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[Comment: People Who Pray] Friends of the Rosary: It’s our choice to believe and follow Jesus Christ or opt for secular pagan life. Essentially, the Western Hemisphere hosts Christians and non-Christians. And inside Christians, we find all kinds of groups: faithful, lukewarm, and cafeteria Catholics, along with Protestants, Christians-in-name-only, and large etcetera of segments. That’s human free...

[Comment: Rescuing Captives] Friends of the Rosary: We assign beautiful titles to the Virgin Mary: Queen of the Universe, Mother of God, Our Lady of the Rosary, the Immaculate Mary, and many others. Today, September 24, we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mercy. By doing so we honor the origin of the Mercedarians, also known as the order of Our Lady of Mercy or Our Lady of Ransom. During the Mid...

[Comment: A Poor Friar Who Prays] Friends of the Rosary: We honor today, September 23, St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, a contemporary Italian priest and Capuchin friar, whose life was devoted to the Eucharist and prayer, including the Holy Rosary. While praying before a cross, Padre Pio received the gift of the stigmata. St. Padre Pio was a much sought-after spiritual advisor, confessor, and interce...

[Comment: Lamp Lighting the Soul] Friends of the Rosary: Isn’t true that our lives have improved a lot by praying the Rosary? By reinforcing daily our goal of being followers of Jesus and Mary through the Rosary, we enjoy life with a deeper meaning. The Marian prayer is an excellent investment of time. If people knew, they massively embrace this salvific tool. The Rosary is like a lamp lighting th...

[Comment: Calling the Sinners] Friends of the Rosary: We honor today St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist, a saint that before being called by Jesus Himself was a tax-collector for the Roman enemy, a publican, a hateful job to the Jews. St. Matthew was the first to put down in writing Jesus Christ's teaching and the account of his life. The Gospel of Matthew was written in Aramaic, the language tha...

[Comment: Focus] Friends of the Rosary: The virtue of humility might seem easy to cultivate, but it’s not. The risk of pride, including spiritual pride, is around the corner. Today’s culture is all about me, about what I can do, and how much I deserve. In the spiritual field, we notice the success of all those mindfulness, reiki, and yoga movements – which go exactly in the opposite direction of t...

[Comment: Merciful Love] Friends of the Rosary: We celebrate today Sunday, September 19, the feast of Our Lady of La Salette, Notre-Dame de La Salette. On the evening of September 19, 1846, the Virgin Mary appeared to two children, Maximin Giraux and Melanie Calvat in the mountain of La Salette-Fallavaux, France. The message of the Holy Virgin in La Salette was to the conversion of all humanity to...

[Comment: Merciful Love] Friends of the Rosary: The merciful love of Jesus Christ is a deep mystery. Despite our offenses and ungrateful behavior, Jesus Christ continues showing His mercy. His infinite goodness towards the human race might be because we are children of God, created to be united in eternity with the Author of Life. Jesus never stops providing opportunities for our redemption and ex...

[Comment: Burning Love] Friends of the Rosary: We celebrate today the feast of the Sacred Stigmata of Saint Francis of Assisi. This feast is a reminder of the power of divine love reflected on the sacred marks of suffering Jesus Christ. The stigmata on Francis showed his mystical union with the Cross of Christ. After praying, meditating on the mysteries of the Passion, and fasting for forty days i...

[Comment: 100% True] Friends of the Rosary: We only do know our existing earthly life and the Creator of the Universe encourages us to deny ourselves and follow a path of self-giving and sacrifice? Yes, that’s what is advised by the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the angels, archangels, and the communion of saints. We are owners of our freedom and we can choose whatever path we wish. The w...

[Comment: Martyrdom] Friends of the Rosary: Today, September 15, we honor Our Lady of Sorrows, a feast dating back to the 12th century that focuses on the suffering and sorrows experienced by the Blessed Virgin Mary throughout her life. Her Seven Sorrows were these: the prophecy of Simeon in the temple, the flight into Egypt, the loss of the Child Jesus for three days, meeting Jesus on his way to...

[Comment: Triumph] Friends of the Rosary: We celebrate today the Exaltation of the Cross, a feast that goes back to the seventh century in Rome. This celebration signs the triumph of the Cross, the instrument of our redemption. It's the salvation through Jesus when He was lifted up on the Cross. We identify with Jesus Christ on the Cross. We follow Him by taking our cross by conforming ourselves t...

[Comment: Showing Character] Friends of the Rosary: In the fifth apparition of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917, the Virgin Mary asked us to pray her Rosary every day, announced the Miracle of Sun for October of that year, and interestingly said to Lucia that she would cure some of the villagers, but others not. Isn't that great? The Holy Queen, our Mother in Heaver, showed her character. To be cured, y...

[Comment: Being Marian] Friends of the Rosary: Today, Sunday, September 12, just four days after the Memorial of her Nativity, is the Feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Spanish, el Dulce Nombre de María . We venerate the name of Mother of the Son of God and the Holy Mother of the human race, after she corrected with her humility and obedience the damage done by the first Ev...

[Comment: Twentieth Anniversary] Friends of the Rosary: Today, on the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC —where 3,000 people were killed and 6,000 injured — we pray for the victims, their families, and friends. We also pray for the defeat of evil and darkness. The Virgin Mary anticipated us in Fatima that in the end, her immaculate heart wi...

[Comment: Divine Assistance] Friends of the Rosary: The night before appointing his 12 apostles, Jesus Christ spent the night in prayer to the Father, as we read this Tuesday (Lk 6:12-19). Jesus, full man and full God, humbled himself once again, showing that the human condition requires divine assistance. The Son of God, who had domain over nature, marks the path to all of us, poor sinners on ear...

[Comment: Slave of the Slaves] Friends of the Rosary: Today is the Memorial day of an amazing saint, St. Peter Claver (San Pedro Claver), a Spaniard Jesuit priest of the seventeenth century, who made himself "slave of the slaves forever" — "esclavo de los negros" — by serving black slaves brutally captured in Africa and sold for the New World's economic growth. For thirty-three years, in Cartagena...

[Comment: Born immaculate and full of grace] Friends of the Rosary: Today, on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mother, we amaze at how Mary was conceived and born immaculate and full of grace. The holiest and most perfect of God's creatures was born to be the mother of the Savior of the world and the spiritual mother of all humanity. She suffered immense sorrows and after her earthly life...

[Comment: How We Are Wired] Friends of the Rosary: We read today in Luke's Gospel (Lk 6:12-19) that a large crowd of Jewish people in the region of Galilee approached Jesus Christ to be healed of their diseases. As they were touching him, they were immediately cured. Another passage narrates how Jesus calmed a storm (Mark 4: 35-41) to the amazement of their own disciples who were afraid to perish...

[Comment: Faith Gone?] Friends of the Rosary: Faith requires willingness. Faith is not self-evident, it’s a choice, it calls for action. Jesus Himself, the Son of God, was taking action. He was rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, departed to desolate places, and there he prayed. St. Mark narrates this at the very beginning of his Gospel (Mark 1:35-36) with these words. How o...

[Comment: Last Coming] Friends of the Rosary: The Second Glorious Mystery features Jesus Christ seated at the right hand of the Father. And by both the Nicean and Apostles' Creed, we are revealed that the Son of God will come again to judge the living and the dead. When He comes in His glory a second and last time on earth, to reign here, He will come through the Holy Mary, as it happened so perfe...

[Comment: Mark of Christians] Friends of the Rosary: In yesterday’s reading (Luke 5:33-39), people asked Jesus why He didn’t encourage fasting among His disciples. With his answer, Jesus shocked the Jewish of that time: "Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?" The mark of Christians should always be joy, as we often experience in marriage parties. The Author of Lif...

[Comment: Month of Our Lady of Sorrows] Friends of the Rosary: The month of September is traditionally dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows and the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, a devotion that dates back to the 12th century. In Spain, Mexico, and all across Latin America, faithful venerate "Nuestra Señora de los Dolores", Sorrowful Mother, in English. Specifically, the Memorial Day of "Our Lady o...

[Comment: Praying for the Sick] Friends of the Rosary: Praying for the sick works. Jesus and Mary are delighted with our prayers. In the power of their grace, our Savior and His divine mother strengthen the sick and comfort us in our suffering. The history of Christianity is based on prayer. Long ago people would have abandoned prayer if it didn’t work. A faithful who prays will bring another pers...

[Comment: Friendship] Friends of the Rosary: With the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we cultivate our friendship with Jesus Christ. The Second Person of the Holy Trinity is not a distant, cold-hearted God that we never see. We shouldn’t see him this way. Jesus Christ is present on multiple occasions: in the Eucharist at every Mass, in the Blessed Sacrament, in every tabernacle, when two or mor...