Daily Rosary

Friends of the Rosary,As we read today (John 8:21-30), Jesus warned the Pharisees that they would die in their sin for having rejected Him.He explained,“You belong to what is below,I belong to what is above.You belong to this world,but I do not belong to this world.That is why I told you that you will die in your sins.For if you do not believe that I AM,you will die in your sins.”Trapped in their condemnation, the Pharisees — and with them the entire world — didn't realize that He was the Holy One of God and He was teaching what the Father taught Him.However, John tells us, “Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.”With His sacrifice on the Cross, Christ opened the divine heart to humanity, proving that no sin of ours can separate us from the love of God.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• March 24, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,We've started the fifth and final full week of Lent. In most dioceses, crosses and statues in churches were veiled at this time to mark Passion Time. Now, day after day, the liturgical readings tell of the storm clouds that next week will break open.Today's Lenten main reading (John 8:1-11) teaches the episode of the adulterous woman, that every sin is adultery to God, and is pardonable by Christ.During Lent, the penitential spirit should be present in our lives, as this season is essentially a time of prayer and mortification. This sounds like a denial of the values of our secular society — and rightly so.The modern creed proclaims a pagan conception of mankind, and therefore, a penitential spirit is unbearable. The prevalent philosophy is: "Let us eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die."In our pagan environment, doing penance is a dysfunctional practice of delusional pietists.But penance has deeper significance as it puts us closer to Christ, the Suffering Servant, who endured the Stations of the Cross.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 23, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, formerly known as "Passion Sunday," marks the beginning of Passiontide, a deeper time within Lent. It's the final Sunday of Lent, and the Liturgy of the Word (John 11:1-45) speaks of resurrection and new life.The Church invites us to turn our attention to the death of a loved one.Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, He will give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him, “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.” (John 11: 21-27)Covering crosses and images in the church from this Sunday may be observed in the Dioceses of the United States. Crosses remain covered until the end of the Celebration of the Lord's Passion on Good Friday, but images remain covered until the beginning of the Easter Vigil.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• March 22, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today in the Gospel (John 7:40-53), we see how even enemies of the faith can be conquered by the truth of Christ.The guards sent to arrest Jesus returned empty-handed: they were overwhelmed by the power of His words. "Never has anyone spoken like this man," they said.Meanwhile, the prideful Pharisees appealed to their own authority rather than examining the truth of Christ, following their own precepts.The guards, with no theological training, recognized divine wisdom. The Pharisees, the learned and the proud, blind themselves.John Chrysostom explained that encountering Christ demands a decision, as there is no neutral ground. We must choose: "Will we approach Jesus with openness, or will we let pride and presumption keep us from recognizing the Truth?"Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 21, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, March 20, a day after the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, is the memorial of St. John Nepomucene (1340-1393), a priest of Bohemia who was martyred by King Wenceslaus IV because he refused to break the seal of confession.In the Gospel, it's shown that the enemies of Christ have increased hostility, becoming more violent and more determined to kill the Author of Life.Our Lord, however, as He nears the end of His public life and awaits His hour, continues to teach in the temple during the day, and large crowds come to hear and admire Him.And while His enemies plot His downfall, Christ Jesus spends the nights in prayer on the Mount of Olives.The contrast between the character of Christ and that of His enemies could not be more pronounced.Back to today, we have to analyze whether we seek vengeance upon those who oppose us, or wish them evil, and urge others to despise and condemn them. Or we leave our reputation in the hands of God and imitate Christ's efforts to benefit those who hated and condemned Him.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play

Friends of the Rosary,Today, March 19, is the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the legal father of Jesus (nutritor Domini).Teresa of Ávila wrote, "To other saints our Lord has given power to help in one sort of need, but this glorious saint, as I know by experience, helps us in every need."In 1870, Pius IX declared Joseph to be the patron and protector of the universal family of the Church. He is the patron of the dying because Jesus and Mary were at his deathbed. He is also the patron of fathers, of carpenters, and of social justice. Many religious orders and communities are placed under his patronage.Saint John Paul II said, "In his self-gift to Mary and Jesus, Joseph fully shares in authentic human fatherhood and the mission of a father in the family."The Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy says, "His mission in God's plan of salvation was to legally insert Jesus Christ into the line of David, from whom, according to the prophets, the Messiah would be born, and to act as his father and guardian."Joseph was the "silent" person, a righteous man who faithfully fulfilled his mission of protecting and guarding God's greatest treasures upon earth, Jesus and Mary.He was an ordinary manual laborer, although descended from the royal house of David.No words of his are recorded in the Gospels. Most of our information about St. Joseph comes from the opening two chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel.At present, there are two major feasts in his honor. On March 19, when we acknowledge his suffering as part of the work of redemption, and on May 1, we honor him as the patron of workmen.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 19, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,In the main reading of the Gospel today (John 5:17-30), we see Jesus answering the Jews:"For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life,So also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.Nor does the Father judge anyone,But he has given all judgment to the Son,so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father.Whoever does not honor the Sondoes not honor the Father who sent him.Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my wordand believes in the one who sent mehas eternal life and will not come to condemnation,but has passed from death to life.""Those who have done good deeds [will go]to the resurrection of life,But those who have done wicked deedsto the resurrection of condemnation."When we adopt the attitude that our life should be our own, seek knowledge of good and evil, and try to control what's coming, the loop of divine grace is broken, and we get lost.Christ the Lord shows us the way of obedience. His life was an obedient response to the will of God:"Amen, amen, I say to you, a Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his Father doing; for what he does, his Son will do also."Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 18, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, March 17, is the Memorial of St. Patrick, a bishop chosen by God 1.500 years ago to preach His glory by bringing Christianity to Ireland, a little country which would be converted from their pagan gods to the one true God.Today, Irishmen venerate him as their father in the Faith.Sf. Patrick was born about 385 in the British Isles. In Roman Britain, when he was 16, while he was tending his sheep, Irish raiders captured him and sold him into slavery. Six years later, he escaped to Europe, became a monk, and was ordained; he then returned to Ireland to preach the Gospel.During the thirty years of missionary work, he covered the Island with churches and monasteries and founded the metropolitan see of Armagh.Many legends are associated with St. Patrick: how he drove the snakes out of Ireland and how he used the shamrock to teach the mystery of the Trinity.Ireland, although a small country, played a large role in spreading the true faith to the world. During the early Dark Ages, and while Europe remained in darkness, the Irish monasteries preserved Western writingsIn his autobiography, Confessions, written in true humility, St. Patrick said,“I am greatly God's debtor, because he granted me so much grace, that through me many people would be reborn in God.”Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 17, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Christ the Lord is the healer, and in today's reading (John 4:43–54), He cures the son of a royal official.In Jesus, divinity and humanity meet. “His purpose is to set right a world gone wrong, out of every pore of his body, Jesus expresses the healing love of God,” Bishop Barron said.Jesus's ministry of healing shows God's ultimate intention and hints at that world to come, where there will be no more suffering, no more sadness, no more sickness.He does not wait for the sinner, the sufferer, the marginalized; he goes to them.This same risen Jesus, alive in the Church, is still seeking us out!Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 16, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, the Fourth Sunday of Lent, is Laetare Sunday, a Sunday of joy. As in Advent we had Gaudete Sunday, so in Lent we have a Laetare Sunday.The Church's liturgy, with the celebrant priest in Mass wearing rose-colored vestments, gives a foretaste of Easter joy, inviting us to focus on the Risen Christ.In today's reading, we learn how Christ Jesus takes onto Himself all our sins — which are ultimately the consequences of our blindness — allowing Himself to be abandoned by His friends, rejected by His people, crowned with thorns, stripped, and nailed to the cross.He offered His Body to the Father for our salvation and consecrated His entire Person for every one of us.He introduced us into His Holy Heart, inflamed with love for us, which is the same as God's light.The indestructible link with Christ, which is founded on His love and fidelity, is the ‘new creation' that was given to us on the day of our Baptism. With our eyes blinded by sin, we come again to see.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 14, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,In today's reading (Luke 18:9-14), we see two types of prayer: the self-centered prayer of the Pharisee and the God-centered prayer of the tax collector.A prayer to ourselves — as yoga and mindfulness suggest today — is wrong as it simply confirms our ego-driven attitude, with God being relegated to be an idol.Christ the Lord invites us to meditate upon the prayer of the publican, the tax collector, who is humble enough to ask for mercy: "O God, be merciful to me, a sinner."Jesus concludes,“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 14, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Good Friday is three weeks away. As the third Week of Lent draws to an end, the conflict between Jesus and the religious leaders intensifies.The answer given by Lord — love of God and love of neighbor — shows that the conflict with the Pharisees grows sharper.In today's Gospel (Mark 12:28-34), Jesus is asked by one of the scribes which is the first of all the commandments."The Lord our God is Lord alone!You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.""The second is this:You shall love your neighbor as yourself.There is no other commandment greater than these."These two commandments are tightly linked because Christ is the God-man, the one in whose person divinity and humanity meet. It is impossible to love him as God without loving the humanity that he has embraced.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 13, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,We see in today's Gospel (Luke 11:14–23) Christ the Lord driving out a demon from a possessed person. Rather than praising the Lord, cynical crowds concluded that Jesus was "driving  out demons by the prince of demons."Jesus's response was laconic: "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?"Jesus is the voice of communio, the one who brings us back together, while the demonic power scatters. The Evil One and his minions accuse and divide.In the same passage, the Lord said,"Whoever is not with me is against me,and whoever does not gather with me scatters."Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 12, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,In the verse before the Gospel, St. John reminds us of two fundamental truths:"Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life;You have the words of everlasting life."Meanwhile, in the main reading (Matthew 5:17-19), Christ the Lord, through the disciples, is telling us:"Whoever breaks one of the least of these commandmentsand teaches others to do sowill be called least in the Kingdom of heaven.But whoever obeys and teaches these commandmentswill be called the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven."Being a faithful servant of Jesus means not only following his words but also cultivating our apostolic mission to spread the eternal truth. We continue praying our Holy Rosary from Austin, Texas.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 11, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,We continue praying our Holy Rosary from Austin, Texas.In today's main reading of the Gospel (Matthew 18:21-35), Jesus tells a parable that illustrates God's compassion and mercy — misericordia, in Latin and Spanish, signifying the suffering of the heart.It is the characteristic of the infinite love of God, as He never forgets his offspring.The whole mystery of the divine mercy is beyond our human understanding. Nothing would exist were it not willed into being by God.And the greatest manifestation of divine mercy is the forgiveness of sins. As Bishop Barron says, “This is the greatest grace the Church can offer: reconciliation, the restoration of the divine friendship, the forgiveness of our sins.”Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 10, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Without God, we are inevitably destined to dissatisfaction. It's impossible to reach joy, hope, and peace — the living water Jesus spoke of with the Samaritan woman (Jn 4:13-14).She represents the existential dissatisfaction of one who does not find what he seeks.Man is able to provide affection, money, power, human glory, honor, career, but the endless joy only belongs to the divine, infinite sphere.The living water is the gift of the Holy Spirit that only Christ the Lord offers. It's the water that flows only from the divine source. It's the living water of the Spirit that can quench man's thirst for the infinite.And the faithful receive the gift of God when they renounce a self-centered mentality.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play⁠• March 9, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today's Today, the Third Sunday, the Catholic Church begins the second phase of Lent with the Gospel of “living water” (Jn 4:13-14): the intense dialogue of Jesus and the Samaritan woman, a foreigner from whom He asks a drink of water.Christ the Lord said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”Pope Benedict XVI, recalling the great teaching of Saint Augustine, explained: “God thirsts for our faith and our love. As a good and merciful father, he wants our total, possible good, and this good is he himself.”“The Samaritan woman, on the other hand, represents the existential dissatisfaction of one who does not find what he seeks. She had “five husbands,” and now she lives with another man; her going to and from the well to draw water expresses a repetitive and resigned life. However, everything changes for her that day, thanks to the conversation with the Lord Jesus……” (Benedict XVI, Angelus 24 February 2008).Today'sAve Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• March 8, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today's Gospel (Luke 15:1–3, 11–32) portrays the prodigal son.The father stands for the divine mercy of God, and the older son stands for all of us sinners who misunderstand divine love.“Everything I have is yours.”The Father says the same to us today.In this magnificent parable, we see the prodigal son agonizing over his sins, feeling a great emptiness after he turned the divine gift into the ego's possession.Finally, he realizes that only the compassion and the mercy of his father will save him.We are the real prodigal sons whom God has forgiven and brought back into his love.Also, today, the Church celebrates the Memorial of Saints Perpetual and Felicity (d. 203), two martyrs whose names are mentioned together in the Roman Canon of the Mass.These two women, relying on the strength of Christ, who was fighting with them, were exposed to the fury of wild beasts in the amphitheater at Carthage and finally killed by the sword. They took their martyrdom as a triumphant celebration.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• March 7, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, we read in the Gospel (Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46) that Jesus told the chief priests and the elders the striking parable of the landowner who planted a fertile vineyard.The vineyard stands for the people of Israel, the Church, and the world, but we are not the owners; we are just the tenants, entrusted with the responsibility of caring for it."The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone."The vineyard of this world is a place where we can find rest, enjoyment, and good work, but we are under God's judgment, as all is for Him.So, how are we using all the talents and gifts that God gave us?If we reject Him or refuse to listen to him, our tenancy will be in jeopardy. We cannot make the mistake of behaving like little Gods and think that we own the world."Therefore, I say to you,The Kingdom of God will be taken away from youand given to a people that will produce its fruit."Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 6, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,We read in the Gospel today (Luke 16:19-31) the story of the poor and hopeless beggar Lazarus, who is carried to paradise — to the “bosom of Abraham— and the rich man taken to the underworld.The conversation between the rich man buried in the torment of hell and Abraham in heaven is extremely revealing. This parable, presented by Christ himself, depicts an utterly unique view of the afterlife.‘Father Abraham, have pity on me.Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,for I am suffering torment in these flames.'Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad;but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented.Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is establishedto prevent anyone from crossingwho might wish to go from our side to yoursor from your side to ours.'He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, send himto my father's house,for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them,lest they too come to this place of torment.'But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets.Let them listen to them.'He said, ‘Oh no, father Abraham,but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'Then Abraham said,‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuadedif someone should rise from the dead.'Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• March 5, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,During Lent, we prepare ourselves for the central events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday.Because of the sins and disobedience of the human race, Christ, the Son of God in human nature, decided to pay for our redemption with his blood.Through his infinite mercy and love for us, he set us free from the slavery of Satan and of sin.God the Father glorified him with the resurrection.The lesson for humans was clear: if we follow Christ, the new Head of humanity, faithfully in these virtues, joys, and sufferings, we will all be offered a share in an eternal life of glory.The victory of Christ over the power of Satan, proclaimed by the Church, should be ours also. Our strength is His. In our weakness, we are strong. The Lord delights in our effort and grants us the most important thing on earth: His grace!Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 4, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent, we see in the Gospel, Christ the Lord condemning the religious externalism, vanity, and hypocrisy of the Pharisees of that time, and currently, all of us.We should look into our Lenten practices of piety and works of charity and see whether they are performed to be seen.Also, today the dioceses of the United States celebrate the Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel (1858-1955), virgin, called to teach the Gospel and to bring the Eucharist to the Native American and African American people.Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and opened mission schools in the West. In 1915, she founded Xavier University in New Orleans.At her death, there were more than 500 sisters teaching in 63 schools.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 3, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Mercy comes before love. It perfects love.Christ the Lord, through his disciples, is telling in the Gospel of Luke (Lk 6:36-38) today:"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”God is love (1 John 4:8), but we encounter Him first as mercy.St. Thomas Aquinas explains that mercy is love responding to suffering and weakness (Summa Theologiae II-II, q.30).God acted first. "While we were still sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8)."He forgave, pursued, and redeemed us. This is mercy preceding love.With mercy, the heart softens, gratitude awakens, and then love grows.Consider the sinful woman in Luke 7:“Her many sins have been forgiven; hence, she has shown great love.”Mercy and forgiveness ignited love.St. Faustina recorded Jesus saying:“The greater the sinner, the greater the right he has to My mercy.”If someone feels distant from God, it is often because they think they must love perfectly before approaching Him.The Gospel says the opposite: Come in your weakness, receive mercy, and love will grow.Like the Prodigal Son, we are embraced before we can fully express our love.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 2, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,The Transfiguration of Christ is closely tied to the Passion, as it occurs just before Jesus' journey to Jerusalem and death. It acts as a preview of his resurrected, glorified body.In today's Gospel, the Second Sunday of Lent (Matthew 17:1-9), the transfigured Lord Jesus, accompanied by Moses and Elias — representing the Law and the Prophets — reveals His divine glory, foreshadowing His resurrection from the dead.Appearing in dazzling white on a mountain, Christ confirms his identity as the Son of God, connects his divine nature to the coming Passion, and reinforces the disciples Peter, James, and John's faith before his crucifixion.He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all things, the Holy One of God who brings our own transfiguration as the goal to attain.The Transfiguration of Jesus (Matthew 17, Mark 9, Luke 9), a solemnity celebrated on August 6, highlights Christ as the fulfillment of the Old Testament as the Divine Voice."This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him!" proclaimed the voice of God.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠March 1, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Jesus commands us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, as we read today (Matthew 5:43-48).How do we make sense of this commandment?It's because it's the way to achieve perfection.“So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect."Loving our enemies tests the quality of our love - love understood not as an emotion but as an act of willing the good of the other.These enemies might reveal uncomfortable truths and weaknesses about ourselves.Also, there might be a chance we can win them back.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play

Friends of the Rosary,Today, on this Friday of the First Week of Lent, Christ the Lord (Matthew 5:20-26) commands us to be reconciled with one another.“If you recall that your brother has anything against you, go first and be reconciled.”To reconcile with our brothers, we first need to forgive.A lack of forgiveness in us blocks the flow of divine grace.We resist forgiving because we feel that some injustice has done to us, and we resent it.But what did we do for the innocent Jesus? He was treated unjustly and suffered the ultimate injustice.Kneeling before the cross and seeing the suffering servant who forgave his persecutors will greatly help us to understand the mystery of forgiveness.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• February 27, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Lord Jesus urges us to persist in prayer. He promises that we will get what we want through perseverance and effort. This way, we will appreciate what we receive.If the gift doesn't come immediately, our souls will expand in anticipation.St. Augustine said that God doesn't always give us what we ask for immediately, and in fact, he compels us to ask again and againIn today's reading (Matthew 7:7-12), Jesus said to his disciples:“Ask and it will be given to you;seek and you will find;knock and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds;and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 26, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, we read in the Gospel (Luke 11:29-32) about the people of Nineveh, who are a model for Lent. At the preaching of Jonah the prophet, they did penance and obtained pardon and divine mercy.Jesus said to the crowd,“This generation is an evil generation;it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it,except the sign of Jonah.Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites,so will the Son of Man be to this generation.”The Church of Christ preaches penance today. Penance and sacrifices are part of the period of preparation for the forty days of the Lenten journey, before we arrive at the joy and glory of Easter.The Lord intends for us to live the Paschal rhythm of death and life to reclaim, through self-examination, our true selves and become ready to share in Christ's glory.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• February 25, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,In today's Gospel (Matthew 6:7–15), Our Lord teaches us to pray.Moreover, He gives us the "Our Father" prayer, the model of all prayer.It's planted deep within us the desire to speak to God and listen to him. After all, we are wired for the Divinity.It's a waste of time to be seeking only worldly things—money, pleasure, power, honor. Sooner or later, we realize that they are unsatisfying.The Lord's Prayer properly reorders our priorities. We should pray so our consciousness is reoriented.By praying and being obedient to the heavenly Father, we intend to be free from the slavery of Satan and of sin.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play

Friends of the Rosary,Lent is a period of preparation for the central events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Christ, the Son of God in human nature, died on the cross on Good Friday because of the sins of the human race.By being obedient to his heavenly Father, Christ made atonement for all our disobediences and set us free from the slavery of Satan and of sin.In his resurrection, his human nature was glorified by God the Father, and if we follow Christ faithfully in this life, we will all be offered a share in an eternal life of glory.During the forty days of Lenten, we make a commitment to fasting or giving up certain things in our lives as an act of penitence.The number 40 is significant throughout Scripture; Noah was on the Ark for 40 days, Moses fasted 40 days before receiving the Ten Commandments, and Jesus spent 40 days fasting in preparation for His work on earth.The celebration of Lent is not a commandment but an opportunity to renew our faith and edify our spirit.Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Polycarp of Smyrna (69-155), who was converted to Christianity by St. John the Evangelist. He was a disciple of the apostles and a friend of St. Ignatius of Antioch. He suffered martyrdom in 155 by burning at the stake in the amphitheater of Smyrna.Today's Gospel tells us that we must practice charity and perform works of mercy to all, without distinction, in the name of Christ. When our Blessed Lord comes to us in the Eucharist today, he will give us the joy of hearing his invitation to possess the kingdom prepared for us by his Father from the foundation of the world.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 23, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, the First Sunday of Lent, presents the scene of the temptation of Christ (Matt. 4:1-4), when Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil after forty days and nights of fasting.The Gospel of the temptation anticipates how the Prince of Darkness will be cast out, and it heralds Christ's victory in advance.Where Adam fell, Christ, the new Head of humanity, triumphs over the power of Satan.The Church proclaims that this victory should be ours also. Our strength is His. His will be our victory at Easter.In this Second Reading (Romans 5:12-19), St. Paul stresses that Christ, through his death, not only conquered sin but also poured out divine grace abundantly on mankind, making us his brothers and, therefore, sons of God.Today, it's also the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, but it's superseded in most places by the Sunday of Lent.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 22, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,In today's Gospel (Luke 5:27–32), Luke recounts how Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post."He said to him, “Follow me.”And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him.Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house,and a large crowd of tax collectorsand others were at table with them.The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying,“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”Jesus said to them in reply,“Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”The call of Jesus to Matthew — as we see it in the painting of Caravaggio, above — has the sense of “walk as I walk; think as I think; choose as I choose.” It means a self-reordered according to the pattern and manner of Jesus.“Following Jesus is indeed a kind of resurrection from the dead, since it involves the transition from a lower form of life to a higher, from a preoccupation with the temporary goods of this world to an immersion in the goodness of God,” writes Bishop Barron.Those who have undergone a profound conversion tend to speak of their former life as a kind of illusion, something not entirely real. It's the “false self” that has given way to the authentic self. It's the father of the prodigal son saying, “Your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.”Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 21, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,The Catholic Church celebrates today the feast of St. Jacinta (1910-1920), the youngest of the Fatima visionaries. Along with his brother Francisco — whose feast is April 4 — and their cousin Lucia Santo witnessed the apparitions of Mary in the fields of Fatima in 1917.Jacinta and Francisco, both under 12 years old, were the youngest non-martyrs to be beatified in the history of the Church.They died of influenza a few years later after the apparitions, offering her suffering for the conversion of sinners, peace in the world, and the Holy Father.Lucia dos Santos would become a Carmelite nun and was still living when Jacinta and Francisco were beatified in 2000 by Pope St. John Paul II.Today, the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima is visited by up to 20 million people a year.Today's Mass concerns fasting and teaches us what true fasting is.Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• February 20, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, at the second Lenten Mass, we are instructed in our spiritual program: the imitation of Christ!Do we have the desire to follow in the footsteps of our Master?He says, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me (Matt 16:24)." Jesus warns his followers that if they remain loyal to his teaching, they must expect the same fate. It means rejecting all personal security and accepting the way of the Cross.The reward is active participation in Christ's resurrection and in the kingdom of Heaven.It's the paschal mystery that is fulfilled for every Christian. This experience in death and resurrection to be living eternally in glory with Him!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• February 19, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, February 18, is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, the solemn observance of the central act of human history: the redemption of the human race by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.Lent is the ancient penitential time that precedes the Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum—Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil, before the Easter season, the joy of the Resurrection with the celebration of Christ's passing over from death to life.These forty days of penance in Lent start with the sacramental of the imposition of ashes during Mass, a sign of conversion, penance, fasting, humility, human mortality, and the need to be redeemed by the mercy of God.The ashes are made from the palms used at the previous Passion Sunday ceremonies.Today, and all Fridays during Lent, all the baptized abstain from eating meat. We also do some little fasting, eating only one full meal or two smaller meals.Lent is a time for conversion to Jesus Christ and the deepening of our friendship with him. The human challenge of continual conversion requires the disciplines of Lent: fasting, almsgiving, and intensified prayer.Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• February 18, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, the Church honors the Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order in an Optional Memorial. There were seven noble Florentines in Italy who, in the thirteenth century (1240), banded together to found the Order of Servites of the Blessed Virgin Mary, especially dedicated to penance and the preaching of the seven sorrows of our Lady in the passion of our Savior.Our Lord Jesus warned his disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. Christ wants all the baptized to be the transforming leaven in the secular world by carrying their holiness.The faithful have all received the universal call to holiness. It means to give rise to a new way of ordering things.  A new way born of love for God and love for neighbor.But this never happens overnight. It starts in small ways, when people begin living according to the Lord's teachings. “And then, in God's time, this new community begins to have a leavening effect on the wider society,” says Bishop Barron.Today is also the day before Ash Wednesday, called Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday, and it is a traditional feast honoring the Holy Face of Jesus.Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• February 17, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Our modern society, ideologies, and man-made religions try to convince us that all of life is all about us, our interests, views, and personal agendas. The vast majority of people believe that.But that's a lie promoted by the Master of Lies. The reality is that each and every one of us is part of God's great design. Your life is not about you, and you are not in control.Our problem is that our faith is very insufficient. We trust the Creator with limitation.In today's reading (Mark 8:11–13), the Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign from heaven. They test the Lord because they have no faith or trust in him.“Faith is openness to what God will reveal, do, and invite. It should be obvious that in dealing with the infinite, all-powerful God, we are never in control. This is why we say that faith goes beyond reason,” writes Bishop Barron.By definition, we are not dealing with a person.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 16, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today's Gospel features Christ the Lord as the new Moses (Matthew 5:17–37). Jesus went to the mountain and sat to teach. Moses received the law on the mountain, but the Son of God is giving it to us, revealing that He has authority even over the Torah.Christ came not only to fulfill the law but to intensify and perfect it. For example, it does not mean that we have to eliminate only cruel and hateful actions. But we have to go deeper, eliminating cruel and hateful thoughts and attitudes as well.Thoughts, in this context, are as important as actions. In Christianity, it's key what we hold in our hearts.An old saying states that we are what we hold in our hearts, and the rest is just pure appearance.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 15, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Alongside Saints Cyril (827-869) and St Methodius (826-885), we honor today St. Valentine, Bishop and Martyr of Rome (died c. 269), a blessed Catholic priest beheaded.Valentine, along with St. Marius, aided the Christian martyrs during the Claudian persecution.Claudius Caesar, the Emperor, issued a decree forbidding young men from marrying to increase the size of his army. He believed that single men made better soldiers than married men.A young priest named Valentine defied this decree and urged young lovers to come to him in secret so that he could join them in the sacrament of matrimony.Claudius arrested and brought before him, attempting to convert him to Roman paganism rather than execute him. But Valentine tried to convert Claudius to Christianity, at which point the Emperor condemned him to death.While in prison, Valentine converted his jailer, Asterius, and his blind daughter, miraculously restoring her sight.The night before his execution, the priest wrote a farewell message to the girl and signed it affectionately "From Your Valentine," a phrase that lives on even to today.After performing many miraculous cures and giving much wise counsel he was beaten and beheaded under Claudius Caesar on February 14th, 273 AD in Rome.The church in which he is buried was already the first sanctuary Roman pilgrims visited upon entering the Eternal City.Today, St. Valentine's Day is a universal symbol of friendship and affection shared each anniversary of the priest's execution. Valentine has also become the patron of engaged and affianced couples.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 14, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,In today's Gospel (Mark 7:31-37), Jesus heals a deaf man with a speech impediment in the district of the Decapolis as people begged him to lay his hand on him.Looking up to his Father and inserting his fingers into the man's ears, Jesus plugs him into the divine energy, compelling him to hear the Word.Mark described it to us this way,“He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man's earsand, spitting, touched his tongue;then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him,“Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”).”“And immediately the man's ears were opened,his speech impediment was removed,and he spoke plainly.”People, astonished, deaf to God's word, said:“He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 13, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Life on earth is short, and the demands of our Christian life are very challenging, but we know that if we live up to them, we are other Christs.Every Christian is the salt of the earth and the light of the world.  We are continuing his work of salvation during his years on earth by cultivating our own small corner of his vineyard.The parents who teach their children the Christian way of life by word and example are spreading the Christian faith. The workmen who show that they are Christians by their honesty are spreading their Christian faith.We are continuing his great work by our own good example to our neighbor, and we are giving glory to God, and are earning for ourselves the eternal light of heaven.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 12, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, the faithful recall the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, which began on 11 February 1858.Mary appeared to a 14-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubirous, 18 times near a grotto along the banks of the Gave River in France.In the first apparition, fearing she was hallucinating and not knowing what to do, Bernadette Soubirous took her rosary out of her pocket and began to recite it, and the Virgin joined her in prayer.On 25 March, the Virgin revealed that she was the Immaculate Conception. This dogma of faith had been promulgated by Pope Pius IX on 8 December 1854.Lourdes is famous for its apparitions, especially for the message of hope it offers to all who suffer in body and spirit.Ever since the apparitions, Lourdes has been known as a place that welcomes all who are physically or spiritually ill and who, through the intercession of the Immaculate Conception, seek to rediscover peace, health, and serenity. Millions visit this Catholic pilgrimage annually.Seventy healings have been recognized by an autonomous group of physicians, along with many conversions.Still today, the Virgin Mary is the one who continues to intercede for her children, particularly for those who are weak, those who are physically and spiritually ill.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 11, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, February 10, is the Memorial of St. Scholastica (480-547), the twin sister of St. Benedict, the patriarch of Western monasticism.Inspired by Benedict's teaching, this 6th-century Italian virgin and nun founded the female branch of the Benedictine order. She established a convent near Monte Cassino, where she followed the Benedictine rule of prayer and work.Scholastica devoted her whole life from early youth to seeking and serving God.Tradition holds that at her death, her soul ascended to heaven in the form of a dove.Also, a miracle is attributed to her. According to Pope St. Gregory the Great, when Benedict refused to stay past their annual visit, Scholastica prayed, causing a severe thunderstorm that forced him to stay, demonstrating that her love for God allowed her to prevail.She is often depicted holding a dove or a book of rules, symbolizing her pure soul and role as a founder.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 10, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,In today's Gospel, Mark the Evangelist (Mark 6:53-56) reports Jesus healing many people at Gennesaret.We hear that people brought the sick on mats from all over the region, and all of them were cured."Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed."These miracles of Jesus were not spiritual or literary symbols.Like the first Christians, today we see these miracles for what they really were: actions of God breaking into our world.It was, and it is real healing, like the miracles attributed to the saints. Heaven is always helping us complete our mission as humans!Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 9, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,In today's Gospel of Matthew (Matt 5:13-16), Christ himself calls his disciples to be the “salt of the earth” and the “light of the world.”Christ Jesus was and is the light of the world and the salt of the earth. Now, after the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mountain, he is putting his true followers on almost a level with himself.The Son of God gave us the knowledge of the true nature of God, as shown by the Incarnation. He gave this life its flavor, its meaning, and its preservation.By defeating sin and dying on the cross, forgiving our pride and ignorance, he took away the sting of death and removed its eternal corruption by promising and guaranteeing us a resurrection to eternal life.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 8, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, the Catholic Church honors Blessed Pius IX, who reigned as pope from 1846 to 1878.He defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on December 8, 1854, and celebrated the First Vatican Council in 1869.He was a saint who knew how to admirably unite the active and the contemplative life. He was ready for pastoral needs, but always interiorly recollected, with strong Eucharistic and Marian devotion and fidelity to daily meditation and the examination of conscience.Blessed Pius IX was recognized as assiduous in prayer, in the ministry of the Word, in the celebration of the liturgy, in the confessional, and above all in his daily ministry at the service of the humblest and neediest.February 7-14 marks National Marriage Week.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• February 7, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today's Gospel (Mark 6:14–29) accounts for Herod's murder of John the Baptist.John is a proto-martyr, anticipating the martyrdom of many Christians.Today, February 6, we are celebrating another martyr who refused to compromise their beliefs. Saint Paul Miki and Companions.In the 16th and 17th centuries, the first to give witness, thousands of Christians in Japan suffered martyrdom.On February 5, 1597, Japanese Jesuit Paul Miki and his companions, including sixteen Japanese laymen, four of whom were boys, gave their lives for Christ.The Shogun Hideyoshi feared that these missionaries represented the vanguard of an impending European conquest.He decided to sacrifice them.He had the ears of the missionaries cut and ordered them to march four hundred miles from Miyako to Nagasaki, with blood streaming down their faces as a sign of their disgrace.In Nagasaki, each was bound to a cross and killed with a lance.The Japanese martyrs were canonized in 1862.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 6, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,The Catholic Church celebrates today, February 5th, the Memorial of St. Agatha (d. 250), a virgin and martyr who died in defense of her purity, in Catania, Sicily, after the governor of that region tried in vain to force her to consent to sin.Her name appears in the Roman Canon of the Mass, along with six more women martyrs: Saints Felicity, Perpetual, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia, and Anastasia.When asked about her faith, she said: "I am a handmaid of Christ, and that is why I bear the outward appearance of a slave; yet this is the highest nobility, to be a slave to Christ."The governor threatened her with the most dreadful tortures if she did not renounce Christ.Agatha countered: "If you threaten me with wild beasts, know that at the Name of Christ they grow tame; if you use fire, from heaven angels will drop healing dew on me.""If you do not cause my body to be torn to pieces by the hangmen, my soul cannot enter the Lord's paradise with the martyrs.”She was burned with red-hot irons and despoiled of her breasts.In the night in prison, the apostle Peter appeared to her with healing remedies."I am the apostle of Christ; distrust me not, my daughter." Agatha replied: "I have never used earthly medicines on my body. I cling to the Lord Jesus Christ, who renews all things by His word."She was miraculously healed by St. Peter: "Father of my Lord Jesus Christ, I give you praise because by Your apostle You have restored my breasts."Throughout the night, a light illumined the dungeon. When the guards fled in terror, her fellow prisoners urged her to escape, but she refused: "Having received help from the Lord, I will persevere in confessing Him who healed me and comforted me."Four days later, by order of the governor, Agatha was rolled over pieces of sharp glass and burning coals. At that moment, the whole city was rocked by a violent earthquake.Two walls collapsed, burying two of the governor's friends in the debris. Fearing a popular uprising, he ordered Agatha, half dead, to be returned to prison.Here she offered her dying prayer: "Blessed Agatha stood in the midst of the prison and with outstretched arms prayed to the Lord: O Lord Jesus Christ, good Master, I give You thanks that You granted me victory over the executioners' tortures. Grant now that I may happily dwell in Your never-ending glory." Thereupon, she died.A year after her death, the city of Catania was in great peril from an eruption on Mount Etna.Even pagans fled in terror to the saint's grave. Her veil was taken and held against the onrushing flames, and suddenly the danger ceased. Her grave is venerated in Catania, Sicily.[In the picture above: Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison, painting of Alessandro Turchi in The Walters Art Museum]Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 5, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,The month of February is dedicated to the Holy Family.This devotion proposes the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as the model of Christian family life, emphasizing love, obedience, unity, and faith.In the words of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, "Nothing truly can be more salutary or efficacious for Christian families to meditate upon than the example of this Holy Family, which embraces the perfection and completeness of all domestic virtues."The Holy Family models for us what family life should exemplify. It is a school of virtue for both parents and children. There we find God, and learn how to connect with God and with others.The family is where love is freely given without self-interest. It is where we learn to love, to pray, and to practice the gift of charity.Pope John Paul II has said, “The family, more than any other human reality, is the place in which the person is loved for himself and in which he learns to live the sincere gift of self” (Nov. 27, 2002).Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 4, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, February 3rd, the Universal Church offers two saints, Blaise and Ansgar, for separate celebration as an Optional Memorial. To St. Blaise (or Blaise) (d. 320), many cures are attributed. From the eighth century, he has been invoked on behalf of the sick, especially those afflicted with illnesses of the throat. St. Blaise was a physician and Bishop of Sebaste, Armenia, and was martyred under Licinius. St. Blaise is included in the list of Fourteen Holy Helpers.On this day, the Church celebrates a "Blessing of the Throats" in honor of St. Blaise. St. Ansgar (801-865) became known as the "Apostle of the North" for his great evangelical work in Denmark and Sweden. He was Bishop of Hamburg, Germany, and then of Bremen, Germany. Known for his great preaching, working miracles, and being greatly devoted to the poor and sick.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• ⁠February 3, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,Today, February 2, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.This celebration, which takes place forty days after the birth of Jesus, is also known as Candlemas Day, since the blessing and procession of candles are included in the Mass.Christ is the light of the nations, hence the blessing and procession of candles on this day.Jesus' presentation signifies God's entrance to His temple. Soon after the Baptists' birth, God made man enter His temple, presenting Himself to those who were truly seeking Him.Attached to “Candlemas Day”, we also celebrate the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life, founded by Pope St. John Paul II in 1997. That's because the consecrated men and women are to be the light in the world, imitating Jesus, the Light of the World.On this day, the Church expresses its gratitude to all in the community who dedicate themselves in a special way to prayer, and to those with a particular religious vocation to the contemplative life.In the figures of Simeon and Anna, Jesus' presentation in the temple reminds us that prayer and contemplation are well-spent time. Only those who pray and offer penance, like Simeon and Anna, are open to the breath of the Spirit.This feast of the Presentation has a strong Marian dimension:On one hand, Simeon's prophecy emphasizes Mary's sufferings. Pope John Paul II taught that, “Simeon's words seem like a second Annunciation to Mary.”In the previous Liturgical Calendar, it was called the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. indicating the renewal of her total offering to God for the accomplishment of His Divine Plan.On February 2nd, a secular tradition unfolds: Groundhog Day, well known to schoolchildren and adults alike. The fate of Spring hangs in the balance as a burrowing animal looks for its shadow.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play