• June 7, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! In today's reading (Mark 12:18-27), Jesus confronts the Sadducees and discusses Heaven, where life will be abundant, stating that "God is not the God of the dead but of the living." In eternal life, we will be with our glorified bodies, "Like angels in Heaven." As Bishop Barron writes, "Heaven is a place where our bodiliness will be so rich and so intense that we will be able to relate to all those around us in the most intimate and powerful way possible. And there we will be fully alive." Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• May 31, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! We celebrate today the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This episode — the Second Joyful Mystery — recalls great truths and events: The visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth shortly after the Annunciation; the cleansing of John the Baptist from original sin in the womb of his mother at the words of Our Lady's greeting; Elizabeth's proclaiming of Mary—under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit—as Mother of God and "blessed among women"; Mary's singing of the sublime hymn, Magnificat: "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me, and holy is His name" (Lk. 1:46). Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• May 30, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! St. Paul VI, at the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council in 1964, declared the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mother of the Church, establishing that "all Christian people, the faithful as well as the pastors, should further honor and invoke the Mother of God.' Decades later, Pope Francis promoted this devotion in order to "encourage the growth of the maternal sense of the Church in the pastors, religious and faithful, as well as a growth of genuine Marian piety." Saint Augustine and Pope Saint Leo the Great both reflected on the Virgin Mary’s importance in the mystery of Christ. "Mary is the mother of the members of Christ, because with charity she cooperated in the rebirth of the faithful into the Church," wrote St. Augustine. St. Leo the Great indicated that "Mary is at once Mother of Christ, the Son of God, and mother of the members of his Mystical Body, which is the Church." The fathers of the Church have always highlighted the divine motherhood of Mary and her intimate union in the work of the Redeemer. Mary was depicted at the foot of the Cross (cf. Jn 19:25). "There she became the Mother of the Church when she accepted her Son’s testament of love and welcomed all people in the person of the beloved disciple as sons and daughters to be reborn unto life eternal," wrote St. Paul VI. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Come, Thou Holy Spirit, Come! Mary, Mother of the Church, Pray for Us! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• May 29, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, a feast connected to the Feast of Pentecost. The Blessed Mother was present in the upper room when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles and the birthday of the Church took place. Just as Mary was in every major moment in the life of her divine son, so, too, is she there for every moment in the life of the Church. She is also at every single Mass. Like every good mother, Mary is always with her children. That is what we celebrate today. Let’s give thanks to God for the great gift of our Blessed Mother. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Come, Thou Holy Spirit, Come! Mary, Mother of the Church, Pray for Us! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• May 28, 2023, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! And when the days of Pentecost were drawing to a close, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a violent wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as of fire, which settled upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues, even as the Holy Spirit prompted them to speak (Acts 2, 1-4). Today is Pentecost Sunday, one of the great feasts of Christianity and the end of the Easter Season. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit, the Sanctifier, upon the Apostles and Disciples and the birth-day of God’s Church, with the gift of faith for all nations and the fullness of grace. Pentecost was an important feast in the Jewish calendar and was primarily a feast of thanksgiving to God for the harvest. The Apostles had already received the Holy Spirit on Christ's first appearance to them after his resurrection (Jn 20:22). But on Pentecost day the descent of the Holy Spirit, with the gift of tongues, was a public manifestation intended to amaze the crowds of local and foreign Jews who thronged Jerusalem on the festive occasion. From this day forward the apostles would be men dedicated to one purpose: to bring the good news, the Gospel of Christ, to the world. The divine power of the Holy Spirit was very evident in the infant Church. This was necessary to prove to the pagans that the Christian religion was from the real God who controlled all things. The God of the Christians had real powers and they were distributed freely by the Holy Spirit when occasion demanded. The anniversary of the public manifestation of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles marks the infinite love of God for us, his Chosen People of the new covenant. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Come, Thou Holy Spirit, Come! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
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