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[Comment: Emmanuel] Friends of the Rosary, Today, we start the Season of Advent, the season of vigilant waiting, that prepares us to joyfully welcome the mystery of the Word Incarnate in Christmas. We prepare as well as for the eventual Second Coming of Christ. With this first Sunday of Advent, Catholics begin the new Liturgical Year. It means that we renew our commitment to the faith. It’s like s...

[Comment: Humble and Merciful] We honor today St Catherine Labouré, the humble French nun to whom, at the age of 24, the Immaculate Conception appeared, requesting that the Miraculous Medal be stamped. St. Catherine Labouré received three apparitions from the Virgin Mary, a vision of Christ present in the Eucharist, and a mystical encounter with St. Vincent de Paul. After the visions ceased, St. C...

[Comment: Medal of Grace] Friends of the Rosary, We celebrate today the feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, also known as the Medal of Our Lady of Grace. In the year 1830, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St Catherine Labouré, a Daughter of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, in Rue du Bac, Paris, France. The Virgin Mary appeared to her as the Immaculate Conception, standing on a globe, emitt...

[Comment: Happy Catholic Day!] Friends of the Rosary, Happy Thanksgiving day! We're grateful to the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary for all the graces they shed on us. The Creator of the Universe gave us our own life and Jesus Christ purchased with His holy blood and body our eternal happiness. His Divine Mother takes care of us every single day. A word about the origins of Thanksgiving,...

[Comment: Overcome the World] Friends of the Rosary, Christianity is not a walk in the park. Jesus Christ cautioned us to expect persecution and threats until His second coming. In today's reading (Luke 21:12-19), He says: "They will seize and persecute you" and "you will be hated by all because of my name". Persecution looks different, depending on where you live. We find courage in our struggle...

[Comment: False Messiahs] Friends of the Rosary, In today’s reading of the New Testament, Jesus warns against the false messiahs that we will see before the second coming. "Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he’ and ‘The time has come.’ Do not follow them!" (Luke 21:5-11). We see everywhere false prophets who either claim to represent God or offer an alternative to the True Faith. They can b...

[Comment: Life in Heaven] Friends of the Rosary, Like the Sadducees priests, who dominated the temple in the time of Jesus, secularists today hold that there is no life after death. Those who reject the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting—that we say in the Apostles' Creed—can be conflicted people. It is hard to imagine them as convinced promoters of justice and peace. If everything...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, we went to Blue Army's Our Lady of Fatima Sanctuary in Asbury, New Jersey to celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, and pray the Rosary in this holy place. The feast of Christ King of Universe was established by Pope Pius X in 1925 as an antidote to secularism, which denied then—and denies today—Christ's Kingship. The solemnity proclai...

[Comment: Purity of Mary]   Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 21st, we commemorate the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in Jerusalem. St Joachim and St Anne brought Mary to the Temple to consecrate their only daughter to The Lord. This feast—started in the 11th century within the Byzantine Catholic Church—honors the faith of Joachim and Anne, and...

[Comment: The Mystery of Prayer] Friends of the Rosary, Prayer sets in motion a domino effect of grace and goodness. With prayer, we stop the destructive logic of our society and we start new, unexpected events wherein hope flourishes. With this tangible abundance, why don’t we become prayerful Catholics? Why doesn’t prayer have a central place in our lives? What might happen is that we suspect th...

[Comment: Courage] Friends of the Rosary, Do we exhibit enough moral courage to speak up? Clearly, not. We, laypeople, stay silent for the fear of the dominant secular world. Pretty much the same way that many bishops and priests do. We all prefer to be aligned with the world around us, avoiding any fight or dispute. We have convinced ourselves that our faith is an individual virtue to be practice...

[Comment: Daily Grace] Friends of the Rosary, The Holy Rosary is a school of Christian life. Throughout this salvific tool, we receive daily grace from the Blessed Virgin Mary. We need spiritual help from above to keep going. Alone we can do nothing. We face temptations and, in our pride, we think we can handle them. The reality is that we are incapable of dealing with the enemies of the soul. Tru...

[Comment: Bad Influences Around?] Friends of the Rosary, We all are surrounded by bad influences. People who want to take our faith down. What can we do? First, we need to pray for them and wish them well. Note that we are also referring to them when we ask Jesus in the Fatima prayer to lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy . As children of God, we are part of the sa...

[Comment: Desire for Transcendence] Friends of the Rosary, Religions are mostly about awakening our desire for transcendence and directing it toward God. But Christianity is different. It's all about following Jesus Christ, who was fully divine and fully human. In Him, divinity and humanity meet. As Bishop Barron says, those who know Jesus Christ realize that the love of God necessarily draws us t...

[Comment: Parable of Talents] Friends of the Rosary, Today’s Gospel recounts the parable of the talents (MT 25:14-30). Every talent, every ability, and everything else is given to us. The Father rightfully expects some fruit in return, according to each of our skills and knowledge. We all participate in the building of the Kingdom of God here on Earth. Every result we produce matters, regardless o...

[Comment: Polarized Society] Friends of the Rosary, We live in a deeply polarized society. But the division goes beyond politics. Politics is only the tip of the iceberg. It is mostly a fight against Christianity. More precisely, it is a persecution against followers of the truth. Non-believers want to suppress freedom and God-given life from the moment of conception to natural death. They want to...

[Comment: Rays of Light] Friends of the Rosary, There are much suffering and pain in the world, and we don’t do our best to see the light. We feel that dark clouds cover the world, but that is because of our lack of holiness. If we persevere— Holy Rosary in hand—rays of light will come into us. Patience is the fruit of the fourth Sorrowful mystery that we pray today. And perseverance is the fruit...

[Comment: Rosarian] Friends of the Rosary, To be a Christian we need to be a Marian. And to be a Marian we need to be a Rosarian. We go to the Father through Jesus Christ, and we meet Jesus through His Divine Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary — as we learn in the second luminous mystery today. Our Protestant friends miss the eternal truth that Mary is the new Eve, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Co...

[Comment: Covid]     Friends of the Rosary, This COVID nightmare will hopefully pass soon, because of vaccines, treatments, and widespread immunity. But, have we taken the health crisis as an opportunity to amend our lives and turn into Jesus and Mary? I’m afraid not. Six centuries ago, the Black Death pandemic devastated Europe, killing one-third of its population. People understood, ri...

[Comment: Indestructible Sword]   Friends of the Rosary, The Holy Rosary is an indestructible spiritual sword that has become a sign of faithfulness. The Blessed Virgin Mary gave the Rosary to the Spanish priest St Dominic in the twelve century to combat heresy and spread the true faith. Many Christians, including Martin Luther and other Protestants, tried everything to destroy it. Others, ev...

[Comment: Devotion to Mary]   Friends of the Rosary, God’s ways are gloriously different from the ways of man. God’s timing is different, too. Politics is temporary while the Kingdom of God is eternal. Our Father in Heaven and the Holy Trinity love mankind so much that they permit our freedom until the last consequences. We are called to be perfect, as Our Father is—as Jesus reminded us. Peop...

[Comment: Soul]   Friends of the Rosary, What certainly matters is the state of the soul, not the so-called “soul of the country”, but our individual and eternal soul. The rhetoric of politicians, including the newly elected President, shouldn’t distract us from a fundamental truth: nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. His most sacred heart is burning for us, despite all of our co...

[Comment: Saturday] Friends of the Rosary, Saturday is a great day to honor Our Blessed Mother. This day is designated as a Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In addition, today is the first Saturday of the month. A century ago, Our Lady of Fatima requested that the faithful honor Her on the first Saturday of each month. Attending Mass is an excellent option today. Let's commemorate Saturday as...

[Comment: Never Give Up] Friends of the Rosary, Never give up praying the Rosary, especially in these uncertain political times. People can discourage us by saying that we look like uneducated old-women or even fanatic people. Some will say that it’s not a bad devotion when you have the time. Others will argue that a number of saints never followed it. The enemies of the Holy Rosary are numerous....

[Comment: Weapon for These Times] Friends of the Rosary, You might feel discouraged with what you see in the news, especially regarding the presidential election. When that happens, hold your Rosary and trust in Our Lady, who gave us this powerful tool. Praying the Rosary helps us with our fears and anxieties. Venerable Fulton Sheen said that “the power of the rosary is beyond description”. A...