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Friends of the Rosary: Today, June 27, the Universal Church of Christ, celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. This Marian advocation revolves around the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, painted on wood, with background of gold, in the thirteenth century. It is Byzantine in style and it represents the Mother of God holding the Divine Child while the Archangels Michael and Gabriel sh...

Friends of the Rosary: God has created us to be free. To achieve freedom we must stand firm against sin and avoid its slavery. St. Paul reminds us this fundamental truth in his letter to the Galatians (Gal 5:1, 13-16) today. He encourages us to use this freedom not for the flesh and carnal pleasure but to serving one another through love. Be guided by the Spirit, live by the Holy Spirit, advises P...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a special form of devotion united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus that highlights the love and virtues of the heart of the Virgin. Our Blessed Mother, with her heart pierced with a sword, never was passive in her Son's mission. On the contrary. As St. Augustine said, "she cooperated through charity, in the work of our redem...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, while we celebrate the end of the abortion at federal level, we observe the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotion that symbolizes the Son of God's boundless and burning love for humans. Throughout history, saints and scholars have pointed to the Sacred Heart as the fountain of love poured into our lives. In the late 17th century, the devotion to the Sacre...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the prophet-saint whose life was an example of humility and courage. Ordinarily, the universal Church observes the day of a saint’s death as his feast, because that day marks his entrance into heaven. There are two notable exceptions, the birthdays of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist....

Friends of the Rosary: Today, the universal Church of Jesus Christ dedicates the day to three saints: Paulinus of Nola, John Fisher and Thomas More. In a way, the history of humanity is history of the saints. The sacrifice of these holy souls, along with our daily prayer and charity acts, keep the world moving forward without falling apart. St. Thomas More was Chancellor of King Henry VIII in Engl...

Friends of the Rosary: An important part of our modern society is committed to disrupt the family structure. Today, dominating groups oppose the Catholic social teaching on the importance and role of the nuclear family and the sanctity of marriage. Their strategy seems quite effective: they present themselves as promoters of fraternal love. But their goal is ultimately to deny the divinity of Jesu...

Friends of the Rosary: The Holy Eucharist is the source and summit of our Christian life. Many priests remembered this truth yesterday, when we celebrated the Corpus Christi Sunday around the Blessed Sacrament and the Body and Blood of Jesus. The Eucharist — which is Jesus Christ himself — is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end of our faith. What do we mean with this? The Eucharist...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is the Corpus Christi Sunday, the Eucharistic Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. It follows the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity, last Sunday. On Holy Thursday’s last supper, the Son of God instituted the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist giving to humanity its greatest treasure, the treasure of Divinity’s infinite goodness upon us Christians. In the w...

Friends of the Rosary: Shouldn't we live this day as the last one of our earthly existence? If that would be the case, how would we arrange our businesses? Think about it for a moment. The Son of God tells us in the readings of today (Mt 6:24-34) : "Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself." "I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your...

Friends of the Rosary: Suffering when freely offered to the Holy Trinity has a healing and salvific effect. Only through the lens of the faith we might understand why. Reflecting upon the Sorrowful Mysteries that we pray today is an excellent discovery. In this regard, St. Paul in his letter to the Romans (Rom 5:1-5) wrote: “We boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance,...

Friends of the Rosary: The fruit of today’s third Luminous Mystery, Jesus’ Proclamation of the Kingdom of Heaven, is repentance. To achieve the Kingdom of God, we need to be in grace. And for that we must confess our sins and ask for forgiveness to the Lord. We also need to abandon any grudge or bad feeling against others. In this sense, today’s reading in very timely. Jesus said (Mt 6:7-15): "If...

Friends of the Rosary: This week, in the readings in the New Testament, Jesus Christ encourages us (Mt 5:43-48) to “love our enemies and pray for those who persecute you” and "be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” In God, each person lives for the other, not for himself. As humans, we try to have a small reflection of God who is love. But what does it mean to love? It's not only wi...

Friends of the Rosary: The sanctity of marriage and family has been under intensive attack since the sixties. The Father of lies realized that it could threat human dignity and make people miserable by going against families. Communism was a failure and it was the time for new, sophisticated attack against the faithful. Last week, Pope Francis mentioned the scourge of pornography,  which is n...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, we remember the second apparition in Fatima. On June 13, 1917, the Virgin Mary appeared for the second time to the three shepherd — Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta — children at the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal. The Blessed Mother presented a whole spirituality centered on devotion to her Immaculate Heart. She said to Lucia:  "Jesus wants to establish devo...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Blessed Trinity. Only in heaven, in union with Christ, we will properly understand what it means this dogma of faith of the Holy Trinity. No mortal can fully grasp this sublime truth. There is one God and in this one God there are three Divine Persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is the first Divine Person; th...

Friends of the Rosary: We celebrate today the Memorial day of the apostle St. Barnabas. He embraced the faith soon after the death of Christ, becoming a member of the original Jerusalem community. His first noteworthy deed was to sell his belongings and place the money at the feet of the apostles. St. Barnabas presented St. Paul to the other Apostles and played an important role in the extension o...

Friends of the Rosary: The Father of lies seeks to destroy mankind by engineering sophisticated snares. He has the intelligence of an angel — a fallen angel — and is able to cheat world leaders, intellectuals, and influential people, as we easily notice today. His plot is based on separating from the love of the Father by denying the mystery of the cross and the resurrection. For the faithful, it’...

Friends of the Rosary: We need to permit the Holy Spirit to take control of our lives. We are his living temples. The Holy Spirit gives us seven gifts: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. Among all of the gifts, Fear of the Lord might be the most counter-cultural today, given the impact of our secular, agnostic society. Fear of the Lord is reverence a...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is the feast of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces. All the graces are granted to the human family through the motherly intercession of Mary. Jesus Christ, the Author of all graces to the world, gave us Mary as our spiritual mother. The Holy Virgin mediates the Divine Grace and is also the Corredemptrix. Several popes have officially taught the doctrine of Mary as Mediatrix...

Friends of the Rosary: This Pentecost Sunday unidentified terrorists launched a gun and bomb attack at the end of a Catholic Mass in southwest Nigeria, killing at least 70 Christians. The horrific attack took place at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in the city of Owo. Along with Pope Francis, through our daily Rosary, we want to express our spiritual closeness to Nigerian Catholics mourning th...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, on the day after Pentecost, we celebrate the Memorial Day of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, that is to say of all Christian people. Jesus Christ, as He was hung upon the Cross, chose the Holy Virgin Mary, his Mother to be our Mother also. The Catholic Church promotes this devotion to encourage Marian’s piety and reflect the divine motherhood of Mary an...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is Pentecost Sunday, the celebration of the arrival of the Holy Spirit, as we recite in the third Glorious mystery today. At that time, ten days after the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven, the Apostles, Mary, and the first followers of Jesus were gathered together, hidden from the Jews. They suddenly experienced a supernatural event. A "strong, driving" wind filled the r...

Friends of the Rosary: Tomorrow Sunday, 50 days after the death and resurrection of Jesus, and ten days after His ascension into heaven, the universal Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feasts of the year, as it concludes Easter. The name of the day itself is derived from the Greek word "pentecoste," meaning 50th. And what happens at Pentecost? Pentecost is the celebration...

Friends of the Rosary: This Sunday, June the 5th, Feast of the Pentecost, the event when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles, we culminate the 50 days of the Easter session. During Easter, we celebrated the Divine Mercy Sunday and the Ascension. And now, this Sunday, we rejoice with the arrival of the Spirit of God. All of it, when we begin the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as the so...