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[Comment: Three Steps] Friends of the Rosary, Many saints—St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, and St. Louis de Montfort, among them—reminded us that there are three steps to go to God. The first and most suited to our capacity is the Virgin Mary. The second is Jesus Christ, and the third is God the Father. The Most Holy Mary is our mediatrix of intercession. She is the co-redeemer and most-perfect disci...

[Comment: True Devotion] Friends of the Rosary, “We establish solid devotion to our Blessed Lady only to establish more perfectly the devotion to Jesus Christ, and to put forward an easy and secure means for finding Jesus Christ.” St. Louis de Montfort wrote this at the beginning of the nineteenth century in his book “True Devotion to Mary”. We come to Jesus by His Holy Mother. Mary’s desire is to...

[Comment: Everything Is Exposed] Friends of the Rosary, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit see everything we personally do. Every action thought, and intention—even the tiniest—are exposed to the eyes of God. We are free to conduct our life the way we want because the Creator gave us free will. St. Paul the Apostle reminds us this today in his letter to Hebrews (Heb 4:12-16): “No creature is...

[Comment: Souls in Purgatory] Friends of the Rosary, The stranded souls in purgatory are in much need of our prayers. We can—and must—pray for the family members we lost, for our friends, neighbors, and even for our enemies. With our prayers, we speed up their ascent into Heaven. This is a mystery we believe in. Souls cannot go to hell from purgatory. Souls are trapped in purgatory until they make...

[Comment: 300 Days of Joy] Friends of the Rosary, On March 21st, 2020, at 7:30 pm we started to live stream the Holy Rosary of the Virgin Mary from home. It was in the midst of the pandemic. Days before the shutdown, your host Mikel led some Rosary prayers at St. Roch and St. Michael parishes, in Greenwich, Connecticut. With the lockdown, and without further thinking, we set up a website and start...

[Comment: Win the Battle] Friends of the Rosary, "It is by Mary that the salvation of the world has begun, and it is by Mary that it must be consummated," wrote the Marian Saint Louis de Montfort ("True Devotion to Mary") In the eighteenth century, Louis de Montfort stated prophetically the following: "The devil, knowing that he has little time to destroy souls will every day redouble his efforts...

[Comment: New Teaching] Friends of the Rosary, After being proclaimed the beloved Son of God, Jesus Christ started his public life. People were astonished at his teaching—as we read today in the Gospel (Mk 1:21-28). It was new teaching with authority, far beyond the words of the scribes or anyone else so far in history. Imagine God talking to everyone, revealing the mysteries of the universe. All...

[Comment: Hardened Hearts] Friends of the Rosary, The Divinity lets the universe run according to its natural rhythm while allowing mankind’s free will to shape reality. However, occasionally the Heavens intervene, for our own good. For example, in the last five centuries, we’ve been blessed with the apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Our Lady of the Rosary has come to our rescue when we have distanc...

[Comment: Heavens Opened] Friends of the Rosary, We celebrate today the Baptism of Jesus Christ—the second epiphany, or manifestation, of the Lord, after His human birth. This feast—on the day nineteen—brings to an end the liturgical season of Christmas. In the mystery of Baptism, the entire Trinity intervenes. We see the Trinitarian nature of God. The Father proclaimed Jesus the “Beloved Son”, an...

[Comment: Still Christmas] Friends of the Rosary, Christmas concludes tomorrow Sunday, January 10th, with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord—the first Luminous Mystery of the Rosary. The political turmoil might have distressed us. But there always will be agitation, disorder, and chaos, one way or other. During the liturgical season of Christmas, we have celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ into...

[Comment: Smaller Church] Friends of the Rosary, With the political, economic, and health crisis unfolding in the U.S. and all over the world, we wonder what’s the future of the faithful and the Catholic Church—the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ. Five years ago, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI  predicted  that we would see priests behaving as social workers and the faith depicted as a politica...

[Comment: Triumph of the Immaculate Heart] Friends of the Rosary, In light of the latest events in the U.S., we firmly pray for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Evildoers who try to deceive people and sin against the Holy Spirit need to repent and ask forgiveness to Our Lord. We are a human family and we are all sinners—and there is no sin that any of us cannot commit. Those in the job...

[Comment: Three Kings Day] Friends of the Rosary, Traditionally, the Epiphany of Our Lord is observed today in the majority of the Catholic world. However, in the US and other countries, the feast was held last Sunday. The word “epiphany” comes from the Greek epiphanies, a verb that means “to shine upon,” “to manifest,” or “to make known.” There are three events that manifest the mission and divin...

[Comment: Year’s Resolutions] Friends of the Rosary, What are your new year’s resolutions? Pope Francis suggested a good one last Sunday during the Angelus: “We can commit ourselves a little more to take care of each other.” “Let’s work together for the common good, putting the weakest and most disadvantaged at the center,” he said. Pope Francis also warned against the temptation to ignore the suf...

[Comment: Divine Will] Friends of the Rosary, Today, day eleventh of Christmas, is the Memorial Day of the first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton. Born in New York in 1774 to a wealthy Episcopalian family, she converted to Catholicism. Wife and mother of five children, she founded the American Sisters of Charity. She also opened orphanages in Philadelphia and New York City, as well as schools i...

[Comment: Light of the Nations] Friends of the Rosary, We celebrate today the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord—the manifestation or revelation of Jesus Christ as the light of the nations. The traditional date for the feast is January 6, but in some countries like in the U.S., the celebration is held on the Sunday after January 1. In Spanish speaking countries, this feast —also called Three Ki...

[Comment: True Faith] Friends of the Rosary, "The liar is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ." "Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the Antichrist." These are words we read today in the first letter of St. John in the New Testament. (1 John 2:22-28). At the beginning of the year, it is essential to keep in mind this fundamental truth. "Anyone who denies the Son does not have the Fa...

[Comment: First Day of the Year] Friends of the Rosary, Today, January 1st, at the beginning of the calendar year, we celebrate the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. New Year Day is a secular day of good cheer, and that’s fine. For us, it is a holy day of obligation and a day that can be sanctified in Christ and Mary. It is also a day of prayer for World Peace: Mary is the mother of the P...

[Comment: Forgiveness] Friends of the Rosary, We read today, on New Year's Eve, the breathtaking opening of the Gospel of John (John 1:1-18) "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only-begotten Son, full of grace and truth." Why is it so difficult to understand? Many among us refuse the light and chose to live in darkness. They ser...

[Comment: Sign of Grace] Friends of the Rosary, The Fathers and Doctors of the Church have proved that devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is necessary to salvation. Loving the Holy Virgin is a sign of grace from Heaven. St. John of Damascus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, wrote in the eighth century: “To be devout to the Holy Virgin is an arm of salvation which God gives to those whom He wishes to save....

[Comment: Joy and Pain] Friends of the Rosary, We read today in the Gospel (LK 2:22-35) that a prophet in the Temple called Simeon foretold Mary that a sword would pierce her heart. At Christmas, as in the earthly life of the Virgin Mary, there is much joy but also much pain. In the last four days, we reflected on St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, and how he imitated Christ by dying painful...

[Comment: Infant Martyrs] Friends of the Rosary, Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents, in the memory of the small children in Bethlehem put to death by the wicked King Herod fifteen weeks after the birth of Christ. This evil monarch was attempting to kill the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:16–18) as a reaction to the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy. These infant martyrs, Saints of God, were...

[Comment: Life of Grace and Virtue] Friends of the Rosary, We celebrate today the feast day of the Holy Family, venerating Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, as a model of the Christian family. The Son Incarnate came to Earth into a family. He submitted Himself with infinite humility, love, and obedience to a human family. Mary and Joseph were united to protect and raise Jesus. They had only one child, but...

[Comment: Full of Faith and the Holy Spirit] Friends of the Rosary, Today, on the day after the solemnity of Christmas, we celebrate the feast of St. Stephen , the first Christian martyr. He was stoned in Jerusalem two years after the death of Christ. St. Luke praises him as "a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit" (Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59) and describes the scene of St. Stephen's death—witnessed by...

[Comment: Light into the World] Friends of the Rosary, We rejoice today by observing the Nativity of the Lord, the Word Incarnate, the Son of God dwelling among us and assuming our human nature in all but sin. (Jn 1:1-5, 9-14) Christ, according to His human nature, is born at Bethlehem of the House of David of the Virgin Mary, and, according to His divine nature, is conceived of the Spirit of holi...