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Friends of the Rosary: As we pray the first Luminous mystery today and commit to cultivate our openness to the Holy Spirit, we rejoice with the upcoming feasts of June: Pentecost (June 5), Mary Mother of the Church (June 6), Trinity Sunday (June 12), Corpus Christ (June 19), the Sacred Heart of Jesus (June 24), and the Immaculate Heart of Mary (June 25). In addition, we commemorate the solemnities...

Friends of the Rosary: The pastor in charge of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde, Texas, Fr. Eduardo Morales, is sending a powerful message to the families and friends of the victims these days: "Do not let anger corrode into hatred. Hold onto your faith." "Allow their love, their spiritual presence, to continue to be with us," he said during Mass on Saturday. "When we don’t believe, that...

Friends of the Rosary: We commemorate today the Feast of the Visitation, the second Joyful Mystery. This is a medieval feast that now is celebrated between the solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord (March 25th) and the birth of John the Baptist. Shortly after the Annunciation, the Holy Virgin, expecting a child, hurried to visit her cousin Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, who was cle...

Friends of the Rosary: The Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting was also an attack on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Since the massacre, the families of the 21 victims, friends, and visitors are gathering to worship in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, just a mile away from the elementary school. This is the local sanctuary that has become a nucleus for a community’s grieving. So much pain and devastation wer...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, in his human nature, triumphantly into his Father’s and our Father’s home. There, in Heaven, He seats on the Father’s right hand and shares His glory. As Christ rises, we all ascend into Heaven with new, glorified bodies, and begin the true life in eternal joy. By t...

Friends of the Rosary: Jesus Christ knows that we are in anguish (Jn 16:20-23). "But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you," He is telling us. "On that day you will not question me about anything." Friends, our suffering is temporary. While the world rejoices, we keep the teachings of Jesus Christ and accept our Cross. And the Cross is our...

Friends of the Rosary: Our daily conversion is necessary. Mostly, because we all are weak and inconsistent. We easily turn into pride and arrogance, and then bad things will happen. Across history, human beings have preferred the slavery of sin to the festivity of the grace of God. Theologians and philosophers call this tendency the mysterium iniquitatis  (the mystery of evil), for there is n...

Friends of the Rosary: Yesterday, we reflected on our appearance in Heaven, given that God will give us new resurrected bodies (1 Corinthians 13:12). And how those resurrected bodies will be? The Holy Spirit, who spoke through the prophets in the New Testament, tells us in the Acts (Philippians 3:21) that Christ “will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.” In the...

Friends of the Rosary: What does heaven look like? What will we find at the end of our earthly journey? According to the biblical tradition, heaven is primarily God's dwelling place. It is a place of peace, love, community, and worship, where the Divinity is surrounded by a heavenly court, heavenly beings, and the communion of saints. Last Sunday, John the Apostle, in the Book of Revelation (Rev 2...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, May 24th, is the Solemnity of Mary Help of Christians. We celebrate that the Holy Virgin has responded by helping individuals, families, communities, towns, and nations, throughout the ages. In 1214 she gave the Rosary to St. Dominic as a weapon to combat the Albigesian heresy. Since then, Our Lady has appeared in hundreds of places throughout the world, bringing help...

Friends of the Rosary: Our secular society bullies Christians by promoting addictions and false Gods. The four classic addictions of wealth, power, honor, and pleasures — or a combination of them — are presented as convenient pathways to happiness. While pursuing them we consume our lives, only to realize that it all was a big lie. Satan engineered once again his network of falsehoods to make peop...

Friends of the Rosary: The Catechism expresses perfectly well what it means to be a Catholic. In our freedom, we can choose any path we wish. Politicians, including the pro-abortion ones, are free to decide as well. However, in this earthly life, we cannot pick two masters. Either we decide to embrace the Holy Eucharist as it is — the full body and blood of Christ — or we reject it, or even worse,...

Friends of the Rosary: We are not in the business of pleasing the world. We are in the business of serving the Holy Trinity. The ruler of the world wants us to deny Jesus Christ and embrace his dark program — which is obviously presented as a compelling solution. In today’s reading (Jn 15:18-21), Jesus reminds us that the world only loves its own, but we Christians do not belong there. We, the fai...

Friends of the Rosary: One of the holy men canonized by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square last Sunday was Charles de Foucauld, a martyred French priest who lived among the Tuareg people in the Algerian desert and brought the Gospel to Muslim lands. His missionary zeal cost him his life in 1916, being assassinated by an armed tribal group. Let us reproduce the Prayer of Abandonment of St. Charles...

Friends of the Rosary: Happiness is temporary but joy is eternal. In today's reading (Jn 15:9-11), Jesus Christ reveals to us the secret of joy: "Remain in my love". A jumpstart in the love of God, his grace, and joy is the Emmaus Retreats, organized by laypeople. They are a unique, life-transformational experience for anyone needed to renew or strengthen his or her trust in Jesus Christ. Emmaus r...

Friends of the Rosary: In today’s reading, Jesus Christ introduces another wonderful image to describe his relationship with us. (Jn 15:1-8): “I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.” We bear fruit in Christ. Only when we remain in him we are joyful, hopeful, and full of life. When we reject to remain in C...

Friends of the Rosary: According to the Act of the Apostles (Act 14:21-27), Paul and Barnabas preached in Iconium, Antioch, and other cities of the Roman Empire by strengthening the spirits of the disciples and by exhorting them to persevere in the faith. When proclaiming the good news, the two saints were remembering the importance of carrying the cross. They literally said: “It is necessary for...

Friends of the Rosary: Yesterday, one of the friends of the Rosary Network, Scherezada Morales Roman, from Orlando, Florida, told us about her youngest sister, Natasha Ramos Roman, 33 years old, who has been diagnosed with stage four cancer, metastatic cancer. She has two little ones, aged 5 and 1. The special intention of today's Rosary is for the recovery of Natasha. Scherezada and Natasha, we f...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, on the Fifth Sunday of Easter, we continue praying the Rosary across the streets of Madrid, Spain.  The Holy Rosary is a living tool for today's world. It's not an outdated Medieval prayer for uneducated prayer based on repetition. Quite the opposite: It's the gracious prayer that the Queen of Universe gave us for keep us closer to Her divine Son.  With the...

Friends of the Rosary: We pray today's Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary in Madrid's Puerta del Sol and Madrid de los Austrias, the most touristic and historical place of the capital of Spain. Earthly life is a cross, but also a celebration of the glory of God. Streets full of people, as we see through this Rosary, is a joy. At the end, faithful and non-believers are children of God. It's all pa...

Friends of the Rosary: We pray today's Rosary, on the magnificent day of Our Lady of Fatima, through the streets of Madrid, Spain.  The Holy Virgin appeared to three shepherd children — Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco — on May 13, 1917, in Fatima, Portugal. She asked humanity through the three children to convert and repent from sin through her Rosary — by praying it daily! Further apparitions...

Friends of the Rosary: We are 99% grace and 1% freedom. Unlike the angels, we have free will to accept or reject the Eternal Truth of Jesus and Mary. In yesterday's reading ( Jn 12:44-50 ), Jesus Christ reveals to us: "If anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I do not condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save the world." However, on the Day of the Judgement, that...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, we pray the Glorious Mysteries from Greenwich, Connecticut — from the house I lived with María Blanca, Blanki, for ten years. Earthly life means continuous change, and now we are moving forward to a new location, a less spacious place, in Stamford, Connecticut. The emotional attachment to places and things makes things tough, but the Holy Rosary gives us the strength...

Friends of the Rosary: This month, a friend told me that an 8 years-old child he knew died as a victim of painful cancer. The family was devastated. The parents thought that God was punishing them for their sinful behavior in the past. But the Divinity doesn’t operate this way. It’s the opposite. In fact, God sent his only beloved Son, who suffered death on a Cross. Jesus Christ proved that his ex...

Friends of the Rosary: All that is visible and invisible belongs to God’s creation, and all is intended to proclaim His glory. Yesterday, we celebrated Mother’s Day and Good Shepherd Sunday. Motherhood and Divine shepherding are mysteries that we barely understand. We rejoice as children of God, because, as his Son said, nothing can separate, or will separate us, from the Holy Trinity. In His infi...