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[Comment: Tested] Friends of the Rosary: God the Father tested his dearly beloved Son like any other human ever has been challenged. Jesus Christ suffered a sorrowful passion that culminated with a death in the Cross. God knew his Son will endure. Now Jesus Christ is the King of the Universe and reigns gloriously forever. Should we, humans, be tested? There is no Glorious Sunday without a Sorrowfu...

[Comment: Valley of Tears] Friends of the Rosary: We are called to holiness. The Holy Trinity ardently wishes to receive our souls in Heaven so we enjoy eternal happiness. We, humans, are created so lovingly that we are given the freedom to choose. God doesn’t interfere in our lives unless we ask for help through prayer. Then we receive grace and wisdom to dwell on Earth. We also receive the gift...

[Comment: Merciful Heart of Jesus] Friends of the Rosary: Today, October 18, is the feast day of St. Luke, Evangelist, the inspired author of the third Gospel and of the Acts of the Apostles. Born in Antioch in Syria, he was an early convert from paganism. St. Luke was a practicing physician and artist. He was a disciple of St. Paul. He accompanied him on his missionary journeys. Like St. Mark, th...

[Comment: Ideologies] Friends of the Rosary; Our time is unique in this. It looks like that the Prince of the lies has succeeded in twisting part of humanity regarding marriage and family. Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who witnessed the Marian apparitions in Fatima, predictive right before her death in 2005 that the final battle between the Kingdom of Jesus and Satan would be...

[Comment: Losing in the Heart of Jesus] Friends of the Rosary: We honor today St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the seventeenth-century French nun whose visions of Jesus Christ helped to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart. One day, while in prayer, Margaret experienced Christ's presence in an extraordinary way. She heard Jesus explain that he desired to show his love for the human race in a special way...

[Comment: God Alone Suffices] Friends of the Rosary: Today is the Memorial Day of St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Avila, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic and Doctor of the Church, founder of the Carmelite Discalced order, and author of three classic spiritual books — that are available online for free: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus ,  Interior Castle , and  Wa...

[Comment: Live Not for Yourself] Friends of the Rosary: One day St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, the contemporary mystic and apostle of Divine Mercy, complained to Jesus Christ that she felt she was a burden for the sisters of the congregation. As St. Faustina tells in her Diary, the Son of God replied: "You live not for yourself, but for the souls." And He added: "Other souls will benefit from your s...

[Comment: Heavenly Seal] Friends of the Rosary: On October 13, 1917, the most crowded miracle ever took place in Fatima, Portugal, exactly as the Virgin Mary promised to the three shepherd children that it’d happen. Over 70,000 people witnessed the “Miracle of the Sun.” Newspapers of that time described an incredible event that lasted ten minutes. The sun zig-zagged in the sky and emitted multicol...

[Comment: Until the End of Time] Friends of the Rosary: We celebrate today Our Lady of Pillar, Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the patron of Spain and all Hispanic peoples. On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus first sighted American land, and then the first Mass in the Americas was celebrated. The origin of the Virgin of the Pillar dates back to the year 40 A.D. Saint James the Apostle, along with...

[Comment: The Humility of Mary] Friends of the Rosary: Today is the feast of St. John XXIII, a contemporary pope best known for convening the Second Vatican Council. Also, today is the feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Across history, heretics have refused to honor Mary as Mother of God. The Holy Virgin is also the mother of the Universal Church, the Mystical Body of Jesus...

[Comment: Embracing Divine Will] Friends of the Rosary: Jesus and Mary listen to all the prayers of the faithful. However, how unfathomable it is, we are unable to understand the Divine Will. My wife Maria Blanca, who is under intense pain day after day in the ICU of burned patients, was yesterday concerned about the faith of those who might be disappointed if she doesn’t recover. This was her pre...

[Comment: Emotions] Friends of the Rosary: Our modern society has made emotions, feelings, and pleasures a priority. We have absolutized them, in accordance with the dominant view of the human being as the center of the universe. In other words, we try to build a society without God. Our Western countries do not deny God; they just relegate the Divinity to a secondary role. This social constructio...

[Comment: Free Online Course on the Rosary] Friends of the Rosary: Learning something requires time and commitment. We don’t learn without effort. Praying the Rosary is not easy. And we might have doubts. In an attempt to address the main questions, we have produced a short, online video course . It’s free and open to anyone. The goal is to attract more souls to the Marian prayer. The Blessed Virg...

[Comment: Our Lady of Victory] Friends of the Rosary: On October 7, the universal Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, also known as “Our Lady of Victory.” This memorial day was instituted by Pope St. Pius V in thanksgiving for the naval victory over the Turkish Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto on this day in the year 1570. This victory saved Western Hemisphere from being...

[Comment: Sanctity of Marriage] Friends of the Rosary: Another teaching of Jesus Christ that our modern society rejects refers to the sanctity of marriage, naturally between a male and female. In one of the readings of last Sunday ( Mk 10:2-16 or 10:2-12 ), Jesus explained how God joins together marriages, making wife and husband one single flesh. Exactly the same way that it happened at the begin...

[Comment: Divine Mercy] Friends of the Rosary: Today, Tuesday, October 5, we honor, among other saints, one of the favorites of The Rosary Network : St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, the contemporary mystic, a Polish nun who became the apostle of the Divine Mercy. Jesus Christ entrusted her with the mission of proclaiming to the whole world the old, eternal message of his merciful love for all people,...

[Comment: The Gospel as the Rule of Life] Friends of the Rosary: Today is the Memorial day of St. Francis of Assisi. This twelve-century popular saint, the founder of the Franciscans order, was born and died in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner in the battle between the Assisians and Perugians. During his imprisonment, he experienced a vision from Christ and decide...

[Comment: Living Sanctity] Friends of the Rosary: When we offer our suffering to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the conversion of sinners, we don’t know what happens exactly. Jesus revealed that every saved soul means a great joy in Heaven. Just picture the sick in hospitals offering everything they got — essentially, their damaged health — to Jesus and Mary. The Divinity works wonders with the...

[Comment: Guardianship's Protection] Friends of the Rosary: Today, October 2nd, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels. Angels are servants and messengers from God. They are spiritual, non-corporeal, eternal beings, superior to humans, with free will and intellect. They move out of the barriers of space and time — a concept that the human mind cannot understand. These spirits — billion...

[Comment: Little Flower] Friends of the Rosary: Today is the memorial of the French Discalced Carmelite nun of the nineteenth century, St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face — more popularly known as St. Therese of Lisieux, or the "the Little Flower." She died of tuberculosis on September 30, 1897, at the age of 24. "The Little Flower" attained holiness by carrying out her ordinary daily...

[Comment: Divine Will] Friends of the Rosary: When we trust in Jesus and Mary, we accept the Divine Will — which is unfathomable and far beyond our comprehension. No matter how adverse and painful it looks, the Divine Will works for the benefit of our soul. It might take us years to understand the meaning of events. By the grace of the faith, we embrace peacefully trials and suffering experiences....

[Comment: God's Messengers] Friends of the Rosary: Today is the feast of the three Archangels, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. These God's messengers are named in the Scriptures several times, and all three have critical roles in the history of our salvation. St. Michael is the "Prince of the Heavenly Host," the leader of the angels, a warrior who goes against Lucifer and his followers, defeating t...

[Comment: Persevere to the End] Friends of the Rosary: When we preciously hold the Holy Rosary, we walk along with Jesus and Mary, receiving countless graces. We avoid storms and big dramas. After a time, we might take this grace for granted, and our sinful condition will re-emerge. We might start looking for new avenues and experiences. It's exciting to experiment with new things—we tell ourselve...

[Comment: Lens of Humility] Friends of the Rosary: We cannot avoid foul thoughts but we can avoid foul behavior. We were brought into life carrying the original sin. We weren’t born Immaculate as John the Baptist, the Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ himself. It means that we must do our best to cultivate holy virtues and get rid of disordered practices. This is a lifelong battle that we cannot win wi...

[Comment: Beyond Meditation] Friends of the Rosary: When the forces of darkness assault our lives, an effective way to stop them is by invoking the Virgin Mary and holding visibly her Holy Rosary — that’s why we need to keep it handy. The Rosary is a supernatural sword against Satan and their collaborators, who are awake day and night. When we faithfully pray the Rosary, the Kingdom of Heaven take...