• October 4, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • The Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! Today is the Memorial Day of St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226). He was the first person (recorded) to receive the stigmata (the five wounds of Christ) in 1224. St. Francis of Assisi was the son of a wealthy merchant in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. He was taken prisoner in the battle between the Assisians and Perugians, and after his release, he decided to abandon everything for Christ. He left all his possessions and embraced complete poverty, taking the Gospel as his rule of life. His father became highly displeased at his action and disinherited him. In 1220, Francis of Assisi founded a new order, the Friars Minor (Franciscans), which, in ten years, numbered five thousand brothers. In 1212, with St. Clare of Assisi, he founded the Order of Poor Ladies, now known as the Poor Clares. He also founded the Third Order of Penance (the Third Order), which included lay people. Out of humility, Francis never accepted the priesthood but remained a deacon. He loved God's creatures, including animals, and called them his brothers and sisters. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! St. Francis of Assisi, Pray for Us! Come, Holy Spirit, come! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• September 27, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • The Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! Today, September 27, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of the French priest St. Vincent de Paul (1581-1660), who founded the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission or Lazarists (now known as Vincentians) to preach especially to ignorant peasants of that time and to establish seminaries. St. Vincent de Paul was a great apostle of charity and brought a great revival of the priesthood in the 17th century. As a young priest, he was captured by Moorish pirates who carried him to Africa. He was sold into slavery but freed in 1607 when he converted his owner. To help poor girls, invalids, the insane, sick, and unemployed, he and St. Louise de Marillac founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity, now better known as the Sisters of St. Vincent. St. Vincent worked tirelessly to help those in need: the impoverished, the sick, the enslaved, the abandoned, the ignored. His motto was "God sees you." "Let us love God; but at the price of our hands and sweat of our face." Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Come, Holy Spirit, come! St. Vincent de Paul, Pray for Us! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• September 26, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • The Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! Today, we read the famous statement at the beginning of the Book of Ecclesiastes (ECCL 1:2-11) in the Old Testament: “All things at vanity." "Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun? One generation passes and another comes, but the world forever stays. The sun rises and the sun goes down; then it presses on to the place where it rises." On Earth, the things we do will be forgotten, and the things we build will eventually be turned to dust. No matter what we do, accumulate, or build, it will disappear when we go. Seeing life through distinctively human eyes is pointless. But recognizing God's rule and reign in the world is worth it. In Christianity, we learn that the key is to cultivate treasures in Heaven. After all, vanity is an example of pride, one of the seven deadly sins. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Come, Holy Spirit, come! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• September 25, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • The Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! In today's letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians (13:13), the thirteenth Apostle speaks about the Way of Love as the greatest spiritual gift. "Faith, hope, and love remain these three, but the greatest of these is love." St. Paul explains: "If I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated. It is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing." Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Come, Holy Spirit, come! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
• September 24, 2024, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET • The Audio Podcast of this Rosary is Available Here Now! Today, September 24, is the feast of Our Lady of Mercy, a national holiday in Peru. The Catholic Church also celebrates Our Lady of Walsingham (Memorial, England) and Our Lady of Ransom (Hist). Devotion to the Virgin of Mercy dates back to the founding of Lima. The Mercederian friars, who came to Peru with the conquerors, brought the devotion to the Virgin of Mercy, a Marian title of the thirteenth century, and they built their primitive convent chapel in 1535. The Mercederians evangelized the region and participated in the city's development, building beautiful churches that have been preserved as a valuable cultural and religious patrimony. In 1218, St. Peter Nolasco and James I, King of Aragon and Catalonia, experienced separately a vision of the Most Holy Virgin, who asked them to form a religious order dedicated to rescuing the many Christian captives held by the Muslims. This Order of Our Lady of Mercy was approved as a military order in 1235 by Pope Gregory IX. It liberated thousands of Christian prisoners. Later, it became dedicated to teaching and social work. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Come, Holy Spirit, come! St. Padre Pio, Pray for Us! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
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