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Friends of the Rosary: Today, it starts the new Liturgical Year and it commences with the First Sunday of Advent. We open a season fit for a renewed commitment to the faith and to welcome the message of the Holy One. It's a rich and intense time for prayer as well as an awakening in our Christian life, which puts us in vigilant waiting: we wait for the Lord who is coming. We should prepare to...

Friends of the Rosary: The first 24 days of December are filled with celebration and preparation. The readings in the Gospel focus on the people of the Old Testament awaiting the Messiah, John the Baptist, heralding the way for Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary and her maternal preparations. We are getting ready for Christmas. However, too often material preparations make us lose sight. Through A...

Friends of the Rosary: This Sunday we start the liturgical season of Advent, represented by the liturgical color purple—a symbol of penance and the sorrow of a contrite heart. After the 22 days of Advent, we will begin the Christmas season, with the liturgical color of white or gold—a symbol of joy, purity, and innocence. The Pope's intentions for this month go to people living with disabiliti...

Friends of the Rosary: On November 30, Catholics worldwide celebrate the feast of St. Andrew, apostle and martyr. A fisherman from Bethsaida and brother of Simon Peter, St. Andrew spread Christianity in Russia and Asia Minor in the first century. He was crucified by the Romans in Greece on an X-shaped cross, which is now his distinctive symbol as well as the symbol of Scotland, of which he is the...

Friends of the Rosary: In Christ, we are well protected. Haters of the faith can pursue, mock, and insult us. The Evil one can twist people, and even family members, against us. We can be imprisoned, as is happening in many countries hostile to Christianity. In the Western hemisphere, ideologies can question the sanctity of life while attacking Christian families, marriages, and children. But the...

Friends of the Rosary: The end of the world will be preceded by fake prophets — the Anti-Christ — and huge tribulations in the form of wars, earthquakes, and famines. We even will see signs coming from the sky performed by the Anti-Christ.  Christ Jesus revealed this in the Gospel, as we read today in Luke 21:5-11. "See that you not be deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I a...

Friends of the Rosary: Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal is commemorated today. We recall when Our Lady appeared to St. Catherine Labouré and revealed to her the images of the miraculous medal. In the year 1830, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Labouré, a Daughter of Charity in Paris, and told her that God had a mission for her. The Holy Virgin held her hands outstretched in the ma...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, as every year on the last Sunday of the liturgical year, the Catholic Church observes the solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe — also known as the feast of Christ the King. This celebration, on the last Sunday before the first Sunday of Advent, was instituted a century ago by Pope Pius XI. In his 1925 encyclical Quas Primas , Pius XI rightly wrote...

Friends of the Rosary: Christ Jesus is the living God that dwells with us until the end of times. Secularism rejects this universal truth, which is the foundation of human existence. Instead organizes life as if God didn't exist. It proposes a way of life that leaves God out of man's thinking and living. As an antidote to secularism, Pope Pius XI established in 1925 the feast of Christ the...

Friends of the Rosary: As we are reading today in the Gospel (Lk 19:45-48), Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things, saying to them: "It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves." At that time, the temple was the economic, political, and religious center of life. It was the dwelling place of God...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, the dioceses of the United States celebrate Thanksgiving Day as a sign of American unity and thanksgiving to God who has given us great gifts. In 1621, colonists in New England gave communal thanks and praise to God for his abundant mercies and blessings. This became a tradition and in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln instituted Thanksgiving Day as a legal holiday. He...

Friends of the Rosary: Yesterday, we reflected on the Feast of the Presentation of Mary, marking an early commencement of the Advent season. The Universal Church of Christ inaugurates its new liturgical year on the first Sunday of December. Advent points us both toward Christ’s Second Coming in glory at the end of time and also toward Christmas, the celebration of His first coming. Advent urges us...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, we celebrate the Memorial of the Presentation of Mary. Liturgically, the cycle of these three Marian feasts: the Birthday of Our Lady (September 8), the Holy Name of Mary (September 12), and her Presentation in the Temple (November 21) precedes the first three feasts of our Lord: the birth of Christ on Christmas (December 25), the Holy Name of Jesus (January 3), and H...

Friends of the Rosary: In the Parable of the Talents, in Matthew 25:14–30, that we read yesterday, Christ Jesus invited us to rediscover the gifts and graces we have received from the Lord and put them in the service of others. It’s not about hiding those talents and burying them underground. That’s faith in action. That’s the way to carry on the plan of God. And mind you, the Lord will reward our...

Friends of the Rosary: We hear today Sunday the Parable of the Talents, in Matthew 25:14–30, which teaches us about responsibly using the gifts and opportunities we have been given by the Lord. This parable tells of a master who was leaving his house to travel, and, before leaving, entrusted his property to his servants. According to the abilities of each man, one servant received five talents, th...

Friends of the Rosary: Today Saturday's feast is dedicated to the Basilicas of St. Peter and St. Paul, at the Vatican and in the Ostian Way, in Rome, where both apostles were martyred. The two holy tombs are a glory of Christendom. The Eternal City has two principal churches, St. Peter's and St. John Lateran, the mother of all churches on earth, and the church to the bishop of Rome. This c...

Friends of the Rosary: In today’s Gospel (Lk 17:26-37), Jesus says that the days of his Second Coming will be like the days of Noah. "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all." In Noah’s time, sin was dominant...

Friends of the Rosary: Friends of the Rosary: Today we read in the Gospel ( Lk 17:20-25 ) how Christ Jesus responded to the Pharisees regarding the Kingdom of Heaven: "The coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it is.' For behold, the Kingdom of God is among you." Today, we also honor Saint Gertrude the Gr...

Friends of the Rosary: In His journey to Jerusalem, as He was traveling through Samaria and Galilee, Christ Jesus healed ten lepers, but only one of them, a Samaritan, thanked Him, glorifying God in a loud voice. As we read in the Gospel today ( Lk 17:11-19 ), Jesus said, “Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” Then...

Friends of the Rosary: The readings in the Gospel are preparing us for the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, this November 26th.  Christ's reign is still under attack by the evil powers, even though they were defeated by Jesus' Sorrowful Passion – that we pray today. Until everything is subject to Him, and this sinful world passes, the pilgrim Chruch will continue s...

Friends of the Rosary: Yesterday's reading highlighted the critical importance of living ever vigilant, with our lamps lit. Our Lord described what happened at a Jewish wedding festival and how five foolish virgins were excluded from the nuptials. This parable of the wedding feast, as told by our Lord, describes the kingdom of God and forewarns that many Christians will be excluded from the he...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, in Sunday's reading, we reflect upon the Parable of the Ten Virgins, also known as the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins or the Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids (Matthew 25:1–13). Ten virgins await a bridegroom; five have brought enough oil for their lamps for the wait, while the oil of the other five runs out. The five virgins who are wise and are prepared fo...

Friends of the Rosary: We might have peace in our souls, but the enemy is always in attack mode. We're fighting a continuous battle with the Evil One. Like many saints before us, we too are discovering the traps set by the enemy. In the case of this servant, the attacks often occur during the night while sleeping. One valuable lesson learned from these battles is to never engage. If cornered,...

Friends of the Rosary: The Spirit of the Truth dwells within us. Therefore, we have to behave accordingly to this revelation. In the words of St. Paul in 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17, we're God's building, as we read yesterday. "Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for the te...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, November 9th, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Dedication of the St. John Lateran Basilica, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome and the oldest church in the West. It was built in the time of Emperor Constantine — when Christians were granted freedom to practice their religion — and consecrated by Pope Sylvester in 324. Also called the Church of Holy Sa...