Today's Holy Rosary
By RosaryNetwork.com
Today's Holy RosaryJul 19, 2022
March 28, 2024, Holy Thursday of the Sacred Triduum, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary,
Today is Holy Thursday, also known as Maundy Thursday, and the first day of the Sacred Triduum. The word “triduum” comes from the Latin words tris (“three”) and dies (“day”).
The Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper this Holy Thursday and ends after evening prayers at sunset on Easter Sunday.
The three of the Triduum are:
- Holy Thursday
- Good Friday
- Holy Saturday
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 28, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 27, 2024, Wednesday of the Holy Week, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary,
As we read today in the Gospel (Mt 26:14-25), during the Last Supper, Christ confirmed Judas Iscariot as His betrayer:
“Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
“Woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.”
Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply,
“Surely it is not I, Rabbi?”
He answered, “You have said so.”
Judas Iscariot expresses the mystery of iniquity or mysterium iniquitatis. The betrayer apostle had spent years in intimacy with Jesus, enjoyed His grace and merciful love, and noticed Jesus was the Son of God. And yet he turned the Messiah over to his enemies.
Theologians say that this anomalous tendency of human beings to evil sin has no rational ground for it. Bishop Barron states, "Those of us who regularly gather around the table of intimacy with Christ and yet engage consistently in the works of darkness are meant to see ourselves in the betrayer."
Today, Wednesday of Holy Week is traditionally known as Spy Wednesday, to commemorate the treachery of Judas, who made a bargain with the high priest to betray Jesus for 30 silver pieces.
This ends the official Lenten period; tomorrow we enter into the Holy Triduum, the three great liturgical days: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 27, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 26, 2024, Tuesday of the Holy Week, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary,
In the Holy Land, Christians participated in a stunning procession from Bethphage to Jerusalem this Palm Sunday, Catholic News Agency reported.
The route followed the same path that Jesus took when He entered Jerusalem and was acclaimed by the crowd holding palms and olive branches.
About 3,000 faithful ascended the Mount of Olives, passed by Gethsemane, where Jesus experienced the most painful hours of his passion. Due to the ongoing war, there were fewer pilgrims than usual.
Those present responded with closeness in prayer, praise to the Lord, and a message of joy — the joy of being Christians.
“We have many problems, but we are truly happy that Jesus is our Lord. He is our joy and our strength,” said the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who led the procession.
“Let us renew our commitment to follow Jesus and let us not be afraid! Jesus on the cross is the victory over the world, not the victory of arms, but that of love.”
The procession was preceded by the solemn Palm Sunday liturgy at the Holy Sepulcher, presided over by Pizzaballa.
The faithful waved palm branches and chanted “Hosanna,” circling the edicule of the Holy Sepulcher —the small shrine that houses the tomb of Jesus Christ—three times to symbolize the three days Jesus spent in the tomb.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York • March 26, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 25, 2024, Monday of the Holy Week, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary,
Yesterday, speaking in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis invited the crowd to follow in Jesus’ footsteps as He entered Jerusalem "so that being made by his grace partakers of the cross, we may have a share also in his resurrection and his life."
At the end of Palm Sunday Mass, the Pope said: "And now we turn in prayer to the Virgin Mary. Let us learn from her to stay close to Jesus during the days of Holy Week, to arrive at the joy of the Resurrection."
With the whole Church of Christ we herald the celebration of the Holy Week of our Lord’s paschal mystery, that is, his passion and resurrection.
We pray with confidence, never getting discouraged by looking for results. We trust in the Lord; He never fails. He is like that.
God will answer your prayers!
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 25, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 24, 2024, Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Today, March 24th, is Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion and the beginning of Holy Week. It’s the completion of the Paschal Mystery of the Passion and Resurrection.
For five weeks of Lent, we have been preparing to celebrate our Lord’s paschal mystery by prayer, works of charity, and self-sacrifice.
Today we commemorate this solemn celebration in union with the whole Catholic Church. Christ entered in triumph into his own city of Jerusalem to complete his work as our Messiah: to suffer, to die, and to rise again.
As the faithful, we remember and dramatize Christ’s triumphal entrance into Jerusalem on a donkey. A huge crowd assembled, put their cloaks or branches on the ground, and waved palm branches, acclaiming Christ as the King of Israel, the Son of David.
We now joyfully acclaim by holding branches of palm trees Jesus our Messiah and King and sing as the priest enters the church. We cry, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.”
Jesus the Messiah was, and is, the sign of contradiction, acclaimed by some and reviled by others. He was sent by the Father into this world to wrest us from sin and the power of darkness.
By the reading today in mass of the Passion at the Gospel, we remain united with him in his suffering on the cross, may we share his resurrection and new life.
May we reach the happiness of the new and everlasting Jerusalem one day.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 24, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 23, 2024, Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
The Virgin Mary's role is to bring us face to face with the love in the Heart of Jesus crucified, wrote Mother Teresa.
"Be careful of all that can block that personal contact with the living Jesus. The Devil may try to use the hurts of life, and sometimes our own mistakes — to make you feel it is impossible that Jesus really loves you," wrote the saint.
It's not only that Jesus loves us. He longs for us. Even when we don't feel worthy.
"How can we last even one day without hearing Jesus say I love you — impossible. Our soul needs that as much as the body needs to breathe the air," Mother Teresa wrote in 1989.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 23, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 22, 2024, Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Today, one week before Good Friday, we see in the Gospel (Jn 10:31-42) how hatred against Christ escalated in those final days of the Redeemer of the World.
Fridays of Lent have a penitential quality. The Stations of the Cross, prayed in many parishes today, allow us to love and treasure the Holy Cross of Jesus.
We have to be one in spirit with Him. In our crucifixion with Christ, we find salvation.
For Christ and with Christ, we suffer freely and willingly the unpleasant things that occur to us.
Fleeing from the Cross instead of holding it dear shouldn’t be our answer. We welcome the Cross as Our Savior did.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 22, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 21, 2024, Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Christ Jesus' message is crystal clear, as we read today (Jn 8:51-59):
"Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever keeps my word will never see death."
But the prideful Jews of that time rejected His divinity and opted to offend the Lord. Even they picked up stones to throw at Him.
"Now we are sure that you are possessed.
Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say,
‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’
Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died?
Or the prophets, who died?
Who do you make yourself out to be?"
Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing;
but it is my Father who glorifies me,
of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
You do not know him, but I know him."
"Amen, amen, I say to you,
before Abraham came to be, I AM."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
March 20, 2024, Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
In today’s Gospel (Jn 8:31-42), we read:
"Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him,
"If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples,
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, 'You will become free'?"
Jesus answered them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.”
The Scribes and Pharisees of that time were trying to kill the Author of Life, as His word had no room among them. Their arrogance and lack of faith made them children of the Evil One.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
St. Joseph, Pray for Us!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 20, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 19, 2024, Solemnity of St. Joseph, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of St. Joseph, the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the foster father of Jesus. He is the patron and protector of the Universal Church.
He is also invoked as the patron of the dying because Jesus and Mary were at his death-bed and the patron of fathers, among many other causes. And that’s why today is Father’s Day.
St. Joseph was an ordinary manual laborer although descended from the royal house of David. In the designs of Providence, he was destined to become the spouse of the Mother of God. He faithfully fulfilled God’s high trust in protecting and guarding the greatest earthly treasures, Jesus and Mary.
Joseph was the trustworthy witness of the Messiah’s virgin birth. After this, he modestly retires into the background of holy Scripture.
His important mission in God’s plan of salvation was “to legally insert Jesus Christ into the line of David from whom, according to the prophets, the Messiah would be born, and to act as his father and guardian”, according to the Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy.
Most of our information about St. Joseph comes from the opening two chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel. No words of his are recorded in the Gospels; he was the “silent” man.
St. Joseph was probably born in Bethlehem and probably passed away in Nazareth, probably before the beginning of Christ’s public life.
Today is the only Solemnity celebrated in the 2024 Lenten season since Easter is so early this year and the Solemnity of the Annunciation is transferred to the Second Week of Easter.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
St. Joseph, Pray for Us!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 19, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 18, 2024, Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
This Monday, March 18th we begin the fifth and final full week of Lent. Day after day, the liturgical readings tell of the lowering storm clouds that will break open next week.
And today’s main reading in the Gospel (John 8:1-11) features the woman caught in adultery. The scribes and Pharisees accuse and bring her to Jesus.
Our Lord responds: "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
And tells the woman: "Go, and from now on do not sin anymore."
In this biblical passage, we see divine mercy in action.
It’s the fruit of forgiveness offered and accepted. God loves sinners and rejects sin — because sin destroys and poisons our eternal souls.
Every sin is adultery to God — and is pardonable by Christ.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
St. Patrick, Pray for Us!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 18, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 17, 2024, Fifth Sunday of Lent and St. Patrick, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Previously called "Passion Sunday," this Fifth Sunday of Lent marks the beginning of Passiontide — the last two weeks of Lent. It commemorates the suffering of Christ (Latin passio = “suffering”). It's the final Sunday of Lent before the beginning of Holy Week.
The Catholic Church follows the practice of covering crosses and sacred images throughout the temples. Crosses remain covered until the beginning of the Easter Vigil.
The Gospel's main reading (Jn 12:20-33) invites us to reflect upon what it means to follow Christ.
The Lord said:
"Whoever loves his life loses it,
and whoever hates his life in this world
will preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me,
and where I am, there also will my servant be.
The Father will honor whoever serves me."
Also, He comments on the type of death He would suffer:
"Now is the time of judgment on this world;
now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
And when I am lifted up from the earth,
I will draw everyone to myself.”
The Optional Memorial of St. Patrick, which is ordinarily celebrated today, is superseded by the Sunday liturgy.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
St. Patrick, Pray for Us!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
March 16, 2024, Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
After she died, St. Teresa of Avila appeared to one of her nuns and said:
"There should be no difference, as far as purity and love are concerned, between the blessed in Heaven and the faithful on earth, though we are perfectly happy and you are suffering. What the Divine Essence is to us in Heaven, the Blessed Sacrament should be to you on earth."
St. Alphonsus Liguori explained:
"Here, then, is our Heaven on earth—the Most Blessed Sacrament."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 16, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 15, 2024, Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Friends of the Rosary:
In today’s Gospel (Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30), we see how the Jews were trying to kill Our Lord as He moved in Galilee nearing the end of His public life.
"But no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come."
So Christ Jesus continued to teach to large crowds who were coming to hear Him. The admiration of the people intensified the hatred of the priests, openly seeking the death of the Messiah. Our Lord was spending His days in teaching and His nights in prayer.
Does our conduct resemble that of Christ?
In difficult circumstances, when we are unjustly accused criticized, or condemned, let’s calmly continue our work and recourse to God in prayer. Let’s leave our reputation in the hands of Christ.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 15, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 14, 2024, Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
The mercy of God is infinite, beyond our comprehension.
However, stating that everyone, no matter their deeds, will enter the glory of Heaven seems contrary to the words of Jesus.
Yesterday, in the Gospel’s main reading (Jn 5:17-30), the Son of God said:
"Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life."
The message seems to be clear: Those "who have done good deeds" will go to the "resurrection of life" and those "who have done wicked deeds" to the "resurrection of condemnation."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 14, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 13, 2024, Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
God wants every believer to be transformed into the image and character of Jesus Christ.
And on this season of Lent, we learn all the virtues necessary that, in St. Paul's words, "Christ may be formed in us" (Gal. 4:19).
And as we prepare ourselves to participate in the Resurrection of the Lord, we conform our lives in imitation of the suffering and patient servant of Christ.
He is the portrait of the loving crucified Savior.
Padre Pio, one of the saints who understood Christ’s suffering the most, recommended attending Mass often.
And he said: "If you want to assist at Mass with devotion and with fruit, think of the sorrowful Mother at the foot of Calvary.”
“In your mind’s eye, transport yourself to Calvary," he added.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 13, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 12, 2024, Tuesday of Fourth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
In his apostolic letter "Salvici Doloris", St. John Paul II wrote on the Christian meaning of human suffering: "It is through suffering that Jesus redeems us."
Benedict XVI wrote in his book Jesus of Nazareth: "In Jesus’ Passion, the filth of the world is wiped out in the pain of infinite love."
Great pain is God’s chosen way, because, as the Ratzinger-supervised Catechism clarifies: “The heart is converted by looking at him whom we have pierced. It is by discovering the greatness of God’s love that our heart is shaken by the horror and weight of sin and begins to fear offending God by sin (CCC 1432).”
Benedict elaborated this idea by writing that the greatest way God gave himself was by showing his crazy desire for us through his pains.
"The Cross of Jesus illumines his whole life: his swaddling clothes, his baptism, the paradoxes of the Beatitudes, the Kingdom of God, and other things difficult to decipher become understandable when Jesus’ Cross is at the center."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 12, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 11, 2024, Monday of Fourth Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
The faithful, who see their lives increasingly perfected by the grace of God, find it incomprehensible why many among us, especially friends and family members, prefer to stay attached to sin and darkness.
The Holy Spirit explained yesterday’s Gospel reading (John 3:14-21).”
“And this is the verdict,
that the light came into the world,
but people preferred darkness to light,
because their works were evil.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light
and does not come toward the light,
so that his works might not be exposed.
But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.”
Our sinful nature, stemming from the original sin of our ancestors Adam and Eve, blinds us. Our fallen world seeks to keep us in darkness. The Lord knows this—He knows our souls—and because of His great love for us, He sends us light in abundance.
God, who is rich in mercy, saves us by the grace of His faith, which is a gift from Him. As we live in Christ, we belong to the Light.
We never engage with darkness. We only pray for those who, doing wicked things, hate the light.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 11, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 10, 2024, Fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
The Fourth Sunday of Lent is traditionally called Laetare Sunday. Laetare is a Latin word that means "rejoice."
Today's Gospel (John 3:14-21) describes the reason for our joy: God's great love for us has been revealed in Jesus. Through his Passion, Death, and Resurrection, Christ has reconciled us with God and one another.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through him.
Whoever believes in him will not be condemned,
but whoever does not believe has already been condemned,
because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
And this is the verdict,
that the light came into the world,
but people preferred darkness to light,
because their works were evil.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light
and does not come toward the light,
so that his works might not be exposed.
But whoever lives the truth comes to the light,
so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 10, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 9, 2024, Saturday of the Third Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
"I have come not to abolish the law but to fulfill it," Jesus said to the Pharisees, as we read this Wednesday (Matthew 5:17–19).
The Son of God Jesus denounced the hypocrisy of the instructional religion of that time, but He didn’t call for its dismantling.
"What He effected was a transfiguration of the best of that classical Israelite religion—temple, law, priesthood, sacrifice, covenant—into the institutions, sacraments, practices, and structures of his Mystical Body, the Church," explained Bishop Barron.
Many evangelicals want Jesus without the Universal Church. Also, followers of the New Age spirituality reject any religion.
The Catholic Church is holy and sinner at the same time. However, this universal institution with its lights and shadows is the continuation of the preaching and faithful love of Christ.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 9, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 8, 2024, Friday of the Third Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Lent is a time for a new conversion. By the sacrifice of penance, the Lord sends us abundant grace to purify us.
Benedict XVI said that Lent disciplines us, so we can be centered on the Paschal Mystery and change our daily lives. It’s a new beginning.
Benedict focused on three practical solutions. First, he mentions faith in a Creator God, and then "the renewal of the faith in the reality of Jesus Christ given to us in the Blessed Sacrament."
"And flowing from this, we must ask him to teach us all anew to understand the greatness of his suffering, his sacrifice."
Lord, I love you.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 8, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 7, 2024, Thursday of the Third Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Man's pride exceeds all bounds.
We all too frequently boast of our spiritual and material accomplishments as if no one had ever equaled us, even seeking to place himself on a level with, and at times even above, Our Lord.
Yet Christ, Who was true God, "emptied Himself, taking the nature of a slave and being made like unto men, and appearing in the form of man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to death, even to the death of the Cross." (Phil. 2:7).
Every Crucifix tells us this: "Learn of Me, for I am meek and humble of heart. I have been obedient unto death. I am full of love and patience."
The Son of God approached us in His deepest humiliation, summoning us to contemplate Him as the Man of Sorrows, asking we grow in humility and patience by studying His own resignation to the Will of His Heavenly Father.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 7, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 6, 2024, Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Building a culture that protects human and Christian vocations is critical.
But this is at risk, due to the danger of gender ideology, said Pope Francis.
"Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which seeks to blur differences between men and women through movements such as transgenderism," explained the Pope during an audience in Rome this month.
"Erasing differences is erasing humanity. Man and woman, however, are in a fruitful tension. The life of the human being is a vocation. Man and woman are created by God and are the image of the Creator."
We participate in a universal call "to embrace a specific and personal mission with joy and responsibility."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 6, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 5, 2024, Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
At that time, the crowd was asking Jesus for a sign from Heaven to believe, despite the countless miracles He performed — as we recently read in the Gospel (Lk 11:29-32).
The Son of God Jesus said to them: "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah."
The sign of Jonah was the victory of his death and Resurrection.
The monumental, timeless demonstration was His Resurrection, the central mystery in our lives.
The crucified Jesus, who had died and been buried, was risen from the dead and would appear alive again to his disciples before ascending into Heaven.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 5, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 4, 2024, Monday of the Third Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
In his first letter to the Corinthians, which we read yesterday (1 Cor 1:22-25), St. Paul explains how Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom. “But we proclaim Christ crucified.”
For the Jews, Greeks, and Gentiles, Christ did not fit their preconceived ideas of the Messiah. They all looked to philosophy or human wisdom for the solution of man’s problems.
Our Lord’s message of faithfulness and merciful love was too radical for them. The crucified and the resurrected Jesus was a stumbling block to their foolishness, as St. Paul described.
And St. Paul concluded: "For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 4, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 3, 2024, Third Sunday of Lent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
The Catholic Church begins today the second phase of the Forty Days of Lent with the Gospel passage of the long dialogue of Jesus and the Samaritan woman from He asks for a drink of water (Jn 4:13-16).
Jesus said to her,
"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."
Later in John 7: 37-39 Jesus once again speaks of living water, saying, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them."
By this, he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.
Also, today Sunday, we honor St Katharine Drexel.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 3, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 2, 2024, Saturday of the Second Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
We see a portrait of our Holy God in today's Gospel of Luke and the well-known parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:1–3, 11-32).
This is the story:
A son asks his father for his inheritance, then squanders it recklessly, as he lives a life of indulgence. With nothing left, he is forced to work as a hired hand for a pig farmer. He is so destitute that he longs to eat the food of the pigs. Realizing that his father’s servants have better working conditions, he resolves to return to his father, beg forgiveness, and ask to be his servant.
Upon arriving at his father’s house, he is welcomed with loving arms. His father is overwhelmed with joy at his son’s return and holds a feast in his honor.
The prodigal son’s older brother, who has remained serving in his father’s house, does not share his father’s joy. Instead, he is jealous that his father has not honored him. His father urges him not to resent his brother, but to instead be happy for him.
The story of the Prodigal Son is the history of our own desertion. But we are given an urgent call to repentance and conversion. "Father, I have sinned." Our Father welcomes us with mercy. He receives us again as His children.
Friends, the Father's nature is to give. God simply is love. And we, sinners, tend to misunderstand how to access the divine love.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 1, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
March 1, 2024, Friday of the Second Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
The Forty Days of Lent is also a period of education and formation for adults who have not yet been baptized. They are being prepared to receive Baptism, Confirmation, and the Holy Eucharist, the three sacraments of Christian initiation, at the Easter Vigil. But the baptismal character of Lent is not only for catechumens. All of the faithful are reminded that Baptism is for the forgiveness of sins.
All the baptized require liberation from sin: from the bad habits that enslave us and impede our friendship with Christ.
The Church is always in need of conversion.
During Lent, all the baptized undergo a “second baptism,” to meet once again the mysteries of God’s mercy and love.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• March 1, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 29, 2024, Thursday of the Second Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Today, we read in the Gospel the story told by Jesus to the Pharisees of a poor man named Lazarus covered with sores who sat outside the door of a rich man dressed finely and dining sumptuously each day.
When Lazarus died, he was carried away by angels to "the bosom of Abraham" and comforted there. The rich man also died and was buried, and carried to the netherworld, where he was in torment.
From the flames of Hell, the rich man asked Abraham to warn his earthly five brothers what would await them if they didn't repent.
Abraham replied,
"If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded
if someone should rise from the dead."
Jesus doesn’t say anything about who was the rich man. What matters is that he didn’t care. Lazarus wasn’t his problem to address.
He lost salvation not because of anything he did, or his material richness, but because of what he omitted doing. Because of his indifference and unwillingness to take action.
As Christians, we are — or should be — committed to caring and helping those who are poor and deserve our merciful love.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
February 28, 2024, Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
In today’s reading (Mt 20:17-28), Christ Jesus anticipates to the Twelve disciples His Sorrowful Passion:
"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem,
and the Son of Man will be handed over to
the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and hand him over to the Gentiles
to be mocked and scourged and
crucified, and he will be raised on the
third day."
He also explains the meaning of His earthly dwelling:
"Whoever wishes to be great among you
shall be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you
shall be your slave.
Just so, the Son of Man did not come
to be served but to serve
and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Still today, these words are shocking us: The Holy One serving the humanity that rejected Him and even giving His life in reparation of our sins.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 28, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 27, 2024, Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
As we read in the Gospel today (Mt 23:1-12), Jesus said to his disciples and the crowd:
"The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."
The Son of God was talking about the spiritual pride shown by the scribes and Pharisees:
"Do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice."
Being themselves the authors of many precepts, the Pharisees believed themselves to be equally the authors of their own sanctity.
In other words, they rejected the merciful love of Christ, putting themselves away from Him and His Salvation.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 27, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 26, 2024, Monday of the Second Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Christ Jesus asked us to stop judging, and be forgiving and merciful — as we read today in the Gospel of Luke (Lk 6:36-38).
"For the measure with which you measure
will in return be measured out to you."
For this behavior, we need to ask God's grace.
"I say to you, love your enemies,
and pray for those who persecute you,
that you may be children of your heavenly Father,
for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good,
and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust." (Mt 5:43-48)
"So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 26, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 25, 2024, Second Sunday of Lent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
The Holy Trinity speaks to us in many ways, including through the Sunday Scripture readings.
And today, on the second Sunday of Lent, we move from Jesus' retreat to the desert and the temptations by the devil to the splendor of the Transfiguration.
This episode, when Christ was transformed into pure light, is told in the three Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
The Transfiguration is a promise of Jesus’ glory, his Resurrection.
On a mountain in today’s reading, a voice affirms that Jesus is God’s Son in words reminiscent of the voice at Jesus’ baptism. In addition, the appearance of Moses and Elijah connects this story with God’s relationship to the people of Israel.
Moses and Elijah represent the Law and the Prophets, respectively. Together with Jesus, they represent God’s complete Word.
The Transfiguration occurs in the presence of three of Jesus’ disciples — Peter, James, and John — who would accompany him to the Garden of Gethsemane just before his arrest in the first Sorrowful Mystery.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 25, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 24, 2024, Saturday of the First Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
During Lent, we renew our baptismal vows and reaffirm our identity as Jesus’ disciples.
The Lenten season — with its three main pillars of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving — helps us strive to be better followers of Christ
The Faithful rediscover the penitential season that precedes Easter.
On Ash Wednesday we accepted the ashes placed upon each of one’s foreheads as an essential part of our commitment to be ambassadors for Christ, to live for something beyond one’s pleasure and self-satisfaction.
We are soldiers and warriors in a dramatic war against sin. And the outcome of this spiritual battle is to establish the kingdom of heaven, holiness, and charity.
It’s the struggle to be a saint that God wants us to be by the power of the grace of baptism.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
• February 24, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 23, 2024, Friday of the First Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
In Lent, from Ash Wednesday until the sundown in Holy Thursday, we engage in a 40-day battle to overcome sin.
Through intense prayer, fasting and self-discipline, almsgiving and sharing our time and talents, and deep reflection, we prepare to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection at Easter.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says, “During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms; and we practice self-control through fasting.”
“We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent, but to a true inner conversion of heart as we seek to follow Christ’s will more faithfully.”
Lent is an personal spiritual retreat.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 23, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 22, 2024, Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter.
The feast commemorates the unity of the Church, founded upon the Apostle and continued in an unbroken line down to the present Pope.
In today’s Gospel (Mt 16:13-19), we see how Peter is appointed to lead the Church of Christ on earth.
Jesus said: “You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 22, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 21, 2024, Wednesday of the First Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Yesterday, the Catholic Church honored St. Jacinta Marto (1910-1920), the youngest visionary of Our Lady of Fatima.
She and her brother Francisco — whose feast is April 4 — were officially declared saints on May 13, 2017, in Fatima, Portugal. St. Francisco's feast is on April 4.
Both under 12 years old, they were the youngest non-martyrs to be beatified in the history of the Church. Along with her cousin Lucia, they witnessed the apparitions of Mary.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 21, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 20, 2024, Tuesday of the First Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Christ Jesus didn't promise us smooth discipleship, but one filled with suffering — even much suffering.
In His three falls beneath the weight of the Cross, Jesus was tested in His faith.
Freely and willingly, He emptied Himself and became obedient unto death for our sake.
Christ's Via Crucis is a time of trial for us, too. A test of faith.
Our earthly journey is filled with setbacks and even personal tragedies.
The answer is to abandon ourselves to the will of the Father, in imitation of Our Lord.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 20, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 19, 2024, Monday of the First Week of Lent, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
In today's reading in the Gospel (Mt 25:31-46), Christ Jesus explains what is needed to inherit eternal life.
"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me."
"Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me."
The Kingdom of Heaven is about our absolute love for God and the radical commitment to love our fellow human beings.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 19, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 18, 2024, First Sunday of Lent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Today's Gospel (Mk 1:12-15) shows Christ Jesus being tempted by Satan in the desert for forty days and consoled by angels of God. After the temptations, Jesus went into Galilee and began to preach.
"The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert,
and he remained in the desert for forty days,
tempted by Satan.
He was among wild beasts,
and the angels ministered to him.
After John had been arrested,
Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God:
"This is the time of fulfillment.
The kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the gospel."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 18, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 17, 2024, Saturday After Ash Wednesday, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Today’s Gospel tells the episode (Lk 5:27-32) of the instant conversion of the tax collector Levi — St. Matthew. Jesus passed by, gazed at Matthew, and simply said, "Follow me."
"And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him."
Bishop Barron asks: "Was Jesus responding to a request from Matthew or some longing in the sinner’s heart? Certainly not. Grace, by definition, comes unbidden and without explanation."
Grace and conversion are creations of the Lord. And, mind you, no matter how hard and accomplished we are, we don't convert. Only the Lord Jesus converts.
God graciously calls us. Through prayer, we will notice this calling during this Lent.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 17, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 16, 2024, Friday After Ash Wednesday, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Every Friday during Lent we abstain from eating meat. It's a Christian practice that helps us to discipline ourselves and dominate our superficial hunger for food and drink.
And like we did on Ash Wednesday on Good Friday we will eat one full meal, or two smaller meals.
"We fast because we have a hunger for God," as Bishop Barrons explains today.
Our deepest hunger is for God. And to discover this inner desire, we have to fast. We are meant to feel how hungry we are for God, the true Living Bread.
In addition, the Fridays of Lent are a good practice for Good Friday as an opportunity to reflect on the Lord's Passion.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 16, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 15, 2024, Thursday After Ash Wednesday, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)
"Lent is a time to look inward and share our deepest desires, worries, and weaknesses with the Lord in prayer," Pope Francis said in his Ash Wednesday homily.
"The Lord is inviting us to remove the masks we so often wear and see ourselves as we truly are in the sight of God."
In his homily, Pope Francis encouraged everyone to make more space for prayer in silence in Eucharistic adoration during the 40 days of Lent.
He quoted advice from St. Anselm of Canterbury, an 11th-century Benedictine monk and doctor of the Church who wrote in 1078:
"Escape from your everyday business for a short while, hide for a moment from your restless thoughts. Break off from your cares and troubles and be less concerned about your tasks and labors. Make a little time for God and rest a while in him."
Ave Maria!Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 15, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 14, 2024, Ash Wednesday, the Beginning of Lent, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Today is the feast day of St. Valentine and most importantly, Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the penitential season of Lent — forty days of prayer, abstinence, and fasting in imitation of Our Lord in the desert.
During today's Mass, the ashes are blessed and then priests or deacons impart this sacramental on the faithful as a sign of conversion, penance, fragility, and mortality.
The ash on our forehead means that we are witness to our faith. It also reminds us that our time on earth is short.
The ashes are made from the palms used at the previous Passion Sunday ceremonies.
During Lent, we observe the central act of history, the redemption of the human race by Our Savior Jesus Christ.
All the baptized are called to do some penance:
• Abstinence from eating meat on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays during Lent.
• Fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. It means that a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 14, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 13, 2024, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
In today's readings, we learn from the first letter of James the Apostle about the value of trials and temptation (Jas 1:12-18).
"Blessed is he who perseveres in temptation,
for when he has been proven he will receive the crown of life
that he promised to those who love him."
"Each person is tempted when lured and enticed by his desire. Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death."
All good giving and every perfect gift are from above, coming down from the Father of lights."
Friends, we are encouraged to persevere through trials, even finding joy in our difficulties, for these challenges test our faith and develop perseverance.
As the holy apostle teaches, we must avoid being double-minded and unstable in our faith, especially when seeking wisdom from God.
Instead, we should ask for God's grace and wisdom with unwavering faith, for He gives generously to all who ask.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 13, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 12, 2024, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Yesterday, February 11, was the 32nd World Day of the Sick, a commemoration instituted by Pope St. John Paul II.
The World Day of the Sick takes place each year on the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. On this day in 1858 in Lourdes, France, the 14-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous saw the Virgin Mary, wearing a white dress and holding a rosary.
It would be the first of 18 appearances of Holy Virgin in Lourdes. In one apparition, on the feast day of the Annunciation, Mary said, “I am the Immaculate Conception.”
Since then, Lourdes has been a popular travel destination. Thousands of people say their medical conditions have been cured through pilgrimage, prayer, and the water flowing from a spring to which Bernadette was directed by the Blessed Virgin.
Experts have verified 69 cases of miraculous healing at Lourdes since 1862.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 12, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 11, 2024, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Christ Jesus is the healer of the human race, afflicted by original sin. We all, repentant sinners, know our Shepherd.
At that time, during His public ministry, Jesus miraculously cured thousands of people.
One of those souls was a leper abandoned by society.
We see today in Mark's gospel (Mk 1:40-45) both the divine power and the divine compassion of Jesus in an act of healing.
A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said,
“If you wish, you can make me clean.”
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand,
touched him, and said to him,
“I do will it. Be made clean.”
The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 11, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 10, 2024, Memorial of St. Scholastica, Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
On Feb. 10, the Catholic Church remembers St. Scholastica (480-547). She was the twin sister of St. Benedict, the "father of monasticism" in Western Europe. The twins' mother died at their birth.
Under Benedict's direction, Scholastica founded a community of nuns near the great Benedictine monastery Monte Cassino.
Inspired by Benedict's teaching, Scholastica devoted her life to seeking and serving God.
When she passed away, Benedict saw in a vision the soul of his sister departed from her body, and in the likeness of a dove, ascend into heaven. He rejoiced with hymns and praise, giving thanks to God.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
St. Scholastica, Pray for Us!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 10, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 9, 2024, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
What is the will of God? It is love, as love is His essence—to show love to others and/or will the good of others.
That is the way God's goodness manifests itself to us.
God is the supreme lover of our soul. His goodness means that He provides what we need for our perfection, not merely what we desire for our pleasure, which very often leads to our destruction.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen wrote: "As a sculptor, He sometimes applies the chisel to the marble of our imperfect selves and knocks off huge chunks of selfishness that His image may better stand revealed. Like a musician, whenever He finds the strings too loose on the violin of our personality, He tightens them even though it hurts, so that we may better reveal our hidden harmonies."
What father does not want to be proud of his son? So long as there is love, there is necessarily a desire for the perfecting of the beloved.
What parent does not want to be proud of their child? So long as there is love, there is necessarily a desire for the perfecting of the beloved.
Because God loves us, like any father, He wants us to be happy. He made us for eternal joy.
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 9, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
February 8, 2024, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)
Friends of the Rosary:
Yesterday, we celebrated the memorial day of Blessed Pope Pius IX (1792-1878).
Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on December 8, 1854. It stated, "It has been revealed by God that Mary was preserved from original sin from the moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God, and in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race."
Three years after the proclamation of the dogma, on March 25, 1858, the Blessed Virgin, during one of her apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, identified herself with the words: “I am the Immaculate Conception.”
In 1996, Pope John Paul II said, "The freedom from every stain of original sin entails as a positive consequence the total freedom from all sin as well as the proclamation of Mary's perfect holiness, a doctrine to which the dogmatic definition makes a fundamental contribution."
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that Mary was "redeemed in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son."
Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will!
+ Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• February 8, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET