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4-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)

“Coming through the locked doors of the upper room where his disciples were gathered on the evening of Easter Sunday, Jesus says, Peace be with you. The apostles were weighed down with the shame of abandoning him in his Passion and death. Yet as Jesus said these words, he pointed to his wounds, now radiant with

4-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)

“In spite of the fact that our planet is constantly being studded with fresh tombs, becoming more and more a burial ground in which man who emerged from dust returns to dust, nonetheless all who look to the tomb of Jesus Christ live in resurrection hope.”   –Saint John Paul II (+ 2005)   Intention:   Lord,

4-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)

“Love, affective union, can take a double form. It is desire as long as the union with the beloved person is not realized; it becomes joy and fruition as soon as it is realized in some manner. This is why the spiritual life here below alternates between the search for Christ, the Beloved—desired above all

4-22-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)

“In a third garden our Lord continues his work—by rising from the dead. How fitting that his tomb should be in a garden—to complete the restoration of God’s original plan. Indeed, when she first sees him, Mary Magdalene takes our Lord to be the gardener…. He rises as the divine Gardener, to restore order, beauty,

4-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)

“God does not live in a distant castle, nor does he hide himself behind impenetrable anterooms. The door is open; it is called Jesus Christ. The celebration of Easter is intended to show us the radiant light that streams from this door.”  –Pope Benedict XVI (+ 2022)   Intention:   Lord, please give us a society

4-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)

“O when Risen Love has given himself again to the beloved Magdalen, may he not refuse to let us become sharers in her joy. Happy are we if the brightness of his Resurrection shines upon our hearts: if, the leaven of malice and wickedness being purged away, we may eat with holy eagerness the unleavened

4-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)

“In that desolate garden of Gethsemane, Love who is God bends and takes from his beloved first the immense weight of original sin, then all sins, all the darkness that the soul has walked in, all its endless searchings, its shed and unshed tears, and—O miracle of love!—covers his own incomprehensible sinlessness, his white immaculateness,

4-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)

“Whenever the heart, by God’s grace in the soul, emerges out of turmoil into God’s victory and God is glorified, the person too is glorified. One has new strength to give new assents, and one also has a new understanding of the great fruit that comes out of dying…. We can never make any effort

4-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)

“Saint Paul tells us that our battles are with principalities and powers…. This means struggles of the heart, struggles with pride, struggles with vanity, all of these struggles with the things that belong to the fallen angels—pride, disobedience, non serviam: “I won’t do it.” The Father adds to his glory by our bearing much fruit in