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Month: January 2024

Month: January 2024

1-31-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)

“[The Lord] goes so far as to say that if the sinner repents, he wants to forget his sins as though they had never been committed.  Hear his very words: If the sinner repents, he shall be forgiven, and I shall forget all his iniquities (Ez 18:21-22).”  —Saint John Bosco (+ 1888)   Intention:  Thank

1-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)

“Oh, with what love, with what tenderness does God embrace a sinner who returns to him!  Let us recall again the well-known parable of the lost sheep.  The Good Shepherd finds the sheep, carries it on his shoulders, takes it back home, and calls his friends to share the good news: Rejoice, because I have found

1-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)

“God has so ordained from all eternity that those who for his honor are united in doing good enjoy every prosperity, and that what they do turns out well, because they have God himself and every one of his creatures in their favor.”  –Saint Angela Merici (+ 1540)   Intention:   Lord, please make of America

1-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)

“When you love you understand many things, and you will see how the golden thread of your life, apparently interrupted, continues to shine as brightly and even more so than before.”  –Servant of God Chiara Lubich (+ 2008)   Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections.   Sunday: Help My Unbelief 1st Glorious

1-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)

“If we Christians do not want to be behind the times, we must put love into everything we do.  And we need to be especially vigilant that we are not lacking in love when life proves most difficult and painful…”  –Servant of God Chiara Lubich (+ 2008)   Intention:   Lord, please preserve our rights to

1-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)

“You see, it is our Lord garbed as a gardener whom we meet day by day, here and there, in the ordinary mortifications that present themselves to us.  We want more noble-seeming ones.  But the ones that seem the most noble are not the best.”  — Saint Francis de Sales (+ 1622)   Intention:   Lord,

1-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)

“Lovingly kiss the crosses that our Lord himself lays upon your arms, without looking to see whether they are of precious or aromatic wood.  They are more truly crosses when they are made of a wood that smells dirty and is considered useless.”  –Saint Francis de Sales (+ 1622)   Intention:  Lord, please bless us

1-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)

“If you can refrain from trying to do all things, but instead attempt to do only some one thing, then you will do much.  Practice the mortifications that most often present themselves to you, for that is the first duty to be done.”  –Saint Francis de Sales (+ 1622)   Intention:  Lord, please bless us

1-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)

“For twenty-six — from 1942 to 1968 — I went regularly to San Giovanni Rotundo to meet with Saint Pio of Pietrelcina.  Some of the friars had posters in their cells with inscriptions and reminders.  Some were from the Bible but Padre Pio had this: “Human greatness has always had sadness for a companion.”  —

1-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)

“I love to meditate on this phrase from the Gospel: I am the vine, you are the branches.  When we allow ourselves to be infused by the life-giving sap of the Gospel, we will be completely renewed and will be the true Gospel, because we will be filled with the Lord Jesus.”  –Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+