For this First Saturday Meditation today, let us focus on the Mystery of His Majesty’s Resurrection and the 11th Apparition at Lourdes. From St. Mark’s Gospel we hear: “very early in the morning, the...
After one of the apparitions at Lourdes, St. Bernadette was asked later “why were you sometimes happy and sometimes sad?” Bernadette responded: “I am sad when She is sad, and I smile when She smiles.”...
The fact that the Christ, the Word made flesh, was conceived in a cave at the house in Nazareth and then born in a cave, forever set the stage for how godly restorations are started. They resorted to...
In His merciful descent into Limbo, His Majesty, Our Lord and Savior, gives an example… that we should pity those now in prison down in the earth in Purgatory. Although we cannot visit them in person...
In the vision part of the 3rd Secret of Fatima, made public in the year 2000, Sr. Lucia recounts what is clearly meant to be a participation in the 5th Sorrowful Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary. We ar...
Our Lady wanted to die in order to gain the maximum merits unto the very end to help save souls and bring glory to God. So too should we want such a meritorious death!! And she can help all die well w...
FOURTH APPARITION (Visitation) Friday, Feb 19. Accompanied to the Grotto by her mother and godmother (and namesake, Aunt Bernarde), Bernadette, holding a lighted candle for the first time, is again tr...
The Dean says to Bernadette, “Ask the Lady Her name once more, and when we know Her name, we will build Her a chapel. And it won’t be a little one, I tell you; it will be a very big one.” Upon leaving...
For our First Saturday meditation today, let us turn to the 15th chapter of the book of Esther. This is an important book in relation to Fatima because the star on Our Lady’s tunic is the Star of Esth...
Within the month of November falls the Feast day of Our Lady’s Presentation in the Temple. As it is related to the Mystery of the same name in the Holy Rosary, let us consider it today in our meditati...
As this first Saturday lands on the feast day of the Guardian Angels, it is fitting that we see how they play an intimate role in the mysteries of the Holy Rosary.
Fourteenth Apparition (Assumption) Wednesday, March 3. We pick this apparition because it lines up with the mystery of the Assumption in the Rosary, 14th decade, but also because August is the month o...
Reflecting in part upon the prophecy of Simeon, we can conclude that St. Joseph’s joy at the fruit of the sufferings of Jesus and Mary quite overpowered his sorrow at the fact of their having to suf...
Peter Chrysologus: “He who is not awestruck by this Virgin's spirit and who[ever] does not admire her soul is ignorant of how great God is. Heaven trembles, angels quake, creation cannot bear it, na...