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Today's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityApril 20, 2025, Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries) | Fifth Anniversary of the Rosary NetworkFriends of the Rosary,Today, Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, we celebrate that Christ, who remained two days in the tomb, is risen from the dead, unleashing on the third day God’s forgiving and hopeful love in all its power."Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." The words heard by the women at the tomb — Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James — are addressed to us today, too.It means that death, sin, fear, and solitude are not the la...2025-04-2132 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityFebruary 25, 2025, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary,When our will is aligned with the divine will, we become the conduits of the grace of God.As Bishop Barron writes, “Faith is an attitude of trust in the God who is always holding out new possibilities to us.""When our lives and hearts are aligned to the God who creates the universe when our wills are directed according to his purposes, we become the conduits of enormous power."Today, we pray for Pope Francis's health recovery and the eternal rest of Marc Louis, husband of An...2025-02-2529 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 30, 2024, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary,
From time immemorial, the human race has wondered who will be saved and who will go directly to heaven, purgatory, or hell. This is the critical question of our existence.
At that time, Jesus was asked (Lk 13:22-30):
"Lord, will only a few people be saved?
He answered them,"Strive to enter through the narrow gate,for many, I tell you, will attempt to enterbut will not be strong enough.
We have free will, and it’s up to us to ac...2024-10-3030 min
Today's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityAugust 2, 2023, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries) | Prayer for the WYD in LisbonFriends of the Rosary:
Today, we join in our prayer the hundreds of thousands of young people participating in World Youth Day (WYD) 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, a faith event that began on August 1 and will last until this Sunday, August 6th.
A high number of youngsters witness that true faith is still alive despite the decline in the practice of religion in our secularized world. The high turnout is a sign of hope.
Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month of August is for World Youth Day (WYD).
Pope Francis explained in...2023-08-0331 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityJanuary 11, 2023, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Pope Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI left a spiritual testament, dated August 29, 2006, which the Vatican released this week.
His central message was summarized in this sentence:
“What I said earlier of my compatriots, I now say to all who were entrusted to my service in the Church: Stand firm in the faith! Do not be confused!”
This is the entire text:
My Spiritual Testament
When, at this late hour of my life, I look back on the decades I have wandered through, I see firs...2023-01-1130 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 23, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) | 1,000 Days Praying the Rosary of MaryFriends of the Rosary:
Almost about to enter the Christmas season, the Catholic Church celebrates today the Antiphon or chant of O Emmanuel, God Is With Us.
God reveals through the human heart of Jesus that He wants to be one of us, with all our weaknesses and suffering, in every phase of our life. He wishes to dwell within us and experience how hard is to be a man.
God's only-begotten Son is about to be born in time. For the salvation of men, He comes down upon the earth and is...2022-12-2330 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 22, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries) | 1,000 Days Praying the Rosary of MaryFriends of the Rosary:
In this fourth week of Advent, we continue reflecting upon the revelations from Jesus to the mystic Luisa Piccarreta.
These revelations revolve around the excesses of Christ’s love for humanity.
Jesus’ Divinity forms the most intimate union between the Eternal Word and the creatures.
Conceived in the Womb of His Mother, Christ Jesus delights in our company and wished to live in constant and mutual love with us.
God is unconditional and infinite love in action. If we were convinced of this truth our life...2022-12-2228 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 21, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries) | 1,000 Days Praying the Rosary of MaryFriends of the Rosary:
Jesus Christ conceived in grace all the human creatures so that we can grow with Him in wisdom and truth. That is why Christ loves us so much our company and wishes to live in constant and mutual love with us.
This is what Our Savior said to the Italian mystic and Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta (1865–1947) Luisa Piccarreta, as we learn in her Novena.
Jesus also said to her:
"I also wish to let them know that I came down to earth only to make them re...2022-12-2229 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 20, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) | 1,000 Days Praying the Rosary of MaryFriends of the Rosary:
The Italian mystic and Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta (1865–1947), also known as the “Little Daughter of the Divine Will” [in the picture], wrote a Novena before Christmas Day with revelations received from Jesus Christ.
During the fourth day, Luisa Piccarreta described how the consuming love of Jesus Christ is bringing to him the weight of people’s sins and weaknesses.
“Love made me carry the burden of each one of these souls,” said the Son of God to her. “After having conceived their souls in myself, I also conceived the pains and th...2022-12-2124 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 19, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries) | 1,000 Days Praying the Rosary of MaryFriends of the Rosary:
In today’s reading (LK 1:5-25) we learn about another critical intervention of Divinity in human history.
The Angel Gabriel announced the birth of John the Baptist to his father, the priest Zechariah. The mother Elizabeth would give birth to the greatest prophet ever.
John, cousin of Jesus Christ, would be the second human being born without sin, as he would be filled with the Holy Spirit in his mother’s womb.
It’s important to note that God intervened after the insistent prayer of Zechariah and Elizab...2022-12-1929 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 18, 2022, Fourth Sunday of Advent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries) | 1,000 Days Praying the Rosary of MaryFriends of the Rosary:
In today’s Sunday — the fourth of Advent — we see how an angel of the Lord appeared to St. Joseph, in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus because he will save his people from their sins.” (Mt 1:18-24).
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. The Divinity had to inter...2022-12-1823 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 17, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries) | 1,000 Days Praying the Rosary of MaryFriends of the Rosary:
We read today (Matthew 1:1-17) about the genealogy of Jesus, the forty-two generations that stretch from Abraham to Christ.
It means that the Word Incarnated dwelt among our dysfunctional human family.
In the list of the ancestors of Jesus, we see a bit of everything: from Ruth, who was not an Israelite but a Moabite to Rahab, a prostitute in Jericho. Not a genealogy of saints certainly!
Jesus shows His merciful love to people who are sunk in sin — all of us!
The Son of Go...2022-12-1729 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 16, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) | 1,000 Days Praying the Rosary of MaryFriends of the Rosary:
Everything we do, knowingly or unknowingly, is for the Glory of God. Then, the Glory of God is reflected in us. We should understand that we are united forever with the Holy Mighty One. Nothing can separate us from Jesus Christ: not the Evil Doer, nor the flesh, nor the world with its tricks and lies. Not even our own unspeakable sins!
The Holy Trinity gave us eternal life so we build together the Kingdom of Heaven here on our temporary life on earth and in the upcoming everlasting life. Humans...2022-12-1626 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 15, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
This week, we celebrated Our Lady of Guadalupe. This feast highlights, as Archbishop Jose Gomez, said that “who we are, the dearest sons and daughters of God Our Lord.”
We remember the words she addressed to St. Juan Diego: ‘Am I not here, I, who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and shelter? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms?’
“When we look into her eyes, we experience the love she has fo...2022-12-1525 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 14, 2022, Memorial of St. John of the Cross, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
December 14th is the memorial of St. John of the Cross, the 16th-century Spanish, Carmelite priest and Mystical Doctor of the Church.
He reformed the Carmelite order together with St. Teresa of Avila, and wrote the classic spiritual treatise “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
During his religious life, he was mistreated, humiliated, and incarcerated, but these trials brought him closer to God by breaking his dependence on the things of this world.
As Pope St. John Paul II, who wrote a doctoral thesis on the saint’s writ...2022-12-1430 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 13, 2022, Memorial of St. Lucy, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we venerate a popular Sicilian Martyr and Virgin of the third century that is a living symbol of the light of Advent amid the darkness of the world. St. Lucy prepared herself for the reunion of the Lord like few people across history.
St. Lucy made a vow of virginity and distributed her wealth to the poor. She was martyred for defending her virginity. She was tortured with her eyes taken out and a fire was built around her. But God protected her and she stood immovable.
She...2022-12-1326 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 12, 2022, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
On December 9, 1531, the Blessed Mother appeared, in her glorified body, to a poor Indian convert named Juan Diego in Tepeyac, a hill of Mexico City.
The Mother of God left a marvelous portrait of herself on the mantle — the tilma— of Juan Diego as a sign for the bishop.
The tilma has proved to be ageless, showing no sign of decay after over 470 years. To this day it defies all scientific explanations of its origin.
This...2022-12-1227 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 11, 2022, Third Sunday of Advent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, the Third Sunday of Advent is known as Gaudete Sunday. The term Gaudete means "Rejoice."
We light the rose-colored candle of Advent and emphasize our joy as Christmas draws near.
We the faithful await the feast of the Lord's Nativity while praying to receive the joy of our salvation in Jesus Christ and share the glory of His Kingdom here on Earth.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
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• December 11, 2021, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily...2022-12-1132 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 10, 2022, Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto.
The title of Our Lady of Loreto refers to the Holy House of Loreto, the house in which Mary was born, and in which the Word was made flesh at the Annunciation.
Tradition says that angels transported the little house from Palestine to Loreto, in Italy where it has been for centuries.
Since the 14th century, this shrine in Loreto is one of the most famous shrines of Our Lady in Europe.
Popes and the f...2022-12-1030 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 9, 2022, Memorial of St. Juan Diego, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today we remember Juan Diego, the Mexican saint who received a visit from Our Lady of Guadalupe in Cuautlitlán, today part of Mexico City.
When he was 50 years old he was baptized by a Franciscan priest, Fr. Peter da Gand, one of the first Franciscan missionaries.
On December 9, 1531, when Juan Diego was on his way to morning Mass, the Blessed Mother appeared to him.
Our Lady asked him to go to the Bishop and to request in her name that a shrine be built at Tepeyac, w...2022-12-0929 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 8, 2022, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We celebrate today the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, a holy day of obligation in the United States.
Our Lady was immaculately conceived as it was defined by the solemn dogma proclaimed by Blessed Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854.
“The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.” —Catechism of the Catholic Church...2022-12-0829 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 7, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We asked ChatGPT, the latest breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence, a phenomenon these days, about the Rosary. Explain the Mysteries of the Rosary, was the question.
The answer of this tool — created by an Elon Musk San Francisco - based OpenAI company — wasn’t bad!
"The Rosary is a popular devotion among Catholics, which involves the repetition of prayers, called "Hail Marys," while contemplating the life of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. The Mysteries of the Rosary are specific events in the life of Jesus and Mary that are meditate...2022-12-0730 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 6, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we celebrate the memorial of St. Nicholas of Myra, a 4th-century bishop born in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), one of the most popular saints honored in the Western world, and known as Saint Claus in the U.S.
But the story of Saint Nicholas came to America in a distorted fashion, brought by the Dutch Protestants.
Popular legends portrayed St. Nicholas as a North Pole jolly magician and a wonder worker who brings happiness to small children.
Our present-day conception of Santa Claus has grown from...2022-12-0628 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 5, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We also pray today’s Rosary in Madrid, Spain.
In addition to the Christmas tree, during the Advent and Christmas seasons, we enjoy the nativity scenes — belenes, in Spanish.
These nativity scenes reflect the wonder of the divine littleness — God making himself small, not born in the splendor of a palace but in genuine poverty, on a stable.
For what? To be closer to each of us by highlighting the virtue of surrendering and humility.
As Pope Francis recently said, "simple and familiar, the nativity scene...2022-12-0524 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 4, 2022, Second Sunday of Advent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, on the Second Sunday of Advent, we read about the preaching of John the Baptist on the desert of Judea (Mt 3:1-12) His main message: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"
Many followed his request and were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins.
Others refuse to follow the truth. To them, the warning was clear: “Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
The love of God is infi...2022-12-0426 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 3, 2022, Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we honor St. Francis Xavier, the greatest missionary after St. Paul the Apostle.
Born in Navarre, Spain, in 1506, to a noble Basque family, he gave his life to bring the Good News to people who had never known Christ, mostly in western India, the coast of China, Malaysia, the Island of Mindanao, Japan, and other parts of Asia.
He loved the poor, and the sick, and showed great joy in service. He was known for his long hours of hard work. Some days, he baptized so many that...2022-12-0332 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 2, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
In this month dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, we reflect upon the mystery of Mary, the most perfect human being ever created.
St. Irenaeus compares the virginity of the pure earth from which Adam was drawn to the virginity of the immaculate humanity of Mary, from which the Second Adam, Jesus Christ, was drawn.
“He who is the Word, recapitulating Adam in Himself, rightly receive a birth, enabling Him to gather up Adam [into Himself], from Mary, who was as yet a virgin.” (Adversus hereses III, 21:).
The Bless...2022-12-0330 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityDecember 1, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
The dogma of the Immaculate Conception was defined by Blessed Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854.
"The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin."
Mary, full of grace, reflects the fullness of the mystery of God’s grace, as the Archangel Gabriel announced to her. The Immaculate was predestined from eternity to be the Mo...2022-12-0132 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 30, 2022, Feast of St. Andrew, Apostle, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
On November 30th, Catholics worldwide celebrate the feast of St. Andrew, apostle and martyr. He was a fisherman from Bethsaida, a former disciple of John the Baptist, and the brother of Peter.
He was the one who introduced his brother Peter to Jesus, saying, “We have found the Messiah.”
Overshadowed by his brother, Andrew nevertheless appears in the Gospels as introducing souls to Christ. Today, St. Andrew’s feast is a signal of the beginning of Advent.
After Pentecost, Andrew took up the apostolate on a much wider...2022-11-3033 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 29, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
This Sunday, November 27, in addition to the First Sunday of Advent, was the feast of the Miraculous Medal, which represents the coming triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
On November 27, 1830, the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Laboure in a small chapel in Paris. Our Lady was clothed all in white. She was standing on the earth. Under one of her feet was the head of a green serpent, representing Satan.
In her hands, she held a golden ball surmounted by a cross, which represented the world. From...2022-11-2933 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 28, 2022, First Monday of Advent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Advent is an opportunity to grow in grace by cultivating the virtue of humility, in imitation of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, as we learn in the first Joyful Mystery.
We await the coming of Christ, either at Christmas, in His Second Coming, or when He calls us to the House of the Father.
We adopt the attitude of the Centurion, as we read today in the Gospel of Matthew (8:5-11) when he pronounced these eternal words: "Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof...2022-11-2830 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 27, 2022, First Sunday of Advent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today is the First Sunday of Advent and the start of the new Liturgical Year, which means a renewed commitment to the faith by all who follow Christ. It’s an awakening in our Christian life, remembering that the one true God is coming today.
In the Season of Advent, we reflect upon and welcome the mystery of the Word Incarnate. The true light enters into the world through the immaculate womb of Mary. Our sinful daily lives get illuminated. It’s a time of joy.
Advent is also an in...2022-11-2730 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 26, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Our secular society pushes us to avoid any silence, solitude, and prayer and encourages us to jump into the social scene, with all the noise and worldly values.
This invitation keeps us often separated from the eternal truth.
For spiritual growth and healthy meditation and reflection — never mindfulness — we need some detachment, as we learn in the third joyful mystery of today.
This is how we try to merge with the purity and perfection of God and His merciful love.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trus...2022-11-2632 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 25, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Yesterday, we celebrated Thanksgiving. Being forgiving and thanksgiving is a sign of wisdom and hope.
As John said in Revelation 7:12, “Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”
In truth, we should live in a state of gratitude to the Lord, seeing God in everything. Recognizing His gifts and sharing them everywhere.
As one Palms (95:2) says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanks...2022-11-2531 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 24, 2022, Thanksgiving Day, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, the fourth Thursday in November, is Thanksgiving Day, a U.S. annual celebration.
Families getting together, counting their blessings, and showing gratitude to the Lord is great. As G.K. Chesterton said, "Thanks is the highest form of thought."
Although is not on the Church calendar, let's celebrate a Catholic Thanksgiving.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
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• November 24, 2021, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET2022-11-2430 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 23, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
As we prepare for the Advent season that will start next Sunday, we reflect upon the Kingship of Christ, whose solemnity was last Sunday.
God the Father bestowed upon Christ the nations of the world as His special possession and dominion. Christ is the Head of the Church, which the powers of darkness cannot destroy — despite its countless attacks in the last two-thousand years and increasing hostility today.
Moreover, a truth that we need to take very seriously is the kingship of Christ upon each and every one of us...2022-11-2331 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 22, 2022, Memorial of St. Cecilia, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we celebrate the Memorial of St. Cecilia, a virgin and martyr in the 3rd century. St. Cecilia is one of the most famous and venerated Roman saints.
Cecilia led a life of prayer and meditation. She was a witness of purity and praise, an example of a life lived in the world but not of the world, and of fidelity to Christ that is not afraid even of death.
In 1599 her grave was opened and her body was found in a coffin of cypress wood. It lay incorrupt...2022-11-2333 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 21, 2022, Memorial of the Presentation of Mary, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we celebrate the Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, brought her infant daughter to the Temple.
Mary was offered to God in the Temple by her grateful, aged parents when she was three years old. This was done to fulfill a vow that Anne had made when an angel appeared to her, telling her that she would become the mother of a child who “will be spoken of throughout the entire world.”
According to the Protoevangel of St...2022-11-2229 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 20, 2022, Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today is the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, formerly referred to as "Christ the King”.
This feast was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 as an antidote to an unfaithful way of life that leaves God out of man's thinking and living and organizes life as if God did not exist.
Today’s solemnity proclaims Christ's royalty over individuals, families, societies, governments, and nations.
Christ is the Creator of the universe and hence He wields supreme power over all things; "All things were c...2022-11-2031 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 19, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
After the big tribulation, announced in the Book of Revelation (Rv 11:4-12), as we read today, the Heavens will be open again, and Our Trinitarian God will come to rescue the faithful and bring them with Him. These things will happen, as written, regardless we see them or not.
The Enemy of Christ is operating on earth in a big time today. One of his cheats is to persuade a majority of people that he doesn’t exist and Hell is not real.
Through the gift of faith, we ar...2022-11-1928 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 18, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, on Memorial Day dedicated to the Basilicas of St. Peter and St. Paul in Rome, we pray and meditate upon the Sorrowful Mysteries from Orlando, Florida... From another resort today!
Do we realize how blessed we are to have faith?
We notice it when we see a relative or friend around us who is struggling because of a lack of faith.
God is treating us very well giving us divine wisdom. He wants us to share it, always highlighting His merciful love.
The sacred...2022-11-1834 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 17, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We also pray the Luminous Mysteries Rosary from a Walt Disney resort in Orlando, Florida.
How many gifts have we received from God? Life, talents, soul. Everyone has many talents. We are meant to grow them for our own food and the glory of God — which is the same!
Faithful are called to make good use of talents, as we learn in the reading yesterday (Luke 19:11-28).
Jesus likes that we take risks on investment as a model for our spiritual life. God is pure love. He exi...2022-11-1730 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 16, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We pray today's Rosary from a Disney resort in Orlando, Florida.
Being a man of prayer is a huge accomplishment. Jesus Christ was a man of prayer, and so were the apostles, prophets, and saints. None prayed to be seen or take credit.
The holy people of earth pray to be conformed to God.
The Divinity knows already what we need. It’s hilarious to think that we are informing or instructing Him. And it’s equally useless to compose sophisticated phrases to come to Him and mere...2022-11-1631 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 15, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
At that time, Jesus said (Jn 17:20-26) to His Father, "The world does not know you."
Also, He asked (Lk 18:8) "When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"
Two thousand years later, a vast part of the world continues showing the same ignorance.
Men and women continue finding solutions to their happiness in the wrong sources — namely, pleasures, money, and honors — rejecting the eternal truth.
Like then, the root of the problem is our pride and arrogance which leads us to b...2022-11-1531 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 14, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Through the parable of the persistent widow (Luke 18:1–8) — that we read last Saturday — Jesus Christ exhorts us to pray with persistence.
This command is everywhere in the Old and New Testaments. The Son of God’s teaching is clear: “Knock and the door shall be opened to you; seek and you will find; ask and it will be given to you.”
Why persistence is so critical? The Lord wants to be sure — and we want to be sure of what we ask. Things shouldn’t come up too easily.
St. August...2022-11-1429 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 13, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
In yesterday’s reading (Jn 17:20-26), Jesus Christ stated what was the goal of His prayer: “I pray not only for these but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us.”
All be one. That’s the destiny of the human race: to become one with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
That’s perfection, that’s all love, everlasting joy for the...2022-11-1333 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 12, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
How often the homilies we heard on Sundays are uninspiring? Most importantly, why is that?
A top Italian theologian and Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa said that pastors in parishes deliver soft messages to avoid any conflict. The problem is that a tailor-made doctrine is mostly useless.
Faithful people want to hear — and see it in practice — the message of Jesus Christ. And this message is far from being soft, as we read yesterday in the Gospel (LK 17:26-37). Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose i...2022-11-1230 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 11, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Through the Rosary, we go through every stage of Jesus' and Mary's earthly life. The Holy Spirit uses our minds to sync ourselves with the immaculate heart of Mary.
With the meditation of the Rosary, we empty our minds by filling them with the virtues of Christ the Lord and the Blessed Virgin.
Through the Hole Rosary, the love and the power of Jesus Christ and His beloved Mother come unto us, touching our wounds and healing them.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
...2022-11-1130 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 10, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We pray today's Rosary from Brooklyn, New York.
When we pray for the holy souls in purgatory, we also nurture our expectation of heaven and the union with God.
It's also important to reflect upon the fact that when we pass away all our earthly successes, achievements, and gains, along with prestigious titles and honors, will vanish.
We will be examined in terms of love — how much did we help and loved others and worship the Holy Trinity.
In the divine tribunal, the only thing th...2022-11-1028 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 9, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
As we celebrate the month dedicated to All Souls in purgatory, we wonder about what special merits we will need to demonstrate on the final judgment of God before the Resurrection.
We certainly don’t want to arrive into the judgment day hands-empty. The possibility that Jesus Christ tells us “I don’t know you” scares us deeply. So, what to do? Well, to be welcomed into Paradise we need to love others. Why? Because God is love.
As St. Matthew described in the scene of the last judgment, those wh...2022-11-0930 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 8, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
On each Rosary we start our petitions asking for us, God’s people, who are one Body in Christ, as St. Paul reminded us in the letter read last Friday (Rom 12:3-13).
As part of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Catholic and Apostolic Church, we all play different functions. There is the hierarchy, the priests, the consecrated, and the laypeople. No one is above each other because we all are children of God.
When we arrive in Heaven, we will see that the earthly differences in status mean no...2022-11-0828 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 7, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
The truth of the Resurrection and life everlasting, which is central to our faith, has few mentions in the Old Testament. Moreover, many followers of the Law of the Prophets believed that the end of earthly life was the end of our human existence. Only a few passages sensed that the Resurrection was part of the history of salvation.
Yesterday, in the first Sunday reading, in the book of Maccabees (2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14) we heard about it. Heroically, seven brothers accepted martyrdom.
One of the brothers, speaking for the...2022-11-0731 min
Today's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 6, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
In today’s reading (Lk 20, 27-38), Jesus Christ gives us a clue about how life in Heaven will be. He reveals that souls “can no longer die, for they are like angels.”
Today’s society has missed the horizon of eternity. We tend to forget that our earthly life is temporary and that true life takes place in Heaven, with the Communion of Saints, in the New Jerusalem, united with Jesus Christ.
Our God is a living God. He is not a God of the dead. With Christ, we all have...2022-11-0632 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 5, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
In the second Joyful Mystery, Mary chanted the Magnificat (Lk 1:14), the greatest of all chants. "My soul magnifies the Lord," the Most Holy Virgin said.
That's exactly what She does through the Rosary — her Rosary!
Magnify means to "make larger", and that's what Mary does in our lives: She makes Her divine Son larger and more real than we ever imagine.
We pray today's Rosary on the streets of Stamford, Connecticut.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
All Saints, Pray for Us!
2022-11-0528 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 4, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
It’s easy to love people who are friendly and likable. But what about loving those who offend and insult us? Dismissing them, arguing that they reject the faith and the love of God, is an excuse. These folks are suffering immensely and they deserve our help.
In truth, anyone who doesn’t live for the Divinity and for helping their neighbors is a really damaged person. To them, we need to show our merciful love, simply by behaving as witnesses of Jesus and Mary and without expecting anything in return, nor...2022-11-0431 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 3, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
November is the month dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
These souls are holy because they belong to people who passed away in God’s grace and friendship and they are in the previous step to receive the crown of eternal glory and joy.
Now, these souls are in a purifying suffering stage before they achieve complete holiness.
The good news is that these souls will go to Heaven contrary to the souls of unrepentant sinners who will be punished with eternal damnation and the horrific fi...2022-11-0331 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityNovember 1, 2022, Solemnity of All Saints, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, on the first of November, we celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints. This feast was instituted to honor all of the saints — both canonized and uncanonized, both known and unknown — now in Heaven enjoying the beatific vision of God.
Among the saints in heaven are some whom we have known, including many relatives (María Blanca, in my case). All lived on earth journeys like our own. They were baptized and faithful to Christ's teaching. They have departed before us to the heavenly home. From there they are calling on us to...2022-11-0131 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 31, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1, is the solemnity of All Saints; and on Wednesday, November 2, is All Souls Day — in Spanish, el Día de Los Fieles Difuntos.
Today is the Eve of All Saints, commonly known as Halloween, which has Catholic ties. In England, saints or holy people are called “hallowed,” hence the name “All Hallows’ Day.” The evening before the All Saints feast became popularly known as “All Hallows’ Eve” or even shorter, “Hallowe’en.”
Halloween evening marks the beginning of the observance of All Saints Day, with vigil masses everywhere.
2022-10-3132 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 30, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We should try to find Christ Jesus in all things. Mostly, because He alone is the giver of true peace and lasting happiness.
Too much love for earthly things draws people away from joy and wisdom.
We’re in the business of bringing souls to the Father, starting with our own souls. As Christians, we are reminded of this eternal truth.
Or, as we read today Sunday (Lk 19:1-10), “for the Son of Man has come to seek
and to save what was lost.”
Ave Ma...2022-10-3029 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 29, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we pray the Sorrowful Mysteries recorded at St. Catherine of Sienna, in Greenwich, Connecticut, prior to the funeral mass for María Blanca, Blanki.
A group of friends of María Blanca, including Fr. Miguel Bernal, participated faithfully in the prayer of the Rosary.
As Fr. Miguel said during his homily, "the largest source of unhappiness is trying to find life without God." "For Maria Blanca, the entire earthly life was living and dying for God," he added. "And now, Maria Blanca lives eternally — that's what we celebrate as Ch...2022-10-2922 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 28, 2022, Feast of Sts. Jude and Simon, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, on the feast day of the apostles St Jude Thadeus and Simon the Zealot, we remember María Blanca, Blanki, a courageous woman, wife, and mother of three who offered her extreme pain in the hospital for the conversion of souls.
She was a gift of God to those who knew and met her. For myself and my family, she was the center of our lives.
Today, we feel what she is waiting for us in eternity while encouraging us to enjoy a faithful life in the service o...2022-10-2832 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 27, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
No form of devotion is more widely practiced and recommended by popes than the Holy Rosary. Many saints encouraged us to pray the Rosary daily, as the Blessed Mother asked.
Among them, Teresa of Avila, Francis de Sales, Louis de Montfort, Alphonsus Liguori, Don Bosco, Bernadette, Maximilian Kolbe, Faustina Kowalska, John Paul II, and Padre Pio.
The authentic Rosary is a combination of vocal and mental prayer, each of which is essential to the devotion. As Pope Leo XIII said the Rosary "is composed of two parts, distinct but...2022-10-2729 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 26, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We tend to blame others for everything wrong around us. Occasionally, we might have a point, but we are often the ones to blame.
In Mark 7:21-23, Christ Jesus said: “For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."
All of it is what defiles a person.
We pray today's Rosary from the streets of Denver, Colorado.
Av...2022-10-2629 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 25, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
The Rosary of Mary is leading our lives. We both meditate and supplicate to the Mother of God through this insistent prayer. She is "all-powerful by grace," as Blessed Bartolo Longo in his Supplication to Our Lady wrote.
This is a conviction of truly Christian people. How much joy and hope give us the Most Holy Virgin. The Rosary is a spiritual journey toward perfection. In Mary’s company, we pursue the face of Christ.
Bartolo Longo said, "By meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary and by living the...2022-10-2529 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 24, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, October 24th, is, according to the Roman Calendar of 1960, the feast day of Saint Raphael the Archangel, one of the seven Archangels who stand before the Lord.
He is also one of the only three mentioned by name in the Bible, along with Gabriel and Michael (Luke 1:9–26; Jude 1:9). On September 29th, we celebrated the feast of the three of them.
Empowered with healing powers, Saint Raphael is also believed to be the archangel who healed the multitude of infirm at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-4).
St...2022-10-2430 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 23, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth requires full humility. Any stain of pride, including spiritual pride, will ruin any endeavor.
No human exercised better the virtue of humility than the Holy Mary. With her Fiat during the mystery of the Annunciation, the Blessed Mother corrected the history of sin of mankind.
In today’s Sunday reading (Lk 18:9-14), Jesus Christ said to his apostles: “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
When we brag about our humility, our spirit...2022-10-2331 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 22, 2022, Memorial of St. John Paul II, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today is the Memorial Day of St. John Paul II, the beloved contemporary Pope named Karol Jozef Wojtyla.
Born in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland, he was known for exceptional apostolic zeal, particularly for families, young people, and the sick. He enriched the Magisterium, promulgated the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and instituted the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary.
On May 13, 1981, an attempt on his life was made in Saint Peter’s Square. He was saved by the maternal hand of the Mother of God. Later, he forgave the attempted assassin an...2022-10-2229 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 21, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Parishes that have the Holy Rosary prayer in their daily schedule thrive. Those that refuse to do that — the vast majority of them — just survive.
What’s worse is when you see a parish denying the divine origin of the Rosary by saying that Mary didn’t handle anything to St. Dominic. More specifically, this month, a parish in the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was stating on its website that “Mary’s giving of the Rosary to St. Dominic is a legend.”
This kind of statement has been around for the last e...2022-10-2133 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 20, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
There is no one who has followed in the footsteps of the Incarnate Word more closely and with more merit than the Most Holy Virgin Mary.
Her invitation to meditate on the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries makes the Rosary the perfect summary of the Gospel and Christian life.
The Holy Rosary is a nurturer of Christian faith, morality, and spiritual perfection. It fosters in various ways faith, humility, hope, charity, patience, courage, and other virtues. And it brings special graces, so we all may become like Jesus...2022-10-2029 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 19, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
A critical thing that requires our constant vigilance is anger. "For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God," as James the Apostle wrote in his first letter. Anger separates us from divine wisdom.
Also, we must be extremely vigilant about our tongues. Our tongue can behave as pure evil if we don’t control it.
How often do we repent for things we have said and damage others?
Letting our anger go out and speaking arrogantly without any contempt are serious sins that bri...2022-10-1929 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 18, 2022, Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Luke, the author of the third Gospel and of the Acts of the Apostles.
Luke was a native of Antioch in Syria and a physician, and one of the early converts from paganism. He accompanied St. Paul on a considerable part of his missionary journey. His name means “bringer of light.”
The Gospel of Luke emphasizes the fact that Christ is the salvation of all men, especially of the repentant sinner and of the lowly. It’s the Gospel of the Mer...2022-10-1831 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 17, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We can live in the Spirit or in the flesh. The choice is 100% ours. We are with Christ or against him. We exist for the praise of his glory and follow His word of truth or we exist to embrace the world’s values and pleasures set by darkness.
There is no middle ground. Relativism is darkness; being a lukewarm believer is not Christian.
How do we know in what sphere we play?
St. Paul in GAL 5:18-25 explains, “ the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peac...2022-10-1728 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 16, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
In today Sunday’s main reading (Lk 18:1-8), Jesus asked his disciples: "When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
Also, in today’s second reading (2 Tm 3:14-4:2), St Paul exhorted us to "remain faithful to what you have learned and believed," as "the sacred Scriptures are capable of giving us wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus."
The thirteenth apostle encouraged us "to be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient."
Friends, we must be hopeful and patient, silently accepting all the...2022-10-1631 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 15, 2022, Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We celebrate today the memorial of the sixteenth-century mystic and reformer of Carmelite, St. Teresa of Avila.
As a child, Teresa felt captivated by the thought of eternity and the vision of God granted to the saints in heaven. When she was 14, her mother died, causing the girl a profound grief that prompted her to embrace a deeper devotion to the Virgin Mary as her spiritual mother.
At the age of 20, she joined the Carmelite Order. Soon she contracted a serious illness, experiencing severe pain and physical paralysis for tw...2022-10-1531 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 13, 2022, Sixth Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, October 13th is the date of our Blessed Mother’s final public appearance to the shepherd children of Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun. From May through October 1917, Our Lady of Fatima / Our Lady of the Rosary appeared and spoke to the children on the 13th day of each month.
The Miracle of the Sun, which took place on October 13, 1917, was attended by a large crowd of 70,000 people who had gathered in Fátima, Portugal, in response to a prophecy made by three shepherd children, Lúcia Santos and Fran...2022-10-1329 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 12, 2022, Feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, October 12, is the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the Patroness of the Hispanic peoples and Spain.
In the year 40, while living in Jerusalem, the Blessed Virgin Mary supernaturally appeared to the Apostle James the Greater while he was preaching in the old Hispania, on the bank of the Ebro river in Saragossa. It was the first Marian apparition, and unique because it exhibited a mystical phenomenon of bilocation.
Mary appeared atop a column or pillar of stone, and she assured James tha...2022-10-1229 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 11, 2022, Feast of Divine Maternity of Mary, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today is the memorial of the contemporary pope St. John XXIII, beatified by St. John Paul II in the year 2000. Also, we celebrate the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary or the Divine Maternity of Mary.
Across history, starting in the fourth and fifth centuries, heretics — and heresy comes from darkness — have refused to honor Mary as Mother of God.
The Council of Ephesus in 431 declared that the Blessed Virgin is the Mother of God. Five centuries later, Pius XI instituted today’s feast to emphasize not only Mary’s divine...2022-10-1129 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 10, 2022, Columbus Day, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, Columbus Day is the celebration of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas on October 12, 1492. Christopher Columbus, a native of the city-state of Genoa, was the explorer who discovered the Americas for the Catholic Queen Isabella and King Fernando of Spain.
Columbus was a complex man in a complicated time; he was neither the barbarian portrayed by the modern world nor a saint. But he was a Christian concerned with serving God and his fellow men.
When he first arrived on Hispaniola, his first words to the natives were, “The...2022-10-1029 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 9, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
In that time, on his way to Jerusalem to suffer a sorrowful passion, Jesus Christ cured ten lepers, as we read in the Gospel of St. Luke today (Luke 17:11-19). Only one leper returned and thanked his benefactor.
The other nine didn’t have the decency to show a minimum of gratitude. Once again, it amazes us the depth of human ingratitude toward the Author of Life. We are ashamed. It’s our sinful, arrogant nature. And it’s also a lack of wisdom because these nine missed greater supernatural graces which...2022-10-0931 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 8, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Yesterday, during the feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary, we addressed Mary as Our Lady of Victories and the Queen of Victories. These titles have deep meaning. With her motherly intercession, Mary helps us to win our battles against Evil.
She teaches us the path of victory: humility and obedience to the will of God, as we learn in the first Joyful Mystery today. To the Angel, the Virgin of Nazareth said: “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word”.
2022-10-0832 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 7, 2022, Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We celebrate today Our Lady of the Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope St. Pius V to honor the Blessed Mother in thanksgiving for the naval victory over the Turks at the battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571.
The Islamic forces were about to conquer Europe imposing their ideology. Many Europeans recited the Rosary asking for protection to the Most Holy Mary.
The Old Continent was saved from darkness. It was the largest miracle of the Rosary shown in human history.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In Y...2022-10-0731 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 6, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
October is the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary. We continue praying the Rosary in San Jose, California.
In 1206, the Most Holy Virgin Mary appeared to the Spanish priest — and later, founder of the Dominican Order — St. Dominic of Guzman.
Because of his lack of success in combating the Albigensian heresy in the south of France, St Dominic went into hard praying and severe penance in the woods of Toulouse. Then, Mary appeared to him, praising his fight and giving him a mighty weapon, the Psalter of Mary, that late...2022-10-0635 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 5, 2022, Memorial of St. Faustina Kowalska, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
The universal God’s church celebrates today the memorials of three saints: the 6th-century monk St. Placid of Messina, the 19th-century German Redemptorist priest in New Orleans Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, and St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), the Polish nun chosen by Jesus to remind the world of the mystery of God’s merciful love, the devotion to Divine Mercy. It is the message of Jesus Christ’s love for all people, especially sinners.
In 1931, Jesus appeared to Faustina as the King of Divine Mercy. He asked her to have a picture painted of h...2022-10-0532 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 4, 2022, Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We celebrate today the Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, the thirteen-century Italian saint who abandoned everything for Christ. He left all his possessions and embraced complete poverty, taking the Gospel as his rule of life. St. Francis was one of the most honored saints in Christendom.
His father, a rich merchant, was so displeased that disinherited him. St. Francis founded the Franciscans, the Third Order for lay people, and along with St. Clare of Assis, the Order of Poor Ladies.
Out of humility Francis never accepted the priesthood bu...2022-10-0433 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 3, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
We pray the Joyful Mysteries of Holy Rosary from the city of San José, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
October is the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary. In 1206, the Most Holy Virgin Mary appeared to the Spanish priest — and later, founder of the Dominican Order — St. Dominic of Guzman.
Throughout history, we see many triumphs of the Rosary, such as the defeat of the Muslim Turks in Lepanto, Greece, on the first Sunday of October 1571 — that we will celebrate this Friday, October the 7th.
Ave Mar...2022-10-0331 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 2, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries) | Hurricane Ian Special PrayerFriends of the Rosary:
All perfect gifts are from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no shadow. These words, written by James the Apostle in his first letter, are critical for our daily dwelling.
There is so much cheating and deceit in our society that it's easy to get very confused.
Only through prayer, our conscience will tell us what’s a human creation, what's satanic, and what comes from God.
With humility and courage, we must cultivate the implanted word, that is within ourselves for the sa...2022-10-0229 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversityOctober 1, 2022, Memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries) | Hurricane Ian Special PrayerFriends of the Rosary:
Today, October 1st, on the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary, we honor, on her Memorial Day, St. Therese of the Child Jesus, more popularly known as "the Little Flower.
Today, we also celebrate the Holy Face of Jesus.
St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus (1873-1897), a French cloistered Carmelite nun, was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope St. John Paul II. Her interior life is known through her autobiography Story of a Soul.
She attained holiness by being at the service of ot...2022-10-0133 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 30, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries) | Hurricane Ian Special PrayerFriends of the Rosary:
In yesterday’s reading, the apostle Nathaniel, who recognized Jesus Christ as the Son of God, was promised to see great things. The Lord Jesus told him (Jn 1:47-51) “You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
That’s what awaits us if we humbly seek the grace and wisdom of God: unexpected, glorious events today that we cannot even imagine due to our limited understanding.
Believing is trusting in the promises of Christ Jesus.
The Holy Trinity...2022-09-3034 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 29, 2022, Feast of Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we celebrate the feast day of the archangels Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, the holy archangels with important roles in the history of salvation.
Michael — whose name means Who is like God? —, the Prince of the Heavenly Host, is the protector of all humanity from the snares of the Devil. St. Michael was the leader of all of the good angels, who fought against Lucifer and his followers when they rebelled against God, breaking a battle in Heaven.
Pope Leo XIII, in 1899, having had a prophetic vision of the...2022-09-2931 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 28, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
St. Augustine composed a poem titled "Death is Nothing". This is the text:
"I have just moved to the neighboring room.
I am who I am ... you are whom you are,
That which we were to one another,
We will always be.
Call me by my name.
Speak to me like you've always did.
Don't use a different tone ...
Don't take that look; solemn or sad.
Continue to laugh at that which made us laugh together.
Pray, smile, think of me, pray...2022-09-2833 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 27, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
The Divinity wants us to gain the perfect joy of Heaven. For that, His hand is leading us through challenges and joys.
One day we are placed in spiritual darkness with doubts and confusion. But on the next day, God let us enjoy the light of His truth and joy.
That means that one day we are consoled and on the next day, we may find life hard and sorrowful.
Through all these changing conditions, we must follow the Divine Will. We are ready to experience suffering...2022-09-2732 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 26, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
In yesterday’s reading (Lk 16:19-31), Abraham said to the rich man who was desperate by claiming help for Heaven: ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.”
Do we need to see heavenly miracles in our life to start a committed life of faith?
Seeing miracles with our own eyes does not guarantee our conversion.
It’s a poor excuse to say that life is treating me badly when I’m doing nothing fo...2022-09-2630 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 25, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
The story that Jesus tells to the Pharisees (Lk 16:19-31) that we read today in the Gospel, is extremely revealing.
There was a rich man who lived sumptuously, enjoying any pleasure of life and ignoring God and the poor, starving neighbors. He died and went to hell, suffering the eternal torment of fire. There, he asked Abraham for relief or at least to warn his five brothers still on earth of the pains of the netherworld. Abraham replied that those relatives should listen to Moses and the prophets.
On...2022-09-2532 min
Today's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 24, 2022, Our Lady of Mercy, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today is the commemoration of Our Lady of Ransom. In 1218, in Spain, the Blessed Virgin appeared in separate visions to St. Peter Nolasco, St. Raymond of Penafort, and James, King of Aragon, asking them to found a religious order dedicated to freeing Christian captives from the barbarous Saracens or Moors. At the time, Saracens or Moors held a great part of Spain.
The Mercedarian Order, comprised of knights, produced heroes of charity who collected alms for the ransom of Christians and often gave themselves up in exchange for Christian prisoners.
2022-09-2432 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 23, 2022, Feast of St. Padre Pio, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)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. He was the first priest ever to be blessed.
He was a much sought-after spiritual advisor, confessor, and intercessor. Thousands flocked to his monastery of San Giovanni Rotundo, which became a point of pilgrimage worldwide.
Padre Pio was reportedly able to bi-locate, levitate, heal by...2022-09-2331 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 22, 2022, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
What’s our business?
Our business is the Kingdom of Heaven. To serve God now and enjoy Him in the next life. That’s why we all are called to build the Kingdom of Truth.
And what does God what? As St. Paul reminded us in last Sunday’s reading (1 Tm 2:1-8), “God wills everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
Friends, let’s do what’s good for us and what pleases Jesus Our Savior.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust...2022-09-2229 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 21, 2022, Feast of St. Matthew Apostle, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we celebrate the feast day of the apostle Saint Matthew, who chronicled the life and ministry of Christ in his Gospel, the first of the four Gospels.
Matthew was a Jewish publican tax collector who turned into a disciple of Christ. Tax collectors on behalf of the Roman rulers of first-century Judea were hated among their own communities.
Jesus first encountered Matthew near the house of Peter, in Capernaum near the Sea of Galilee. "As Jesus passed on, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs p...2022-09-2132 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 20, 2022, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
St. Padre Pio, whose feast day is this Friday, September 23rd, said, "Pray that God will console you when you feel the burden of the Cross, for in doing so you are in no way acting against the will of God, but you are placing yourself beside the Son of God who asked His Father during the Agony in the Garden to send Him some relief."
Like the Son, we will receive consolation from the Father when the weight of our suffering isn't bearable – and when we ask for it.
2022-09-2032 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 19, 2022, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
“With a smile, John Paul I managed to communicate the goodness of the Lord,” said Pope Francis during the homily for the beatification of the often called “Smiling Pope.”
On Sunday, September 3, in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis beatified John Paul I, born Albino Luciani, who reigned as pope for only 33 days.
John Paul I gained a reputation for his humility and his dedication to teaching the faith in an understandable manner.
“How beautiful is a Church with a happy, serene, and smiling face, that never closes doors...2022-09-1929 minToday's Rosary | Holy Rosary UniversitySeptember 18, 2022, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)Friends of the Rosary:
Can we serve Jesus Christ and the material world we are in at the same time?
In today's Sunday’s reading (Lk 16:1-13), Our Lord explained to his disciples through a parable, “No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon."
In the silence of our hearts, we might have set our goals in life. When we haven’t, we behave like the waves of the sea, that g...2022-09-1831 min