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Friends of the Rosary, Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of St. John Bosco (1815-1888), the Italian priest who founded the Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesians) and the Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix, Help of Christians. He was the great apostle of youth, an enlightened educator, leader, and innovator centered on persuasion, authentic religiosity, and love for young people. D...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, we pray for the victims and their families for the victims of the deadly plane crash in Washington, DC.  That's an invitation to reflect on the precious gift of life and its fulfillment in Christ. And the lamp of the Eternal Word is to be placed to make it visible.  He says today (Mark 4:21-25) "For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible; nothing is secret...

Friends of the Rosary, In today's Gospel reading (Mark 4:1-20), Christ Jesus spoke to the Twelve, explaining the meaning of the parable of the sower who went out to sow. He revealed to them the mystery of the Kingdom of God. "The sower sows the word. These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once  and takes away the word sown in them. And...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, January 28, is the Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Dominican priest from the thirteenth century and Doctor of the Church, known for this insightful Summa Theologiae, a masterful presentation of the sacred doctrine. He also wrote liturgical texts like the Pange Lingua Gloriosi, Tantum Ergo, and Salutaris Hostia. At the end of his life, a sacristan in Naples...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, January 27, on the Optional Memorial of Saint Angela Merici, we read in the Gospel (Mark 3:22-30) how Christ Jesus is revealing: "Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin." Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time is the Sunday of the Word of God, instituted by Pope Francis in 2019. In today's Gospel (Luke 4:14-15), we see Jesus returning to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and teaching in the synagogues being praised by all. In Nazareth, where he had grown up, Christ Jesus unrolled a scroll of the prophet Isaiah and read: The Spirit of...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, January 25, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, when he turned away from the persecution of Christians to promote Christianity. Born at Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia, of Jewish parents who were descended from the tribe of Benjamin, Saul was a Roman citizen from birth. To complete his schooling, he was sent to Jerusalem, learned fro...

Friends of the Rosary, Today is the Memorial of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Bishop and Doctor of the Church. St. Francis' ardent love of God and souls, his great kindliness, and his rare wisdom made him exceptionally influential in bringing about conversions and guiding souls in the spiritual life. He won back the faith of more than 70,000 heretics. The saint's Introduction to the De...

Friends of the Rosary, Dozens of millions of unborn babies have been killed in the womb in the U.S. and in the rest of the world. The number of abortions annually is still well over 900,000, and that number is expected to decrease only by roughly 200,000 each year in a post -Roe  America. The victim has his earthly life terminated. The mother suffers greatly for her actions. We know the devastatin...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, January 22, the Catholic Church in the U.S. celebrates the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. We Parishes and schools may celebrate the "Mass for Giving Thanks to God for the Gift of Human Life" and for the dignity of human life. Through our natural intelligence and Divine Revelation, we become aware of the value of the gift of life. We compreh...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, January 21, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Agnes of Rome, the fourth-century virgin martyr. At the age of twelve, she freely decided to die for Christ, keeping with the words of Christ and Saint Paul. Agnes, a young woman of incredible beauty and charm, suffered death for her consecration to Christ. And when the son of the Roman prefect offered to marry her, s...

Friends of the Rosary, We turn to Our Lady for our needs. As a good mother, she understands our joys and sorrows and responds to the needs of her children. Yesterday, we heard about the wedding feast at Cana, as Jesus’ mother said to the servants: “Do whatever He tells you.” The perfect disciple of Our Lord — and our discipleship model represented the suffering humanity when she asked for divine i...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, January 19, Second Sunday in Ordinary Times, the Gospel’s central reading (John 2:1-12) presents us the episode of the Wedding at Cana, Christ’s first public miracle, his approval of marriage, and the intercessory power of the Blessed Mother Mary. Overall, we see the goodness and kindness of Christ granting the newly married groom an earthly gift by converting water i...

Friends of the Rosary, We should entrust our cares and our very lives to the Blessed Virgin Mary, for she is "the safest, easiest, shortest, and most perfect way" to Jesus and sanctity, as St. Louis de Montfort wrote in his "Treatise on the Ture Devotion to Mary." Following the Marian piety of St. Louis de Montfort, St. John Paul II chose as the papal motto "Totus Tuus&quo...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, the Catholic Church honors a 3rd-century saint, St. Anthony, an abbot and father of monastic monks and Christian asceticism, who retired to the desert at eighteen to live in perfect solitude and prayer. Many heard about his ascetic life and came to join him in his hermitage. He was born in Middle Egypt to distinguished parents. One day, while in church, he heard the w...

Friends of the Rosary, During these weeks until Lent, Christ Jesus, the source of life and hope, opens our souls to divine power. A few days ago, we concluded Christmas as the arrival of the Light amid darkness. “To the people who walked in the shadow of death, a light has shone” (Mt 4.16). It’s a time of fulfillment when we repent and abhor sin through a good sacramental confession and the Euchar...

Friends of the Rosary, We continue reflecting upon the celebration of Jubilee, one of the Catholic Church’s most significant events, occurring every 25 years. Hope is the engine of human existence. The Jubilee is an opportunity for Christians to reincorporate themselves in the Lord and go out there to spread the message of Salvation in full hope. Happy New Year 2025 to all, with wisdom and hope! A...

Friends of the Rosary, Pope Francis proclaimed 2025 as a Jubilee, or a Holy Year, following a tradition dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries. The Jubilee Year invites us to for evaluation and a new beginning in wisdom and hope. It is now 2025 years since the birth of Christ, the year 1 of the new era of humanity — therefore, history is told before and after Christ. This Jubilee is for us to...

Friends of the Rosary, The baptism brings us into the inner of God. It draws us into the relationship between the Father and the Son based on the love of the Holy Spirit. The sacrament of the Baptism — whose solemnity day we celebrated yesterday — is about our incorporation into the dynamics of God’s life. Christ Jesus is the vine, and we are the branches through which true life flows. As Bishop B...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, January 12, the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord. As we read in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 10:34-38), “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.” John baptized people with water, but Christ Jesus baptized them with the Holy Sp...

Friends of the Rosary, Happy New Year in Christ! Once again, we see in today’s Gospel (John 3:22-30) the greatness of John the Baptist, the forerunner of the Lord. Prophetically, he said, “He must increase; I must decrease.” In parallel, in his first letter (1 John 5:14-21), we see John alerting us against idols and revealing that the Evil One cannot touch whoever is with Christ. “We know that we...

Friends of the Rosary, Happy New Year in Christ! This Thursday after the Epiphany, Day Sixteen in Christmas, we pause to reflect on the wisdom of the “Three Holy Kings,” or the Magi, which means "great, illustrious." The Magi were called saints in the 12th century, and since then, the devotion has spread worldwide. These "Wise men from the East,” as St. Matthew called them, were a highly esteemed...

Friends of the Rosary, Happy New Year in Christ! Our Trinitarian God’s love is much more powerful than the dark powers of this world. The unfaithful, including the lukewarm, unleashed at that time its entire force against the Incarnated Wisdom and ended up putting the Son of God on the Cross. But God the Father expressed His authority by raising the Son and unveiling that human life is about love....

Friends of the Rosary, Happy New Year in Christ! Today, January 8, we celebrate Our Lady of Prompt Succor, a devotion started in 1802 in New Orleans by the Ursuline Order. This title translates to "Our Lady of Instant Help." Our Lady of Prompt Succor is the Patroness of the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. Since 1928, after many favors granted and prayers answered, a Mass of Thanksg...

Friends of the Rosary, Happy New Year in Christ! These days between Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord invite us to reflect on the mission of Jesus. His words and deeds reveal His divine identity as the Son of God and call us to embrace our baptismal identity and promises. Just as He healed and comforted the people of His time —in today's reading, Mark 6:34-44, Jesus feeds the five thousand, sym...