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Friends of the Rosary, As we recite in the entrance antiphon today and learn in the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:1-3, 11-32), Our Lord is kind and full of compassion and mercy. God only desires our good. The Father “ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.” With the troubled older son, He does the same. He wants nothing more from us today than our “yes,” by which we “come to life”—eve...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, March 21, 2025, marks the fifth year since we started praying the Holy Rosary of Mary daily within this community. We are grateful and rejoice in the Holy Virgin as we have found favor in her Rosary — a special grace given to us! Just before his Passion, Jesus tells the parable of the wicked tenants (Matthew 21:33-46) to illustrate the consequences of rejecting God’s...

Friends of the Rosary, There are two major feasts in honor of St. Joseph, espouse of the Blessed Mother and patron of the Universal Church. On March 19, its solemnity day, we venerated him and his part in the work of redemption. On May 1, we honor him as the patron of workers worldwide and as our guide in our daily work obligations and rights in the social order. Liturgical veneration of St. Josep...

Friends of the Rosary, Today is the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and patron and protector of the universal family of the Church. Having died in the company of Mary and Jesus, he is also considered the patron saint of a happy death. Joseph gave his entire self to serve Jesus and Mary. He endured repeated difficulties, like the journey to Bethlehem, the exile into Egy...

Friends of the Rosary, "The scribes and the Pharisees preach but they do not practice," Jesus is saying in today's central reading (Matthew 23:1–12) "They have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. Do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example." "All their works are performed to be seen." This is the problem: a worldly menta...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, March 17, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial Day of St. Patrick, an influential saint of the fifth century who brought Christianity to the little country of Ireland. The feast is celebrated in Ireland and among the Irish diaspora as a religious and cultural holiday. In the Catholic Church in Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day of obligation. This d...

Friends of the Rosary, Today’s Sunday, the mass ( St. Luke 9:28-36) places before us the transfigured Lord. he is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all things. On the second Sunday of Lent, we move from Jesus' retreat to the desert and temptation by the devil to the glory shown in Jesus' Transfiguration. Christ Jesus shows forth His divine glory between Moses and Elias...

Friends of the Rosary, As we read today (Matthew 5:43-48), Christ Jesus tells us, through his disciples, in the Sermon of the Mountain: "I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father." When talking about our enemies, the Lord invites us to overcome evil with good while filling our hearts with the perfection of the...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s gospel reading (Matthew 5:20-26), Jesus says,  “Go first, be reconciled to your brother.”  He calls for a virtue deeper than the virtue of the scribes and the Pharisees, a virtue more radical than the one promoted by the Jewish Law. Jesus was concerned about human behavior, deep-seated emotions, and underlying attitudes that can eventually lead to killing. He proh...

Friends of the Rosary, The Lenten Christian is a time of cleansing. Prayers and pleas seek God’s grace and mercy to escape worldly desires and temptations. As we read today (Matthew 7:7-12) from Our Lord: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the d...

Friends of the Rosary, The prophet Jonah walked through the large city of Nineveh — a New York of that time —preaching repentance for three days, as we read today (Luke 11:29-32). At Jonah's preaching, the Ninevites turned back to God. They repented and believed, detaching from worldly pleasures and preoccupations. Christ himself — who is greater than Jonah — is the source of our repentance and co...

Friends of the Rosary, Our Lord teaches us to pray with our hearts, not just words. Jesus said to his disciples (Matthew 6:7-15): "In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him." "This is how you are to pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be th...

Friends of the Rosary, We confront temptations in our weakness and powerlessness, profoundly longing to be saved. The Lord sees our affliction and hears our cry. As Psalm 91 states, we shout, “Be with me, Lord, when I am in trouble.” If we believe with the heart that Jesus is Lord, we will be saved, as St. Paul states in Romans 10:8-13, “For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, the first Sunday of Lent, we see Christ Jesus led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil (Luke 4:1-13). Hungry, after fasting for forty days and nights, Jesus responded to the first temptation: “It is written, One does not live on bread alone.” To the second temptation of acquiring power and glory by worshipping the Evil One, Our Lord said: “It is wr...

Friends of the Rosary, On this Saturday after Ash Wednesday, in our itinerary of conversion of Lent, the Lord Jesus tells us, through the instantaneous conversion of Matthew (Luke 5:27-32), to get up and follow him from a lower form of life to a higher, from a preoccupation with the temporary goods of this world to an immersion in the goodness of God. “Follow me,” Jesus tells Matthew in today’s Go...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Friday after Ash Wednesday, on the memorial day of Perpetua and Felicity (d. 203), two saints taken from the Common of Martyrs, Christ Jesus is revealing once again what should be our priority as humans (Matthew 10:34-39): "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 whoe...

Friends of the Rosary, The 40 days of Lent are an itinerary of conversion. The penitential season precedes Holy Week with its Paschal Triduum—Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. As baptized people, we recognize our fragility and mortality, and yesterday’s act of putting on ashes symbolized this attitude. Yesterday, on Ash Wednesday, we also loudly expressed our need...

Friends of the Rosary, Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, the 40-day season that calls us to repentance and prayer while we look forward to the joy of Easter and the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. During Mass, we receive a mark of ashes on our forehead. This optional imposition of ashes is a physical symbol of our repentance and death—death to our selfish nature. Ashes remind us...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Tuesday before Ash Wednesday is a traditionally celebrated the Holy Face of Jesus. Gazing upon the face of Christ crucified unites us with all His sorrows, love, and total abandonment. In 1957, Pope Pius XII established this feast. Jesus revealed devotion to the Holy Face to Sister Marie of Saint Peter (1816-1848), a Carmelite nun from Tours, France. Our Lord said to...

Friends of the Rosary, Born of a wealthy Philadelphia family, Katharine Drexel (November 26, 1858, to March 3, 1955) used her inheritance to establish missions for the black and Native American peoples. Wanting to be “their mother and servant,” she dedicated her life to supporting the education and well-being of marginalized communities. St. Katharine Drexel founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacr...

Friends of the Rosary, In today's Sunday Gospel (Luke 6:39-45), Christ Jesus asks, "Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?" Our Lord invites us to entrust ourselves to people utterly dedicated to Christ. We are invited to surrender to Christ, find salvation in him, and deliver good fruit for the Kingdom. "A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tr...

Friends of the Rosary, "Whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child will not enter it." These are words of Our Lord as we read in today’s Gospel (Mark 10:13-16). A child-like attitude is needed to enter the Kingdom. Nor hardened heart nor arrogance. In his own image, he made us so we can love as God loves. The source of our existence is revealing to us, "Let the children...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Gospel (Mark 10:1–12), Jesus defines marriage as sacred. Marriage is a vocation and a deep sacramental commitment to God. In recent years, this sacrament has been dramatically compromised. Two people can come together purely for physical pleasure, for economic reasons, for psychological companionship, or even out of authentic love.
 
But that’s no reason to get ma...

Friends of the Rosary, With the hand, we reach out and grasp things. With the foot, we set ourselves on a definite path. We are the hands and feet of Christ on search. But if we fail because we place our energies on grasping at finite things or walk on pursuing glory, honor, power, or pleasure, what is our value for the Kingdom of Heaven? Rather than human organs, we are souls meant for union with...

Friends of the Rosary, John said to Jesus (Mark 9:38-40), “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us.” As we read today, Jesus teaches us that disciplesh...