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Friends of the Rosary: Today, March 19th is the Solemnity of St. Joseph, the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the earthly father of Jesus Christ. No words of his are recorded in the Gospels. He was a silent, extremely humble man. He faithfully fulfilled his mission of protecting and guarding God's greatest treasures upon earth, Jesus and Mary. He died before the beginning of Christ's public...

Friends of the Rosary: The Russian military is leaving cities in ruins as the civilian death number rises. In Mariupol, the City of Mary, a theater was hit by a Russian strike. Mariupol shows how far the darkness agents are going. Putin's unprovoked attack and invasion of Ukraine has generated terror, destruction, mass murder, and the multiplication of widows and orphans. As Catholics, we are unit...

Friends of the Rosary: On March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It will be during the Celebration of Penance at 5 pm Italian time in Saint Peter's Basilica. This prayer is extraordinary because it is connected to what the Virgin Mary said in Fatima in 1917. Our Lady said that the consecration of Rus...

Friends of the Rosary: Mariupol is the most devastated city in Ukraine. The Russian army seems to seek to starve the citizens while they bomb them. Even hospitals are being hit. There are reports that Russian troops are holding people hostage in hospitals. Catholic prayer groups are noting that Satan is going crazy because Mariupol is the city of Mary. There, we find a Pauline monastery and a pain...

Friends of the Rosary: Mariupol, in southwestern Ukraine, was founded by the Greek community as the "City of Mary." Now it has been transformed into a living hell. Bombs and rockets are falling everywhere on peaceful inhabitants. There is shooting at random. The whole town is like one big battlefield. Mariupol, with a population of almost 400,000 people, is under siege, surrounded by the Russian a...

Friends of the Rosary: What is needed in the Russia – Ukraine war is more prayer. When humans end up causing destruction and death only the Divinity can fix things. For that, we need to ask for help from the Heavens. On one hand, President Putin needs to convert and embrace his Christian Orthodox faith. On the other, President Zelenskyy should ask the West, in addition to material help and weapons...

Friends of the Rosary: As St. Paul says today in his letter to the Philippians (Phil 3:20—4:1), “Our citizenship is in heaven.” It is fantastic to love our country. But countries are human creations, and we are first children of God. We’ve been created to dwell like brothers, mostly experiencing the mystery of the cross and the mystery of the resurrection. Exaggerating the values of a nation to th...

Friends of the Rosary: Today's Joyful Mysteries of Holy Rosary took place at St. Mary Parish in Greenwich, Connecticut. Our intention was to do a walking Rosary from this place to St. Catherine of Sienna, in Riverside. But due to the intense rain, we gladly stayed at St. Mary. His Pastor, Fr. Murray, graciously opened the doors of the Church for our local community of the Rosary Network and posted...

Friends of the Rosary: Vladimir Putin has a unique opportunity to convert and change the world. He claims to defend the Orthodox Christian Church but for now, he is behaving as an atheist Stalinist leader. Mr. Putin, if you want to be admired, be open to the Holy Spirit and experience a sense of charity. For sure, the West and its relativistic, very often anti-Christian philosophy is awful. They m...

Friends of the Rosary: Increasingly isolated, Vladimir Putin and his Russian army are escalating attacks on Ukrainian, provoking horror among the population, along with a massive flow of refugees to neighboring countries. The business of war is a direct offense to the Holy Trinity. God created the human race so we can help one another. The invasion of Ukraine in the name of the pantheistic religio...

Friends of the Rosary: God’s perspective is the holiest and perfect one. When we model our life in imitation of Christ Jesus, we commit ourselves to adopting the Divine view. Human logic leads very often to the abyss. Consider the Russian President’s and his Generals' view on their nation. They have created a pantheistic religion and fake God called “Mother Russia.” In the name of this creation, n...

Friends of the Rosary: We pray today’s Rosary in the streets of Austin, Texas, while we observe the memorial day of St. John of God.   This sixteenth-century saint followed his impulses when serving God, performing constant acts of charity.   Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! St. John of God, Pray for Us!  + Mikel A.  | RosaryNetwork.com, New York       &nbs...

Friends of the Rosary: The sanctity of marriage is another mystery that we can hardly understand. To the amazement of the Pharisees, Jesus Christ defined the sacredness of marriage, as we recently read in the Gospel (Mark 10:1-12): “But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shal...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, on the First Sunday of Lent, we read (Lk 4:1-13) about the temptations that the Devil issued to Jesus Christ when he was in the desert for forty days. There were three extreme temptations: the temptation of survival food (and Jesus was really hungry and thirsty after forty days), the temptation of power and glory (and Jesus was the Son of God), and the temptation of n...

Friends of the Rosary: God is omnipotent and doesn’t need anything from us. When He calls — as we read in the Gospel today through the passage of Jesus calling Matthew (Lk 5:27-32)— an explosion of grace takes place. Grace comes as a heavenly gift that human beings are incapable to understand. It’s an opportunity for change, a challenge that will result in a conversion of our hearts. Jesus Christ...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, the Friday after Ash Wednesday, we continue with the 40 day period of Lent in preparation for the Passion of the Lord and Easter. It's a time for spiritual discipline in imitation of the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert, during which he endured temptation by Satan. We pray and do penance. We raise our minds and heart to Jesus Christ expressing our gratitude a...

Friends of the Rosary: This Lent, let’s correct through prayer and penance the faults we committed in ignorance and pride. Yesterday, on Ash Wednesday, we were reminded that we all will die, facing then the Final Judgement. Only God knows when we will day. In the meantime, we need to live in a state of grace, pursuing holiness, because the end of our earthly life might happen at any moment. But th...

Friends of the Rosary: Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, the beginning of forty days of prayer, abstinence, fasting, giving alms, and penance, marked with the symbol of ashes. Abstinence from eating meat is observed on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays during Lent. Fasting means that on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday we eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not...

Friends of the Rosary: Today, the day before Ash Wednesday is Mardi Gras, French for Fat Tuesday. In many southern states, including New Orleans, Mardi Gras is a traditional holiday. Today, we also honor the Holy Face of Jesus. In the nineteenth century, the devotion to the Holy Face was revealed by Jesus to Sr. Marie of St. Peter, a Carmelite nun of Tours in France. The primary purpose of the dev...

Friends of the Rosary: How bad is spiritual arrogance? Praying and having faith doesn't give us the right to judge others. In yesterday's reading Jesus asked (Luke 6:39-45): "Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?" We are fast at seeing faults in others but we ignore ours. We lack humility, the virtue of the first Joyful Mystery that...

Friends of the Rosary: We keep on prayer for the Ukrainians and Ukraine diaspora around the world, and especially for the Catholic community of the country. These faithful people give witness to Christian hope amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They show hope and faith in Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, and the communion of saints, who suffer altogether because of the war in Ukraine. Jesus wants us...

Friends of the Rosary: In the Sermon of the Mount, one of the Beatitudes, as Matthew 5:9 narrated, stated: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." If peacemakers are sons of God, those whose actions result in violent attacks and war are followers of evil. What we do or what we fail to do can have awful consequences for our neighbors. Those political and business leader...

Friends of the Rosary: This week, Pope Francis called for people to fast for peace on March 2, Ash Wednesday, praying that "the Queen of Peace will preserve the world from the madness of war." The situation in Ukraine is worsening, and it's time to ask for Divine intervention. Jesus and Mary want us to be brothers, not enemies. We are a human family after all. So when we prioritize our foolish int...

Friends of the Rosary: “For whoever is not against us is for us,” Jesus Christ said in yesterday’s reading (Mk 9:38-40). Charity is the mark of Christians. When we display charity, we make Christ present in the world. “This is how all will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). Either we make Christ present in the world in a visible way, or we reject Him. Th...

Friends of the Rosary: We all fall into temptation. Our human forces are limited. And the more we exalt ourselves the deepest the fall. St. Peter—the rock anointed by Jesus to build His Church—denied the Master not one but three times. Are we better than Peter — whose feast day we celebrated yesterday? We are not. Only through constant prayer, we can overcome temptation. Grace received from Jesus...