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus gives us in today's Gospel (Matthew 6:7–15): “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Heaven – the realm of God, angels, and saints —...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Gospel (Matthew 6:1–6, 16–18), the Lord asks us to do three things — pray, fast, and give alms — without seeking praise from people. "Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father.” In the case of prayer, we do it very often, with faith and forgiveness, and in Jesus’s na...

Friends of the Rosary, In today's Gospel (Matthew 5:43–48), as part of the message of the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord commands us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, "that you may be children of your heavenly Father." "Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." On Holy Thursday, before expiring on the Cross, the Lord said, “No one has greater love than this, to la...