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Friends of the Rosary: Refusing to acknowledge our sins from the depths of our hearts is a huge misfortune. Confession of sin is necessary for our own healing and the healing of our society. That’s what makes us truly worthy as human beings. The hatred of war is the mark of the Beast. The angel of darkness wants to divide us as much as possible, even to the point of killing each other. He does eve...

Friends of the Rosary: Our Lady of Fatima visited the three shepherds for the last time on October 13, 1917, and as promised, she provided a convincing sign about her apparitions. Francisco, Jacinta, and Lucia; ages 10, 9 and 7, along with a crowd of 70,000 witnessed how suddenly the clouds separated and the sun appeared between them in the clear blue, like a disk of white fire. They could look at...

Friends of the Rosary: Jesus sent His disciples two by two to spread the Word and build the Kingdom. Last week, we read about it in the tenth chapter of Luke’s Gospel (LUKE 10:1–12 ). “Jesus appointed seventy-two other disciples whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.” We do missionary work together, in community. As we belong to one another, we need to gat...

Friends of the Rosary: We read in the Gospel today that one of the disciples asked the Lord to teach to pray just as John the Baptist taught to his followers. And Christ Jesus revealed the key prayer for our Christian pilgrimage on earth (Lk 11:1-4): "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves for...

Friends of the Rosary: In wars we see the worse aspect of human beings. We became like wild animals forgetting that life is a free gift from the Creator. This Sunday, when the war in Israel and Palestine broke out, we read on the Gospel the parable of the tenants who refused to give the landowner the fruits of the harvest, to the point of beating and killing servants and even the landowner’s son....

Friends of the Rosary: Today, Columbus Day in the U.S., we continue witnessing with sorrow the explosion of violence, and increased hatred and division, in Israel and Gaza, along with the horror and anguish of 130 innocent Israelis kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. There are too many casualties and injured people (over 1,200), which both Israelis and Palestinians have to deal with. The sacred places...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, Sunday, the Day of the Lord, we pray for the end of violence in Israel and Gaza, after terrorists and evil-doers of Hamas launched an unprovoked attack and took innocent hostages. Our heart is with the relatives of the victims and the kidnapped families who are experiencing hours of anguish and terror. We all have to repent for offending the Creator and recognize the...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, October the 7th, is the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope St. Pius V in thanksgiving for the naval victory over the Turks at the battle of Lepanto on this day in the year 1571, a favor due to the recitation of the Rosary. Pope St. Pius V and all Christians prayed the Rosary, which at that time was called the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin M...

Friends of the Rosary: Most of the souls in hell are those who disbelieved that there is a place for the dammed. This is what St. Faustina Kowalska wrote in her diary after having a vision of hell.  “I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence.” In October 1936, she was led by an angel to what s...

Friends of the Rosary: One of the saints we honor today is the Polish nun Faustina Kowalska, the apostle of the Divine Mercy. In 1931, Jesus Christ appeared to Faustina as the King of Divine Mercy. He chose her to deliver to the modern world the message of the merciful love of the Divinity for all people, especially sinners. Christ asked her to have a picture painted of Him as she saw him — clothe...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), founder of the Franciscan Order. He was the first person recorded to receive the stigmata — the five wounds of Christ. At the age of 20, he decided to abandon everything for Christ embracing complete poverty and taking the Gospel as his rule of life. Out of humility, Francis never accepted the priesthood and remain...

Friends of the Rosary: When we deeply offend the Author of Life, there are two possible solutions, as Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa wrote in his book "The Power of the Cross." The first is the path taken by Judas, who cried. "I have sinned in betraying innocent blood" and then went out and hanged himself (Mt 27:4ff). The other is the path taken by Peter who went out and "w...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, October 2nd, is the Feast of the Guardian Angels, a celebration in the Christian tradition that honors the belief in guardian angels. Every human soul has a Guardian Angel who watches over and protects us from both spiritual and physical evil. They guide us to Heaven only if we desire it since they cannot act directly upon our will or intellect, as  St. Thomas Aquinas...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, the Sunday liturgy supersedes the Memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873-1897), more popularly known as "the Little Flower." This French Carmelite nun, patroness of all foreign missions and patroness of France, and declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope St. John Paul II, died of consumption at the age of 24. The Little Flower att...

Friends of the Rosary: Pope St. John Paul II in 1994 urged Catholics to make the prayer to St. Michael a regular part of their lives. The prayer, composed by Pope Leo, states: St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the divine power of God, ca...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Archangels Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Believing in the existence of the spiritual, that Sacred Scripture calls “angels” is a truth of faith. Angels are pure, non-corporeal heavenly spirits, on a higher order than human beings. They do not depend on matter for their existence or activity. The name angel means servant or messenge...

Friends of the Rosary: We read last week (Lk 8:1-3) how Jesus was journeying from one town and village to another proclaiming the Good News and being accompanied by the Twelve Apostles and some women. Among them, "Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna, the wife of Herod's steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their resources.&qu...

Friends of the Rosary: A friend of a friend, Jeff Smith, who recently passed away victim of cancer at the age of 51, left his friends with this insightful message: “Stop wasting your time searching. Spend your time learning to love others more perfectly and accept the great gifts that Jesus wants to give you.” Jeff also emphasized: “Start acting on the Truth that God has already placed in your hea...

Friends of the Rosary: In today's reading (Lk 8:19-21), Christ Jesus says: 'My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.' Is he dismissing His own mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary? Not at all. What the Son of God is saying is that our own family should not be our ultimate priority. God is the cornerstone of our lives. Christ Jesus is our mission, without a...

Friends of the Rosary: Yesterday's parable of a landowner hiring laborers and paying them equally regardless of their amount of work was a demonstration of the unfathomable mercy of God, rather than a reflection on equal rights. Any saint, whether known or unknown, who endeavors to share the love of God with their neighbors, profoundly grasps the essence of this parable. Furthermore, such an i...

Friends of the Rosary: The prophet Isaiah reminded us that God's ways are not our ways. We have to read through these lenses in today's reading (Matthew 20:1-16A).  The Divinity's vision of justice differs from ours. The parable of the landowner who goes out to hire workers at different hours and pays each the same wage shouldn't disturb us. When the owner contends, "Am I not...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is the Memorial of St. Pius of Pietrelcina (1887-1968), more popularly known as Padre Pio. For fifty years, this contemporary saint was a much sought-after spiritual advisor, confessor, and intercessor at the monastery of San Giovanni Rotundo, in Italy, now a point of pilgrimage. His life was devoted to the Eucharist and prayer. And despite his notoriety, he often said...

Friends of the Rosary: Grace is given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift, St. Paul wrote in his letter to the Ephesians (Eph 4:1-7, 11-13), as we read yesterday in the Gospel. To the holy ones, Christ equips them for building up His mystical body, the universal Church. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers are provided with the knowledge to spread the Eternal...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is the feast day of the Apostle and Evangelist St. Matthew. He had a hateful profession to the Jews, a tax collector for the Roman enemy until he got the call of Christ. One day, while seated at his table of books and money, Jesus looked at Matthew and said: "Follow me." These two words made him rise, leaving his money to follow Christ. Jesus changed the name...

• September 20, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • The Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here  Now ! Friends of the Rosary: Christ Jesus raised the son of a widow in a city called Nain, as we read in the New Testament yesterday (Luke 7:11-17). In this passage, we see the fear and desperation in this poor widow. At that time there was no social safety net, no...