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Friends of the Rosary: Today, on July 22, the Church of God celebrates the Feast of St. Mary Magdelene, a prominent follower of Christ who accompanied and ministered to him and who was a witness to the crucifixion of Jesus and the first recorded witness of the Resurrection. Scripture introduced her as a woman of the streets "who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities", "from whom seven de...

Friends of the Rosary: Saint María de las Maravillas de Jesús, a Spanish Discalced Carmelite who founded several nun houses in the last century, revealed what was needed to be joyful. "Waiting whatever He wants is enough." "If Jesus asks what we want, we'd say, Lord, what, when, where you want." "To be saved is the only thing we wish." "Our desires are no other than fulfill your will." These are S...

Friends of the Rosary: We live in a society dominated by self-centeredness. It’s the generation of selfies. It’s all about me. Is this a problem? Well, it’s slavery — the slavery of self-centeredness. And slavery is contrary to the freedom that we achieve by living for Christ and serving our neighbors. Friends, we are wired this way. We are wired to seek the eternal truth, resting in God after our...

Friends of the Rosary: In St. Paul we see the salvific power of suffering. He said in his letter to the Colossians (Col 1:24-28): "I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church, of which I am a minister." Suffering is consubstantial to human being, because of the original sin in our...

Friends of the Rosary: With Jesus Christ, the whole truth was revealed. The word of God was manifested to humankind, and since then our earthly life is quite different. We understood human existence, as it was designed by the Divinity. Like St. Paul wrote to the Colossians (Col 1:24-28) — and we read yesterday— “the word of God, the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past. But now it ha...

Friends of the Rosary: In today Sunday’s reading, ( Lk 10:38-42 ), we recreate the scene of two faithful sisters, Mary and Martha, in her home with Jesus. Mary was delighted, seated at the feet of Jesus listening to Him speak, while Martha, was busy, burdened with much serving. Jesus explains that there is no need to worry and be anxious when Jesus talks. Martha is the symbol of active, apostolic...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, July 16th is the Memorial day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Nuestra Señora del Carmen, in Spanish. In the 13th century, an order of hermits, called “Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel,” lived on Mount Carmel, near the Fountain of Elijah, in northern Israel. Its leader St. Simon Stock, received a visit from the Blessed Mother, giving him a Brown Scapular, and telling...

Friends of the Rosary: A follower of our daily Rosary encouraged us “to stop praying before man-made statues,” because we were “idol worshipping.” Our worship is never directed to images, statues, or flowers on the altar. These objects, more or less artistic and inspirational, should lead us to God. Let’s commit to pray every day the Rosary. Also, let’s better understand the utility of images and...

Friends of the Rosary: In the third apparition in Fatima, the Blessed Virgin Mary asked us to add after each mystery a special prayer: O my Jesus, forgive us, save us from the fire of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are most in need. In this prayer, known today as the Fatima prayer, the existence of hell and the mercy of Jesus are mentioned. Hell is real and horrifying beyond...

Friends of the Rosary: On July 13, 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared for the third time at the Cova de Iría, in Fatima, Portugal. She asked three shepherds to pray the Rosary every day. Our Lady said gently that she would cure some people, but others she would not cure. The Most Holy Virgin Mary also showed a vision of hell to the three shepherds. That view horrified them and made them trembl...

Friends of the Rosary: To achieve the everlasting life, we should share Christ’s merciful love, as we learned in the Parable of the Samaritan (Lk 10:25-37), last Sunday. One way to express love and compassion for one’s neighbor is to perform the “works of mercy.” It’s not just a matter of having good feeling. We must do something else. We must serve him. There are fourteen works of mercy: seven sp...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, July 11, the Church of God celebrates the Feast of St. Benedict of Nursia, the sixth-century abbot and father of the monastic life in Wester Europe. It would affect the spiritual and monastic life in the West for centuries to come. At Monte Cassino, 80 miles south of Rome, he wrote his famous “Rule of St. Benedict,” prescribing a life of prayer, work, study, simplicit...

Friends of the Rosary: Today Sunday, we delight with the parable of the Good Samaritan (St. Luke 10:25-37), who is Jesus Christ and His infinite merciful love for us. The beaten victim on the road is Adam, the source and symbol of all fallen mankind. Moved by man’s suffering, God the Father sends His Son down to earth. In his compassion, the Son cure our wounds and, moreover, offers Hims...

Friends of the Rosary: The Christian life is a battle against the seductions of our society, including the social life. Carrying the Cross is an extremely demanding business. Unless we have immense faith and we surrender to the Divinity, we won’t make it. We need the grace of Jesus and Mary to stay in the path of the salvation. Alone we will end up failing. Jesus was clear. He told us in yesterday...

Friends of the Rosary: Instinctively, we are selfish and self-centered. We are damaged by the original sin. This tendency to making ourselves the center of everything and being just concerned with our own interest is really damaging. With the baptism, we received the invitation to start escaping from selfishness. Our worldly nature pushes us to embrace pleasures and vanities while our spiritual in...

Friends of the Rosary: We are called for freedom. But freedom not as today’s secular society defines it, meaning self-indulgence. Christian’s freedom is directed to love and serve one another through love. It’s freedom to escape from the slavery of sin, including temptation of the flesh. Everyone wants to be free, free of any economical, cultural, or social prison. What about then about cultivatin...

Friends of the Rosary: The month of July is dedicated to the Precious Blood of Jesus. The Son of God shed His Blood for us on His Passion in the way to the Calvary. The early Fathers said that the Church of God was born from the pierced side of Christ, and that the sacraments were brought forth through His Blood. It’s the Blood made present on the altars during the Mass by the words of Consecratio...

Friends of the Rosary: In today's reading ( MT 9:32-38 ), we Jesus seeing a crowd "troubled and abandoned," and his heart was moved with pity for them. That's how the unfathomable Divine Mercy works. The Holy Spirit comes on our rescue, in all power to save us from our sins and despair. The hope then gets restored and we are back to life. There is no light, freedom, or joy outside of Jesus and Mar...

Friends of the Rosary: Today in the U.S. is Independence Day, the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. On this national holiday, we give thanks for the gift of life and the birth of this great nation. We also pray that God will strengthen America, get rid of evils, and make this nation an example to the world in the defense of life, family, faith, and fre...

Friends of the Rosary: In today Sunday’s reading (Lk 10:1-12, 17-20), Jesus said to the newly appointed seventy disciples that they were sent “like lambs among wolves” , although anointed by the power of God to proclaim the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, cure the sick, and dominate demons. The Lord Jesus observed Satan falling from the sky to become the ruler of the world. Also said, that “the harv...

Friends of the Rosary: Everything we say matters. We need to be extremely careful with what we speak. Not because of the judgment of the world, but for the judgment of God himself. Talking about the need of bearing good fruits, Jesus Christ said (Matthew 12: 36-37): “I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justif...

Friends of the Rosary: Today in the U.S., we celebrate the Memorial Day of St. Junipero Serra, a Spaniard Franciscan priest of the eighteenth century who founded twenty-one missions — missions like San Diego, San Antonio, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, and Santa Clara. Fray Junipero Serra converted thousands of Native Americans, and expanded the true faith on the West Coast. He brought the Native...

Friends of the Rosary: We celebrate today the memory of the First Martyrs of the Holy Church killed by the evil Emperor Nero in a night of horror in Rome in the year 64. A great multitude of nameless followers of Christ were put to death by Nero because of his hatred of the human race. The emperor would commit later suicide at the age of thirty-one. Peter and Paul were probably among the victims....

Friends of the Rosary: We venerate today, June 29th, two great Apostles, Peter and Paul. They are the solid rock on which the Church of God is built. Together, through preaching and martyrdom in Rome, they set the Holy See. Peter was given by the Lord the name of Chephas (Petrus in Latin), which means 'rock'. St. Peter was the first to recognize that Jesus was "the Messiah, the Son of the Living G...

Friends of the Rosary: We live for God, as my wife Maria Blanca was telling us when she was at the ICU in a hospital before dying, eight months ago today. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the Virgin Mary dwell with us in our earthly existence and await for us in the next life — regardless we acknowledge this eternal truth or not. Only Divine power saves us from the storm of life. Like the...