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Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Gospel (Luke 1:46-56), we hear the Magnificat, Mary’s hymn of praise to the Lord. The hymn commences with a declaration,  “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord. My spirit rejoices in God my savior.” Her whole being is ordered to glorify and give honor to God. She wants nothing for herself; she wants only to be an occasion for honoring God. “My soul proclaim...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, December 21, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, marks the final week of waiting before Christmas, symbolizing  Love , the ultimate gift of God, sending his Son, Jesus, to save humanity. This Sunday sees the lighting of the fourth candle on the Advent wreath (often called the "Angel Candle"). As we await Christ's birth and anticipate his second coming, we refle...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s main reading (Luke 1:26-38), St. Luke narrates the magnificent event of the Annunciation, the encounter between the Angel Gabriel and Mary, who was betrothed to a man named Joseph of the house of David. Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she will conceive and give birth to Jesus, the Son of God, through the Holy Spirit, fulfilling the ancient prophecies and...

Friends of the Rosary, We read today in John 15:4: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain i...

Friends of the Rosary, Today is Day Three of the Christmas Novena. It's also the  Second of the O Antiphons, O Adonai (O Almighty God/O Lord and Ruler). As Moses approached the burning bush ("Put off the shoes from thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground . . . I am who am."). So we approach the divine Savior in the form of the consecrated host, falling to adore H...

Friends of the Rosary, Today’s main reading (Matthew 1:1–17) features the genealogy of Jesus, showing that Christ didn’t appear out of the blue. He emerged from a dense history of a long line of great and not-so-great characters. Like most families and ancestors, a mixed bag: saints, sinners, cheats, prostitutes, murderers, poets, kings, insiders, and outsiders. God became one of us, in all of our...

Friends of the Rosary, On Dec. 12, Pope Leo XIV, over his first Mass on the solemnity of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Peter’s Basilica, recalled that Mary brings “that joy wherever human joy is insufficient, wherever the wine has run out.”  “At Tepeyac, the Virgin Mary “awakened in the inhabitants of America the joy of knowing God loves them.” Thus, amidst ceaseless conflicts, injustices, and sorr...

Friends of the Rosary, In today’s Gospel (Matthew 21:23–27), the chief priests and elders question Jesus:  “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?” They missed the fact that Jesus speaks with authority of being God himself, as he said to the followers of John the Baptist, as we learned yesterday on Gaudete Sunday. “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, the Third Sunday of Advent, is known as  Gaudete Sunday as the Church emphasizes the joy that should be in our hearts as Christmas draws near. The term Gaudete refers to the first word of the Entrance Antiphon, "Rejoice". The rose candle on the Advent wreath is light, and priests wear rose vestments. The joy of Christians is to see when the Lord will come ag...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, December 13, we honor a fourth-century saint, Saint Lucy, virgin and martyr, who consecrated herself to Christ at a young age despite the marriage arrangements that her mother made. As in Agatha’s case, tradition suggests that Lucy’s tormentors were determined to violate her virginal body, and her eyes were torn out, but she was miraculously preserved. She was execute...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, December 12, is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. On December 9, 1531, Juan Diego, a Chichimeca Indian, encountered a beautiful young woman speaking in the native Nahuatl, who revealed herself as “Holy Mary, Mother of the True God for whom we live.” She requested that a chapel be built. After the local bishop refused to believe Juan, the Virgin herself arranged rose...

Friends of the Rosary, In today's Gospel reading (Matthew 11:11-15), Our Lord, while saying that "there has been none greater than John the Baptist", reveals to us: "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent are taking it by force." This ambiguous passage has been interpreted essentially in two ways over the centuri...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 10, the Church of Christ celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Loreto, a title that refers to the Holy House of Loreto. This is the house, in the Holy Land, in which Mary was born, and where the Annunciation took place. Tradition says that angels miraculously transported it first to Tersato, Dalmatia, in 1291, then to Recanati, Italy, in 1294, and finally to Lo...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, God loves humanity — every one of us — in His terms, in an irrational, exuberant way that defies our limited logic. This is how the divine mercy runs the universe to our joy. We read today (Matthew 18:12–14) how Jesus tests his disciples: “What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, December 8, is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, a holy day of obligation. This dogma, defined by Blessed Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854, proclaims that Our Lady was immaculately conceived. Mary, “full of grace” through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. The dogma stated, “The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, Second Sunday of Advent, as we continue our journey to celebrate the nativity of Christ, we see John the Baptist, the voice crying out in the desert, preaching and calling to conversion (Matthew 3:1-12): “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” “I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. I am not worthy...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, December 6, we celebrate the memorial of St. Nicholas of Myra (d. 346), a 4th-century bishop and one of the most popular saints in the Western world, honored as the patron saint of children. Born in Lycia in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), he practiced remarkable spiritual and corporal works of mercy and worked tirelessly to defend the faith. His legends of generosity...

Friends of the Rosary, As we read today in the Gospel (Matthew 9:27-31), two blind men beg Jesus to heal them. They cry out: "Son of David, have pity on us!" When he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" "Yes, Lord," they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said, "Let it be done for yo...

Friends of the Rosary, We, the faithful, must build our friendship with Christ on a solid rock. As we read today, (Matthew 7:21, 24–27): "Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.  The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house.  But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock." In...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, December 3, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552), one of the Church’s most illustrious missionaries. Born in the castle of Xavier in Navarre, Spain, in 1525, he was from a noble Basque family. In 1534, he went to Paris, where he taught philosophy after obtaining his master’s degree, met St. Ignatius of Loyola, and was enrolled as one of th...

Friends of the Rosary, Amazingly, today, December 2, Tuesday of the second week of Advent, we are given a share in the inner life of God when we hear the intimate conversation between the Father and the very Son, the first two Trinitarian persons. Christ Jesus says, "I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned, y...

Friends of the Rosary, This Advent, a season of spiritual waiting, we put on the armor of light to "seek only to do God's work and abandon the deeds of the flesh (cf. Rm 13:12-14)." It's the Christian lifestyle, not distracted and indifferent, but vigilant and recognizing even the smallest sign of the Lord’s second coming, as we don’t know the hour in which He will arrive (cf. Mt...

Friends of the Rosary, Today, November 30, the Catholic Church begins a new Liturgical Year with the First Sunday of Advent. It's the beginning of a new period of prayer and penance, and a renewed commitment to the true faith. The entire Liturgy of the Advent season spurs us to an awakening in our Christian life and puts us in a ‘vigilant’ disposition, waiting for Our Lord Jesus, who is coming...

Friends of the Rosary, Christ Jesus instructs us today (Luke 21:34-36) to be on alert about his second coming. He is also warning us to prepare for the day of our death and coming before him. In that moment, our world will end. We cannot avoid this matter anymore. “Be vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength to escape the tribulations that are imminent and to stand before the Son...

Friends of the Rosary, Christ Jesus said to the disciples (Luke 21:29-33): “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away." The Lord assures us that the kingdom of God is near and that we must prepare for its coming. He speaks of the time when the divine plan will be fulfilled. Some philosophies say that time circles back on itself, repeating like the cycles. Nietzsche spok...