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Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 27, is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. In 1621, colonists in New England gave thanks to God for his abundant mercies and blessings. This became a tradition, and in 1863, Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed a legal holiday. It's worth noting that some historians believe the first Thanksgiving in America was a Catholic Mass held 50 years before the Plymo...

Friends of the Rosary, When will the faithful stop being persecuted? When the Lord Jesus returns, and not before. In the Bible’s main reading (Luke 21:12-19), the Lord Jesus warns the crowd at that time and all of us today. “They will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name.” Like th...

Friends of the Rosary, How do we handle interactions with our secular relatives and fiends when they insult and attack, trying to inflict pain on us? This Sunday, the solemnity of Christ the King, we found an answer in the main reading (Luke 23:35-43) when the rulers and the soldiers, sneering at Jesus on the cross, said: "He saved others, let him save himself if he is the chosen one, the Chr...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, when honoring Saint Andrew Dŭng-Lạc, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs, we see in the Gospel (Luke 21:1-4) a poor widow trusting herself entirely to the Divine Providence by putting her last penny into the temple treasury. Christ said, "I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, bu...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Sunday, November 23, is the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. It’s the feast of Christ, the King, radiant, majestic, and divine, when He establishes His Kingdom of light upon earth. It’s also the feast of the glorified Savior, the Warrior, and Conqueror. In 1925, Pope Pius XI 1925 established this feast as an antidote to secularism, which organ...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, the eve of the solemnity of the kingship of Christ, we honor the beloved Saint Cecilia, virgin and martyr, who gave her life for Christ during the persecutions of the 3rd century. The tradition says that on her wedding day, Cecilia “sang to God in her heart” as she desired to live for Christ alone. However, with the help of an angel, Cecilia converted her pagan husban...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 21, the Church of Christ celebrates the Memorial of the Presentation of Mary. On September 8, we celebrated the Birthday of Our Lady, and on September 12, the Holy Name. With the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, we complete this Marian cycle, which is parallel with the first three feasts of our Lord in the liturgical calendar: the birth of Christ or Christ...

Friends of the Rosary, We reflected yesterday on this teaching of the Lord: "To everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away." It’s amazing how Christ Jesus draws parallels between business lessons like investment, risk, and return, and a virtuous life. Bishop Barron explains, “The reason is clear. God exists in gift form. Therefore, if yo...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, as we read in the Gospel of Luke 19:11-28, Christ Jesus explained, through a parable, how God bestows his grace to free us from our own mediocre expectations because of our weaknesses. This way, we avoid being paralyzed by self-absorption, fear, and an incorrect view of the Divinity, like the third servant. We must always trust in God’s goodness and mercy. Today's par...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 18, is the Memorial of the Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter and Paul, the two great Roman basilicas of St. Peter at the Vatican, on the site of the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles, and of St. Paul-Outside-the-Walls, situated at the other end of the city on the Ostian Way, where the Apostle of the Gentiles was sacrificed. These two basilicas in the...

Friends of the Rosary, From the earliest days until the present, the nascent Church of Christ has been targeted by the enemies of the faith. The Church will announce, until the end of time, that the old world is passing away, that a new world of love, nonviolence, and life is emerging. The announcement that the current world is passing away and a new Kingdom of love, peace, and true life, as we re...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Mass — the last of our liturgical year, as next Sunday will be the feast day of the Kingship of Christ — we are reminded that this world will come to an end one day, although we do not know when or how it will occur ( St. Luke 21:5-19). The end will be followed immediately by the general judgment that will seal our eternal fate. Christ will come in power and glory...

Friends of the Rosary, Lord Jesus explains in today’s reading (Matthew 13:47-5) how the end of the present time will unfold. He said to the crowds: "The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age.   T...

Friends of the Rosary, The second coming of Christ Jesus will be like the time of Noah, as He revealed to his disciples and we read today (Luke 17:26–37): "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all." The flood...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, the Catholic Church in the U.S. celebrates the Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), a virgin and the first American citizen to be canonized. Born in Lombardy, Italy, to a family of thirteen children, she came to America as a missionary, founding the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for poor children in schools and hospitals. At her death,...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Josaphat (1580-1643), a Catholic and a Ukrainian Basilian monk who is invoked as the “Apostle of Unity.” As Archbishop of Polotsk (present-day Ukraine), he promoted unity between East and West by fostering an Eastern liturgy in union with Rome. Josaphat was murdered by an angry Orthodox mob in Russia on November 12, 1623, at t...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, on Veterans Day (USA) and Remembrance Day (Canada), we remember in our prayers those who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Veterans Day is set aside for honoring military veterans in America. Also, today, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Martin of Tours (and also remembers St. Mennas of Egypt (d. 300), an Egyptian soldier and martyr who was put t...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 10, we honor Pope and Doctor of the Church St. Leo the Great (400-461), who vigorously defended the unity of the Church, and during whose pontificate the Council of Chalcedon (451) defined that Christ is one divine person with two natures, divine and human. In the reading of the Gospel ( Luke 17:1-6 ), we listen to the Son of God talking to his disciples, “If...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Sunday, November 9, we celebrate the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome, the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, and the oldest church in the West. Built during the time of Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, when Christians were granted freedom to practice their religion. This Cathedral/Basilica is called “mother and head of all the...

Friends of the Rosary, Ten years ago, Louis and Zélie Martin — the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, pictured — were canonized as a model of a joyful and holy marriage. Pope Leo said their lives show “marriage as a path to holiness.” "Among the vocations to which men and women are called by God, marriage is one of the noblest and most elevated.” Pope Leo XIV urged couples to look to the Sain...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 16:1–8), Lord Jesus tells a parable urging us to take a hard look at our spiritual health and renew our relationship with him. He acknowledges our weaknesses — even dishonesty, as described in the parable of the stewardship. Despite our faults, the Savior invites us to start a new life in Christ by correcting our errors and developing the necess...

Friends of the Rosary, When the Pharisees and scribes recriminated the Lord for welcoming sinners and eating with them, Jesus responded by addressing the parable of the lost sheep, as we read today (Luke 15:1–10). He then invited them to rejoice over the found sheep. “In just the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have...

Friends of the Rosary, At that time, addressing the crowds, Christ Jesus instructed them, as we are reading today (Luke 14:25-33): "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple." Moreover, the Lord doubled down on the message: "Everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple." Here on Earth, we, sinners after all,...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 4th, the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo (1538-1584), bishop. Charles Borromeo, the bishop of Milan, came from a wealthy, aristocratic Italian family. He lived a lavish life, emulating the lifestyles of the rich and famous of the Renaissance in the sixteenth century. His maternal uncle, from the powerful Medici family, was the pope, who...

Friends of the Rosary, From November 1st to the 8th, we celebrate the Octave of the Faithful Departed by praying for the Holy Souls in Purgatory and acknowledging that they, too, are praying for us. The majority of people who die are not saints: they might be God’s friends as they are not against the Lord, but at the same time are not fully initiated into the divine life, as Bishop Barron explains...