• July 8, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! At the Rosary Network, we try to pray fervently and perseveringly. We ponder Christ's words: "Ask and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives." We might have doubts concerning these words, yet we place our needs before God in prayer. Lord Jesus knows better what we truly need and when is the right time. Petition is the key to God's fatherly heart. Petition opens up the treasures of divine mercy. Christ said: "If you, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!" We pray today's Holy Rosary from the city of Pamplona, Spain, internationally known for the San Fermin festival and its running of the bulls. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• July 1, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! Today, the Church in the United States celebrates the Memorial of St. Junípero Serra (1713-1784), the 18th-century Franciscan missionary who brought the true faith to the people of North America’s west coast. Junípero Serra, patron Saint of California, founded 21 missions and converted thousands of Native Americans. The first mission founded, after the nine-hundred-mile journey north, was San Diego (1769). Other missions followed: Monterey/Carmel (1770); San Antonio and San Gabriel (1771); San Luis Obispo (1772); San Francisco and San Juan Capistrano (1776); Santa Clara (1777); San Buenaventura (1782). Twelve more were founded after Serra's death. His zeal was fed by prayer each night, often from midnight until dawn. St. Junípero Serra baptized over six thousand people and confirmed five thousand. He brought the Native Americans not only the gift of faith but also a decent standard of living. He won their love, as witnessed especially by their grief at his death. He was buried at Mission San Carlo Borromeo, Carmel, and was beatified in 1988. He was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis during his visit to the United States. > July is traditionally associated with the Precious Blood of Our Lord. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! St. Junípero Serra, Pray for Us! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• June 30, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! Today, the universal Church honors the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the wicked Emperor Nero in Rome. We celebrate the memorial of the first martyrs of the Holy Roman Church. The historians Tacitus and St. Clement of Rome tell of a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D.) when in the imperial parks a great multitude of Christians was made into living torches to light the road for Nero's chariot. Many others were killed by crucifixion or by feeding to the wild animals in his circus. These "proto-martyrs" of Rome were the first Christians persecuted en masse by Emperor Nero, before the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul. Threatened by an army revolt and condemned to death by the senate, Nero committed suicide in A.D. 68 at the age of thirty-one. Today, the site of Nero's Circus, also the location of St. Peter's martyrdom, is marked by the Piazza dei Protomartiri Romani (Square of the Roman Protomartyrs) in the Vatican next to St. Peter's Basilica. These martyrs were called the “Disciples of the Apostles” and their firmness was a powerful testimony that led to many conversions in the early Roman Church. The blood of martyrs has always been the seed of Christians. Martyrs mean victory over death and sin. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• June 29, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! Today, the universal Church celebrates the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the two great apostles who are the solid rock on which the Church is built. Sanctified by their martyrdom, they make Rome — then the capital of the Empire — the center of the Christian world whence should radiate the preaching of the Gospel. St. Peter suffered martyrdom under Nero, in A.D. 66 or 67. He was buried on the hill of the Vatican where recent excavations have revealed his tomb on the very site of the Basilica of St. Peter's. St. Paul was beheaded in Rome's Via Ostia on the spot where now stands the basilica bearing his name. Down the centuries Christian people in their thousands have gone on pilgrimage to the tombs of these Apostles. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Saints Peter and Paul, Pray for Us! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• June 28, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! There have always been false prophets. In our age, many of them try to invert the truth by presenting a twisted reality. They proclaim as right what is simply wrong. It is a direct denial against the Holy Spirit, a serious sin. We see this, especially regarding matters of life, family, and marriage. Today's reading (Mt 7:15-20) addresses how the false prophets are identified: Jesus said to his disciples: "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits, you will know them." "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. So by their fruits, you will know them." Today, we continue praying the Rosary in the streets of Philadelphia. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
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