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Friends of the Rosary, Today, July 25th, is the Feast of St. James, the Apostle, known as the Greater, to distinguish him from the other Apostle St. James the Lesser, who was chosen later. James was the cousin of Jesus Christ and the brother of John the Apostle. With Peter and John, James witnessed the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. He was also in the Garden of Gethsemane during Jesus’ agony. The...

Friends of the Rosary, The saint that we are celebrating today, the nineteenth Lebanese saint, Sharbel Makhluf, who devoted himself to unreserved prayer in his last 23 years on earth, said: “In a world largely fascinated by wealth and comfort, the paramount value of poverty, penance, and asceticism, to liberate the soul in its ascent to God.” Meanwhile, in the main reading of today (Matt 13:10-17)...

Friends of the Rosary, Today’s Gospel (Matthew 13:19) discusses the growth of the kingdom of God through the parable of the sower and the seed. Christ Jesus speaks in a timeless way to the whole world. Seated as teacher and judge, He explains that the seed —the eternal word, the Logos, Christ himself—lands on the path, where the birds eat it up; falls on rocky ground, where it is scorched in the s...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene, whom the Lord entrusted with announcing the great joy of the Resurrection to all others. Known as "the Apostle to the Apostles," she came from Magdala, a fishing village on the Sea of Galilee. Christ exorcised seven demons from Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene was privileged to see the resurrec...

Friends of the Rosary, We continue reciting the Rosary from Garabandal, where the Virgin Mary made herself present between 1961 and 1965, through four visionary girls and many witnesses who played a crucial role during the ecstasies. With the simplicity of a mother, Mary Most Holy gave her children the indications that they needed for the good of their souls. If we do not walk the way of the Cross...

Friends of the Rosary, Between 1961 and 1965, in the small village of Garabandal, in northern Spain, the Virgin Mary appeared to four girls, who transmitted Marian messages of repentance, prayer, and sacrifice. Conchita, Mari Cruz, Mari Loli, and Jacinta saw the Virgin Mary over 2,000 times during this period. The Holy Virgin interacted with the girls like an authentic mother, winning them over wi...

Friends of the Rosary, If we truly want to become disciples of the Lord Jesus, we must fully reorder our views, feelings, ideas, aspirations, and goals — everything. Almost everything that our modern culture proclaims seems to be worthless. The Kingdom of God requires a total commitment. Only the saints, canonized or anonymous, are that smart. Jesus said, as we read this week (Matthew 10:34—11:1):...

Friends of the Rosary, Yesterday, we learned that Christ is a new  ordo , a new way of ordering things under His kingship. He invites us to relieve our burdens, concerns, fears, and sins. He is tied with each one of us. Today in the reading (Matthew 12:1–8), the Lord tells us,  "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." We don’t deserve His mercy, but He offers it graciously, without reservation,...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Jesus says (Matthew 11:28–30): "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light." The Lord offers to relieve us of our burdens. He knows we feel oppressed by sin, concerns, sickn...

Friends of the Rosary, Today is the Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the feast day of the Carmelite Order and the Feast of the Scapular. We celebrate worldwide the devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and her Brown Scapular. This feast was instituted in 1332 and extended to the whole Church by Benedict XIII in 1726. In the twelfth century, a group of hermits living on Mount Carmel was organiz...

Friends of the Rosary, Today is the Memorial of St. Bonaventure (1221-1274), bishop and doctor of the Church, the General of the Franciscan Order at that time, and known because of his wisdom, eloquence, and sanctity as  the Seraphic Teacher. His contemporaries believed that no one was "more handsome, more holy, or more learned" than he. Dante had already included him among the inhabitan...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, July 14, in the United States, we celebrate the Feast Day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680), the first native American to be declared a Saint. Born in 1656 near Auriesville, New York, she was the daughter of a pagan Mohawk chief and a Christian Algonquin woman. When she was a child, a smallpox epidemic attacked her tribe, and both her parents and brother died. She...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Sunday, the 13th, when we remember the third apparition of Fatima, the Gospel of Luke (St. Luke 10:25-37) tells the parable of the Good Samaritan, a powerful lesson about mercy toward those in need. St. Augustine identifies the good Samaritan with our Lord, and the wounded man with Adam, the symbol of all fallen mankind. Christ Jesus, seeing man’s wounds and moved by...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Gospel (Matthew 10:24-33), Jesus tells his Apostles: "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." Through the power of Christ, we are connected to the source of life, receiving all the unconditional love of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In t...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, July 11, is the feast of St. Benedict (480-547). Born in Nursia, Italy, amid the ashes of the Roman Empire, and educated in Rome, he lived as a hermit and later organized a form of monastic life in twelve small monasteries. Under his guidance, as abbot, the monks vowed to seek God and devoted themselves to work and prayer. A few years later, St. Benedict left Subiaco...

Friends of the Rosary, Christ Jesus sent the Twelve apostles to evangelize the countryside, as we read today in the Gospel (Matthew 10:7–15). "As you go, make this proclamation: 'The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give." Evangelizing today means proclaiming Jesus, crucified...

Friends of the Rosary, Priests, bishops, cardinals, and popes throughout the centuries are the descendants of the twelve apostles of the Lord, who Christ Jesus summoned at that time to proclaim the kingdom of heaven, as we read today in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 10:1-7). These first disciples and apprentices were sent on a mission with the authority to drive out demons and unclean spirits and...

Friends of the Rosary, There are two imperatives in the Christian life: conversion and apostolic mission. The Lord invites us to a change of life and to become missionaries with what we have experienced. It’s the desire to share with others what we have seen. This way, as faithful disciples, we will seize the beauty of the revelation and its eternal truth. There is nothing more fulfilling on this...

Friends of the Rosary, In today's Gospel (Matthew 9:18-26), Christ Jesus shows his glorious power by curing a woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years and raising from death the daughter of an official. Neither physical suffering nor death is an obstacle to his miraculous healing. We need to have faith. Or, as the psalm of today says, "In you, my God, I place my trust." "Cou...

Friends of the Rosary, At that time, the Lord Jesus appointed seventy-two disciples and sent them in pairs to cure the sick, drive out demons, and proclaim that the Kingdom is at hand, as we read today in the Gospel (Luke 10:1-12, 17-20). “Behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals, and greet no one along the way.” The seventy-two trusted in divine pr...

Friends of the Rosary, How dangerous is the rise of AI for Christianity? At the Rosary Network, we consider that AI is just another technology that believers can use to do good. At our small organization, we find it helpful in creating faithful instructional content that would otherwise not be produced. Another  example  of usage is found in the pro-life movement. AI and digital technologies do no...

Friends of the Rosary, Today is Independence Day, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, issued by the Second Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia. On that day, the U.S achieved its place among the family of nations. Thirteen colonies set out to form a new form of unity and devised a new plan for government—the Constitution, and the United States began to gr...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, July 3, is the Feast of St. Thomas, the Apostle. Thomas, who at first did not believe, became one of the first witnesses to the faith by expressing the fervor of his regained confidence in God,  s eeing the Man Christ and acknowledging His divinity:  "My Lord and my God." "Because you have seen Me, Thomas, you have believed?"  said the Lord. Doubti...

Friends of the Rosary, July is a month that falls within the season of Ordinary Time, represented by the liturgical color green, which symbolizes hope. It's also the month associated with the Precious Blood of Our Lord, shed for us on Calvary and reassumed at His risen, glorified, and living body at the right hand of God the Father in heaven. The early Fathers say that the Church was born from the...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, the faithful celebrate the Memorial of St. Junípero Serra (1713-1784), the first Hispanic saint of the U.S. A native of Majorca, Spanish Franciscan friar Junípero Serra spread the Church and the Gospel along the Pacific Coast of the United States, founding 21 missions and converting thousands of Native Americans in the eighteenth century. The first mission founded was...