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Friends of the Rosary: Today, 60+ days after Easter Sunday, we celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body and Blood of Christ), the commemoration of the institution of that sacrament—the fifth Luminous mystery. In many parishes, there is an Eucharist Procession today. This Solemnity is a commemoration of the extraordinary act of love for us that our Divine Lord performed on the night before h...

Friends of the Rosary: While we prepare for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, tomorrow Sunday, June 11, we read in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 8:2-3; 14-16) how God provided a special food called “manna” to the Chosen People in their journey from Egypt to Palestine through the vast desert of Sinai. This  manna , as well as water that burst forth from the rocks at the command of Moses, nourished...

Friends of the Rosary: Yesterday, we commemorated Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces. Jesus Christ is the Author of all graces, and Mary mediated to the world when she agreed to be the human mother of God. Mary, Advocate for people of God and Mother of Jesus as Co-redemptrix, takes the petitions of her earthly children, especially in times of difficulties, and brings them through her maternal intercess...

Friends of the Rosary: In today’s Gospel, the Lord says the first commandment is to  “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.”  (Mk 12:28-34) “The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love is not primarily a feeling or an instinct. It is the act of willing the good of the other. It is a radical self-givin...

•  June 7, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here  Now ! Friends of the Rosary: In today's reading (Mark 12:18-27), Jesus confronts the Sadducees and discusses Heaven, where life will be abundant, stating that "God is not the God of the dead but of the living. " In eternal life, we will be with our glorified bo...

Friends of the Rosary: Why did God send His only Son, who would even die on the Cross? It has nothing to do with the erroneous interpretation of a God angry at sinful humanity, who demands a blood sacrifice to appease His anger. This is what a pagan divinity would do, but not our Holy God. In Sunday’s reading (JOHN 3:16-18), we find the answer to why God gave us His Son. “God so loved the world th...

Friends of the Rosary: Yesterday’s solemnity drew our attention to the mystery of the Trinity — God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The sublime truth of the Trinity is ageless. Its power to transform souls has illuminated the hearts and minds of saints over time. St. Teresa of Ávila  wrote:  “The three Persons are distinct from one another; a sublime knowledge is infused into the...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, on the first Sunday after Pentecost, we celebrate the Solemnity and sublime truth of the Most Holy Trinity. The dogma of faith in the Blessed Trinity — which was not revealed to the Jews of the Old Testament — is a mystery on which everything in Christianity is based. It’s a prolongation of the mysteries of Christ. There is one God and in this one God there are three...

Friends of the Rosary: Jesus said to the seventeenth-century nun and mystic St. Margaret Mary Alacoque: “Behold this Heart which has loved men so much, and yet men do not want to love Me in return. Through you, My divine Heart wishes to spread its love everywhere on earth.” The Devotion to the Sacred Heart calls for a fundamental attitude of conversion and reparation, love and gratitude, apostolic...

Friends of the Rosary: The Month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The God’s Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the Friday following the second Sunday after Pentecost, this year on June 16th. The devotion to the Sacred Heart remains as one of the most widespread and popular in the Church, regardless of the attempts of our secular society to discredit t...

Friends of the Rosary: Today we celebrate the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest. The feast focuses firstly on Jesus’ Priestly Office as He is considered the model for believers, and for the clergy in particular, with priests acting In persona Christi (“In the person of Christ”). The laity is thus urged to pray that priests would be more like Christ, the compassionate and trus...

Friends of the Rosary: We celebrate today the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This episode — the Second Joyful Mystery — recalls great truths and events: The visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth shortly after the Annunciation; the cleansing of John the Baptist from original sin in the womb of his mother at the words of Our Lady's greeting; Elizabeth'...

Friends of the Rosary: St. Paul VI, at the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council in 1964, declared the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mother of the Church, establishing that  “all Christian people, the faithful as well as the pastors, should further honor and invoke the Mother of God.’ Decades later, Pope Francis promoted this devotion in order to  “encourage the growth of the maternal sense of the Chu...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, a feast connected to the Feast of Pentecost. The Blessed Mother was present in the upper room when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles and the birthday of the Church took place. Just as Mary was in every major moment in the life of her divine son, so, too, is she there for every moment in the life of the...

Friends of the Rosary: And when the days of Pentecost were drawing to a close, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a violent wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as of fire, which settled upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in...

Friends of the Rosary: Now, in the time between Ascension and Pentecost, we are invited to be living embodiments of Jesus as He is of His Father. It means that we must share his joy by abiding in His love. How do we abide in His love? He tells:  “If you keep my commandments you will abide in my love, as it is by keeping my Father’s commandments that abide in His love.” Jesus entered heaven as our...

Friends of the Rosary: It was written that Christ, who was sinless, would suffer hardship and pain before entering into his glory. In imitation of Him, we too must suffer, accepting the suffering and trials of human existence. This way, we will cleanse our sins and enter into the life of glory. We should be glad of the opportunity to make some atonement for our past offenses, by willingly acceptin...

Friends of the Rosary: Last week, during one of the readings from the Gospel of John (John 15:18-21), Jesus Christ warned us to anticipate persecution. Simultaneously, He encouraged us to get our fears in the right order:  “Do not be afraid of those who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul.” “Instead, fear the one who can destroy both the soul and body in Gehenna.” Mind you, the body passes,...

Friends of the Rosary: The Lord Jesus does want us to stay and fight in the world for the truth, as the Church exists for the world. The Son of God knows that we fall into temptation and sin, and He asks the Father for help so that we can avoid the Evil One. In today's Gospel ( Jn 17:11b-19 ), Jesus Christ, lifting up His eyes to Heaven, prayed saying: "I do not ask that you take them out...

Friends of the Rosary: In today’s Gospel ( Jn 17:1-11a ), Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and talked to the Father: “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you.“ “I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.” “I revealed your name to th...

Friends of the Rosary: "Take courage, for I have conquered the world," Lord Jesus told the disciples, as we read today in the Scriptures (Jn 16:29-33). The Evil One seems to be reigning in the world with snares and tricks, given what we see in the news and around us, in our families and communities. The Father of Lies never rests in his goal of devouring souls and making people miserable...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, one week before Pentecost, we observe the Solemnity of the Ascension in many U.S. dioceses and many countries around the world. This feast commemorates the triumphant Ascension of Lord Jesus into heaven, according to Mark 16:19, Luke 24:51, and Acts 1:2. By ascending into His glory, Christ finished the work of our redemption. The Ascen...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, we observe the feast of Mary, Queen of the Apostles. This celebration was established on the first Saturday after Ascension Thursday. Mary gathered the apostles together in the Cenacle. She comforted and assisted them in prayer, and they all received the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The Queen of Apostles occupies a central position in God's plan of salvati...

Friends of the Rosary: The death of a beloved family member or friend is one of the saddest events imaginable. It's a cause of sorrow and tears. This is a natural feeling as we are still earthly beings. But death is not the end; it is, rather, the beginning. Yesterday's feast—the Ascension of our Lord in his human nature—to his Father's and our Father's home is a joyful confirmatio...

• May 18, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here  Now ! Friends of the Rosary: Today, in the ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Omaha, Philadelphia, and the State of Nebraska is observed the Solemnity of the Ascension while other provinces have transferred this solemnity to the Seventh Sunday of...