WE ARE GRATEFUL, WE ARE ETERNALLY APPRECIATIVE AND WE ARE SINCERELY FULL OF THANKSGIVING FOR PRAYING THE HOLY ROSARY THROUGH THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. Generosity is a way of life for a Christian who is sincerely conscious of God’s blessings and he/she is always ready to give because “it is in giving that we can…

The effects of evil that manifest as sin in our relationship with the self, others and God, made Jesus to offer His Sermon on the Mount with the beatitude: “Blessed are the pure in Heart, they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8). The core of our religion is Love and love requires the inner disposition of…

The spiritual battle of our time is spiritual blindness. It is the inability to see as God sees. The things of God are seen through faith, wisdom, revelation and divine illumination and not merely by reason, inquiry and observation. To be free of spiritual blindness is to be led by the way, the truth and…

Apart from the popular saying that the Rosary is a compendium of the Gospel which has an evangelization underpinning; the expression that says that the Rosary is “the gospel on string” speaks more. There are four signs of a committed Catholic: Prayer, study, generosity and evangelization (Kelly, 2012). About evangelization, the Rosary is a special…

Early Christianity suffered the attacks of heretics and their heresies. However, such heresies never saw the light of the day. History they say keeps repeating itself and so many of us have not learned from the mistakes of the past and we are still preoccupied with faith based on questioning almost everything not for the…

What would happen if we did not speak for one full day? Sometimes there is need to be silent. However, globalization and information technology, the Internet, TV, radio, co-workers, family and friends, are daily bombardments on our conscious mind and hence we overthink, overreact and ultimately confuse our minds (our thinking, feelings and wills) with…

There is a difference between praying the rosary and saying it. Many times, Rosary devotees complain that they don’t get the effect of their Rosary devotion. The fact is that we say Rosary without praying it. We say the Rosary mechanically without devotion. The hallmark of praying the Rosary is its contemplative dimension. Proper prayer…

Beginning with St. Pope John-Mary II, “on 29 October 1978, scarcely two weeks after my election to the See of Peter, I frankly admitted: ‘The Rosary is my favourite prayer. A marvellous prayer! Marvellous in its simplicity and its depth. … It can be said that the Rosary is, in some sense, a prayer-commentary on…

A lot of “prayer contractors” have made so much money from our brothers and sisters who say they need healing for their family tree (Matt. 1:1-17). It is true that we can be affected by the effects of Original sin both in our human nature and our environment. But we cannot allow our family background…

Today we celebrate an ICON OF THE HOLY ROSARY. One who says unequivocally that the Rosary is his favorite prayer! Through his Apostolic Letter ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE, he revealed a lot about the Holy Rosary as a unique school of prayer, a panorama of “ceaseless” prayer, a training ground for holiness, a significant catechetical opportunity…