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Friends of the Rosary, Today, in the Gospel of John (John 17:20-26), Christ Jesus prays for our unity with him and with each other. “I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought  to perfection as one, that the world may know that  you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me.” Jesus, who speaks and a...

Friends of the Rosary, The word of the Father is truth, as Jesus highlights in the Gospel of John today (John 17:11 b-19). However, the world hates the truth. Christ doesn't want us to live out of our earthly reality. He wants us to be consecrated to the truth, avoid sin, and share His joy. Lifting his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, "I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy ­complete...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s reading (John 17:1–11a), we see Jesus praying to the Father. “I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.” In Christ, heaven and earth, God and humanity, came together. By healing the sick and setting the pathway for mercy...

Friends of the Rosary, In this Monday of the last week of Easter, we reflect on the joys of the mystery of the Ascension. If we love the Lord Jesus, we must rejoice in His glorification, having finished His earthly Passion. Before leaving them, He said to the apostles,  “If you loved Me, you would indeed be glad, because I go to the Father.”  It was foretold that Christ should suffer to enter into...

Friends of the Rosary, In most countries and ecclesiastical provinces in the U.S., the Seventh Sunday of Easter is today celebrated as the Solemnity of the Ascension of Christ Jesus into heaven, marking the end of His earthly life. Ascending again to His Father, Our Lord preceded us into the heavenly home. This triumphant event fills humans with immense joy as it announces what awaits us. The feas...

Friends of the Rosary, Shortly after the Annunciation and before the birth of St. John the Baptist, we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth. This feast of medieval origin includes many key events: the cleansing of John the Baptist from original sin in the womb of his mother at the words of Our Lady's greeting; Elizabeth's proclaiming of M...

Friends of the Rosary, In today's Gospel (John 16:20-23), Jesus promises us that after grief, our hearts will rejoice, and then we won't question him. He said to his disciples: "You will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy." Our Lord also promised: "Whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you." Ave Maria!...

Friends of the Rosary, Today is the liturgical Solemnity of the Ascension, a feast that takes place on the fortieth day after Easter Sunday. Since it falls on a Thursday, in many countries and ecclesiastical provinces in the U.S., this Solemnity is transferred to the Seventh Sunday of Easter, which is June 1. The ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Omaha, and Philadelph...

Friends of the Rosary, Like He is doing today, at that time in Galilee, Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to guide the Church through time, as we read in the Gospel (John 16:12–15): " I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth." We all require a divine guide, an advocate, through whom the words of...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, in the Gospel’s main reading (John 16:5-11), Christ Jesus says that after He goes — and this week we celebrate His ascension —  “the Advocate will come to you.” At that time, the Holy Spirit fed the first apostles and Christians when they faced the challenge of proclaiming the Gospel to a pagan world. Today, the Sanctifier helps us in our ecclesial communion, built  “...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Memorial Day in the U.S., is the Feast Day of St. Philip Neri (1515-1595), a gracious, cheerful priest who was Rome's apostle of the sixteenth century, one of the Eternal City's patron saints. He was a great educator of youth, spent whole nights in prayer, had a great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and burned with an unbounded love for mankind. As a confes...

Friends of the Rosary, Christ the Son and the Father come to each of us and adapt their dwelling, knowing our struggles and weaknesses, as we read today in the Gospel of John (John 14:23-29). "Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him." Also in the main reading, the Lord Jesus says that the Holy Spirit, whom the Father w...

Friends of the Rosary, Today we celebrate the Solemnity of Mary Help of Christians. Throughout the ages, Mary has come to the aid of individuals, families, towns, and nations. It is the Will of God that we have the Help of Mary through the recitation of the Holy Rosary. After proving her maternal help, Our Lady has continued to appear in hundreds of places throughout the world, mainly during the 2...

Friends of the Rosary, Christ Jesus, the icon of God the Father, revealed to us the eternal truth of the universe. As we read today in the Gospel (John 15:12-17), he said to his disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” “You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slave...

Friends of the Rosary, Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Rita of Cascia (1386-1457), an Italian saint known for her patience, cheerfulness, and union by prayer with God. After eighteen years of married life, St. Rita lost, by death, her husband and her two sons. Rita's parents gave her in marriage, at the age of eighteen, to an impulsive, irascible, and abusive man. Two sons were born to t...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Gospel reading (John 15:1–8), Jesus declares that he is the vine, and we are the branches who must remain in him. To unleash the spiritual power we are created for, we must participate in Christ’s divine life. "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so t...

Friends of the Rosary, The world, under the rule of darkness, doesn’t provide any peace, joy, or hope. Only the Son of Man does. As we read today (14:27-31a), Jesus said to his disciples: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid." In the same passage, the Lord is revealing that "the rule...

Friends of the Rosary, We often wonder how to love the Lord Jesus or increase our love for Him. The Son of Man provides an answer in the reading today (John 14:21-26). He said to his disciples: "Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him." "Whoever loves me will keep...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Fifth Sunday of Easter, at Mass’ Second Reading, at the end of the Book of Revelation (21:1-5a) , John describes the Heavenly Jerusalem, where we will joyfully dwell with Christ Jesus forever, once the old order - “the former heaven and earth” - has passed away. As John saw, the New Jerusalem, the new holy city, will  be “a new heaven and a new earth.” In the main rea...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Gospel (John 14:7-14), Jesus said to his disciples, “Whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.”  When we pray in the name of Jesus, we are relying on his intimacy with the Father, trusting that the Father will listen to The Son pleads on our behalf to the Father, and...

Friends of the Rosary, As we read today (John 14:1-6), Jesus said to his disciples: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father's house, there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?" "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Toda...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, May 15, is the Feast of Isidore the Farmer, spouse of another saint, his own wife, St Maria de la Cabeza, two holy souls of the twelfth century in Madrid, Spain. They devoutly attended Mass every day before their daily labors. They served the poor in the city slums, and angels were said to accompany St. Isidore in his work. Isidore and Maria de la Cabeza had a son, wh...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, May 14, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Matthias, apostle and martyr, chosen by the Holy Spirit. Matthias, who was present in the Upper Room at Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came down as tongues of fire, would become the twelfth apostle after Judas’ betrayal and death. The events took place this way: after the Ascension of Jesus, St. Peter proposed to...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, May 13, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, or Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima (Nossa Senhora de Fátima). This feast commemorates the Blessed Virgin Mary’s first of six appearances to three Portuguese shepherd children in 1917. During the apparitions, Mary revealed herself as Our Lady of the Rosary and conveyed messages about the impo...

Friends of the Rosary, Christ Jesus is the gate to life. As we read today (John 10:1-10), the Messiah said to the Pharisees, "I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destro...