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  • Padre Pio, Our Lady, and the Holy Rosary

    “…If we do what we have always done, what our fathers did before us, we cannot go wrong. Satan wants to destroy this prayer, but in this he will never succeed. The Rosary is the prayer of those who triumph over everything and everyone. It was Our Lady who taught us this prayer, just as it was Jesus who taught…

  • Fatima and the Holy Rosary

    I have read a lot on Our Lady of Fatima over the years, as I am sure you have, as well; but, the other day, I read a piece by the Texan writer and scholar, Dr. Taylor Marshall, where he presented a new insight into one aspect of Fatima. He presented an insight into the meaning of the visions that…

  • Fr. Hugh Thwaites and the Rosary

    The English priest, Fr. Hugh Thwaites, died in 2012 at the age of ninety-five. The headline of his obituary summarizes what Fr. Thwaites had come to believe after seeing the Church in decline following the Second Vatican Council, it reads: “Priest who said the future of the Church rested on the family rosary dies aged 95”  I am going to…

  • August 14: St. Maximilian Kolbe

    Today the Church remembers the martyred Polish Franciscan priest of Auschwitz, St. Maximilian Kolbe. Fr. Kolbe loved the Blessed Virgin Mary, and spent his entire life in her service as her knight. Militaristic from childhood, he developed a spiritual military of knights of both sexes, of all backgrounds and occupations, who give themselves in service to the Immaculata, Mary. This…

  • The Rosary: Promises and Quotes

    “The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families…that cannot be solved by…