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Friends of the Rosary: Today, Fourth Sunday of Easter, is Mother’s Day and Good Shepherd Sunday. Jesus Christ is the Divine Shepherd, the true Shepherd of our souls, who knows each one of His sheep and who gives His life for them. Jesus Christ remains with us through the bond of grace. He was willing to go all the way for us, His sheep. He was willing to sacrifice everything. He showed us — and is...

Friends of the Rosary: Through our daily Rosary, we express gratitude for everything we have. We feel fortunate, especially considering that many people don’t enjoy our privileged life. With gratitude comes humility, which is the foundational virtue of the New Eve, the Virgin Mary. In addition, when we ponder our neighbors’ struggles, we feel merciful and compassionate. However, humility and mercy...

Friends of the Rosary: We pray the Sorrowful Mysteries in Cambridge, MA, while walking around the Charles River. Sorrow and pain do not come to hurt us. On the contrary, they come to save us. God doesn’t want us to suffer without any meaning! Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! + Mikel A.  | RosaryNetwork.com, New York [ Second Year Anniversary | In the Memory of María Blanca ] •  May 6, 2...

Friends of the Rosary: We pray today's Luminous Mysteries walking alongside the Charles River in Boston. This walking tour takes in one of the most scenic features in Boston! Every place and moment is good to pray the Rosary of Mary. She brings us closer to her divine Son, as we learn in the second luminous mystery. Jesus is the living bread. As He said to the crowds — and we read this week in Jn...

Friends of the Rosary: Like the Apostles Philip and James, whose feast we celebrated yesterday, we must have confidence in God and not be troubled in our adversities. In our Father's house, there are many rooms. If we follow the way indicated by Him, Jesus Christ will come at the end of our life and take us to Himself. We need to cultivate our faith, be hopeful, invoke the Holy Spirit, and trust i...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is the Feast Day of the Apostles Philip and James the Less. They both suffered and were persecuted, but they placed their confidence in God and now they rejoice in heaven. Philip was born in Bethsaida, in Galilee, the town of Andrew and Peter. His friend Nathaniel told him that Jesus was the one whom Moses and the other prophets had foretold. James the Lesser is called...

Friends of the Rosary: In yesterday’s first reading (Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41), we learn that Peter and the apostles were questioned by the Sanhedrin and suffered public mockery and dishonor for preaching in the name of Jesus. Moreover, they rejoiced that “they have been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name of Jesus.” Today’s society is not much different. You obey the Holy Trinity...

Friends of the Rosary: Let’s align our daily lives with the Holy Trinity. It’s very challenging because our senses, interests, and anxieties keep us attached to the earth. Moreover, our society promotes messages to push into a secular way. When we try to find answers in our society we fail. We end up socializing more and praying less. We feel discouraged and even depressed. My wife, who passed awa...

Friends of the Rosary: We pray today the last Rosary of April in Lisbon, Portugal, before returning to the U.S. God willing, we recite tomorrow’s Glorious Mysteries on the third Sunday of Easter at our studio at home in Greenwich, Connecticut. It’s been an intense month of April, with prayers and reflections on Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. We experienced the sorrows of the Passion of Christ, the j...

• April 29, 2021, Today’s Holy Rosary on YouTube — Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET Friends of the Rosary: Today is the Memorial day of St. Catherine of Siena, an Italian fourteenth-century saint and virgin, who converted thousands. Her austerities, miracles, and ecstasies spread worldwide.  We pray today Sorrowful Mysteries across the beach of Carcavelos, near Lisbon, in Portugal. This is...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, April 28th, the universal Church celebrates the feast day of Louis Marie de Monfort, a 17th-century saint revered for his intense devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. He wrote two masterpieces of Marian piety, "The Secret of the Rosary" and the "True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin", which would become a classic explanation of Marian's devotion. He correctly prophesied...

Friends of the Rosary: On this Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter, we read about the inconceivable love of God toward the world, until the point of giving us his only-begotten Son (Jn 3:16-21). The light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light. This reflects our sinful nature.  Without the love of God, we would be like wild animals.  It's urgent that the world rea...

Friends of the Rosary: We pray today's Sorrowful Mysteries in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal, where leftish groups celebrate the 48th anniversary of the 25th of April of the Carnation Revolution in 1974. No matter political ideas and colorful ideologies, Jesus Christ shows his unconditional merciful love to every single person, despite sin. Moreover, the Son of God wants to be the refuge for the...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is the feast day of St. Mark, the Evangelist, the author of the second Gospel, the shortest of the four. He wrote the Gospel in Greek for the Gentile converts to Christianity in the year 50 A.D. He followed the teachings of St Peter, as he was baptized and instructed by the head of the Apostles. His Gospel is the "Gospel of Peter." St. Mark is sometimes called John Mar...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, the Second Sunday of Easter is Sunday of the Divine Mercy. The Polish nun St. Maria Faustina Kowalska wrote in her Diary that Jesus wanted this feast as "a refuge and a shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners." The Son of God also requested a picture be painted according to the vision of Himself as the fountain of mercy. He gave her a chaplet to be reci...

Friends of the Rosary: The ancient Roman poet Virgil wrote in his Georgics the Latin phase “Tempus fugit”. Translated into English the expression means “times flies”. Noticing that time escapes, and almost nothing endures, might cause desolation and even despair among non-believers. Easter is about highlighting the opposite: the joy that explodes with the Resurrection and the beginning of an etern...

Friends of the Rosary: Today’s Rosary was recorded last Tuesday, April 19, at St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was prayed before the presentation of María Blanca’s book “We live for God”. Cristina Ventosa, a friend and a parishioner at St. Michael, prayed the Rosary with Mikel A., author of the book and husband of María Blanca. It was an emotional prayer in the m...

Friends of the Rosary: At some point, we all experience spiritual dryness. Even the saints who were completely dedicated to God experienced dryness. The Divinity allows the absence of faith to test our commitment. Faith is a struggle, and as with every precious conquest, it requires perseverance — which is the fruit of the fifth Sorrowful Mystery. The Lord is calling us to a more mature set of bel...

Friends of the Rosary: Yesterday, we presented María Blanca’s book “We live for God”. Over thirty friends attended the event at St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Greenwich, Connecticut. Almost everyone knew María Blanca. Her kindness and faith were remembered. Your host Mikel talk for one hour about María Blanca’s suffering and joy in her battle against cancer and toxic epidermal necrolysis. Mar...

Friends of the Rosary: A greeting for Easter is “Christ is risen!”. The answer is “He is risen, indeed”. At the end of the Rosary, on the Regina Caeli prayer and antiphon, we say: “Resurrexit, sicut dixit” (“He has risen, as he said”). At the same time, we encourage the Blessed Virgin Mary to be joyful. The Mother of God lived three more decades after the Resurrection of her Son. She rejoiced know...

Friends of the Rosary: Despite saying it in the Nicean Creed, we often forget that God created the invisible world. In our pride and ignorance, we tend to consider true only what we see. Therefore, we miss the fact that after our bodies resurrect, we will enter the next life, which will be an eternally joyful life. Jesus Christ reminded this fact through over five hundred apparitions forty days af...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, Easter Sunday — Domingo de Resurrección in Spanish — we, the faithful, are called to experience the risen Christ, share it with others, and spread the divine joy in the world. Why is that? What the Resurrection has done for us? Through the Resurrection — the raising of Jesus from the dead by the glory of the Father — Jesus Christ has brought back us to the paradise of...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is Holy Saturday — Sabbatum Sanctum is its liturgical name — the day of the Lord’s rest after his intense suffering. The enemies of the truth are furious, spreading lies and slander. Meanwhile, faithful, still in mourning, meditate on the Passion and Death of Christ and on His Descent into Hell. Jesus Christ descended to the dead to announce liberation from darkne...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, Holy Friday, or Good Friday of the Lord's Passion, the Church mourns the death of Jesus Christ. This is traditionally a day of sadness, spent in fasting and prayer. It's the celebration of the Lord's Passion, a mass celebrated around three o'clock, where we venerate and kiss the wooden Cross. On this solemn day, we can pray in addition to the Rosary, the Stations of t...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is Holy Thursday, also known as "Maundy Thursday." It's the first day of Sacred Triduum, the three-part drama of Christ's redemption: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. The word  maundy  comes from the Latin word  mandatum (commandment). In the Last Supper, after completing the Washing of the Feet, Jesus Christ gave a commandment: "I give you...