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Friends of the Rosary: Fear can be a dangerous feeling for our faith. It can easily push us into sin. The mysterious force of evil tries to multiply our fears. St. Paul explained very well in yesterday’s reading (Heb 2:14-18) that Jesus destroyed through his own crucifixion the Devil who has the power of death. Our Lord freed those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their li...

Friends of the Rosary: Pope Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI left a spiritual testament, dated August 29, 2006, which the Vatican released this week. His central message was summarized in this sentence: “What I said earlier of my compatriots, I now say to all who were entrusted to my service in the Church: Stand firm in the faith! Do not be confused!” This is the entire text : My Spiritual Testament Whe...

Friends of the Rosary: The fifth sorrowful mystery, that we pray today, includes the final words spoken by the Lord on the cross: “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit” (Lk 23:46). It was a ceaseless self-entrustment into the hands of his Father, as Pope Francis remembered in the funeral mass of Benedict XVI. The Son of God — and our brother Jesus Christ — allowed himself to be shaped by th...

Friends of the Rosary: The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which we celebrate today, at the end of Christmas, commemorates Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River by St. John the Baptist. This is the second epiphany, or manifestation, of the Lord. The past, the present, and the future are made manifest in this epiphany. At the baptism of Jesus Christ in the River Jordan, God appeared in three persons...

Friends of the Rosary: In this Solemnity of the Epiphany Day, we read (Mt 2:1-12) that three Magi from the East, guided from a start at its rising, arrived in Bethlehem of Judea to pay homage and adore the newborn Jesus. They were overjoyed on entering the house and seeing the child with Mary his mother. "They prostrated themselves and did him homage. Then they opened their treasures and offered h...

Friends of the Rosary: At the end of our life, we are going to be remembered for our humility, kindness, and love for Jesus and Mary. We are seeing this in the beloved Pope Benedict XVI, one of the greatest biblical theologians and intellectual minds of the last century. Pope Benedict was a gentle soul who put Jesus Christ’s friendship at the center of his life. And leading men and women to friend...

Friends of the Rosary: In various regions and countries, today is the Solemnity of the Epiphany of Our Lord. In the United States and other places, this solemnity is assigned to this Sunday. On this day, we also reflect on the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI, whose funeral mass was celebrated in St. Peter Square, in Rome, yesterday. Particularly, we'd like to highlight his devotion to the Rosary. He r...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, while we pray for the eternal rest of the soul of Pope Benedict XVI and we enjoy the scenes from the funeral mass in Rome, we celebrate the Memorial of St. John Nepomucene Neumann, bishop (1811-1860). John was born in Bohemia (current Czech Republic). While in the seminary he felt the desire to help in the American missions. After coming to the United States he was or...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, day eleven of Christmas, the universal church celebrates in the USA and Canada the memorial of a New York-born, nineteenth-century saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821). After her husband’s death from tuberculosis, she, who was a mother of five children, converted to Catholicism and founded the American Sisters of Charity, a community of teaching sisters which began...

Friends of the Rosary: We celebrate today, on the 10th day of Christmas, the Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. In addition, the month of January has traditionally been dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus. This feast invites us to sing the glory of Jesus, whose name means Savior. January has traditionally been dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus. The name of Jesus means Savior. It’s also a n...

Friends of the Rosary: God sent his own Son born of a woman and placed the Holy Spirit into our hearts. This way, we all received adoption as sons, so we are never slaves of sin and the Evil One. St. Paul explained these mysteries in this letter to Galatians (Gal 4:4-7), which we read yesterday. Also, in the second reading yesterday, Paul revealed (Heb 1:1-2) how God speaks. “In the past, God spok...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, day eight of Christmas is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, the Octave Day of Christmas. We also sanctify in Christ the New Year’s Day. The Word took our human nature from Mary. The title “Mother of God” goes back to the third or fourth century. However, the Greek term Theotokos (“The God-bearer”) was officially consecrated as Catholic doctrine at the Cou...

Friends of the Rosary: Pope Benedict XVI died at the age of 95 on December 31, 2022. His passing was announced this morning by the Vatican Press Office. "With sorrow, I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican." On Wednesday, December 28, pope emeritus received the anointing of the sick. Pope Francis will preside at...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, the Sixth Day of Christmas is the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. The feast institutes and promotes the Holy Family as the model of all Christian families. God willed to be born and to grow up in a human family. His encounter with humanity was through a family. During His life in Nazareth, Jesus honored the Virgin Mary and righteous...

Friends of the Rosary: Merry Christmas! The Rosary has proven to be a miraculous force for protecting the faithful and bestowing them extra graces. Many saints across history, including Pope John Paul II, Padre Pio, and Lucia of Fatima, have also recognized the rosary as the most powerful weapon in fighting the spiritual battles we face in the world. Spiritual warfare is real and presents a danger...

Friends of the Rosary: Merry Christmas! Today, the Fourth Day in the Octave of Christmas, the universal Church celebrates the Feast of Holy Innocents, Martyrs, and the glory of these innocent victims. We honor these small children of the neighborhood of Bethlehem mass-murdered by the wicked King Herod. These sacrificed lives bear witness to Christ who was persecuted from the time of His...

Friends of the Rosary: Merry Christmas! Today is the Feast of St. John Apostle and Evangelist. St. John, the son of Zebedee and brother of St. James the Great, become the beloved disciple of Jesus. He wrote the fourth Gospel, three Epistles, and the Book of the Apocalypse or Revelation. St. John was present with Peter and James at the Transfiguration of Christ and witnessed His agony in the Garden...

Merry Christmas! Today is the feast of Saint Stephen, the first martyr of the Church, stoned outside of the city wall of Jerusalem two years after the death of Christ, during the first persecution against the nascent Church. His story of sacrificial love, narrated in the Acts of the Apostles, emphasizes the paralleled with Jesus’ trial. He was the first to follow in the steps of Christ with martyr...

Friends of the Rosary: Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad! Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, the Birth of Jesus Christ. "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." The Son of God became man to give us the divine life which is eternally in the Blessed Trinity. Christmas time, the festival of joy, begins on the night of December 24 and ends on the feast of the Baptism of Ch...

Friends of the Rosary: Merry Christmas! Advent has reminded us of the light soon to make its way into the world to dwell among us. Christmas is about the coming of the light into our darkness. God comes to us in a variety of ways: in the living word, in the Eucharist and the sacraments, in the carols, in the nativity scenes, and in the presence of family and friends. Every Christmas we are reminde...

Friends of the Rosary: Almost about to enter the Christmas season, the Catholic Church celebrates today the Antiphon or chant of O Emmanuel , God Is With Us. God reveals through the human heart of Jesus that He wants to be one of us, with all our weaknesses and suffering, in every phase of our life. He wishes to dwell within us and experience how hard is to be a man. God's only-begotten Son is abo...

Friends of the Rosary: In this fourth week of Advent, we continue reflecting upon the revelations from Jesus to the mystic Luisa Piccarreta. These revelations revolve around the excesses of Christ’s love for humanity. Jesus’ Divinity forms the most intimate union between the Eternal Word and the creatures. Conceived in the Womb of His Mother, Christ Jesus delights in our company and wished to live...

Friends of the Rosary: Jesus Christ conceived in grace all the human creatures so that we can grow with Him in wisdom and truth. That is why Christ loves us so much our company and wishes to live in constant and mutual love with us. This is what Our Savior said to the Italian mystic and Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta (1865–1947) Luisa Piccarreta, as we learn in her Novena. Jesus also said to her:...

Friends of the Rosary: The Italian mystic and Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta (1865–1947), also known as the “Little Daughter of the Divine Will” [in the picture],  wrote a Novena before Christmas Day with revelations received from Jesus Christ. During the fourth day, Luisa Piccarreta described how the consuming love of Jesus Christ is bringing to him the weight of people’s sins and weak...

Friends of the Rosary: In today’s reading ( LK 1:5-25 ) we learn about another critical intervention of Divinity in human history. The Angel Gabriel announced the birth of John the Baptist to his father, the priest Zechariah. The mother Elizabeth would give birth to the greatest prophet ever. John, cousin of Jesus Christ, would be the second human being born without sin, as he would be filled with...