Friends of the Rosary,
When will the faithful stop being persecuted? When the Lord Jesus returns, and not before.
In the Bible’s main reading (Luke 21:12-19), the Lord Jesus warns the crowd at that time and all of us today.
“They will seize and persecute you,
they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name.”
Like the saints, we must find courage in the struggle. The Lord himself promises He will prepare our defense:
“I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute.”
“By your perseverance, you will secure your lives.”
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 26, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
How do we handle interactions with our secular relatives and fiends when they insult and attack, trying to inflict pain on us?
This Sunday, the solemnity of Christ the King, we found an answer in the main reading (Luke 23:35-43) when the rulers and the soldiers, sneering at Jesus on the cross, said:
"He saved others, let him save himself
if he is the chosen one, the Christ of God."
Also, one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying,
"Are you not the Christ?
Save yourself and us."
Christ remained silent. Only responded to Dimas, the good, repentant thief.
"Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
He replied to him,
"Amen, I say to you,
today you will be with me in Paradise."
We don’t respond to provocations. We remain faithfully silent, praying for holding the virtue of patience and for the conversion of our adversaries.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 25, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
Today, when honoring Saint Andrew Dŭng-Lạc, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs, we see in the Gospel (Luke 21:1-4) a poor widow trusting herself entirely to the Divine Providence by putting her last penny into the temple treasury.
Christ said,
"I tell you truly,
this poor widow put in more than all the rest;
for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth,
but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood."
This passage makes us remember the parable about the foolish rich man who apparently had everything needed to be happy.
But he didn’t have faith and love for God.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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Friends of the Rosary,
Today, Sunday, November 23, is the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.
It’s the feast of Christ, the King, radiant, majestic, and divine, when He establishes His Kingdom of light upon earth. It’s also the feast of the glorified Savior, the Warrior, and Conqueror.
In 1925, Pope Pius XI 1925 established this feast as an antidote to secularism, which organizes his life as if God did not exist, putting the Lord out of man's thinking and living.
The solemnity day, formerly referred to as "Christ the King", is intended to proclaim Christ's royalty over individuals, families, society, governments, and nations.
Today's Mass establishes, 1) Christ is God, the Creator of the universe and hence wields a supreme power over all things; "All things were created by Him"; 2) Christ is our Redeemer, He healed us by His precious Blood; 3) Christ is Head of the Church; 4) God bestowed upon Christ the nations of the world as His dominion.
The liturgy also describes the qualities of Christ's kingdom. This kingdom is: 1) supreme, extending not only to all people but also to their princes and kings; 2) universal, extending to all nations and to all places; 3) eternal; 4) spiritual, Christ's "kingdom is not of this world."
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 23, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
Today, the eve of the solemnity of the kingship of Christ, we honor the beloved Saint Cecilia, virgin and martyr, who gave her life for Christ during the persecutions of the 3rd century.
The tradition says that on her wedding day, Cecilia “sang to God in her heart” as she desired to live for Christ alone.
However, with the help of an angel, Cecilia converted her pagan husband. Both died as martyrs.
Since the 16th century, Cecilia has been invoked as the universal patroness of music. In art, she is shown playing the organ, viola, or lyre.
As the Psalm states (33:2), “Give thanks to the Lord on the harp; on the ten-stringed lyre offer praise.”
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 22, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
Today, November 21, the Church of Christ celebrates the Memorial of the Presentation of Mary.
On September 8, we celebrated the Birthday of Our Lady, and on September 12, the Holy Name.
With the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, we complete this Marian cycle, which is parallel with the first three feasts of our Lord in the liturgical calendar: the birth of Christ or Christmas (December 25), the Holy Name of Jesus (January 3), and His Presentation in the Temple (February 2).
The historical background of the Presentation of Mary is found in the Protoevangel of St. James (ch. 4:1ff).
After an angel had revealed her pregnancy, Anna vowed her future child, Mary, to the Lord. At the age of three, Mary was transferred to the temple, and here, she received her nourishment from the hand of an angel.
On this feast day, we meditate on the mystery of Mary's temporary dwelling in the sanctuary of the Old Covenant as a preparation for the approaching season of Advent.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 21, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
We reflected yesterday on this teaching of the Lord:
"To everyone who has, more will be given,
but from the one who has not,
even what he has will be taken away."
It’s amazing how Christ Jesus draws parallels between business lessons like investment, risk, and return, and a virtuous life.
Bishop Barron explains, “The reason is clear. God exists in gift form. Therefore, if you want his life in you, you have to learn to give it away.”
Everything good we’ve received from God is a gift: life, talents, virtues.
If we cling to them, they don’t grow; they wither away.
When we invest, we take a risk, and as we trust in Him, we will dramatically increase our wealth.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 20, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
Today, as we read in the Gospel of Luke 19:11-28, Christ Jesus explained, through a parable, how God bestows his grace to free us from our own mediocre expectations because of our weaknesses.
This way, we avoid being paralyzed by self-absorption, fear, and an incorrect view of the Divinity, like the third servant. We must always trust in God’s goodness and mercy.
Today's parable narrates how a nobleman gave gold coins to their servants, asking them to engage in trade. They duplicated the earnings. But one of them stored the given gold coin and did nothing, not even generating interest from the bank.
Then the Lord said:
"Take the gold coin from him
and give it to the servant who has ten.'
(…)
To everyone who has, more will be given,
but from the one who has not,
even what he has will be taken away."
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 19, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
Today, November 18, is the Memorial of the Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter and Paul, the two great Roman basilicas of St. Peter at the Vatican, on the site of the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles, and of St. Paul-Outside-the-Walls, situated at the other end of the city on the Ostian Way, where the Apostle of the Gentiles was sacrificed.
These two basilicas in the Eternal City mark the sites of each apostle's martyrdom and are a testament to the heritage and glory of Christendom. They also connote the heavenly Jerusalem
From all lands, Christians made pilgrimages to them as to they are rock of faith and the foundation of the Church.
In the U.S., we also celebrate the feast of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin (1769-1852). Born in Grenoble, France, St. Rose Philippine Duchesne was a Visitation nun who was sent to the Louisiana Territory as a missionary. She founded a boarding school for the daughters of pioneers near St. Louis and established the first free school west of the Missouri River. She also began a school for Indians.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 18, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
From the earliest days until the present, the nascent Church of Christ has been targeted by the enemies of the faith.
The Church will announce, until the end of time, that the old world is passing away, that a new world of love, nonviolence, and life is emerging.
The announcement that the current world is passing away and a new Kingdom of love, peace, and true life, as we read yesterday, infuriates the people of sin even more. They try to “kill the messenger”, reacting with violent and ideological resistance to the establishment of God’s kingdom.
An example is the twentieth century, the bloodiest on record, and the one with the most martyrs.
We detach from this world that is passing away, with our eyes fixed in heaven, the world that will never end.
And we proclaim the truth of the Gospel, with the rising of the Lord, knowing we will enjoy “a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute,” as Our Lord has promised to us.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 17, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
In today’s Mass — the last of our liturgical year, as next Sunday will be the feast day of the Kingship of Christ — we are reminded that this world will come to an end one day, although we do not know when or how it will occur (St. Luke 21:5-19).
The end will be followed immediately by the general judgment that will seal our eternal fate. Christ will come in power and glory to judge the whole human race.
Each one will receive the sentence he merited while on earth. The righteous will enter with Him into eternal glory. The wicked will go to their place of suffering, sorrow, and remorse.
The announcement of the final judgment should encourage us to behave as disciples of Christ, in a state of grace, in the friendship of God, not fearing death.
It might also happen that this world will come to an end for each one of us when we draw our last breath. The question is, how will we stand in God's sight when that moment comes?
Christ calls us to be confident in his provident care of us: "Not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance, you will secure your lives."
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 16, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
Lord Jesus explains in today’s reading (Matthew 13:47-5) how the end of the present time will unfold.
He said to the crowds:
"The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea,
which collects fish of every kind.
When it is full they haul it ashore
and sit down to put what is good into buckets.
What is bad they throw away.
Thus it will be at the end of the age.
The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous
and throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth."
It’s how divine justice will be applied after divine mercy has been rejected by many.
Today, we have a unique opportunity to commit ourselves to a life in grace. This way, we will be in the righteous group of people.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 15, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
The second coming of Christ Jesus will be like the time of Noah, as He revealed to his disciples and we read today (Luke 17:26–37):
"As it was in the days of Noah,
so it will be in the days of the Son of Man;
they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage up to the day
that Noah entered the ark,
and the flood came and destroyed them all."
The flood was the result of humanity’s sin. His refusal to properly steward the creation and the worship of false deities.
God then sent, in a salvation operation, a righteous man named Noah, who built a giant ark in the midst of the desert. It was the Ark of the Covenant.
Animals of all species, as well as Noah and his family, came on board.
Noah would become a precursor of Christ and the ark of Noah as the womb of the Blessed Mother and later as the Universal Church.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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Today, the Catholic Church in the U.S. celebrates the Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), a virgin and the first American citizen to be canonized.
Born in Lombardy, Italy, to a family of thirteen children, she came to America as a missionary, founding the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for poor children in schools and hospitals.
At her death, over five thousand children were receiving care in her charitable institutions. Her community extended to seventy houses in North and South America, France, Spain, and England.
After thirty-seven years of heroic charity, she was in Chicago, Illinois, while making dolls for orphans in preparation for a Christmas party.
She was canonized by Pius XII in 1946. She lies buried under the altar of the chapel of Mother Cabrini High School in New York City.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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Today, the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Josaphat (1580-1643), a Catholic and a Ukrainian Basilian monk who is invoked as the “Apostle of Unity.”
As Archbishop of Polotsk (present-day Ukraine), he promoted unity between East and West by fostering an Eastern liturgy in union with Rome.
Josaphat was murdered by an angry Orthodox mob in Russia on November 12, 1623, at the age of forty-three.
With furious cries of "Kill the papist!", the killers rushed upon him with gun and sword. Josaphat's body was thrown into the river but emerged, surrounded by rays of light.
His murderers, when sentenced to death, repented their crime and became Catholics.
Josaphat is one of the patrons of Poland.
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 12, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Friends of the Rosary,
Today, on Veterans Day (USA) and Remembrance Day (Canada), we remember in our prayers those who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Veterans Day is set aside for honoring military veterans in America.
Also, today, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Martin of Tours (and also remembers St. Mennas of Egypt (d. 300), an Egyptian soldier and martyr who was put to death during Diocletian's reign.
Martin was a soldier before being a bishop and a saint — a soldier of God!
He was born of pagan parents in Pannonia, present-day Hungary, and became a catechumen of his own initiative at the age of ten. He joined the Roman army and demonstrated his faith to his fellow soldiers through his acts of charity until his resignation.
Martin founded a monastic community in Ligugé, France, on land given to him by Saint Hilary of Poitiers. In 372, he was elected Bishop of Tours. He preached tirelessly and with fervor. After his death in 397, Martin’s Vita, the story of his life, spread throughout Europe.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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Today, November 10, we honor Pope and Doctor of the Church St. Leo the Great (400-461), who vigorously defended the unity of the Church, and during whose pontificate the Council of Chalcedon (451) defined that Christ is one divine person with two natures, divine and human.
In the reading of the Gospel (Luke 17:1-6), we listen to the Son of God talking to his disciples,
“If your brother sins, rebuke him;
and if he repents, forgive him.
And if he wrongs you seven times in one day
and returns to you seven times saying, ‘I am sorry,’
you should forgive him.”
And the Apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
The Lord replied,
“If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
you would say to this mulberry tree,
‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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Today, Sunday, November 9, we celebrate the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome, the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, and the oldest church in the West.
Built during the time of Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, when Christians were granted freedom to practice their religion. This Cathedral/Basilica is called “mother and head of all the churches of the city and the world.”
The solemnity recalls that the temple of stones is a symbol of the living Church, the Christian community,
Signifying that we, the faithful, are “living stones,” St. Paul wrote, “You are God’s building,” “Holy is God’s temple, which you are” (1 Corinthians 3:9c, 17).
The Church of living stones, built up in truth and charity, is internally formed by the Holy Spirit.
Today’s feast celebrates the mystery of God’s desire to build a spiritual temple in the world —a community that worships Him in spirit and truth (cf. John 4:23-24).
The churches, with their beauty and harmony, are destined to give praise to God.
Every community must take special care of its sacred buildings, always calling upon the intercession of the Most Holy Mary.
Today, we also celebrate the feast of the Virgin of the Almudena in Madrid, Spain.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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Friends of the Rosary,
Ten years ago, Louis and Zélie Martin — the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, pictured — were canonized as a model of a joyful and holy marriage.
Pope Leo said their lives show “marriage as a path to holiness.”
"Among the vocations to which men and women are called by God, marriage is one of the noblest and most elevated.”
Pope Leo XIV urged couples to look to the Saints as a model of a joyful and holy marriage.
The Pontifex urged to discover God’s “boundless love and tenderness and strive to make them love Him in return as He deserves.”
Our secular society tends to present marriage and family as outdated and boring, but they are just the opposite.
The pope described the Martins as a couple who found “profound happiness in giving life, transmitting the faith, and seeing their daughters grow and flourish under the gaze of the Lord.”
“Dear couples, I invite you to persevere courageously on the path, sometimes difficult and laborious, but luminous, that you have undertaken,” Pope Leo stated.
“Above all, put Jesus at the center of your families, your activities, and your choices,” he explained.
Louis and Marie-Azélie (Zélie) Martin were married in 1858 at Notre Dame Basilica in Alençon. Before marrying, both had sought religious life — Louis with the Augustinians and Zélie with the Sisters of Charity — but each discerned that God was calling them to marriage.
Zélie prayed for children who would consecrate their lives to God, and the couple was blessed with nine. Four died in infancy, and the remaining five became religious sisters, including Thérèse, who would later become one of the Church’s most beloved saints and a Doctor of the Church.
Thérèse said that God had given her “a mother and a father more worthy of heaven than of earth.”
Zélie died of breast cancer in 1877 at age 45. After Zelie’s death, Louis moved the family to Lisieux, where four of his daughters went on to become Carmelite nuns.
The Martins were canonized together by Pope Francis on Oct. 18, 2015, becoming the first married couple in Church history to be declared saints together — a testament, Pope Leo said, to the enduring truth that marriage, lived faithfully, “leads to the glory of heaven.”
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 8, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
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Today, in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 16:1–8), Lord Jesus tells a parable urging us to take a hard look at our spiritual health and renew our relationship with him.
He acknowledges our weaknesses — even dishonesty, as described in the parable of the stewardship.
Despite our faults, the Savior invites us to start a new life in Christ by correcting our errors and developing the necessary strengths.
Jesus admires our resolve.
It’s the virtue of prudence, which moves us to live with confidence in God’s goodness.
Bishop Barron advises, “If your prayer life is weak, act to give it new life. If you have not been worshiping fervently at Mass, decide to participate more fully. If you have a broken relationship, repair it. And so on. Decide now, then act.”
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• November 7, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET