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Friends of the Rosary, Today, Sunday, November 2, after we celebrated yesterday the feast of All Saints, is the  Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day).  The Militant Church on earth prays for the Suffering Church in Purgatory, all those souls in the purifying suffering who await the day they will join in heavenly glory to the company of saints — the Church Triumphant. The...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 1, is the Solemnity of All Saints. The Catholic Church celebrates the multitude of saints in heaven — canonized and uncanonized — enjoying the beatific view. We all have this "universal call to holiness," to join the company of the saints in heaven. To achieve this, we follow in Christ’s footsteps and conform ourselves to His image, seeking the will...

Friends of the Rosary, Tomorrow, November 1, is the solemnity of All Saints, and today, October 31, is the Eve of All Saints, commonly known as Halloween. In England, saints or holy people are called “hallowed,” hence the name “All Hallows’ Day.” Pope Sixtus IV, in 1484, established November 1 as the feast of All Saints, a holy day of obligation, and assigned both a vigil, “All Hallows’ Eve” or “H...

Friends of the Rosary, One of this month's passages from the Gospel (Luke 10:25-37) spoke vividly about eternal life. In this regard, St. Augustine wrote in his fourth letter to his deceased brother Sapidas: «Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me i...

Friends of the Rosary, This month, Pope Leo XIV released the apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You). It’s a moving and challenging reminder that the love of God and love of neighbor are one. “Charitable works are the burning heart of the Church’s mission.” Dilexi Te calls for the transformation of hearts and the way we see one another. Especially our love for the poor, to whom we have...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, October 28, we celebrate the feast day of two great apostles: St. Jude Thaddeus and St. Simon the Zealot St. Jude Thaddeus, brother of St. James the Lesser, preached the Gospel in Judea, Samaria, Idumaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Libya. He suffered martyrdom in Armenia, which was then under Persian rule. He is the author of an epistle (letter) to the Churches of the Ea...

Friends of the Rosary, Today in the Gospel (Luke 13:10-17), we see Our Lord performing a miracle on a woman who was crippled by a dark spirit for eighteen years. Christ sets her free from her infirmity. "This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?” "When he said this, all his adversaries were humil...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Sunday, the Day of the Lord, Christ Jesus tells us (Luke 18:9-14) of two righteous and unrighteous people: the Pharisee and the tax collector, who both pray in a very different manner. The tax collector, aware of his unworthiness, beats his breast and prays: 'O God, be merciful to me a sinner.' His failure led him to depend on and hope the Lord would rescue hi...

Friends of the Rosary, In today's Gospel (Luke 13:1-9), the Lord Jesus gives us the parable of a fig tree that bears no fruit. This tree symbolizes the moral person who bears no spiritual fruit. Christ is the vine, and we are the branches, meaning we are—or should be—conduits of divine grace into the world. We are meant to bring the fruits of charity and love and forgiveness. However, as St. P...

Friends of the Rosary, Christ the Lord is inviting us to be attentive and read the signs of the times in today’s reading (Luke 12:54-59), "You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; why do you not know how to interpret the present time?" declares his desire to spread eternal life among human beings through the fire of the Holy Spirit. He says, The faithful are mea...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s reading (Luke 12:49-53), Christ the Lord declares his desire to spread eternal life among human beings through the fire of the Holy Spirit. He says, "I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!" Jesus is the bearer of the divine life, the spreader of the fire that sets the world ablaze, and we are obligated to be a condu...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, October 22, is the feast of St. John Paul II (1920-2005). Born in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland, and elected pope in 1978, Karol Jozef Wojtyla demonstrated exceptional apostolic zeal throughout his earthly life, particularly for families, young people, and the sick, and exhibited an intensified pastoral commitment with heroic generosity. He promulgated the Catechism of the...

Friends of the Rosary, Lord Christ says today in the Gospel (Luke 12:35-38), "Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival." In today’s reading, Jesus is calling us to be vigilant for the Second Coming. The Lord tells the parable of the faithful servant whom the master finds vigilant on his return from a wedding.   The creed we recite every day says, “He will...

Friends of the Rosary, Yesterday, in St. Peter’s Square, Rome, Pope Leo XIV proclaimed seven new saints, “witnesses who with God’s grace, kept the lamp of faith burning.” “They became lamps capable of spreading the light of Christ,” the Holy Father said in his homily. “May their intercession assist us in our trials and their example inspire us in our shared vocation to holiness,” he said. During t...

• October 19, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • The Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here  Now ! Friends of the Rosary, In today’s main reading, from  St. Luke 18:1-8,   Christ the Lord teaches us, through a parable, the need for perseverance in prayer. When we give to ourselves, we become weak and forget to be humble. Our perseverance develops trust and co...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, October 18th, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of St. Luke, the author of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. He was a physician, born in Antioch, Syria, and he accompanied St. Paul on part of his missionary travels and during his stay in prison in Rome, as recorded in the Acts, which also details the life of the early Christian communities. He was...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, we honor Ignatius of Antioch, the third bishop of Antioch in Syria, who suffered martyrdom in the Roman Amphitheater around 107, for unambiguously proclaiming the apostolic faith. About the Eucharist, he said, The Eucharist is 'the flesh of Christ' and the 'medicine of immortality.' Related to the immortality of the soul, in today's reading (Luke 12:1-7), Christ Our L...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, October 15, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorials of St. Hedwig (1174-1243) and St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690). Our Lord chose Margaret Mary Alacoque, a nun in the Visitation Convent at Paray-le-Monial, France, to spread devotion to his Sacred Heart and to establish the devotion of the Holy Hour. This was at a time when the Protestant rebellion and the...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, October 15, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). Born in Avila, Spain, in the year 1515, this sixteenth-century Spaniard saint is honored as the "seraphic virgin," virgo seraphica ,  doctrix mystica , doctor of mystical theology, and teacher of the spiritual life. She reformed the Carmelite Order, with the help of St. John of...

Friends of the Rosary, The Miracle of the Sun , performed by Our Lady on October 13, 1917, was understood by the people as confirmation that the three children were telling the truth about the Marian apparitions and the messages of the Secret of Fatima, which consisted of three parts. The first part was a frightening vision of hell, "where the souls of poor sinners go," and contained an...

Friends of the Rosary, On October 13, 1917, a crowd of 70,000 people — believers and skeptics alike — witnessed in Fatima, Portugal, the “Miracle of the Sun,” or “the day the sun danced.” Our Lady of Fatima had promised the children— Francisco, Jacinta, and Lucia, ages 10, 9, and 7 — that during the last of her six appearances, she would provide a sign so people would believe in the apparitions an...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Sunday, the Day of the Resurrection of the Lord, we celebrate the Feast day of Our Lady of the Pillar, the first Marian apparition in the Church’s history, and also the Memorial of newly canonized St. Carlo Acutis. Today’s reading ( St. Luke 17:11-19) shows ten lepers meeting the Lord Jesus and all being cured.  As they were going to visit the priests, only one leper,...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, on the Feast of St. John XXII, we reflect on the words of Pope Leo XIV, addressing consecrated persons in the Vatican this week , and reminding them that “living one’s vows means abandoning oneself like children in the Father’s arms.” The Holy Father reflected on the phrase from the Gospel of St. Luke: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock an...

Friends of the Rosary, This week, Pope Leo XIV, addressing consecrated persons in the Vatican , reminded them that “living one’s vows means abandoning oneself like children in the Father’s arms.” The Holy Father reflected on the phrase from the Gospel of St. Luke: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you” (Lk 11:9). With these words, he explained...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, October 9, we honor a 3rd-century French martyr and fellow missionaries, St. Denis, who gave themselves to the preaching of the Gospel.  St. Denis, the principal patron of France, appears in art bearing his own head, as shown in the picture. The pagan priests of that time convinced the Romans to arrest Denis and his companions. They tortured and beheaded them on a hil...