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- [6-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/22/6-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - We are called to follow in Jesus' footsteps by becoming transfigured to becoming more like Him, treating those with whom we have relationships with patience and love, and reaching out to others who are on the "fringes" with love also. As we receive a foretaste of the Heavenly Banquet in communion, we ask Jesus to
- [6-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/21/6-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Jesus and the Blessed Mother are alive in Heaven helping us, and the Holy Spirit flows through us as we resist the evil here in this world. We have Heaven to look forward to also, someday! Intention: I have my trust and confidence You, my Almighty God. You are my source. Wednesday: He
- [6-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/20/6-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Jesus is the Suffering Servant Who is a Heavenly King, not an earthly king. He teaches us about the ultimate importance in life of self-sacrificial love. In the process, we learn about God's love which redeems and saves us, and makes benefit come out of our sufferings, in the end. Intention: Thank You God that
- [6-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/19/6-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His mighty power! I thank You God ahead of time for this! Monday: Nothing Impossible for God 1st Joyful Mystery: The
- [6-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/18/6-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Please make of us a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the rest of the world, and inspires the world to become more just, kind, peaceful, free, and resistant of Communism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Sunday: Changed the World 1st Glorious Mystery: The
- [6-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/17/6-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: Please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for freedom of religion, the right for freedom of assembly, the right to bear arms, and having a country with firm borders. Saturday: Yes, to the Angel 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Let your “Yes” mean
- [6-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/16/6-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Please give us a society that becomes more religious again, and has a revival. I thank You God for the revival that is already started. Friday: Restoration of Human Race 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: His betrayer had arranged a sign with them, saying, “The man I shall kiss
- [6-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/15/6-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Thursday: Be a Lamp 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none
- [6-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/14/6-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Wednesday: Sea of Love 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race.
- [6-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/13/6-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Tuesday: Use My Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep
- [6-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/12/6-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Please help us to resist communism. I thank You God ahead of time for this Monday: Vocations to Religious Life 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining. As each one
- [6-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/11/6-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Please bless America with a moral, law-abiding, and God-honoring citizenry, so that we are worthy of self-governance. Sunday: Deliver Me 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. —Matthew 28:1 Reflection: Jesus
- [6-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/10/6-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: Bless all world leaders with wisdom, honesty, guidance from the Lord, compassion for all people. Help them to value human rights: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom to bear arms, firm borders, freedom from spying of the government. Saturday: Completed the Father’s Will 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture:
- [6-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/09/6-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all my friends and relatives and the people who dislike me with good health, financial stability and uplifting relationships with their friends and family. Please bless them with peace, love, joy, happiness and harmony, and please, when their time comes, give them each a peaceful,
- [Mysteries to Meditate on for the Rosary of Today (Monday, July 20, 2026)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2026/07/20/mysteries-to-meditate-on-for-the-rosary-of-today-monday-july-20-2026/) - As you pray your Rosary, read each section prior to praying your decade of Hail Marys: Monday: Humility 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of
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- [11-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/26/11-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. --1 Timothy 2:1-2 Intention: Lord, may all Americans recognize the blessing they have been given being born in America,
- [11-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/25/11-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - For his anger lasts only a moment,/ but his favor lasts a lifetime;/ weeping may stay for the night,/ but rejoicing comes in the morning. --Psalm 30:5 Intention: Lord, send favor now! Tuesday: Accepting Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: When he rose from prayer and returned to his disciples, he
- [11-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/21/11-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - [Jesus said,] "For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many." --Mark 10:45 Intention: Please give us true humility, Lord. Friday: Offering Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He advanced a little and fell prostrate in
- [Correct response to the 6 Democrats' video encouraging insurrection (inferentially)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/21/correct-response-to-the-6-democrats-video-encouraging-insurrection-inferentially/) - GROK's Advice to how to respond best to the video: Yes — a proactive, disciplined public-relations and communications strategy is effectively the **only realistic and effective countermeasure** available to President Trump, the incoming administration, and the uniformed military leadership right now. Here’s why that’s the case and what such a campaign would likely look like:
- [11-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/20/11-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;/ establish the work of our hands for us—/ yes, establish the work of our hands. -- 90:17 Intention: I pray for Your help, Lord, today in carrying out the work that You have given me to do. Thursday: Christ’s Mind 1st Luminous
- [11-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/19/11-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - He gives power to the faint,/ abundant strength to the weak. --Isaiah 40:29 Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Wednesday: I am Your Sheep 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” which
- [11-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/18/11-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. --Deuteronomy 8:10 Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Tuesday: Invoke the Blood of Jesus 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He was in
- [11-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/17/11-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. --John 10:10 Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when I allow Jesus to step in and be a part of it! Monday:
- [11-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/16/11-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion;/ he will turn
- [11-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/15/11-15-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. --Philippians 4:6-7 Intention: Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise.
- [11-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/13/11-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? --Hebrews 1:14 Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me. Thursday: Protection From Evil 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: After Jesus was
- [11-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/12/11-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper. --Jeremiah 29:7 Intention: Lord, I call in healing and righteousness for America. In Jesus' name, Amen. Wednesday: Emanate the Kindness 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection
- [11-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/11/11-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - For to us a child is born,/ to us a son is given,/ and the government will be on his shoulders./ And he will be called/ Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,/ Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace./ Of the greatness of his government and peace/ there will be no end./ He will reign on David’s throne/ and
- [11-10-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/10/11-10-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? --Matthew 16:26 Intention: Lord, please make of America a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the rest of the world, and inspires the
- [11-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/09/11-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;/ love and faithfulness go before you. --Psalm 89:14 Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections. Sunday: Follow in His Footsteps 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved,
- [11-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/08/11-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. --2 Corinthians 3:17 Intention: Lord, please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for freedom of religion, the right for freedom of assembly, the right to bear arms, and
- [11-6-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/06/11-6-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Will you not revive us again,/ that your people may rejoice in you? --Psalm 85:6 Intention: Lord, please give us a society that becomes more religious again, and has a Christian revival. I thank You God for the revival that is already started. Thursday: Sanctified Waters 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus
- [11-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/05/11-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - If a ruler listens to lies,/ all his officials become wicked. --Proverbs 29:12 Intention: Lord, please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Wednesday: Labor in Heaven 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: He
- [11-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/04/11-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - For the Lord is our judge,/ the Lord is our lawgiver,/ the Lord is our king;/ it is he who will save us. --Isaiah 33:22 Intention: Lord, please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Tuesday: Took on our Sins 1st
- [11-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/03/11-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong—that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith. --Romans 1:11-12 Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly. I thank You
- [11-2-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/02/11-2-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. --Revelation 14:6 Intention: Lord, please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Sunday: Eternal Life
- [11-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/11/01/11-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - He has shown you, O mortal, what is good./ And what does the Lord require of you?/ To act justly and to love mercy/ and to walk humbly with your God. --Micah 6:8 Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a moral, law-abiding, and God-honoring society, so that we are worthy of self-governance. Saturday: Jesus’s
- [10-31-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/31/10-31-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Therefore, he had this expiatory sacrifice offered for the dead so that they might be delivered from their sin. --2 Maccabees 12:46 Intention: Heavenly Father, please bless all my loved ones on the other side with love and joy, and may they rest in peace, and come into heaven to be with You forever
- [10-30-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/30/10-30-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. --Acts 20:24 Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all my friends and relatives
- [10-28-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/28/10-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. --Galatians 5:13 Intention: May all Americans recognize the blessing they have been given, being born in America, and devote themselves to helping the other nations. Tuesday:
- [10-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditation for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/27/10-27-25-rosary-mystery-meditation-for-today-monday/) - Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found;/ surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them. --Psalm 32:6 Intention: No weapon formed against us will prosper. Monday: Humility 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God
- [10-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/26/10-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble." --James 4:6 Intention: Please give us true humility, Lord. Sunday: Help My Unbelief 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: His disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although
- [10-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/25/10-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. --Jeremiah 33:3 Intention: I pray for Your help, Lord, today in carrying out the work that You have given me to do. Saturday: Angels Minister to Me 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: God
- [10-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/24/10-24-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid? --Psalm 27:1 Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Friday: Heroism Over Horror 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: When
- [10-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/23/10-23-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. --Exodus 18:21 Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Thursday: Waters of Rebirth 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in
- [10-22-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/22/10-22-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. --Romans 15:13 Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when I allow Jesus to step in and
- [10-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/21/10-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - The Lord will keep you from all harm—/ he will watch over your life;/ the Lord will watch over your coming and going/ both now and forevermore. --Psalm 121:7-8 Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians in the world, and keep them safe. God bless Jerusalem, and all of Israel! I pray for
- [10-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/20/10-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - In all their affliction he [The Lord] was afflicted,/ and the angel of his presence saved them;/ in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;/ he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. --Isaiah 63:9 Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and
- [10-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/19/10-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. --Philippians 4:6-7 Intention: Lord, I praise You that You’re greater than any trouble I
- [10-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/18/10-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” --Revelation 21:5 Intention: Lord, I call in healing and righteousness for America. Amen. Saturday: Anger and Bitterness 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Do you not know
- [10-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/17/10-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - So do not fear, for I am with you;/ do not be dismayed, for I am your God./ I will strengthen you and help you;/ I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. --Isaiah 41:10 Intention: I have my trust and confidence in Almighty God. He is my source. Friday: Your Will
- [10-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/16/10-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. --Colossians 3:23 Intention: Lord, thank You for enabling me to do what You have called me to do. Thursday: Baptism 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: I prayed to
- [10-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/15/10-15-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. --Isaiah 26:3 Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His
- [10-14-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/14/10-14-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. -- Philippians 2:14-15 Intention: Dear Lord, please make of America a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill
- [10-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/13/10-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. --Titus 1:7-8 Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections. Thank You! Sunday: My
- [10-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/12/10-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He did what was right and just, so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know
- [10-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/11/10-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Restore us, LORD God Almighty; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved. --Psalm 80:19 Intention: Lord, please give us a society that becomes more religious again, and has a Christian revival. I thank You God for the revival that is already started. Saturday: Redeemed 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation
- [10-10-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/10/10-10-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for
- [10-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/09/10-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. --1 Timothy 2:1-2 Intention: Lord, please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to
- [10-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/08/10-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. --2 Chronicles 7:14 Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and
- [10-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/05/10-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they
- [10-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/04/10-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as
- [10-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/03/10-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. --John 14:2-3 Intention: Dear Lord, please bless all my
- [10-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/10/01/10-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope, comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word. --2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all my friends and relatives with
- [9-30-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/30/9-30-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - “His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'” – Matthew 25:21 Intention: I pray for Your help, today Lord, in carrying out the work that You have given me to do.
- [9-29-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/29/9-29-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - The Lord is my strength and shield./ I trust him with all my heart./ He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy./ I burst out in songs of thanksgiving. --Psalm 28:7 Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Monday: Godly Values and Virtues 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation
- [9-28-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/28/9-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,/ the people he chose for his inheritance. --Psalm 33:12 Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Sunday: Belief in Resurrection 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to
- [9-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/27/9-27-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. --Romans 15:13 Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when I allow Jesus to step in and
- [9-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/26/9-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:/ “May they prosper who love you./ Peace be within your walls,/ Prosperity within your palaces.”/ For the sake of my brethren and companions,/ I will now say, “Peace be within you.”/ Because of the house of the Lord our God/ I will seek your good. --Psalm 122:6-9 Intention: Lord, please
- [9-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/25/9-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus. –Philippians 4:19 Intention: Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise. Thursday: Renewal of Baptismal Promises 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus
- [9-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/24/9-24-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place—/ the Most High, who is my refuge—/ no evil shall be allowed to befall you,/ no plague come near your tent./ For he will command his angels concerning you/ to guard you in all your ways./ On their hands they will bear you up,/ lest you strike
- [9-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/23/9-23-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Above all, you must live as citizens of heaven, conducting yourselves in a manner worthy of the Good News about Christ. Then, whether I come and see you again or only hear about you, I will know that you are standing together with one spirit and one purpose, fighting together for the faith, which is
- [9-22-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/22/9-22-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. --2 Chronicles 7:14 Intention: Dear Lord, I call in healing and righteousness for America. Amen. Monday: Yes,
- [9-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/21/9-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Trust in the Lord with all your heart,/ and do not rely on your own insight./ In all your ways acknowledge him,/ and he will make straight your paths. --Proverbs 3:5-6 Intention: I have my trust and confidence in Almighty God. He is my source. Sunday: New Life of Glory 1st Glorious Mystery: The
- [9-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/20/9-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - May the favor of the Lord our God be ours./ Prosper the work of our hands!/ Prosper the work of our hands! --Psalm 90:17 Intention: Lord, thank You for enabling me to do what You have called me to do. Saturday: Trust the Lord’s Call 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: I wait
- [9-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/19/9-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all people. --Romans 12:18 Intention: Lord, please bless us with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His mighty power! I
- [9-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/18/9-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see
- [9-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/17/9-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - The fear of the Lord is a strong defense,/ a refuge even for one’s children. --Proverbs 14:26 Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections. Wednesday: He is Alive 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples
- [9-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/16/9-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,/ for the rights of all who are destitute./ Speak up and judge fairly;/ defend the rights of the poor and needy. --Proverbs 31:8-9 Intention: Lord, please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for freedom of religion,
- [9-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/15/9-15-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. --2 Chronicles 7:14 Intention: Lord, please give us a society that becomes more
- [9-14-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/14/9-14-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice:/ but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. --Proverbs 29:2 Intention: Lord, please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Sunday: Changed the World 1st Glorious Mystery:
- [9-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/13/9-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Happy are all who fear the Lord,/ who walk in the ways of God./ What your hands provide you will enjoy;/ you will be happy and prosper. --Psalm 128:2. Intention: Please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. I thank You God ahead of time for this.
- [9-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/12/9-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, LORD, do I seek.” --Psalm 27:8 Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Friday: Restoration of Human Race 1st Sorrowful Mystery:
- [9-10-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/10/9-10-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. --James 4:7 Intention: Lord, please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Wednesday: Sea of Love 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: I heard a loud voice
- [9-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/09/9-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Make no mistake: God is not mocked, for a person will reap only what he sows. --𝙶𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝟼:𝟽 Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a moral, law-abiding, and God-honoring society, so that we are worthy of self-governance. Tuesday: Use My Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Then
- [9-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/08/9-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - The treasure and wealth of the nations will be brought there, but nothing unclean will enter it, nor any[one] who does abominable things or tells lies. Only those will enter whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. –Revelation 21:26-27 Intention: Lord, please bless all my loved ones on the other side
- [9-7-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/07/9-7-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - The Lord bless you and keep you;/ the Lord make his face shine on you/ and be gracious to you;/ the Lord turn his face toward you/ and give you peace. --Numbers 6: 24-26 Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all my friends and relatives with good health, financial stability and uplifting
- [9-6-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/06/9-6-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - God is our refuge and our strength,/ an ever-present help in distress. –Psalm 46:2 Intention: I’m expecting that no weapon formed against me will prosper. Saturday: Completed the Father’s Will 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: You guide me along the right path/ for the sake of your name. —Psalm 23:3 Reflection:
- [9-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/05/9-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,/ then we thought we were dreaming./ Our mouths were filled with laughter;/ our tongues sang for joy./ Then it was said among the nations,/ “The Lord has done great things for them.”/ The Lord had done great things for us;/ Oh, how happy we were!/ Restore again
- [9-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/04/9-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐝. 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐦. --𝐈𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐚𝐡 𝟑𝟎:𝟏𝟖 Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Amen. Thursday: The Strong Man 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism
- [9-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/03/9-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - You set a table before me/ as my enemies watch;/ You anoint my head with oil;/ my cup overflows. --𝙿𝚜𝚊𝚕𝚖 𝟸𝟹:𝟻 Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Wednesday: New Kind of Existence 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: And behold, Jesus met them [the
- [9-2-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/02/9-2-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Happy those who do not follow/ the counsel of the wicked,/ Nor go the way of sinners,/ nor sit in company with scoffers./ Rather, the law of the Lord is their joy;/ God’s law they study day and night. –Psalm 1: 1-2 Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be
- [9-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/09/01/9-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name. --1 Kings 11:36 Intention: God bless Jerusalem, and all of Israel! I pray for peace for Jerusalem! Monday: Kingdom
- [8-31-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/31/8-31-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you. --Genesis 12:3 NLT Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians in the world, and keep them safe. Sunday: Jesus’s Peace 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture:
- [8-30-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/30/8-30-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - I am leaving you with a gift – peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid. –John 14:27 NLT Intention: Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise. Saturday: God’s Call 1st Joyful Mystery:
- [8-29-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/29/8-29-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - God will rescue you from the fowler’s snare,/ from the destroying plague./ Will shelter you with pinions,/ spread wings that you may take refuge;/ God’s faithfulness is a protecting shield. –Psalm 91: 3-4 Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me.
- [8-28-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/28/8-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. –Matthew 6:33 Intention: Lord, I praise You, that You’re greater than any trouble I might encounter in life; You are bigger than any problem I could possibly have. Jesus, I trust in You! Thursday:
- [8-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/27/8-27-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - For a sun and shield is the Lord God,/ bestowing all grace and glory./ The Lord withholds no good thing/ from those who walk without reproach. –Psalm 84:12 Intention: Lord, I call in healing and righteousness for America! Wednesday: Restores Us to New Life 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture:
- [8-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/26/8-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Trust in and rely confidently on the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know and acknowledge and recognize Him, and He will make your paths straight and smooth (removing obstacles that block your way). –Proverb 3:5-6 Intention: I have my
- [8-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/25/8-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. --Philippians 1:6 Intention: Lord, thank You for enabling me to do what You have called me to do. Monday: Mary’s Leading 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture:
- [8-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/24/8-24-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - For you, Lord, bless the just; you surround them with favor like a shield. --Psalm 5:12 (or Psalm 5:13) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His
- [8-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/23/8-23-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "That which we call “the cross” in Christian terminology is the physical and moral sufferings of daily life which arise from our relationship to the exterior world and to those around us. They are especially those sent to us directly by God in order to purify us and save souls. Like the cross imposed on
- [8-22-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/22/8-22-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "It is now for us to pay our respects to this great Queen and, seeing her so close to her Son, to pray her to ­assist us by her all-powerful intercession. O holy, blessed Mary, because you are with Jesus, enjoying a holy and blessed familiarity with him, speak for us to his heart. Speak,
- [8-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/21/8-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - " What good do we do [that is not done] also by [the Father]? It is God at work in you, both to will and to work his good pleasure (Phil 2:13). He, then, provides our works with their origin and their reward; he is himself our whole reward…" --Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (+ 1153)
- [8-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/20/8-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "In choosing a mother, [Our Lord] might have chosen one of high rank, a queen, a princess, or a titled lady. Instead he chose a woman from the lowest rank, from among the poor who earn their livelihood by manual labor. He chose a virgin who esteemed herself as the least of all his creatures.
- [8-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/19/8-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The splendor of truth shines forth in all the works of the Creator and, in a special way, in man, created in the image and likeness of God. Truth enlightens man’s intelligence and shapes his freedom, leading him to know and love the Lord. Hence the Psalmist prays: Let the light of your face shine on
- [8-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/18/8-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Who will help me to make all souls understand the power and excellence of love and how rich is the soul simply by being able to love? If all would appreciate this treasure, there would not be poverty or pain on this earth, because love would change everything into heaven." --Venerable Mary Magdalen of Jesus
- [8-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/17/8-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "[God] seems to support me and assure the good results of everything that I do, so that nothing will be ­ineffective but everything will contribute to the increase of his love in souls. But I ask ever more, namely, that whatever I do should always continue to do good, to produce love, until the end
- [8-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/16/8-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Whatever belongs to the Son belongs to the Mother by relation and sympathy. The sword that pierced Christ’s heart went also through the heart of his Mother, and she suffered even as he did…. She knew his heart’s love for [sinners], she could see his heart: and she knew he was offering up the sacrifice
- [8-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/12/8-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "This may be a wicked age but your lives should ­redeem it (Eph 5:16). The word 'redeem' means to rescue, set free, ransom, and to pay the penalty incurred by another. We often lose sight of the definition to 'set free,' and we miss the power of our example as Christians to do exactly that—set
- [8-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/11/8-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "We are born to be a living offering, to die with Christ, and then to share in his glory. We should look forward to the day of our meeting with him as a bride looks forward to her bridegroom. That hour comes for everyone and, what is more, it comes like a thief, at a
- [8-10-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/10/8-10-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Today we live again in a time that urgently needs to be renewed at the hidden springs of God-fearing souls. Many people, too, place their last hope in these hidden springs of salvation. This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so
- [8-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/09/8-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The same Father has adopted us and…wants that utter loving submission of the children to the Father who has adopted them into his own family, which alone transforms acceptance of his will into worship." --Father Bonaventure Perquin, O.P. (+ 1970) Intention: I’m expecting that no weapon formed against me will prosper. Saturday: Accompany Me
- [8-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/08/8-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We cannot measure the joy we shall receive by the suffering we have now; there is no proportion between the two: eye has not seen nor ear heard the welcome the Father gives to the children who love him. Like the Son, the adopted children suffer in order to enter into their glory…." --Father Bonaventure
- [8-7-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/07/8-7-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - " The sufferings of Christ, which move us to our very marrow, and his love, in which he pours out his blood for us, intoxicating our heart and causing us to pray, 'Blood of Christ, inebriate me,' must not allow us to forget that the eternal goal is not participation in the cross but, rather,
- [8-6-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/06/8-6-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Hand in hand with our transformation in Christ goes a continuous growing awareness of God’s gifts…. Everything is evermore seen to be an unmerited gift; everything is perceived as a reason for unlimited gratitude toward God, and the urge to thank him expressly for everything becomes stronger and stronger." -- Dietrich von Hildebrand (+ 1977)
- [8-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/05/8-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Therefore, since so many evils result from ingratitude, and so many good things from thanksgiving, the Church invites us to give thanks, saying daily [in the Preface at Mass]: 'It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father.'" --Blessed Humbert of Romans (+
- [8-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/04/8-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The cross is folly to the world. But for you it becomes wisdom and life…. Yes, the cross will be a balm for ­every wound, a sedative for every pain, support for every weakness, comfort in every trouble, illumination for every doubt, light in every darkness." --Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini (+ 1905) Intention: Father,
- [8-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/03/8-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "It is true that in this life even the saints have to submit to pains and crosses, for this earth is a place of merit and it is impossible to gain merit without suffering. But, as Saint Bonaventure says, divine love is like honey and makes even the most bitter things sweet and pleasant. Those
- [8-2-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/02/8-2-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "If you fall under the stress of temptation, rise promptly, ask God’s pardon, hope in him in spite of your fall…. Do you not know that your heavenly Father knows your needs and is all-powerful to provide for them? What do you fear in God’s judgments? They are always favorable to souls of good will."
- [8-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/08/01/8-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Since I have been ill I have learned that we cling to ourselves with many imperceptible threads, and if God did not free us from them we should never do so ourselves: we do not even see them. Illness was a thing absolutely necessary for me; without it I do not know what I should
- [7-31-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/31/7-31-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Submission to God’s will frees us from all other yokes. Because as God wills everything that happens to us, and as we will all that God wills, nothing can happen except what we will. Nobody can oblige me to do what I do not want to do because I desire to do all that God
- [7-30-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/30/7-30-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "I am resigned to sanctify myself in the way and by the means God wants me to sanctify myself: without any sensible sweetness if he so wills…. I submit with all my heart and all the more willingly because I know it is the surest way, the way least subject to illusion and the shortest
- [7-29-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/29/7-29-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Let your conscience be your wallet, let your life be your bread, in order that the true bread in your life can be Christ, who said: I am the bread. Regard your heavenly reward as your salary. For, if in order to follow Christ a man has dispossessed himself of everything and faithfully scorned and despised
- [7-28-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/28/7-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "O man, give up your resources! Divine poverty is enough for you. Put off the packs of your riches; a burdened man cannot make his way along the narrow road all the way to the work of the Lord’s harvest. Come unencumbered, come free to the tasks, before you get stripped and robbed…. For, as
- [7-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/27/7-27-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "[God] granted you existence when you were not. Whatever you have, he gave to you. When you were living for yourself and your own pleasures, he did not refuse the necessities of food. Do you think that he will not give bread or clothing to one applying himself to his virtues and tasks? Who gave
- [7-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/26/7-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "This is what Jesus is like with those who love him. He does not grant the first prayer; he permits a greater trial. And we become distressed: 'I have prayed, and I have not been heard. All is lost; all is finished. God does not listen to me. He does not love me.' Because God
- [7-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/25/7-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We are seeking in our prayers that God might be attentive to us, according to the text: Be attentive to me and hear me (Ps 55:3). Now how likely is it that he will do this, if we are not attentive to ourselves?… It is from the heart that prayer takes most of its power…. [According
- [7-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/24/7-24-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Saint John Damascene, speaking in praise of the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, likens their singular purity to a pair of turtle-doves…. He calls Mary a living Heaven formed from the material substance of Joachim and Anne, just as the earth had once been formed from water." --Father Joseph Rivius, O. Praem.(+1666) Intention:
- [7-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/23/7-23-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Jesus chose not saints but sinners to join him and accompany him for three years, living the life of disciples, suffering weariness, failure, pain, doubt, and betrayal. Transforming them to become worthy of their task demanded a great deal of time and attention. And, little by little, they understood who Jesus was and what their
- [7-22-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/22/7-22-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "I want nothing else but the greatness of love. I want this greatness…because when love is great it has the power of communicating itself, and I want to continue to inflame other souls with this divine fire. " --Venerable Mother Mary Magdalen of Jesus in the Eucharist, C.P. (+ 1960) Intention: Lord, please bless
- [7-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/21/7-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "We say it was a miracle that Moses could turn the waters of Egypt into blood, darken the sun in the heavens, open the Red Sea, and bring water from the rock, because his staff was not an instrument naturally capable of all these wonders. But that the cross of Christ could create such incredible
- [7-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/20/7-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." "Father, that they may be one." "I am the handmaid of the Lord." "They have no wine." "Behold your son, behold your Mother!" "Remember me, when you come into your kingdom." "Lord, what do you want me to do?" "Lord, you know all things, you
- [7-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/19/7-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "When I am truly alone, with no babies around, as when I am in church alone, I pray. I say the rosary, I read my Psalms, make the Acts: adoration, contrition, thanksgiving, supplication…. At home, kneeling by my bed, or in the bitter cold, saying my prayers in bed, they are brief, half-conscious, and the
- [7-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/18/7-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The Cloud of Unknowing talks of the conscious stretching out of the soul to God. So I must try harder to pause even for a fraction of a minute over and over again throughout the day, to reach toward God…." --Servant of God Dorothy Day (+ 1980) Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with
- [7-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/17/7-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "For humiliations arise out of the circumstances, situations, and people that God presents to us each day—and all these are but a manifestation of his providence. So we must learn to discern in such things, even in the humiliations, occasions for a deeper conformity to the will of God. Christ had to suffer opposition and
- [7-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/16/7-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Finally, when the whole face of the earth has been renewed, when the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, when the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven as a bride adorned, prepared for the marriage of the
- [7-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/15/7-15-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The lover of Christ becomes filled with wonder at this idea: Every person in the world is to God someone unique and worthy of being. So, despite all that people do in their self-conceit which conceals their true beauty, he struggles in faith to find their lovable qualities." --Ronda Chervin Intention: I’m expecting that no
- [7-14-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/14/7-14-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "God has never made or formed but one enmity, but it is an irreconcilable one: it is between Mary, his worthy mother, and the devil; between the children and servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and instruments of Lucifer. Satan fears Mary not only more than all angels and men, but in some
- [7-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/13/7-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "There will never be any peace for you except in the complete abandonment of yourself in the hands of your heavenly Father. It is always necessary to come back to this point, for Our Lord requires of you this testimony of your confidence and love." --Blessed Columba Marmion (+ 1923) Intention: I can do
- [7-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/12/7-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "God will care for you just insofar as you cast yourself and all your cares on the bosom of his paternal love and providence. When in his presence, in the darkness of faith, adore him in his ways, in his providence, his often unfathomable wisdom. Then cast yourself on his bosom just like a child."
- [7-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/11/7-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "[Our Lord] revealed God to us as a light which, coming into this world, illumines every man and takes pleasure especially in illuminating the small and the humble; he revealed God to us as love and mercy, ever looking over us to heal us…." --Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (+ 1964) Intention: Father, thank You
- [7-10-25 Rosary Mystery Meditation for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/10/7-10-25-rosary-mystery-meditation-for-today-thursday/) - "Scripture often uses the phrase signs and wonders to speak of the miracles God did through Moses during the Exodus…. Jesus’ healings are signs because they signify his definitive victory over sin and all its consequences…. They are wonders because they provoke wonder, awe, praise, and gratitude in those who witness them." --Mary Healy Intention: Lord, please bless all
- [7-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/09/7-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Jesus ultimately came to heal humanity’s deepest wound: the wound of our sin and consequent alienation from God, with all its consequences of spiritual and physical brokenness…. Each of the miracles, perceived with the eyes of faith, signifies something. Each reveals an aspect of Jesus’ identity and mission. His turning of water into wine at Cana
- [7-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/08/7-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "When gladness fills your being, do not yield to presumption, and when sadness weighs heavily upon you, do not give in to discouragement. Rather, be content with whatever happens, for all this is pleasing in God’s sight. Of yourself you have nothing that is good; all is from God…." --Venerable Thomas à Kempis (+ 1471)
- [7-7-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/07/7-7-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "If, while praying and meditating on God’s good gifts, you find yourself spiritually sad, cold, and dry, do not yield to despondency, nor should you cease calling humbly on Jesus. Rather, in your poverty of spirit, offer praise and thanks to God; and in your search for consolation, readily recite this verse: The poor and those
- [7-6-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/06/7-6-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Earlier today, I set foot on the soil of the United States of America…. My esteem and affection go out to all the people of this land. I want to meet you and tell you all—men and women, children and youth, fathers and mothers, the sick and the elderly—that God loves you, that he has
- [7-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/05/7-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The proverbial scene of the doubting Thomas is very well known…. Thomas holds that the signs that confirm Jesus’ identity are now above all his wounds, in which he reveals to us how much he loved us. In this the apostle is not mistaken. Jesus reappeared and this time Thomas was present. Thomas reacts with
- [7-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/04/7-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Thomas reacts with the most splendid profession of faith in the whole of the New Testament: My Lord and my God! The Evangelist con­tinues with Jesus’ last words to Thomas: Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe. This sentence can also be put into the present: Blessed are those who do not see and yet believe.
- [7-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/03/7-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Let humility occupy the position which pride held; let almsgiving keep the one avarice was ravaging; let chastity cleanse and restore what dissipation was defiling. Let benevolence take possession of the man whom envy held down, and where deceit appeared let truth hold sway. If with Christ’s help we endeavor to do this, not only
- [7-2-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/02/7-2-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Yes, this merciful Lord wants to be glorified in you, so take care not to become unfaithful to him by denying him the possibility to act freely and fully in you…. Let [Satan] even threaten to swallow you up; it doesn’t matter, for he can achieve nothing against your soul, which Jesus has now clasped
- [7-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/07/01/7-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "May Jesus and Mary always be with you. May they set you free from the cunning snares of the evil one and console you in all your afflictions. It breaks my heart to see you continually tossed about by new and furious storms, but I rejoice within me in the certainty that the fury of
- [6-30-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/30/6-30-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "From this we are able to grasp how meritorious blessed Peter and Paul are: as the Lord illumined the region of the East with his own suffering, so he deigned to illumine the region of the West by the blood of the apostles who were acting in his place. And although his suffering is sufficient
- [6-29-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/29/6-29-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "[Our Lady] is not wearied with our littleness; her smile comes down to us like a benediction through the sea of ­flickering candles, and she blesses our wild flowers withering at her feet. For each one of us is 'another Christ.' Each one, to Mary, is her only child. It is ­therefore not tedious to
- [6-28-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/28/6-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The Christhood that [Our Lady] recognizes in us is that we are her children: Mother, behold your child. This is the most wonderful trust of all, which Christ has given to us—to be himself to Our Lady." --Caryll Houselander (+ 1954) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a President and Justice Department who
- [6-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/27/6-27-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Pray, receive Communion with fervor, work generously to acquire those virtues which cost you the most, and God will know when and where to surprise you so that you will be happy." --Blessed Clelia Merloni (+ 1930) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. I
- [6-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/26/6-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "If you live for the Lord, he himself will be your support, your defense, your comfort at all times. Who knows what you need better than he does? Who has loved you or loves you more than his adorable heart? Put into that heart, then, with total trust, all your fears, all your anxieties." --Blessed
- [6-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/25/6-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "In Christ’s teaching we learn that our existence does not belong to us. He gave up his life for all men and, if we follow him, we must understand that we cannot take possession of our own lives in a selfish way, without sharing the sorrows of others. Our life belongs to God. We are
- [6-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/24/6-24-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The Holy Spirit does not guide souls collectively, but inspires each one with resolutions, inspirations, and affections that will help it to recognize and fulfill the will of the Father…. Christ our king." --Saint Josemaría Escrivá (+ 1975) Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a moral, law-abiding, and God-honoring society, so that
- [6-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/23/6-23-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The heart of Jesus will dilate our hearts by teaching us to love above all else the glory of God and the salvation of souls…. We rely far too much on our own strength when our helplessness is obvious, and because we do not depend enough on the heart of Jesus, on his love for
- [6-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/21/6-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Jesus has consented to take for himself the loathsome chalice of Gethsemane, so that he might give us the chalice of his precious blood which is raised up every morning on the altar. These two chalices represent the whole history of the world of souls. They are as it were the two pans of the
- [6-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/20/6-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Learn, then, something of his own humility before the Sacrament which is himself [Our Lord]. As he strips from himself that glory which is his, we must strip from ourselves the pride to which we have no right—every rag and shred of that complacency and self-centeredness that are the greatest of all obstacles to the
- [6-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/19/6-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Let us live within the heart of Jesus, because to live in him is to live in heaven: that is, to live in light, in sacrifice, and in purity. Let our conversation be in heaven (cf. Phil 3:20)…." --Blessed Concepción Cabrera de Armida (+ 1937) Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who
- [6-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/18/6-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The truly proud person is the one who has chosen pride, who has made it the rule of his life, whose avowed goal is not to submit, but to dominate. We are all ­sinners, and it is necessary for us to recognize it, beating our breast; but the impenitent sinner is the one who has
- [6-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/17/6-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Like fire, the Holy Spirit cannot be given to us without transforming us in his image. He is the link between the Father and the Son. He comes from the Father and the Son because they love the life that is common to them. Thus the Spirit binds us to God according to this same
- [6-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/16/6-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Love of the Blessed Virgin produces a marvelous ­tenderness in our whole spiritual life. Little by little, this love enriches our heart with a sentiment of trust and submission previously unknown. It leads us step by step to the joyful acceptance and love of the many trials which beset us." --Blessed Edward Poppe (+ 1924)
- [6-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/15/6-15-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "'My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit' (Ps 51:19). The spirit of penance and contrition of heart, which as a breath of new life God breathes into the sinful soul of man, his image and likeness defiled by sin, becomes in turn a sacrifice the humbled sinner may offer to God to obtain pardon
- [6-14-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/14/6-14-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Human attitudes of hatred and contempt are expressed in human words of scorn, and to these Jesus now turns. You imbecile, you fool! The great offense involved in these words directed at a brother, and the corresponding guilt their usage incurs, does not so much have to do with their content, because their literal meaning
- [6-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/13/6-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "What Jesus is saying here is, in fact, the fulfillment of the promise God had made through the prophet Jeremiah: This is the covenant I will make with Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will set my law within them and write it on their hearts (Jer 31:33). Jesus is the Finger of God who
- [6-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/12/6-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Love which radiates genuine happiness is the testimony of a holy life…. The auxiliaries of our faith are fear and patient endurance; our allies are long suffering and self-control; and therefore, as long as these remain intact in all that concerns the Lord, wisdom, understanding, insight, and knowledge will be happy to join their company."
- [6-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/11/6-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Stay, sweet Jesus; stay forever. Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as you shine: so to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from you. None of it will be mine." --Saint John Henry Newman (+ 1890) Intention: Lord, please make of
- [6-10-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/10/6-10-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Mary is as powerful as an army ready for battle. The Holy Trinity fills her and she is a help to everyone who has recourse to her…. She is the most powerful ­enemy of Satan, next to the cross of Christ, next to the Holy Trinity itself…." --Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty (+
- [6-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/09/6-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Talking to Mary is very simple. She will tell you about her Son who took upon himself your pain and mine, your sin and my sin. She will tell you about the ­fantastic obedience to his Father that her Son had…. She will speak in a low voice about her own fiat, which simply means 'yes'
- [6-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/08/6-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Source of peace and light, come and enlighten me. I am hungry, come and feed me; I am thirsty, come and quench my thirst; I am blind, come and enlighten me; I am poor, come and enrich me; I am ignorant, come and instruct me. Holy Spirit, I abandon myself to you.” --Saint Mariam Baouardy
- [6-7-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/07/6-7-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Holy Spirit, inspire me. Love of God, consume me. On the true path, lead me. Mary, my Mother, look upon me. With Jesus, bless me. From all evil, from all illusion, from all danger, preserve me." --Saint Mariam Baouardy (+ 1878) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are
- [6-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/05/6-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "This theme is beautifully remembered in a text from the liturgy of the Eastern Church. 'Since it brings life, the tomb of Jesus is lovelier indeed than paradise. It is the fountain from which our resurrection springs.…'" --Father Alfred McBride, O. Praem (+ 2020) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a Constitution that functions
- [6-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/04/6-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Rightly understood, the imitation of Jesus Christ is the very essence of the Christian life. We must have in us the mind that Christ had; we must be crucified and buried and rise with him." --Father Louis Bouyer (+ 2004) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays
- [6-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/03/6-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Christ is…the divine Head of the Body that is the Church, the Head whence she receives all life and light. He is the Bridegroom and she is the Bride, two in one flesh…. Christ is not a part of the Church; rather, the Church might be called a part of Christ, grafted upon him, living
- [6-2-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/02/6-2-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "But I sometimes need to see and maybe you, too, and so we thank God that along our path he has provided tangible, visible ­historical witnesses in the saints for this [God's] victory: people like us, people of every kind, fraught, foolish, embattled ones, people in darkness, distress, and temptation, people in whom nevertheless the
- [6-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/06/01/6-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The saint is the person in whom God’s victory over sin has been revealed… this person like you and me, this tempted, frail, ill-disposed person struggling in impossible situations, free from the 'ancient bondage' under which we all moan and writhe. From a certain hour, which only God knows, he no longer fell or escaped
- [5-31-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/31/5-31-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The Spirit who calls to mind is called Paraclete. The word admits of a range of interpretations. Current versions put 'Comforter,' 'Advocate,' or, as above, 'Counselor.' These various readings reveal different shades of an experience of inner strengthening. The Spirit is the heart’s companion, the filler of our ­solitude." --Bishop Erik Varden, O.C.S.O. Intention:
- [5-30-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/30/5-30-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Christ reigns, sitting at the right hand of the Father; and he calls, he summons, he urges that his own receive the kingdom from him. Let every soul avid for his glory hurry to him, let it pursue such a king, that it may receive power from him…." --Saint Quodvultdeus of Carthage (+ 450)
- [5-29-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/29/5-29-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The Christian glimpses Christ, worthy of total dedication, in his poor, small, suffering brother, where the mystical image of the heavenly Jesus, according to his divine word, is embodied in human, earthly suffering…. Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me. Thus Christ’s Ascension
- [5-28-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/28/5-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The Ascension attracts and fixes the gaze of our souls toward this splendid and luminous figure of the Lord, who rises in the heavens…. How full of spiritual beauty [is the] real sacramental presence of that same Jesus, the Christ, Son of God and Son of Man, whose heavenly and eternal triumph the Church celebrates
- [5-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/27/5-27-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "[T]he Ascension cloud recalls the cloud that covered the Mount of Transfiguration, from which, Luke tells us, the Father’s voice announced, This is my beloved Son. It also points forward to the Lord’s definitive coming at the end of time. Again Luke gives us the very words of Jesus: Speaking of tribulations to come, he assures
- [5-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/26/5-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Therefore, beloved people, while we are here living, let us ask mercy of God, so that he might send us out thus in the love of eternal life, that we might the more love the eternal homeland…and always think the more about the life to come than about the one we lead here." --From the
- [5-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/25/5-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "So then, beloved people, we should strive in this present life even if it is not easy, with God helping us, so that we always do what is good and through that virtue gather fruit with joy and with happiness in the world to come, just as it is written in the psalm: They who sow
- [5-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/24/5-24-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "According to the rules of the fathers and ancient monks, whoever wishes to advance in perfection must hold the world in no reputation." --Saint Philip Neri (+ 1595) Intention: I praise You, Lord, that You’re greater than any trouble I might encounter in life; You are bigger than any problem I could possibly have. Jesus,
- [5-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/23/5-23-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We are there, as it were, on a mountain, and we regard our troubles as the dweller upon the mountain contemplates the storm sweeping over the plain. But we do not reach that height all at once; we have to arrive at it by stages. The thousand and one petty annoyances that each day brings
- [5-22-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/22/5-22-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The faithful who keep themselves in a state of grace, or who see that they return to it without delay whenever necessary, possess in their souls God who is infinite Goodness. And it is his presence that keeps them in peace." --Dom Augustin Guillerand, O. Cart. (+ 1945) Intention: I have my trust and
- [5-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/21/5-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - " Indeed, we must suffer loss in order to be free for the inexpressibly greater things that we are to win. I am glad that in trying times you have felt the nearness of God so comfortingly. He alone is great, the sole Praiseworthy One: in him we live, in him we create, in him
- [5-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/20/5-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Not to know where we are going is painful; but that is precisely the effect of leaving our own paths and entering into the ways of God. To arrive at transformation we must see with other eyes and love with another heart." --Servant of God Luis M. Martinez (+ 1956) Intention: Lord, please bless
- [5-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/19/5-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "So let us remember that we are living tiles of the Church, all linked to one another, and each one participating in the whole. If a particular tile is missing, everyone lacks something, and all suffer the consequences." --Servant of God Chiara Lubich (+ 2008) Intention: Lord, please make of America a nation that
- [5-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/18/5-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Our daily period of prayer may seem fruitless, but it certainly is not. It opens us to divine wisdom—to Christ who is the wisdom and power of God—a wisdom contrary to mere human wisdom no matter how noble, and never understood by it. It is the wisdom of the crucified One—sheer folly, scandalous!—a wisdom that
- [5-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/17/5-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Prayer is not just our doing; it is a gift. It is not communion with an unidentified divinity—were this the case, everything would depend on our effort, on our getting it right, and the only assurance available that we had done so would be our experience. On the contrary, prayer is communion with the God
- [5-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/16/5-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The mystical life, in the theological sense, is not to be identified with specific states of consciousness. It is rather a matter of the Holy Spirit of Jesus working in our inmost depths, depths inaccessible to ourselves. The Spirit purifies us of all that is not of Jesus, and at the same time constantly increases
- [5-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/15/5-15-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Remain in my love. You will remain in my love if you keep my commandments. Oh Jesus, you are content with this. What else could satisfy your thirst for love better than that we should remain in your love, keeping your commandments? Love is the essence of perfection and the source of peace. It is a
- [5-14-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/14/5-14-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "O Holy Trinity, whom I adore, whom I love, whose eternal praises I am to sing! In me you are light, you are grace, you are love! Plunge me into yourself and I plunge deeply into the love of your Being." --Venerable Lucia of Fatima, O.C.D. (+ 2005) Intention: Lord, please bless us with
- [5-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/13/5-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Acknowledge, Man, what you have been, where you have been, under whom you have been. You were a straying sheep, in a trackless and waterless desert, feeding on thorns and thistles. Placed under a hireling, you had no security when the wolf came. Now, however, the true shepherd has come looking for you, you have
- [5-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/12/5-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Even when he leads along rough ways, it is always the good pasture that he has in sight for us at last. But not 'good' in an earthly sense; Christ has brought no paradise on earth, but peace and everlasting life for the soul. The wild beasts, hatred, anger, envy, and every kind of sin,
- [5-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/11/5-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Let us thank him for all his mercies and prepare ourselves to receive the favors that still remain to be bestowed on us. With hearts raised on high, let us celebrate the feasts of heaven, so that from temporal joys we may pass to those which are eternal." --Saint John De Avila (+ 1569)
- [5-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/09/5-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The reception of the Eucharist has the effect in a prayerful soul of drawing forth a desire for our own sacrificial offering. Our soul senses that somehow over a lifetime we can be united to the passionate offering of Christ himself. The sacrament compels a drive in the soul to be enmeshed mysteriously with Christ’s
- [5-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/08/5-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The prayer that is required of us is first and foremost a sacrifice. It is time that we requisition for no other purpose than to present it entirely to God…. Seen from this angle prayer is preferring God…." --Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl (+ 1964) Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all
- [5-7-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/07/5-7-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Ask that in every free moment you may think of your God whom you hold in your soul…. Remember that you are his little home." --Saint Teresa of the Andes (+1920) Intention: Lord, send favor now! Amen. Wednesday: Labor in Heaven 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: He is not
- [5-6-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/06/5-6-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Let’s listen to him, for he is Truth. Let’s gaze upon him, for he is the image of the Father. Let’s love him, for he is the love who gives himself for his creatures. He comes to our souls that they may be lost, deified in him. What union, however great it may be, can
- [5-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/05/5-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "As God, Jesus suffered human hatred, persecution, betrayal, hypocrisy. And don’t think that because he was God he didn’t feel the suffering that this implied for him. He was a man like us, the most perfect man, and yet his heart was more noble, more tender, more sensitive than anyone else’s, for everything human in
- [5-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/04/5-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "While respecting the beliefs and sensitivities of all, we must first clearly affirm our faith in Christ, the one Savior of mankind, a faith we have received as a gift from on high, not as a result of any merit of our own." --Saint John Paul II (+ 2005) Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing
- [5-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/03/5-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Adore the person of your glorifier, the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, who with his gentle communication goes on preparing your body, your soul, and your spirit to be pure, upright, and good in all things." --Saint Peter Faber (+ 1546) Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when
- [5-2-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/02/5-2-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - " It seems to me that the words of the Letter to the Hebrews regarding Noah could serve as a portrait of Saint Joseph: By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household (11:7). And this Holy Family is the true ark
- [5-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/05/01/5-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "We must also take care lest to our great injury it should happen that just as there was no room for [Jesus Christ] in the inn at Bethlehem, so likewise now, after he has been born in the flesh, he should find no room in our hearts in which to be born spiritually. For since
- [4-30-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/30/4-30-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "This is why [Jesus] said, If I am lifted up high I will draw everything to myself. For because of our ­rebirth in the blood of Christ crucified we are drawn to love him—if only we follow reason instead of ­abandoning it in love for our selfish sensuality." --Saint Catherine of Siena (+ 1380)
- [4-29-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/29/4-29-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "It was for love that God created us in his own image and likeness, and for love that he gave us his Son to reinstate us by creating us anew to grace in his blood. God wanted, through his Son, to reveal to us his truth and his gentle will that he seeks and wants
- [4-28-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/28/4-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "As all perfection consists in our being conformed, united, and consecrated to Jesus, it naturally follows that the most perfect of all devotions is that which conforms, unites, and consecrates us most completely to Jesus. Now of all God’s creatures Mary is the most conformed to Jesus. It therefore follows that, of all devotions, devotion
- [4-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/27/4-27-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The full story of our past is only revealed when ­imbued with his mercy, and this is what makes the very things that are most difficult in our history have tremendous value. Jesus is the living embodiment of this: ­coming before the apostles, his resurrected body brightly bore the scars of his death. He shows
- [4-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/26/4-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Jesus was keenly aware of the sufferings he had just undergone, and of the fears that gripped the apostles. He wanted for them the same glory the Father had manifested in him through those very pains. Expressing the word of peace a second time, he stresses that he truly harbors no ill will against the
- [4-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/25/4-25-25-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)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/24/4-24-25-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)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/23/4-23-25-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)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/22/4-22-25-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)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/20/4-21-25-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)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/19/4-19-25-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
- [4-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/18/4-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Now Love is lifted up! It hangs from the tree. Its song of love descends upon the multitudes…while the final note of that most sublime of all symphonies (that began with the cry of a baby born in a manger) trembles in the air. It is consummated—a note no one was ever able to transcribe into
- [4-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/17/4-17-25-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)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/16/4-16-25-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)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/15/4-15-25-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
- [4-14-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/14/4-14-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "God is glorified by our victory over our own human turmoil and tossings. It is not that we go serenely through life untroubled by temptation…. It is out of struggle and temptation that we turn to God…. This is marvelous holy living: many assents of the heart, much dying to self, much burying in the
- [4-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/13/4-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Hope not only makes all things possible, but grants a vivid sense of the realistic likelihood that God will indeed accomplish all things that he desires. And what he desires above all to complete is the surrender of our life to himself." --Father Donald Haggerty Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please
- [4-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/12/4-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Remember how the Scripture teaches us (Rv 7:14) that those who have been pleasing to God have passed through many tribulations, and have been made his friends by the trials he has sent them. Great security, then, for all who tread this road, seeing that it is the royal highway of salvation: he who walks
- [4-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/11/4-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "There are many paths which lead to your glorious eternity, but, O my God, you have made a highway which leads there with the surest certainty. Now, my soul, this is none other than the way of the holy cross. This way is the royal highway of all the elect, for it leads to the
- [4-10-25 Rosary Mystery Mystery for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/10/4-10-25-rosary-mystery-mystery-for-today-thursday/) - "Jesus says, Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me (Rv 3:20). We invite Jesus into the interior home of our soul to dwell. And we welcome Jesus into the heart of our family
- [4-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/09/4-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "How many times, in the course of the day, in the middle of temptations of various kinds, we have the occasion to give [Jesus] freely this love which he demands and which must extend to the gift of our freedom ­itself. Since in heaven our beatitude will consist in being fixed forever in the choice
- [4-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/08/4-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "This is Christ’s work in every soul of good will and it is the work that his immense love is eager to do in me. He wants to be my peace so that nothing can distract me or draw me out of the invincible fortress of holy recollection. It is there that he will give
- [4-7-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/07/4-7-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Jesus Christ ­accomplished these divine mysteries of our holy ­religion not only to redeem us but also to instruct and to lead us by his example to practice the most profound and sanctifying virtues that he practiced…. Each mystery has its own unique spirit because our Lord practiced certain evident virtues in it that we
- [4-6-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/06/4-6-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Jesus was not able to see suffering without his heart ­being touched and feeling sympathy, ever consoling the one who suffers and making the pain his own. Jesus could not see tears in another person’s eyes without wiping them, because the compassion of the God-Man is always aroused by our pain, a pain he feels
- [4-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/05/4-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The Creator has become the creature; the king, the servant; and the Lord, the slave. The rich man has become the pauper; the almighty, the weak; the eternal, temporal. The infinite, out of love for us, has become finite; the immense one became confined to the Virgin’s womb; the invulnerable made himself vulnerable. No mind
- [4-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/04/4-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Through this sign of the cross the entire life of the saints is described. For it is said to us: Take up your cross and follow me (Mt 16:24). For it is then that the body is crucified, when whatever in you is earthly is put to death: fornication, impurity, passion (Col 3:5), and so on, and, when the
- [4-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/03/4-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Contemplation is the disposition of being all for God; receiving everything from him, allowing him to act in us, overcoming all difficulties which are opposed to his action…." --Dom Augustin Guillerand, O. Cart. (+ 1945) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace –
- [4-2-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/02/4-2-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Contemplation is nothing more than a constant, ­loving looking at God. Exteriorly, the life of a contemplative is like that of any other person. There is no need to imagine states which would necessitate a change of ­condition. A contemplative is subject to the same ­difficulties, the same troubles, the same anxieties, discouragements, feelings of
- [4-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/04/01/4-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Our life here on earth is like a test. Our purpose and destiny do not belong to this but to a future day in another world. If we cling more and more to this earth and all it has to offer, if we are only concerned about living in comfort 'down' here, then our life
- [3-31-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/31/3-31-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "If Our Lord raises the Marys instead of the Marthas to contemplation, he also reserves for them, in the midst of their contemplation, some crosses that are much more painful. Without suffering as much, the Marthas too attain the living waters…. They quench their thirst and are satiated in proportion to their desire…. A truly
- [3-30-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/30/3-30-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Jesus could have saved a thousand worlds with a short prayer. Instead, he willed to shed all of his blood to redeem us. Blood constitutes the essence of sacrifice, for blood is the means of reconciliation with heaven." --Blessed Concepción Cabrera de Armida (+ 1937) Intention: Lord, please give us a society that becomes
- [3-29-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/29/3-29-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Charity! Saving word, since it includes all light and strength, since it transforms life and the soul, since it means love; and only love will last forever. We must fulfill our responsibilities daily, without worrying about what fruit God will draw out of them. For us: work, sacrifice, the offering of ourselves. For God: the
- [3-28-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/28/3-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Throw yourself, then, into the arms of your dear Jesus who is waiting for this filial and confident thrust of your entire being in order to fortify your soul, purify it, and give it Herculean strength in the ocean of his most pure and divine heart. If you sometimes feel your soul pricked by some
- [3-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/27/3-27-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Remember that we are soldiers of Jesus and as such we must quickly combat all our fierce enemies, who spare nothing to lead us to ruin. Discouragement does nothing but weaken the strength of the soul." --Blessed Clelia Merloni (+ 1930) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and
- [3-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/26/3-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "In our communion with Christ on earth, we reach each other through the span of the cross; we can love all men, known and unknown, through loving literally with Christ’s love…. The sacrifice of self at the heart of each life, offered for the world to God, is a complete expression of the sacrifice of
- [3-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/25/3-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "As soon as Mary spoke those words, the royal marriage between the Eternal Word and our human nature was ratified. At that moment the heavens bowed down and the great, glorious God stooped down to our banality, and wretched man was elevated to the company of the divine nature. Mercy encountered truth; peace and justice
- [3-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/24/3-24-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Likewise, the Greek word phylassontes in this same context conveys much more than simply 'observing' or 'keeping.' Indeed, its full range of associations extends to defending, cherishing, fostering, safeguarding, all meanings directly relevant to the conception, bearing, and rearing of a child. To keep the Word of God, as Jesus enjoins, cannot at bottom mean
- [3-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/23/3-23-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "When in Luke 11:28 Jesus proclaims the great beatitude, Blessed…are those who hear the word of God and keep it, surely he intends a great deal more than simply the observance of specific commandments. For the “Word of God,” used in the singular and in such a solemn proclamation, must refer above all to Jesus himself
- [3-22-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/22/3-22-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "There is also the parable of the Good Shepherd who goes out to seek the lost sheep, leaving the ninety-nine faithful souls. Over rough paths and through thick brambles the Good Shepherd searches tirelessly. When at length he finds it, he does not scold, nor punish; he takes it gently in his arms, places it
- [3-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/21/3-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "You have taught me that there are two ways to appreciate the gifts of the world and wealth: If my heart is closed, material wealth makes me a cog in the huge, complex machinery of greed. Then this word, You fool! This night your soul will be required of you (Lk 12:20), refers to me. I
- [3-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/20/3-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "How many well-meaning people wrack their brains trying to attain a sanctity which they think is far above them, even though in reality it is within their grasp, within their heart’s power to understand: It is simply to live in union with the divine will. It is to be concerned with the things of the
- [3-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/19/3-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Though we have been granted the privilege of saying in our prayers: Our Father who art in heaven, this proceeds from his loving-kindness. For we do not call him Father as though we were natural sons of our Father who is in heaven; but, having been translated from servitude to adoption as sons, by the grace
- [3-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/18/3-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Moses and Elijah, standing next to Jesus, conversed with him about his exodus, which he was going to accomplish in Jerusalem, that is, the mystery of his fleshly Incarnation, and of his saving Passion, which took place on the precious cross. For it is true…that for the well-being and life of all of us he would
- [3-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/17/3-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "In short, the whole of the Christian life will be one long work we undertake, animated by God’s own love. Indeed, we will undertake the task of this Christian life with God dwelling in us: If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to
- [3-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/16/3-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Forgiveness is one of the highest forms of mercy and also one of the hardest. But it is worth the effort to extend it more widely. Forgiveness is difficult, sometimes heroic, but it is indispensable. Without forgiveness, evil multiplies ceaselessly. Only the courage to forgive puts an end to evil’s growth." --Father Jacques Philippe
- [3-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/15/3-15-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "There is a very deep connection, emphasized in Scripture, between one’s relationship with God and one’s relationship with others. Closing one’s heart to a brother means automatically closing one’s heart to God and his grace, while opening one’s heart to another is a sure way of opening one’s heart to God and his abundant blessings."
- [3-14-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/14/3-14-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Whoever suffers and is in darkness sees further than one who is not suffering. The sun has to set before we see the stars. Suffering teaches what cannot be learned in any other way. It holds the highest chair, the teacher of wisdom. And whoever has wisdom is blessed (cf. Prv 3:13). Blessed are those who
- [3-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/13/3-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "One day the Lord advised his disciples to close the door when praying. But another day he taught them the Our Father on the road and in the midst of a great crowd of people. He himself prayed both in solitude and in a crowd. If a Christian knows that he should pray in certain
- [3-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/12/3-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "What about the human methods and techniques of praying? Again there are many of these. But whichever we find works for us, we must soon make use of those great mysterious powers which reach God himself, the theological 'powers' of faith, hope, love. Whatever 'launching pad' we use—the rosary, the divine office, our reflections on
- [3-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/11/3-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Christ offered himself, and because he did, the world was redeemed…. With him, through him, in him we too can redeem the world. Here we make the application: our doing little things well, with love—dishwashing, for example—making the connection between our routine daily life and work and the graces it brings to others, perhaps on
- [3-10-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/10/3-10-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Today it is no longer possible to be Christian as a mere consequence of living in a society that has Christian roots: even those who are born into a Christian family and receive a religious education must every day renew their decision to be Christian, that is, to give God first place in the face
- [3-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/09/3-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations/) - "What is the essence of the three temptations to which Jesus is subjected? It is the proposal to exploit God, to use him for one’s own interests, for one’s own glory and for one’s own success. And therefore, essentially to put oneself in God’s place, removing him from one’s own existence and making him seem
- [3-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/08/3-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "When I am troubled I find no better antidote or consolation than considering and contemplating Jesus Christ crucified and reflecting on his most holy Passion and the troubles and toils he suffered in this life—and all for us…. When we consider that the spotless Lamb suffered so much toil and torment without having deserved it,
- [3-7-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/07/3-7-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - " [Thus the enemy supposed] that, as [Perpetua and Felicity] would not be able to endure the hard, cruel burdens of persecution, they would give in to him straightaway and very soon be his to gloat over. They, however, being watchfully and firmly on guard in the strength of the inner self, scotched all his
- [3-6-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/06/3-6-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Father, said Christ at the moment of his supreme agony in the garden, not my will but thine be done. Yet God will not, has not, asked us to bear any more than he himself has borne in his Incarnation and suffering and death." --Servant of God Walter J. Ciszek, S.J. (+ 1984) Intention: Lord,
- [3-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/05/3-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Man wants to build heaven on his own…. He must remember that he is a creature, that all life for him is only God, and when he attempts to separate from God and act outside of him, everything collapses." --Canon Jacques Leclercq (+ 1971) Intention: Lord, please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism.
- [3-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/04/3-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Let us do God’s will and see God and God’s judgment while travelling to eternity. Then we need not fear that only fleeting clouds will remain in our thoughts, words, and actions. All these will be laid up in heaven as a treasure that will not fade…." --Saint Katherine Drexel (+ 1955) Intention: In
- [3-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/03/3-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The moment that man perceives both his misery and his greatness, the consciousness that he is loved brings him such overwhelming joy that, appropriately, he prefers to be nothing because the one who loves him and whom he has learned to love is everything." --.Alice von Hildebrand (+ 2022) Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask
- [3-2-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/02/3-2-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Saint Augustine tells us that he found some admirable virtues among pagans (let us think of Socrates), but that never, absolutely never, did he find a pagan who possessed the virtue of humility. The reason is that this virtue is possible only on the supernatural plane; it is therefore not accessible to those whose outlook
- [3-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/03/01/3-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "We could not by ourselves invent the truth that God is love, nor devise the Church as the invention of love. Yet, when it is revealed to us, we can see how it corresponds to the deepest secret desires kindled in every heart by the fleeting intimations given in genuine human love." --Ronda Chervin
- [2-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/27/2-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "We cannot have our own life and God’s life at the same time. The ultimate relinquishing of our own life takes place at death, but death will only be death in Jesus in the measure that we have already yielded up our life to him, handed it over, allowed him to bring us to a
- [2-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/26/2-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Faith knows how much we are loved: our minds know only that we are loved. Only by prayer do we cling to what faith knows." --Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl (+ 1964) Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when I allow Jesus to step in and be a part of
- [2-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/25/2-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The meekness of our Lord is wholly supernatural. It ­derives from his zeal for the salvation of souls…. To Saint Peter, Jesus replies that it is necessary to pardon not only seven times, but seventy times seven—that is, always." --Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (+ 1964) Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians in
- [2-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/24/2-24-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "It is precisely he [Our Lord], the man greatest in mind and heart, who wishes to be the standard, the exemplar of ­humility: Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart. To make up for our pride and our rebellious wills, our Lord abased himself before his Father, accepting every kind of
- [2-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/23/2-23-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The Church teaches authoritatively what to believe (doctrine) and how to live (morals). This authority, so often seen as a threat to human freedom, in fact answers the longings of the human heart. We all want to know what is true and to do what is right." --Father Paul Scalia Intention: I praise You,
- [2-22-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/22/2-22-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "At the center of all Catholic doctrine, liturgy, morality, and prayer is the person of Jesus…. He has reconciled us with the Father, establishing peace through the blood of his cross (Col 1:20)…. Salvation and sonship—these are what Jesus won for us. Yet these gifts must still be ­extended throughout the world and throughout history. He
- [2-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/21/2-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Which of us, if he were asked whether he loved Christ, would not immediately and unfailingly declare that he did? In fact, he who does not love Christ’s cross does not love Christ…. Let him who desires to be loosed from the chains of cursing and to attain to the full blessing of new grace
- [2-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/20/2-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "O praiseworthy humility of our Redeemer! He deigned to suffer the pains of a most cruel death, that he might win for us a crown. He chose of his own will the dreadful torments of the cross in order to raise us from the yoke of slavery to the kingdom. He did not scorn to
- [2-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/19/2-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "All of us have been snatched from the powers of darkness along with Saint Paul, and transferred to the bright kingdom of God’s beloved Son…. Every one of us…is a fellow supporter and fellow defender of the kingdom and a knight of Christ the King…." --Hanns Georg von Heintschell-Heinegg (+ 1944) Intention: Lord, please
- [2-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/18/2-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - " The higher we climb, and the harder we fight, the more do we participate in the work and struggle of Jesus Christ, whom the devil sought to confront in all manner of forms (in the ­desert, in the expulsion of the demons, through Judas, on Golgotha). And suffering thus with him and struggling with
- [2-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/17/2-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Let us beg the Lord to take everything away from us except his pure love; then we will be happy and we will willingly give up everything for love of him. Leaving us his love, he will leave us everything we want. His pure love is everything for us, everything else is nothing. The very
- [2-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/16/2-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Here is a thought: I love God and am loved by him; he consoles in all the afflictions of life, while the love of creatures consoles very little and is often the beginning of the greatest sufferings. Commit yourself, then, to give your heart to the love of Jesus, with a great and constant desire
- [2-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/15/2-15-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Love brings Christ to be born every day on the altar. This love urges him to renew his Passion all over the world every day and to offer himself constantly to his Father for our sins, as he offered himself once on the cross at Calvary." --Blessed Honoratus Koźmiński (+ 1916) Intention: Lord, please
- [2-14-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/14/2-14-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The words of Christ, taken one by one or collectively, are a stirring experience of life, allowing man to go into life and live it fully. Christ’s voice reaches an ecstasy beyond and above any voice ever heard on earth. The tone of his voice is a bearer of the sublime message that we
- [2-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/13/2-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Thus confidence and contrition are not incompatible. On the contrary, both flow from the same fount: love. I feel pain at having offended God because I love him; I confide in him because he loves me, because, as says the saint of Lisieux, 'I know to whom to cling by reason of the love and
- [2-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/12/2-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Trust in God does not prevent sin from making us feel sorrowful; for all sin, grave or light, large or small, wounds his divine heart and, since we love him, ­naturally we should feel great sorrow for having offended him. Thus we have as our portion sorrow on one side, and confidence on the other:
- [2-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/11/2-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "To see the Lord’s healing power requires listening to him, choosing to be obedient, and trusting that he will lead us…. Most of the Holy Spirit’s promptings are very simple: Go talk to that person. Call that person. Tell that man the Lord loves him and understands the pain he is going through. Ask the
- [2-10-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/10/2-10-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "[Throughout life,] there are hours of darkness, hours of alarm at oneself…. But there is also the dawning of the insight that Christ’s power is greater than our ­helplessness, his mercy is greater than our failure…. And in this consoling certainty, we wish to leave this hour, joyful that we have the privilege of being
- [2-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/09/2-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Even hidden from our eyes, [God] must be met with a passion of love. Crossing this spiritual threshold requires a conversion of our soul’s deeper passion. And how to arrive personally at this conversion is an ultimate spiritual question. Our choice of him as our only beloved is the simple answer, difficult as that act
- [2-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/08/2-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Whether, after a conversion, our Lord truly becomes the beloved of our soul is significant beyond measure and all-important in the life of prayer. This, too, like an initial discovery of God, entails a necessary interior striving; it means we must choose our Lord as the beloved passion of our life and then let prayer
- [2-7-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/07/2-7-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We must face reality, and not live in an unreal world, not even in an ideal world of our own imagining, which we build up with our poor and unsubstantial dreams. We make a great act of adoration and submission when we recognize the absolute sovereignty of God in all that happens. Only such a
- [2-6-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/06/2-6-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "According to Chrysostom, there are three requirements for sainthood, and Agatha was perfect in all three—namely, cleanness of heart, the presence of the Holy Spirit, and abundance of good works…." --Blessed Jacobus de Voragine (+ 1298) Intention: I pray for Your help today, Lord, in carrying out the work that You have given me
- [2-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/05/2-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "O God, be my sole strength in fear, weakness, and distress; be my confidant, or rather my confidence. Divine Guest, dwelling within me, on the throne of my heart, abide with me as my protector; you alone have dominion and power over my whole being; you alone are its love!" --Blessed Marie-Thérèse Soubiran (+ 1889)
- [2-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/04/2-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "I realize that my crosses have been permitted and willed by you, my God, to teach me to trust in you in spite of everything." --Blessed Marie-Thérèse Soubiran (+ 1889) Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Tuesday: Took on our Sins 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the
- [2-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/03/2-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "One of Our Lady’s most beautiful titles is Consoler of the Afflicted, or Comforter of the Afflicted. We can reach out to ask her help in our most aching needs and on behalf of our loved ones who are suffering…. " --Mother Mary Francis of Our Lady, P.C.C. (+ 2006) Intention: Father, thank You
- [2-2-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/02/2-2-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "He who carries Jesus and Mary in his heart walks safely and securely. He frequently speaks their names, blesses them with his lips, and applauds them with joyful hands and dancing feet…. Blessed is he who sincerely calls upon Jesus and Mary, who greets them devoutly, affectionately keeps them in mind, and greatly honors them…."
- [2-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/02/01/2-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "As our body declines and dies when deprived of food, so does our soul when we do not give it the nourishment it needs. The Word of God is nourishment for the soul; so are sermons, the Gospel, and catechism." --Saint John Bosco (+ 1888) Intention: Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and
- [1-31-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/31/1-31-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Holiness comes down through the centuries without being degraded or corrupted. Holiness renders a person blessed. Holiness truly transforms a person and raises him or her to the highest level: God. Holiness fills a person with love and the Holy Spirit moves him or her. Holiness is the most beautiful thing in the world." --Venerable
- [1-30-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/30/1-30-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "To be successful by the usual standards of the world means acquiring:/—power, while the saints relied on God’s omnipotence;/—riches, while the saints enjoyed the Creator’s abundant gifts;/—university degrees, while the saints shared in divine wisdom;/—admiration, while the saints rejoiced to be the objects of God’s love. Holiness is not the passive presence of God in
- [1-29-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/29/1-29-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "In the measure in which we [live out our vocation] generously we shall be brought to a spiritual and human maturity which we could not have reached in any other way, and outside of which is only illusion and escape." --Sister Mary David Totah, O.S.B. (+ 2010) Intention: I have my trust and confidence
- [1-28-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/28/1-28-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The saint is the man who is truly alive (cf. CCC 294). 'The saints are the living ones,' says Origen, 'and the living ones are the saints.' Holiness is life in its fullness. This means that God’s glory is going to be realized by the unfolding of all the potentialities he has put in our
- [1-27-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/27/1-27-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Without prayer, the Gospel will be words but we will risk failing to meet the Person who is speaking, the Person who is training us, the Person whom we are following." --Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl (1964) Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at
- [1-26-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/26/1-26-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Saint Paul was not transformed by a thought but by an event, by the irresistible presence of the risen One whom subsequently he would never be able to doubt, so powerful had been the evidence of the event, of this encounter. It radically changed Paul’s life in a fundamental way." --Pope Benedict XVI (+ 2022)
- [1-25-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/25/1-25-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Overcoming well means overcoming all the machinations of the devil. He serves up enticements, he is overcome by self-restraint; he inflicts pains and tortures, he is overcome by patience; he suggests errors, he is overcome by wisdom. As a last resort, when all these ploys have been defeated, he suggests to the soul, 'Well done,
- [1-24-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/24/1-24-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "How precious must man be in the eyes of the Creator, if he 'earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer' (Easter Exsultet), and if God gave his only Son in order that man should not perish but have eternal life (Jn 3:16)." --Saint John Paul II (+ 2006) Intention: Lord, please preserve our rights
- [1-23-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/23/1-23-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The Queen of Heaven was sanctified in the same way we are, by throwing the little straws of day-to-day renunciations onto the blazing fire of her heart. Our daily work is simply to climb the steep road that leads from earth to heaven. Smile and be kind to everyone. Sanctity is simply to carry out
- [1-22-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/22/1-22-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "It is very simple to be pleasing to Jesus; you have only to say to yourself: I can do nothing, but Jesus can do everything. After that, fall and rise again gaily until death." --Mother Agnes of Jesus, O.C.D. (+ 1951) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are
- [1-21-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/21/1-21-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "In whatever way you approach Jesus, you will find only love and mercy; how can we fail to have complete trust in him? See everything in simplicity as God sees it. Do not complicate anything at all. " --Mother Agnes of Jesus, O.C.D. (+ 1951) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a Constitution that
- [1-20-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/20/1-20-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "By the force it represents, charity is revealed to be the principal source of the patience that is so necessary to staying on track when faced with assaults of evil…. Charity makes it possible to resist temptations, to overcome trials, and even find joy in the love that unfurls in a trial. " --Father Serge-Thomas
- [1-19-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/19/1-19-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The most perfect form of love is charity, spread in hearts by the Holy Spirit. It gives the spiritual creature a supernatural participation in the love with which God infinitely loves himself, and all things in his love…. " --Father Serge-Thomas Bonino, O.P. Intention: Please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism. I thank
- [1-18-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/18/1-18-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "We surrender our whole being in worship to him alone and, through him, to the Father. But in so doing we render a homage of deep gratitude and love to her who first believed and, through her faith, has made our finding of Jesus possible." --Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America
- [1-17-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/17/1-17-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Saint Margaret Mary heard Jesus say to her, 'Do you believe that I can do it? If you believe it, you will see the power of my Heart in the magnificence of my love.'" --Father Jean du Cœur de Jésus d’Elbée (+ 1982) Intention: Please bless all my loved ones on the other side
- [1-16-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/16/1-16-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "To the sick who asked him to cure them on the roads of Palestine, [Jesus] posed only one question: 'Do you believe that I can heal you?' 'Yes, Lord!' 'Be it done unto you as you have believed.' He says to you now, 'Do you believe that I can purify you in a moment and
- [1-15-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/15/1-15-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Give us, O Lord, that union with you that we so desire. Give us a love for you that is so pure, so holy, so devoid of self-love, so full of charity toward our neighbor, and so much your own that we will only concern ourselves with pleasing you and consoling you." --Blessed Concepción Cabrera
- [1-14-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/14/1-14-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Jesus, who forgives everything and forgets it and who reaches out his arms to us! Wash us with your tears and cleanse us with your divine Blood!… Cure our tepidity, warm the coldness of our hearts, and do away with our indifference…." --Blessed Concepción Cabrera de Armida (+ 1937) Intention: I’m expecting that no
- [1-13-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/13/1-13-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Jesus, look upon us with all of your tenderness. Repair the damage that sin has caused in our souls. See what weakness our heart bears…. I know that all that really belongs to us is our human weakness. But these very weaknesses draw you so that you might remedy them." --Blessed Concepción Cabrera de Armida
- [1-12-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/12/1-12-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - " Jesus is always waiting for the sinner…. He loves them and shows his mercy, pardoning their weaknesses by offering the price of his blood to his heavenly Father. What would we on earth do without Jesus? Who would be equivalent to him to love us, seek us, wait for us, or pardon us?" --Blessed
- [1-11-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/11/1-11-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Renounce not only with your voices but also with conduct; not only with the sound of the tongue but also in living act; not only by the sounds of your lips but by the public declaration of words. Know that you have enlisted in a struggle with the slippery, ancient, and begrimed enemy. Let him
- [1-10-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/10/1-10-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Your hearts are prepared because your enemy has been driven from them. The house has been cleaned, may no vanity remain; lest he who abandoned it, when he enters, bring back with him seven worse than he, and the last state of this man, as the Gospel says, will be made worse than the first
- [1-9-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/09/1-9-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Our souls are like the inn: crowded, noisy, restless. We shrink from the silence that must fall upon our souls if they are to cradle the Child. Nevertheless we must find that point of stillness today, because it is Christmas and Christmas means one thing and one thing only, that it is the divine will
- [1-8-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/08/1-8-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "All have been deformed and debilitated by the devastating consequences of sin—spiritually, emotionally, and often physically. We all experience to some degree the inner shame that comes from sin, the alienation from God and others that it causes. God was moved with such compassion for us that he sent his only Son to become man,
- [1-7-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/07/1-7-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "In your imagination, hear [Jesus] invite everyone, and you in particular, to imitate his way of life and his zeal. Listen to him closely. He promises to help you with his grace and to ask of you nothing that he himself has not done first." --Blessed Basil Moreau (+ 1873) Intention: Lord, I thank You
- [1-6-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/06/1-6-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Jesus Christ came to establish his kingdom on earth, but we realize that it is not a sovereign, inalienable domination that God exerts on every creature…. It is rather the realm of love that his free-willed creatures build for him in their heart by their voluntary submission to him and which gives so very much
- [1-5-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/05/1-5-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Save the world, O Savior. For this you have come. Set your whole universe aright. For this you have shone on me and on the magi and on all creation." --Saint Romanos the Melodist (+ 565) Intention: I praise You, Lord, that You are stronger than communism and totalitarianism. Sunday: Peace of Christ 1st Glorious
- [1-4-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/04/1-4-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "For I am not simply your mother, compassionate Savior; it is not in vain that I suckle the giver of milk, but for the sake of all I implore you. You have made me the mouth and the boast of all my race (Jdt 15:9) and your world has me as a mighty protection, a
- [1-3-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/03/1-3-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Thus it is true that no man may be safe unless he loves the name of Jesus, for there may be no man whole unless he loves and desires spiritual health. For just as, if a man were physically sick, there would be no earthly thing so dear or so needful to him nor so
- [1-1-25 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2025/01/01/1-1-25-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "On the other hand, by the mercy of God how happy I am. Neither sufferings nor adversities nor anything else will ever take from me the happiness I possess because it comes to me from God and God is a good that does not change." --Venerable Mary Magdalen of Jesus in the Eucharist, C.P. (+
- [12-31-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/31/12-31-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Dear Father: We are at the end of the year. How happy I am to see how the days of our life run by, because in their passing I see that we are approaching God and, with that, my heart is expanded to love him more and to do good for all. How unfortunate they
- [12-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/30/12-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "This Christmas, Lord, we entrust to you above all those without faith. We entrust them to you so that, on the backdrop of the goodwill they so often display, a ray of your light may break through, the star that guides to you may blaze out for an instant, and they may experience how full
- [12-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/29/12-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "This Christmas, Lord, we entrust to you the 'distant' ones, the many who once were near and who are no longer…. We entrust to you those who do not know you, but who are searching for you with a pure and sincere heart and do not know that one day, one sweet, sweet day, you
- [12-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/28/12-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "It is also surprising that these Innocents were allowed to suffer such a terrible persecution from Herod…. Surely God was able to defend these innocents from the fury and power of Herod. Why is it, then, that he allowed such a horrendous crime, such inhumanity, such a monstrous deed of savage cruelty? We need to
- [12-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/27/12-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The most intimate movements of the heart of Jesus always found their echo in the heart of John. So Jesus gave him his Mother. He confided her to his care. John believed that he was loved—and this was the secret of his love." --Father Jean du Cœur de Jésus d’Elbée (+ 1982) Intention: Lord,
- [12/26/24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/26/12-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "If the blessed Stephen, facing that shower of stones, had not thought about the rewards to come, how could he have borne that terrible hailstorm? But he was bearing in mind the instruction of the one whose presence he could observe in heaven; and reaching out to him with the most ardent love, he longed
- [12-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/25/12-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "It is in this dark place of our heart that Christ wants the light of the world to begin to burn and from its burning to radiate, until it shines back from the face of humanity. Here it is that he wants the light to begin to shine in darkness and the life of the
- [12/24/24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/24/12-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Pious souls, cultivate the duties of family life. Be friends, Christian women, as Mary and Elizabeth were. Let your friendship be a work of piety and your conversations full of God; then Jesus will be in your midst and you will feel his presence. Men, you too should imitate these pious women. O God! Sanctify
- [12-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/23/12-23-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "What is baptism? It is the first and most necessary sacrament of the New Law, by which we are enrolled among the heirs of eternal life, because once it is conferred in water, by which we are spiritually reborn, and gain a full remission of sins, we are adopted into the sons of God…." --Saint
- [12-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/22/12-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "As the Father saw Eve disappoint him, he saw Mary prefer him; she was truly his obedient daughter. As our union with God must be with all three Persons, so Mary’s union progressed from Daughter of the Father, to Spouse of the Holy Spirit, to Mother of the Son. The new Eve renewed what the
- [12-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/21/12-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "And then the same Power that said to nothingness, Be made, enveloped the Woman like a shadow—elevated her to a state of union with God unheard of before and unthought of since. The beginning of the new kingdom had come. As the 'No' of one woman brought misery and darkness upon the world, so the 'Yes'
- [12-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/20/12-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The reason prayer is not easy or spontaneous to us is that prayer makes us conscious that we are limited…. [Prayer] is 'the great pedagogy of God' by teaching us our limitation and our need of God, to obtain from him what is lacking to us…." --Sister Mary David Totah, O.S.B. (+ 2017) Intention:
- [12-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/19/12-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Have confidence and trust in the call of God. It’s not something that happened once and for all in the past, but continues to make itself felt throughout our life. Nor is our calling given all at once…. It’s important to keep the attitude of one who is called anew each day, of one who
- [12-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/18/12-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "God looks at the heart (1 Sm 16:7). It is here, then, that we must look to find the qualities which, in Saint Joseph, reflect the preference of God…. Indeed, what does the life of this truly chosen saint really reflect? Nothing but acts of obedience, acts accomplished with great generosity and tremendous docility. No desire
- [12-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/17/12-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "But a man can wait for the Lord the more trustfully if his conscience is so at rest as to let him say: 'Every smallest possession of mine, Lord, is entirely yours, for I have treasured up in heaven all my powers, either by giving them to you or by renouncing them for you. At
- [12-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/16/12-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Whoever flees prayer flees all that is good. Conquering the tongue is better than fasting on bread and water. Suffering for God is better than working miracles." --Saint John of the Cross ("The Mystical Doctor") (+ 1591) Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians in the world, and keep them safe.
- [12-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/15/12-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The purpose of our existence is to make our insignificant but nevertheless indispensable contribution toward the beauty of the whole mosaic, designed by divine Wisdom to reflect his beauty. As we do not see the whole design, nor even his plan for us as individuals, our part is bound to appear meaningless sometimes, or at
- [12-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/14/12-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "All things are to be restored in Christ, and the glory of the Trinity manifested. The whole world from its first to its last day serves this purpose, and each generation contributes only a fraction. Yet each individual has his part to play, as if each were a little stone in a mosaic." --Father Bonaventure
- [12-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/13/12-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Let us not think that Our Lady’s love has withered over the centuries. Let us not believe that it has waned little by little because of our ingratitude and our miseries and sins. No. I am pleased to repeat that Mary’s love is like the love of God, like a divine gift. It is never
- [12-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/12/12-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "May you be conceived by our faith, that a mind untouched by corruption may bring you forth, that the soul, ever confirmed by the power of the Most High, may offer you a dwelling place…. Be truly for us the Emmanuel, God with us. Deign to remain with us, to fight for us. Only so
- [12-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/11/12-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Awaken in our hearts desires deserving of fulfillment; suggest to us words that are worthy to be heard; grant that our actions may be worthy of blessing." --A hymn from the Mozarabic Liturgy (ancient) Intention: Lord, thank You that I am able to do what You have called me to do. Wednesday: Sea
- [12-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/10/12-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Since the day when God comforted his disobedient children in the garden of Eden with the promise of a woman who would crush the head (Gn 3:15) of the evil serpent, there has not been an hour’s truce between them…. [Mary] has fearlessly fought him and won from his grasp soul after soul. She knows that we
- [12-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/09/12-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "In defining the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, it was made clear that Mary, being a child of Adam, was in need of the merits of Christ, and that it was because of these merits that she was preserved from the first moment of her existence from the slightest stain of sin." --Sister Mary Jean
- [12-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/08/12-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "All these elements come together in our joy that God became a Child who encourages us to trust as children trust, to give ourselves, and to let ourselves receive. It is perhaps quite difficult for us to accept this joy when we are troubled by questions and when physical illness and spiritual problems attack us
- [12-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/07/12-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Even our Christmas fare has its roots in the Church’s Advent liturgy, which echoes the wonderful words of the Old Testament: On that day the mountains will drip sweetness and the rivers will bring down milk and honey. It was in words such as these that men in the past expressed their hopes in a redeemed
- [12-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/06/12-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - " In our Advent liturgy, these words have been joined to words from other psalms and the whole has been extended until we have: Mountains and hills will sing praises before God and all the trees of the wood will clap their hands, for the Lord is coming, the ruler, to an eternal kingdom. Our decorated Christmas
- [12-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/05/12-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "May this be one of the fruits of your prayer [Holy Saint Nicholas], that the divine Word may be no longer unknown and forgotten in this world, which he has redeemed with his blood." --Servant of God Prosper Guéranger (+ 1875) Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians in the world, and
- [12-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/04/12-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The Church celebrates with joy the feast of the great wonder-worker Nicholas…. He was permitted to be one of the bishops who proclaimed at Nicaea that the Word is consubstantial with the Father. The humiliations of the Son of God did not scandalize him. Neither the lowliness of the flesh, which the sovereign Lord of
- [12-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/03/12-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "He gave us a second birth, so that, as we had been born of Adam and had been likened to him and had become heir to his curse and corruption, we might by being born anew of him be likened to him and become heir to his incorruption and blessing and glory…." --Saint John Damascene
- [12-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/02/12-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Since man was made both rational and free, he received the power to be unceasingly united to God by his own choice, provided, of course, that he persevere in the good, that is to say, in obedience to his Creator. Then, when man became disobedient to the commandment of him who had made him and
- [12-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/12/01/12-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "I entreat you, merciful Lord Jesus Christ, through the efficacy of your Passion and death, which you suffered on this most holy cross, that you may deign to forgive me my sins as you forgave those of the thief when you, gracious Lord, hung crucified upon it, and that you may grant me victory over
- [11-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/30/11-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "I pray and ask my Lady Saint Mary and all the saints that they may be willing to ask my Lord Jesus Christ that he may be willing to forgive me my present, past, confessed, and forgotten sins; and that from now on he may grant me his grace of keeping me from sinning and
- [11-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/29/11-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "One small act of kindness may lead an unfortunate human being into the light of God’s holy Church, and ultimately into the sunshine of eternal glory." --Monsignor Edward Betowski (+ 1969) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that
- [11-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/28/11-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Today Christ called these apostles to bring about the true and eternal salvation of the world. They opened a fountain of living waters for the whole world; they made the hard and heavy iron of the human heart rise upwards…by preaching the cross of Christ; they multiplied the bread of the word of God and
- [11-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/27/11-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The intensity of the feeling that urges us to unite ourselves with a beloved one lessens when we discover his defects and faults. In heaven, however, we shall find our friends spotless, and their features will be more radiant than the clearest sky; they will be endowed with a gracefulness and charm that will attract
- [11-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/26/11-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The whole nation may rejoice in the unity of spirit in our people by which they cheerfully share one another’s burdens. Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 28th day of November next, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer; and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing
- [11-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/25/11-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "When life presses, when I am attacked by a mood of depression, boredom, frustration, self-pity, do I give in to it and remain absorbed in self? Or do I, like Catherine, fix my eyes on him and see that this is precisely what takes me to him, this is how he comes? Monotony, other people
- [11-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/24/11-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Saint John tells us that God is love. Every person therefore is invited to repent and believe in God’s merciful love. The kingdom will grow insofar as every person learns to turn to God in the intimacy of prayer, as to a Father, and strives to do his will." --Saint John Paul II (+ 2005) Intention:
- [11-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/23/11-23-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "This fire of love must light up our poor hearts too, so that it can communicate itself to others—but surrounded with thorns to keep us on our guard against petty self-interests, and surmounted by a wide-armed cross to embrace all who surround us." --Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro (+ 1927) Intention: Lord, please bless us
- [11-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/22/11-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "When uncertain about God’s will, it is very important that we tell ourselves: 'Even if there are aspects of God’s will that escape me, there are always others that I know for sure and can invest in without any risk, knowing that this investment always pays dividends.' These certainties include fulfilling the duties of our
- [11-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/21/11-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Even if we do all we can to find out God’s will in this or that situation by prayer, reflection, and spiritual guidance, we will not always get a very clear answer, at least not right away. There are two reasons for this: first, God treats us as adults, and in many situations he wants
- [11-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/20/11-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Zacchaeus must be praised, therefore—he whose riches were unable to keep him from the royal threshold. He is greatly to be praised because his riches brought him to the threshold of the kingdom. Hence we understand that wealth is not a hindrance but a help to attaining the glory of Christ if, while yet possessing
- [11-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/19/11-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "If you try to make some effort of attention, and say: 'God have mercy on me, help me, give me your grace,' then your prayer is good, and you will only have to repeat from time to time during the day: 'Jesus, I trust in you,' or any other such aspiration." --Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat
- [11-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/18/11-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Try to pray by reading or reciting a few Psalms and by rousing your will to make acts of resignation, or petition, accompanied by confidence in God who lets us suffer only because he loves us." --Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat (+ 1865) Intention: I pray for Your help, Lord, today, in carrying out the
- [11-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/17/11-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "You must believe in mercy to the point of believing that you are a joy for Jesus." --Father Jean du Cœur de Jésus d’Elbée (+ 1982) Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Saturday: In Favor of God’s Will 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Mary said, “Behold, I
- [11-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/15/11-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "May my soul bless you, Lord God my Creator. Sweetest lover, may the mercies with which your unbounded lovingkindness has so unconstrainedly surrounded me make confession to you from the innermost depths of my being. I give you thanks, from wherever I draw the ability, for your vast mercy." --Saint Gertrude the Great (+ 1302)
- [11-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/14/11-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Look, O Jesus, how my ship has to struggle against the immense waves of difficulty and dangers. Please, do watch over it, and never let it be submerged. I have a great trust in you. I abandon myself to you; and, in so doing, I feel a deep tranquility descend into my heart." --Saint Frances
- [11-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/13/11-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The most divine of all the commandments, which no prophet or any founder of religion ever thought to utter, was spoken by our Lord in an easy, clear, and natural way. His commandment was not just to love the enemy, or to love the whole world, but to love as I have loved. Christ’s love had two
- [11-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/12/11-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Let each sister see Jesus Christ in the person of the poor: the more repugnant the work or the persons, the greater also must be her faith, love, and cheerful devotion in ministering to our Lord in this distressing disguise." --Saint Teresa of Calcutta (+ 1997) Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I
- [11-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/11/11-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Always hold fast to God, completely and entirely, as much as you are physically and mentally able, so that God may be all in all to you, that he may be always and eternally loved, blessed, praised by you, highly exalted above all and before all, and that you may be united to him forever."
- [11-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/10/11-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Indeed, there is nothing better for you, nothing more salutary or sweeter or more joyful or more worthy or higher or happier or more perfect or more blessed than loving God most ardently and praising him most sincerely. This I say a hundred times, and I repeat it a thousand times more. There is no
- [11-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/09/11-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "In the heaven of our soul let us be praises of glory of the Holy Trinity (cf. Eph 1:12-14), praises of love of our Immaculate Mother. One day the veil will fall, we will be introduced into the eternal courts, and there we will sing in the bosom of infinite Love. And God will give
- [11-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/08/11-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "It is impossible to love God more perfectly than by manifesting his glory, by diffusing it, multiplying it, sanctifying ourselves through his will, so that he may be recognized and glorified in us." --Father Bonaventure Perquin, O.P. (+ 1970) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to
- [11-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/07/11-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Even during our lifetime, then, we can become ­mirrors of the Father’s glory, its living image, as his Son was on earth. Then the single preoccupation of our life and love will be to embrace the mystery of the divine will, to recognize that for which we have been chosen ­before the creation of the
- [11-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/06/11-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "In commanding us to hear and to follow his Son, our Father is gradually forming us into his likeness. All the words of Christ are thus words of eternal life, as Saint Peter said (cf. Jn 6:68), and contain the germ of our growth as children into “other-Christs.” That is why our Lord’s standards are
- [11-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/05/11-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The Church is on a pilgrimage toward the Father—a huge horde of people walking toward the heavenly Jerusalem—a pilgrimage led by the saints and Our Lady. Implore their help because they are guides to knowing God; and if you know God you will give him to others." --Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty (+
- [11-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/04/11-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "In heaven, I will not serve in the same way as I serve here but I will serve in another way. I want to serve all my life and in eternity—different gradations, but the same thing. In heaven we might not send roses, like the Little Flower does, but we will be at the beck
- [11-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/03/11-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "[A saint is] like one who has fallen in love and can think of nothing else but his beloved. Unlike most of us who move from this high state to a gradually lesser degree of fervor, the love of a saint moves upward in a constant crescendo. This is obviously what Christ desired when he
- [11-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/02/11-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Today Christ called these apostles to bring about the true and eternal salvation of the world. They opened a fountain of living waters for the whole world; they made the hard and heavy iron of the human heart rise upwards…by preaching the cross of Christ; they multiplied the bread of the word of God and
- [11-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/11/01/11-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Consider Jesus’ words: No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. Here is a paradox. His life was certainly taken from him: he was put in chains, condemned, led to Calvary, and crucified. But this was a death he freely accepted. In his heart was deep acceptance of
- [10-31-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/31/10-31-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "If humility is the principle of all virtues, meekness, according to the expression of Saint Francis de Sales, is the flower of charity. In a plant the flower is the part most visible and beautiful because of the splendor and variety of its colors. It attracts with the perfume it releases. And despite its fragility
- [10-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/30/10-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Our Lord surely does not love humility that is melancholy, sad, or of bad humor, urging us to set ourselves apart and to remain inactive. Rather, he loves that humility of heart that is happy to act and sacrifice self for God." --Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (+ 1964) Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless
- [10-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/29/10-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Praying is establishing normal relations between God and ourselves. It is converting, returning our spirit, our heart, our will towards God who is constantly our Father and our Creator. Prayer is already love. It asks for love; it receives love. But because we are sinners it will always be at times heavy-going, painful, and disconcerting."
- [10-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/28/10-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Bartimaeus’ healing is an image of what happens to every Christian at conversion and baptism: our hearts are enlightened and through faith we are enabled to truly see what is invisible. We begin to understand realities of the kingdom that we could not understand before, and we gladly set out with Jesus on the way—the way
- [10-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/27/10-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "You know that we are like a field where God in his mercy has sown his seed, the love and affection with which he created us. It was for love only, and not because he had to, that he drew us out of himself. We never asked him to create us, but moved by the
- [10-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/26/10-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "In order to love God we need to do his will. But his will presents itself one moment at a time. It may be expressed by external circumstances, by our responsibilities, by some advice from more experienced people, or even by unexpected events, be these sorrowful or delightful, annoying or indifferent. God’s will can be
- [10-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/25/10-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "What would you do if someone, having invited you, neglected you without proper care? What are you hurrying after, what are you looking for outside of your Lord? He will teach you more than all books." --Blessed Honoratus Koźmiński (+ 1916) Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting
- [10-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/24/10-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "We too, like the apostles, need to be transformed and guided by the Spirit…. Mary is the model of that maternal love that should inspire all who cooperate in the Church’s apostolic mission for the rebirth of humanity. Therefore, strengthened by the presence of Christ, the Church journeys through time toward the consummation of the
- [10-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/23/10-23-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The universal call to holiness is closely linked to the universal call to mission. Every member of the faithful is called to holiness and to mission. This was the earnest desire of the Second Vatican Council, which hoped to be able 'to enlighten all people with the brightness of Christ, which gleams over the face
- [10-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/22/10-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "So we are promised a change, a transmutation…. All the pomp of the flesh is passing away with the world, all this fragile splendor is growing old." --Saint Augustine (+ 430) Intention: Jesus, I trust in You! Tuesday: Alone With His Thoughts 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: O Lord,
- [10-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/21/10-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "If we wish to love with all the intensity of our being, then we must be ready to sacrifice all things which prevent us from being loving every moment of the day." --Ronda Chervin Intention: Lord, I call in healing and righteousness for America. Monday: Trust in Holy Spirit 1st Joyful Mystery: The
- [10-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/20/10-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "We should give all for the pearl of great price, which is Christ. Just as all married couples are called to love each other for their whole lives, no matter the sacrifices involved, so it is the teaching of the Church that every man is called to become a saint." --Ronda Chervin Intention: Thank
- [10-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/19/10-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Only Luke was Mary’s secretary, so to say. He alone writes of the circumcision, the presentation in the Temple, the visitation of Elizabeth. He alone records Mary’s Canticle [the Magnificat], that she found the boy Jesus in the Temple, and Luke alone gives us some indication of what the Blessed Mother did after Christ’s Ascension into
- [10-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/18/10-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "I shall consider everything that happens to me, joyful or painful things, elevating or depressing, in the light of eternity. In my patience I will possess my soul. By neither word nor deed will I sin, and I will do everything out of love, and out of love I will suffer everything." --Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg
- [10-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/17/10-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The three-day death of the Lord announced through the prophets was predicted and promised and fulfilled. For the prophet Hosea says: After two days he will raise us from the dead; on the third day we will come, and we will find him as if he were made ready even before the light (6:3), showing that
- [10-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/16/10-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Holiness is a disposition of the soul, of the heart, and, above all, of the will, toward God; the senses may play a role, but that is not necessary. Little Thérèse writes that dryness was her daily bread, but that she was nevertheless the happiest of creatures. She defined sanctity as 'a disposition of the
- [10-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/15/10-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The struggle goes on against the Spirit of Evil, known as Beelzebul. Do not fear. By whatever name man may insult you, your innocence, your faith, and your piety will yet be revealed, not only at the Last Judgment but also in this present life. Virtue is, as it were, smothered by the smoke of
- [10-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/14/10-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The more I meditate on Christian prayer, the more I find that it is essentially a preparation to receive God’s grace and the kingdom which is coming. When my prayer is sincere, I ardently desire the coming of the Lord and I receive the Holy Spirit—that most sublime gift of the Father. The gift of
- [10-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/13/10-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "I come to you, O Lord, not only because I am unhappy without you, not only because I feel I need you, but because your grace draws me on to seek you for your own sake, because you are so glorious and beautiful. I come in great fear, but in greater love. Oh, may I
- [10-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/12/10-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Don’t yield to the trickery of Satan. Don’t stop at the sight of obstacles but always be generous and ready to begin the battle again, and don’t set down your arms until your last breath. Offer part of your struggle for those who live in God’s disfavor, so that you might obtain by your sufferings,
- [10-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/11/10-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Remember that the devil will often make you feel the weight of fatigue; he will often torment you with the fear of working uselessly. Be mindful that the sky will not always be peaceful in your soul; you will often find yourself enveloped in the fog of discouragement, battered by the storm of trial. Remember,
- [10-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/10/10-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The sequential character of the mysteries and their frequent recall little by little impress his traits on the faithful soul. In the rosary, the theologian discovers the most sublime truths; the child, the most inspiring images; the contemplative, the unseen Presence to whom he has dedicated his life. The disciple, above all, becomes increasingly aware
- [10-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/09/10-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "First of all, [the Rosary] leads us to turn habitually to Christ and to follow him so closely in his various mysteries that we come to realize the splendors of his divinity and the riches of his humanity. The Son full of grace and truth (Jn 1:14) reveals his role as Savior, his matchless love,
- [10-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/08/10-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Christ lives in his own when his thoughts become their own, when he is the interior law governing their growth, inspiring both their actions and reactions. It is this transformation that devotion to the rosary works in the souls of the faithful. In uniting the one who recites the rosary with the soul of the
- [10-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/07/10-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "For a Christian, to be formed means not merely to cultivate certain ideas and practices, however praiseworthy they may be. A Christian is 'formed' when Christ lives in him. Saint Paul expressed it in words that we may apply perfectly to Our Lady of the Rosary: My dear children, with whom I am again in
- [10-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/06/10-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Saint Josemaría Escrivá frequently took questions from the audience following a conference. When asked about someone’s vocation, Saint Josemaría would inquire if the person was married. If so, he requested the name of the spouse. His response would then be something like, 'Gabriel, you have a divine vocation and it has a name: Sarah.'…
- [10-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/05/10-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "God’s plan is that our lives bring him glory. He has chosen us, in love, to be a living reflection of him. Part of our response to him is our vocation, a particular way of service that allows us to grow in holiness and become more like him." --Kimberly Hahn Intention: Lord, thank You
- [10-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/04/10-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "God created you and me for a purpose. Our destiny is not based on our talents, skills, abilities, gifts, education, wealth, or health, though these may be useful. God’s plan for our lives is based on God’s grace and our response to him. All that we have is a gift from God. What we are is a
- [10-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/03/10-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "We thank you [Almighty, most high and sovereign God] because your Son is to come again in majesty to judge those who have refused to repent and acknow­ledge you; while to all who have acknowledged you, worshiped you, and served you in penitence, he will say: Come, you blessed of my Father, take possession of
- [10-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/02/10-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "In the morning say in your heart: 'O my God, here is another day given me to love and serve you.' Be glad of it. Offer him all your actions, your temptations, you little humiliations—everything, and then go to your duties with cheerfulness." --Saint Theodora Guerin (+ 1856) Intention: Lord, I thank You that
- [10-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/10/01/10-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Continue, my truly dear child, to walk in the presence of God, to do your actions solely to please him, and to bear courageously all the trials which he may permit you to have. Let the evil one make all the noise he wishes around you. Do not mind him, but put yourself entirely beyond
- [9-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/30/9-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Illumination of man’s mind is the most direct and most constant effect of the angelic tutelage; according to Saint Thomas Aquinas, it is not too much to say that the human race is kept in mental equilibrium through the unceasing watchfulness of the good spirits…. Then there is that extremely important office of the protecting
- [9-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/29/9-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Angelic guardianship is something natural, something normal, as normal as the great powers of the physical cosmos. The spirits have not received a mission to interfere with man’s free action; they have received a mission to save man from the results of his own evil deeds as far as is compatible with the higher dictates
- [9-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/28/9-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Before dying by the sword, let us die by pinpricks. Do you understand? Dear Céline, one day we shall go to heaven forever, and then there will no longer be day or night as there is on earth. Oh what a joy! Let us walk in peace, looking at heaven, the only goal of our
- [9-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/27/9-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Love leads to communion, and communion allows everyone to move forward in harmony. Communion is not a happiness passively enjoyed, but it struggles to maintain a fraternal spirit and to open the doors of this fraternity to all people. By nature, love propagates itself; it is contagious, communicates to others, and draws everyone toward communion."
- [9-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/26/9-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Indeed, faced with the many difficulties that fidelity to the moral order can demand, even in the most ordinary circumstances, the Christian is called, with the grace of God invoked in prayer, to a sometimes heroic commitment." --Saint John Paul II (+ 2005) Intention: Lord, please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government,
- [9-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/25/9-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "By their eloquent and attractive ­example of a life completely transfigured by the splendor of ­moral truth, the martyrs and, in general, all the Church’s saints, light up every period of history by reawakening its moral sense." --Saint John Paul II (+ 2005) Intention: Lord, please give us a population that becomes more religious
- [9-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/24/9-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "How do we attain to intimacy with God? Or, rather, how do we enter into the intimacy offered? We must be certain that no wooing is necessary. We do not have to find ways of attracting the divine partner, of getting him to notice us. Here is someone who is love itself, the very fount
- [9-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/23/9-23-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Whereas even the richest human friendship, even that which has truly made one flesh of two, is only part of an existence and life, our relationship with God is our very meaning as human beings. The human creature is, by definition, a relation to God. We become human, become what we are meant to be,
- [9-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/22/9-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "On one occasion Jesus said to Peter: When you were young you put on your own belt and walked where you liked; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will put a belt round you and take you where you would rather not go (Jn 21:18). In a
- [9-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/21/9-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Moments in the Gospel occur in moments of people’s life now and throw a light upon the whole meaning of that life for us." --Caryll Houselander (+ 1954) Intention: Lord, please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Saturday: Trust the Lord’s Call 1st
- [9-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/20/9-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "I understand very well that nobody can worthily love God, but when a person does all he can himself and trusts in the divine mercy, why should Jesus reject one who is seeking him like this? Has he not commanded us to love God with all the strength we have? Well, then, if you have
- [9-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/19/9-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "If the longing to love God seems to you not to be satisfied, or…if it seems to you that you always desire without ever arriving at the possession of perfect love, all this means that your soul must never say it has enough, it means that we cannot and must not stop on the path
- [9-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/18/9-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "From dawn they come to greet us: our nerves, either too much on edge or too numb…. It is the urge to be silent when we ought to speak; and the urge to speak when we ought to be silent. It is the desire to go out when we have to stay in; and the
- [9-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/17/9-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The passion, our passion, sure we are waiting for it. We know it must come and of course we intend to live it with a certain grandeur. We are waiting for the bell to ring that will inform us that the time has come for us to sacrifice ourselves. Like a log in the fireplace,
- [9-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/16/9-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The Christian does not start off as a saint; he becomes so little by little. But he is a man whose eyes are opened to a new dimension, someone who is born for another world: the present world, seen under a new light which is the most real and most concrete of all." --Father Bernard
- [9-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/15/9-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and
- [9-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/14/9-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Suffering is a part of our human existence. Suffering stems partly from our finitude, and partly from the mass of sin which has accumulated over the course of history, and continues to grow unabated today. Certainly we must do whatever we can to reduce suffering: to avoid as far as possible the suffering of the
- [9-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/13/9-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "O Immortal One, nailed to the wood, you have triumphed over the snares of the devil. Glory be to you, Lord!" --Byzantine Liturgy Intention: Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise. Friday: Restoration of Human Race 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: His betrayer had arranged
- [9-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/12/9-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "[Mary] is Mother to all of us, and to us all is given the tremendous privilege of calling on her for help in this valley of tears." --Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P. (+ 1988) Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me.
- [9-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/11/9-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Many people question whether prayer is meaningful at all. 'If God knows everything, why tell him?' Asking such a question presupposes that the main purpose of prayer is to inform God of something. But prayer is really another form of communication altogether. It is a sort of loving dialogue in which one raises all one’s
- [9-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/10/9-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Take from me whatever makes me unclean, dries me up, makes me inflexible, sends me astray, and enfeebles me. Take from me all that makes me unworthy of your visitation, of your chastisement and your reproofs, unworthy of your consoling words and your communications, and lastly of your love and your benevolence." --Saint Peter Faber
- [9-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/09/9-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "In short, O my Lord, I beg you to take from me whatever divides, separates, and distances me from you and you from me." --Saint Peter Faber (+ 1546) Intention: Lord, please make of America a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the rest of the world, and inspires
- [9-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/08/9-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The day of Sabbath was blessed more than the other days, and so Genesis 2:3 says: God blessed the seventh day. Likewise, she is blessed above all women. Again, Saturday was holier than the other days, and so in the same place it is said: He sanctified it. And she is holier than all. So it is
- [9-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/07/9-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "It is good to know why those who are devoted to the Blessed Virgin honor her more on Saturdays than on other days. Consider, then, that our Lord is said to have rested on the Sabbath; again, he rested in her as in his tabernacle. Therefore, the sabbath and the Virgin are in harmony, for
- [9-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/06/9-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Let us respond to the tremendous thirst of God by our loving trust in his love for us and total surrender to his will with joy. Let us turn to God with deep faith and love, repenting for our sins and begging for his mercy. Let us turn to each other also in love and
- [9-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/05/9-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Christ was transfigured that he might show us the transfiguration of our nature that is to come -- his second coming, for our salvation, which will be on the clouds, with the voice of archangels. For he is the one who has wrapped himself in light as in a garment (Ps 104:2), since he is judge of
- [9-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/04/9-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations/) - "Let us love our neighbors, my friends, let us love the one who is near us, so that we may be able to reach the love of the one who is above us. Then shall we reach the happiness of the heavenly multitude, the happiness of which we have received an assurance from the Holy
- [9-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/03/9-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "We make our way by foot on earth without stumbling if we love God and our neighbor with our whole heart. We cannot truly love God without loving our ­neighbor, nor can we truly love our neighbor without loving God. This is why we read that the Holy Spirit was given a second time to
- [9-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/02/9-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The purpose of Jesus’ anointing was so that he could proclaim good news to the poor—good news that includes not only hopeful words but the very realities that the words announce: freedom, healing, and release from captivity. The poor are both the materially poor and all people, spiritually impoverished by their alienation from God." --Mary Healy
- [9-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/09/01/9-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Why do you fix your gaze upon a world which is passing and which as it shakes and crashes constantly threatens its lovers with collapse? Deceitful indeed is its grace and worthless its beauty, for not only do these not bring a long-lived joy, but they fade quickly away into the torment of everlasting lamentation.
- [8-31-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/31/8-31-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Humility is indeed the friend of the Holy Spirit and always prepares for him a spotless dwelling place, but an impure heart does not hesitate to offend him. Upon whom, says the Lord, shall my spirit rest, but on one who is humble and peaceable and who fears my words (cf. Is 66:2)? Surely where
- [8-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/30/8-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "In Mary herself, moreover, all the saints have their model. Through the grace that is hers as mother she is able to form each of her children according to the image of her only Son. For this reason there are no hopes that may not be fervently entertained by those who entrust themselves to Mary’s
- [8-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/29/8-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - " From the moment of her fiat at the Incarnation, Mary, following her Son, lived only for us. God joined Mother and Son as partners in the same work of our salvation. Both the one and the other, each in their own way, merited heaven for us as well as all the graces needed to bring us
- [8-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/27/8-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "It is difficult for us, if not impossible, to understand how great was the maternal concern that the Mother of God manifested for each of us, not only in the remarkable actions of her life but also in the most ordinary ones. In this respect we are almost like small children who cannot possibly realize
- [8-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/27/8-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Mary’s dignity as the Mother of God and her fullness of grace were productive of the greatest spiritual fruit for us. Jesus alone excepted, no person was more closely associated with our eternal destiny and our most intimate graces than Mary our Mother, more mother than our mothers in the flesh, having given us, not
- [8-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/26/8-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The common weakness of all human nature, which must often yield to its exhaustion, is by no means incompatible with an ever-watchful heart, whose fulness of love urges it always to listen for the approach of the Beloved, even in the depth of sleep..." --Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my
- [8-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/24/8-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "With the experience of God in some mysterious manner, we get a taste of eternity without quite knowing what we are experiencing. In a brief instant, there is a change in perception, and we begin to sense a purpose in life that extends beyond this life itself. The passing nature of everything in life may
- [8-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/24/8-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "I pray to God night and day. It is like a passion in me; all my desire is that people should know him, because once they know him, they will never let him go. And you find him in a very simple way…. The simplest way is this: stillness of body, stillness of heart, stillness
- [8-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/23/8-23-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We may ask ourselves, how can I love and desire someone I do not know? How can I incarnate Christ’s words Seek ye the kingdom of God and its righteousness when I have no idea what the kingdom of God is?… Why should I seek the kingdom of God first? Why shouldn’t I seek self-fulfillment, money,
- [8-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/22/8-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The cry of our miseries, and of our dependence on God, blends with our confidence, love, and faith in him, for we know, we are sure that we will never be let down if we really trust in him. Christ says, 'My grace is enough; my love is enough.'" -- Servant of God Catherine de
- [8-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/21/8-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Catechetical instruction is that milk which the Apostle Peter wished the faithful to desire in all simplicity like newborn babes…. Catechetical instruction, plain and simple though it be, is the word of which God himself speaks through the lips of the prophet Isaiah: And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return
- [8-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/19/8-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "May the Word which could not and had no need to be made in himself deign to be in me, deign to be to be done unto me according to your word. Let it be done for the whole world, but let it be done unto me uniquely, according to your word." --Saint Bernard of
- [8-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/19/8-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "When we need a special grace to meet certain circumstances, let us ask our Lord through his most benign heart to grant it to us from his Sacred Heart, our treasure-house." --Saint John Eudes (+ 1680) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace
- [8-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/17/8-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Our most lovable Redeemer has given us his most loving heart to be our treasure. It is an immense and inexhaustible treasure that enriches heaven and earth with infinite blessings." --Saint John Eudes (+ 1680) Intention: Lord, please make of America a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the
- [8-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/16/8-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "[God] assures us repeatedly in the Scriptures what he will do with our sins if we repent. He will throw them into the bottom of the sea, the inspired prophet tells us (Mic 7:19)." --Mother Mary Francis of Our Lady, P.C.C. (+ 2006) Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections. Saturday:
- [8-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/16/8-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "In Hebrew thought, 'body' is not merely the flesh but the whole person as a physical being. Jesus is revealing that his death will be a gift of himself to them. By asking them to 'take,' that is, to eat the bread that is his body, he is inviting them to receive this gift of himself
- [8-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/15/8-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "In her great poem [the Magnificat], Our Lady talks about what God remembers. At the beginning she speaks of his remembering mercy; at the end she speaks of his remembering mercy. She says at the beginning a progenie in progenies, always remembering his mercy from generation to generation, never forgetting to be merciful. Sometimes we forget—he never does."
- [8-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/14/8-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "'Until death do us part,' the words that tell us what we expect of human love, are an expression of permanence. And while that seems to be the ultimate in human love, Mary’s love for her Son demonstrates that even 'unto death' is not long enough. Love must last beyond the bounds of space and
- [8-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/13/8-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "All you have to do is, from time to time, to utter a few words, above all the following, which may be your only prayer: 'My God, into your hands I commend my spirit,' or perhaps: 'My God, my soul is in your holy grasp…. To you I leave all care of it and wish
- [8-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/12/8-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Try to practice the lesson of our blessed father [Francis de Sales] who told us: “Keep your eyes upon God and let him do his will.” Be of good heart, find your consolation in the will of God, and rest assured that your faith, your hope, and your love of him are greater and more
- [8-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/11/8-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "[Blessed Lawrence] followed Christ as a perfect imitator of his life and virtues, in total sanctity, as a worshipper and lover of God, carrying within himself the image of that heavenly man who is Our Lord Jesus Christ." --Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (+ 1619) Intention: Lord, Please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism.
- [8-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/09/8-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The Savior has preceded us on the way of poverty. All the goods in heaven and on earth belonged to him. They presented no danger to him; he could use them and yet keep his heart completely free of them. But he knew that it is scarcely possible for people to have possessions without succumbing
- [8-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/08/8-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Together with humility, the cross develops in us the three virtues that are properly divine and are the heart of the Christian life: faith, hope, and charity. The cross makes our soul similar to the soul of Christ, and therefore similar to God. " --Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (+ 1964) Intention: Please bless all
- [8-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/08/8-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Our Lord asks us to allow him to work—to allow him to work to reproduce his image in us. Our Lord does not ask us to love suffering in itself, but to love it as a means of salvation, just as a very bitter medicine that will give us back our health can be loved.
- [8-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/06/8-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Beg Jesus to speak incessantly to your soul. I assure you that his voice will teach you more in a single day than can the schools of learned men in many years. Don’t hesitate any longer to recollect your mind and your spirit in a holy way, and to stay in God’s presence." --Blessed Clelia
- [8-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/06/8-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Christ was transfigured that he might show us the transfiguration of our nature that is to come -- his second coming, for our salvation, which will be on the clouds, with the voice of archangels." --Saint Proclus of Constantinople ( + 446) Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me.
- [8-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/04/8-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Here below the greatest love is silent love. Such is the love of Jesus in the Eucharist. That silence teaches us more than words and it tells us how much Jesus loves us." --Servant of God Luis María Martínez (+ 1956) Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Monday:
- [8-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/03/8-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Father, I firmly believe that your love is infinite. How could the love of your children vie with yours? Oh! The immensity of your fatherly love! All that is yours is mine. You counseled me to pray with sincerity, and I entrust myself to you, Father, full of goodness." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyên Văn Thuân
- [8-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/03/8-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Love, that’s the starting point of the Christian life; it’s the place of departure of God towards his creature, of Jesus Christ towards man; and nothing is more just than it becoming the starting point of man towards God. But before becoming a point of departure, the love of Jesus must be a point of
- [8-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/08/01/8-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The Father knows how to console his children in their last moments. Even in the midst of suffering and pain, he pours into their souls a certain sweetness and peace as a foretaste of paradise…. Those who face death with God’s love in their hearts begin to feel that peace that they will enjoy forever
- [8-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/31/8-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Those then who die obeying the commandments die in the love of God. And those who love need never fear. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear (1 Jn 4:18)…." --Saint Alphonsus Liguori (+ 1787) Intention: I praise You, Lord, that You are bigger than any problem I could possibly
- [7-31-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/31/7-31-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Imagine the leader of all the enemy in that great plain of Babylon. He is seated on a throne of fire and smoke, in aspect horrible and terrifying. Consider how he summons uncountable devils, disperses some to one city and others to another, and thus throughout the whole world, without missing any provinces, places, states,
- [7-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/30/7-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "[Jesus] was buried, so that he might undergo the entire process of death, so that death be put to death by death, so that by the seed of his body all the human bodies that had been planted would rise and be lifted up unto the harvest of life…. [And] if we believe that the Judge
- [7-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/28/7-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Ordinary things await us at every moment of life. If we all accomplished our humble tasks with the heart of Jesus, his revolution of love would be complete and success would be in our hands! My surprise and joy will be great when I hear Jesus say to me, Well done, good and faithful servant; you
- [7-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/28/7-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "By your example, Lord Jesus, you have taught me to live close to reality and to value ordinary tasks: gathering leftover loaves and fish, fishing, cooking, buying oil, visiting the abandoned and sick, sharing food and clothes, loving, pardoning those who do me wrong… many completely ordinary responsibilities! Each of us carries out ordinary tasks
- [7-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/26/7-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "What wisdom was it, what knowledge, that made Our Lady able to accept these things and say, Be it done unto me according to thy word with so whole a will?… What was the secret which enabled her to translate all this suffering into joy? It was the secret of a twofold love, which our Lord
- [7-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/25/7-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Our Lady knew perfectly well what kind of a world it was into which Christ was to be born. It is strange that she did, for her own life had been sheltered enough, lived in Nazareth, an out-of-the-way village, lying in a ring of hills like the hollow in a chalice. Her future too was
- [7-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/25/7-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "What baffling things [Our Lady] would have to face! The slaughter of the innocents and Christ the innocent cause of it, the flight from Herod, the life in exile, and the Child being hunted all his life long; his fasting, so much against the grain for a mother; his choice to be homeless, after all
- [7-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/23/7-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The Word of God in the flesh made his abode in [the mother of God]…. He made our human nature divine, and bestowed on us, according to the holy apostle, things the angels desire to look into (1 Pt 1:12). Such is the extraordinary honor and all-surpassing glory of the Ever-Virgin." --Saint Gregory Palamas (+ 1359)
- [7-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/22/7-23-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The ways of God are not our ways. It is true that [the spiritual life] goes upward, but by our lowering ourselves. It is true that it purifies the soul, but in the midst of temptations and falls. It is true that its light increases, yet the light is one that is overshadowed with darkness.
- [7-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/21/7-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The ways of God are not our ways. We conceive the spiritual life according to our own way of thinking: that is, in a very human way, especially in the beginning. We imagine that it is a life that always tends upward, in which a person continually ascends and never falls back. We think that
- [7-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/20/7-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "In the new and eternal Law, there is only one single commandment, a new commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. To love others as God loves them is to love God as he wishes to be loved. " --Father Tony El Khoury Intention: Lord, please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism.
- [7-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/19/7-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Love is the path of God to us and our path toward God. To love Jesus is to follow the commandments and the words of the Gospel, in which God speaks and manifests his will of love. We must listen attentively, deeply, for they transform the heart into a source of love." --Father Tony El
- [7-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/19/7-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The inclination to hiddenness is a quiet mark of holiness. It corresponds to the secrecy of relations between a soul and God. For it seems to be God’s consistent habit with souls to conceal himself even when they are close to him." --Father Donald Haggerty Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please
- [7-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/18/7-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "How unnatural it is not to speak to him, to ask him to help us, to express our sorrow if we offend him, to admire his goodness, to thank him for his benefits…. Our Lord, who is God, showed that he wished people to lay their requests before him. He let people ask him, and
- [7-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/17/7-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Be very grateful to the Lord, who in his immense love has chosen to have great intimacy with you here on earth and then later on…. " --Saint Maria Maravillas of Jesus (+ 1974) Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Wednesday: New Possibilities 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection
- [7-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/16/7-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Always seek this beautiful virtue of humility, which the Blessed Virgin will teach you. She will make you live in the truth, so you might love and serve only the Lord." --Saint Maria Maravillas of Jesus (+ 1974) Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Tuesday: God’s Gentleness
- [7-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/15/7-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Be very grateful to the Lord, who in his immense love has chosen to have great intimacy with you here on earth and then later on... Just imagine what it will be in heaven!" --Saint Maria Maravillas of Jesus (+ 1974) Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting
- [7-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/14/7-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "That which flowed out of his heart was a stream that cleansed and brought new life for us. 'O Blood and water which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in you.'” --Sister Faustina Maria Pia, S.V. Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and
- [7-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/13/7-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Before Jesus gave himself totally on Calvary, he desired our attention. Scourged and crowned with thorns, he was brought out in front of the crowd gathered, as Pilate dramatically announced, Behold the man! (Jn 19:5). The eyes of all were fixed on Jesus. Behold the man. Fully God, yet fully man. Disfigured by the lashes, Jesus did not try
- [7-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/12/7-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - “'I try to see things and beings with the eyes of Christ.' A better definition of faith cannot be given. It is enough to add: 'to see God with the eyes of Christ.' But this new point of view is obtained after much sacrifice and humility. It is also the occasion of a great source
- [7-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/11/7-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Pray for so many of your brothers who never pray. Praise, bless, thank, and love the Lord even for those who do not know and love him. May the pleasing incense of your prayers rise to the throne of God as rose the fragrance of the prayers of Mary Most Holy, calling divine mercy down
- [7-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wedensday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/10/7-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wedensday/) - "Before starting your activities, offer Jesus a few words of your choosing. Then, during your work often lift up your mind to God. You will benefit much and there will be no detriment to your job. First and foremost, watch how anything concerning yourself or others is begun. Direct it first to God with any
- [7-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/09/7-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The faith of Christ overcame the world. The doctrine of the Gospel enlightened mankind; the darkness and delusions of false religions faded before the resplendent light of Christianity; the Church of God rose conspicuous on their ruins and has always remained in the public profession of the same faith, in the teaching of the same
- [7-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/08/7-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "God wills everyone to be saved (1 Tm 2:4), and as he created the world with the greatest ease by a simple word, so he can very easily justify a man in a moment, in the blink of an eye…. He very easily changed Thomas from a disbelieving and stubborn man into an apostle of the
- [7-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/06/7-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "You see, we have lost so completely the notion of the entire confidence that he expects of us that we sometimes make a prayer of the words for which he reproached his apostles: Lord, save us; we are perishing! This is not how we should pray, but rather, “With you, Jesus, I cannot perish; you are
- [7-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/06/7-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - A gift is precious particularly when it is the result of self-denial, when one deprives oneself of what is given. And the Word, in a particular way, deprived himself of his divine riches to be able to become one of us. The poverty of God is an expression of his agape, of his being love. --Cardinal
- [7-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/04/7-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The best exegesis of the beatitude about the poor is the life of Christ itself. Saint Paul writes, Jesus Christ, though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich (2 Cor 8:9)…. 'He took on bodily poverty, in order to enrich us spiritually,' comments Saint
- [7-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/04/7-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Love denotes an act of fundamental assent to another, a 'yes' to the person towards whom the love is directed: 'It is good that you exist' is Josef Pieper's striking definition of the nature of love. The lover discovers the goodness of being in this person, is happy because of his or her existence, says
- [7-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/03/7-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Virtue, dearly beloved, is something precious and valuable, and among all the things held in admiration in this life, it would, I think, be preferred by those who are in the habit of viewing matters rightly. One would with very good reason commend the good and honest man who would be willing to undergo countless
- [7-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/07/02/7-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The first way to work for peace in the world is to let Jesus establish it in our souls." --Father Jean du Coeur de Jesus D Elbee (1982) Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a moral, law-abiding, and God-honoring citizenry, so that we are worthy of self-governance. Tuesday: Devil’s Trap of
- [6-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/22/6-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Repose united with religious observance disposes man to forget for a while the business of this daily life, and to turn his thought to heavenly things and to the worship which he so strictly owes to the eternal Deity (Pope Leo XIII). Sundays and holy days are meant to remind us that, in addition to
- [6-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/21/6-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The sinner who has recovered the grace which he had lost has three reasons to be full of joy. He should rejoice that he did not die in his sins and face everlasting punishment. He should be glad because he has been restored to God's favor though he merited it not. He should rejoice that
- [6-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/19/6-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Do not take the name of the Lord in vain. Love your neighbor more than yourself. Do not kill a fetus by abortion or commit infanticide. Do not withdraw your hand from your son or your daughter; but from their youth teach them the fear of God. Do not covet your neighbor's goods; do not
- [6-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/19/6-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Love your Maker; reverence your Creator; glorify him who ransomed you from death; be single of heart and exuberant of spirit; do not associate with such as walk in the way of death; abhor everything not pleasing to God; detest every form of hypocrisy; do not by any means neglect the commandments of the Lord.
- [6-18-24  Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/18/6-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The Christ-life is a joyful one, but it is hard, it is not easy, because it is never for one moment the line of least resistance; it is a continual conquest. The non-Christian of the post-Christian world, often a charming and amiable person, can rid himself of the agony of temptation simply by giving way
- [6-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/17/6-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The world is obsessed by suffering, and everyone who thinks at all asks, and has a perfect right to ask, what all this suffering means, what purpose, if any, does it serve, why is it allowed? Questions which can only be answered in the light of Christ's coming to earth to take the burden of
- [6-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/16/6-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The devil, through his extraordinary action... tries to destroy the confidence of each man and each woman to love and be loved. [But may our hearts be filled] with the hope that is based on the rock, the Word of God, that neither rain, nor the overflowing of rivers, nor the blowing of violent winds
- [6-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/15/6-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The enemy of the human race, who rebelled against God and who intends to bring all creation to perdition and destruction, also wishes to make us lose the hope of love and joy in each moment of our lives, including the final moment, when through God's mercy we shall have restored to us the possibility
- [6-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/13/6-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "This is the heart of Christian life: charity, mercy, and acceptance. At the sunset of our life, all that will remain is that particle of love that we have placed in each thing. There is, however, another side to this coin: besides being judged on love, we shall also be judged by Love, that is,
- [6-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/13/6-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The last judgment issued on our life will be based on love. Indeed, we ourselves shall reveal the naked truth of our reality to all when we appear before God's presence." --Father Gabriele Amorth (+ 2016) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a President and Justice Department who are non-partisan in their actions. I
- [6-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/12/6-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "'In the evening of life, we shall be judged on love.' With this dazzling expression the great 16th-century mystic Saint John of the Cross expresses theologically the same mysterious reality that Jesus presented to his disciples shortly before offering his life in redemption for mankind. Portrayed majestically by Matthew in chapter 25 of his Gospel,
- [6-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/11/6-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "What a test of faith is this daily round, this pressure of seeming trivialities! What a test of faith in the dull, wearing pain, lacking all glamour and grandeur! All the time, the heart of the contemplative is racing out beyond appearances to embrace the Beloved who cannot be seen, cannot be felt. It means
- [6-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/09/6-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "What the heart of a God-man desires ultimately cannot be fully understood. But this heart of flesh -- which, though transfigured, still beats in heaven -- must surely be filled with ardor and tenderness, with hope and inexhaustible, never-ending love... The world of today, with its discoveries and boundless aspirations, can no longer understand it."
- [6-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/09/6-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Christ wants to give us paradise. He wants us to be where he is, to show us his eternal glory... We feel the heart of a friend, of a brother, of a loving teacher, of a father who gives to his own everything he can: participation in his divinity..." --Servant of God Chiara Lubich (+ 2008)
- [6-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/08/6-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Beloved people, let us keep these things in mind and consider that the human body is like a blossoming plant that dries up and shrivels on account of the sun's heat. When old age descends on it with sickness, all the fairness of youth will go away. But Christ's countenance is to be loved above
- [6-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/07/6-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "[At the final judgment,] the holy and faithful people will travel into life with melody, and they will journey together with the host of angels to the upper kingdom, where they will happily dwell forever in blessedness. And they will never be separated from that eternal joy. Thus, beloved people, we have great need to
- [6-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/06/6-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "A consequence of this discipleship, of the Christian life as consecration to God, is the will to direct all our attention toward God. All along in the Gospels, Jesus shows us how to turn to the Father. He did this when he fasted and prayed in the desert; on the mountain, when he praised the
- [6-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/04/6-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The Psalms and many liturgical texts continue to remind us that we are created by God and for God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture (Ps 100:3). The first question in the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts before us this
- [6-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/04/6-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "We, after our conversion by the Word, have separated ourselves from demons and have attached ourselves to the only unbegotten God, through his Son." --Saint Justin the Martyr (+ 165) Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians in the world, and keep them safe. God bless Jerusalem, and all of Israel! I
- [6-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/03/6-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Mary is the 'Morning Star' that announces the arrival of the Rising Sun, the Sun of Justice, Jesus the Savior. May she bring us to Jesus, she who is the first to believe." --Francis Cardinal Arinze Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with
- [6-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/02/6-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "May [Mary's] disposition be ours also. May she who was conceived without sin help us all, poor sinners, to seek only God, to do penance, and to live always for righteousness (1 Pt 2:24)." --Francis Cardinal Arinze Intention: Thank You God that You’re in control. Thank You that You’re working behind the scenes. Thank
- [6-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/06/01/6-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Jesus has chosen the Blessed Virgin Mary to participate in our redemption. And the Blessed Virgin will lead us to Jesus. We pray for her to obtain for each of us the light, the grace of the Holy Spirit, so that each of us may see what the Lord wants..." --Francis Cardinal Arinze Intention:
- [5-31-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/31/5-31-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "I imagine you are like me. I need to be happy; I need to live on love; I need to be festive; I need to sing, and for all that, to which my being aspires, I need to know that I am forgiven..." --Father Jean du Coeur de Jesus d'Elbee (+ 1982) Intention: Lord,
- [5-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/30/5-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Live this faith, this hope, and this love. Live the theological virtues, so named because they lead us to God and unite us to him. Live this humble confidence and all the rest will be added unto you (Mt 6:33). It is this which intimately unites the soul to Jesus, which brings us heart to heart with
- [5-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/29/5-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Beloved people, though dead bones cannot speak from a sepulcher, nevertheless we may teach ourselves something through them, because we should always remember our passing away and that we will never again go about here in the world. And thus we may do some good..." --Anglo-Saxon Spirituality Intention: Lord, please give us a population
- [5-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/27/5-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Jesus' parting words to his disciples are a commission to spread this communion of divine life as widely as possible... Our triune God shares himself infinitely while remaining undiminished. That is the mystery of the Trinity. The desire of God, Father, Son, and Spirit, is to attract all mankind into his current of divine love,
- [5-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/26/5-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "O Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Word, you infuse yourself into the soul so gently that it does not understand you, and, not being understood, your ineffable gift is esteemed by few. Yet besides your goodness, you infuse into the soul the power of the Father, and the wisdom of the Son." --Saint
- [5-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/26/5-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Come, come, Holy Spirit! Come, union of the Father, contentment of the Word, glory of the angels. O Spirit of Truth, you are the reward of the saints, the refreshment of souls, light in darkness, wealth of the poor, treasure of those who love, abundance of food for the hungry, comfort of pilgrims, and in
- [5-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/25/5-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Love, we know, unites, assimilates, and unifies those who love one another: souls that love Christ are like unto him, a bundle of myrrh; with them as with Christ, fragrance emanates from wounds." --Servant of God Luis Maria Martinez (+ 1956) Intention: Lord, please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism. I thank You
- [5-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/24/5-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Sanctity, which is love, is the fragrance that springs from the Mystical Body of Christ when enemies wound it." --Servant of God Luis Maria Martinez (+ 1956) Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a moral, law-abiding, and God-honoring citizenry, so that we are worthy of self-governance. Friday: Offering Suffering 1st Sorrowful
- [5-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/23/5-23-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The love of Christ flows chiefly from his wounds, from his suffering. On the cross his love, as a strong and exquisite perfume that escapes from the vessel of alabaster that holds it, was diffused over heaven and earth." --Servant of God Luis Maria Martinez (+ 1956) Intention: Please bless all my loved ones
- [5-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/22/5-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "How does Mary feel towards us? Our Blessed Mother would take us in her arms and tell us that she loves us more than anyone else because we love her Son. This is what she wants most -- that everyone would love her Son." -- Servant of God Ida Peterfy (+ 2000) Intention: Dear
- [5-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/21/5-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Devotion to our Blessed Mother is a powerful means of grace for us because of her intercession for us and because of the great efficacy of her prayers." --Servant of God Ida Peterfy (+ 2000) Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Tuesday: Invoke the Blood of Jesus 1st
- [5-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/19/5-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "See Mary's total unity with the will of God. In this respect she bore the consequences of sin in union with her Son, our Lord. She held her Son, and she is holding the Church. She is our Mother of Perpetual Help. She is total, continuous help, always for others. She is the Mother of All
- [5-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/19/5-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Not only does the Holy Spirit wash the stains from our souls and our minds, but he heals the wounds and bruises of life, he softens the pride that is so often the major cause of our unhappiness and bows our 'stiff necks' to the yoke that is sweet and brings us peace." --Caryll Houselander
- [5-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/18/5-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "If we turn for a moment to the child's catechism and think what the 'gifts and fruits' of the Holy Spirit listed there are, we can see at once why the inflowing of the Spirit of God gives joy to men even in the midst of suffering and hardship: peace, patience, fortitude, wisdom, understanding, joy
- [5-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/16/5-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Lord, you promise all things to those who ask with faith. Grant that we may arrive only on the day in which your plan for us is fulfilled." --Servant of God Chiara Lubich (+ 2008) Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me.
- [5-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/15/5-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "O Soul of the Mystical Body, who vivifies the humanity of Christ, the head, and every one of his members, reveal to us the profound life and unity of this Body that is glorious in heaven, suffers in purgatory, and struggles here below. Make us understand that even now we belong to the family of
- [5-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/15/5-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The disciples of Christ were truly recognized by the sign that he himself had given them. The pagans were forced to exclaim: "Look how they love one another!" --Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (+ 1964) Intention: I call in healing and righteousness for America, in Jesus' name. Amen. Wednesday: Emanate the Kindness 1st Glorious
- [5-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/14/5-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "When we are tempted to judge our neighbor severely, to be scandalized or irritated, we should pray and light will shine in us and in the soul for whom we are praying." --Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (+ 1964) Intention: I have my trust and confidence in Almighty God. He is my source. Tuesday:
- [5-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/13/5-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "God wills that we bear with one another in charity. Bear with one another charitably (Eph 4:2)." --Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (+ 1964) Intention: Thank You God that You’re in control. Thank You that You’re working behind the scenes. Monday: We Have Help 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Behold, you will conceive in
- [5-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/12/5-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "We are truly brothers and sisters of Christ, as he himself said: My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it." --Venerable Lucia of Fatima, O.C.D. (+ 2005) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace,
- [5-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/11/5-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "We see that devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary must be established in the world by means of a true consecration, through conversion and self-giving. --Venerable Lucia of Fatima, O.C.D. (+ 2005) Intention: Lord, please make of America a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the rest of
- [5-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/10/5-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Our Lady of Faith, Mother of all the lonely and the frightened of all the ages, help us to keep faith through the long days and the longer nights: faith in God, who does not desert us, who is with us all days, even unto the consummation of the world (Mt 28:20)." --Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P.
- [5-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/09/5-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Come, Holy Spirit, sanctify me! My desire for holiness is so great! Sanctify me yourself; make haste to make me holy and a great saint, without my knowing it, in the self-effacement of my daily life." --Sister Carmela of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D. (+ 1949) Intention: Lord, please preserve our rights to meaningful representation
- [5-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/08/5-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "O Spirit of truth, make me know your Word; teach me to remember all he has said; enlighten me, guide me, make me conformable to Jesus as an alter Christus, another Christ, by giving me his virtues, especially his patience, humility, and obedience; let me take part in his redemptive work by making me understand
- [5-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/07/5-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The Holy Spirit is our Advocate in prayer. He prays from within us, bringing our prayers to our heavenly Father in his own voice." --Father Paul Scalia Intention: Lord, please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. I thank You God ahead of time for this.
- [5-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/06/5-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Do not think of or desire anything other than what is right and especially pleasing to God, that is, the virtues and good works done in God's honor. Remain in truth and charity, and you will be acceptable to God, to the angels, and to men. Be not afraid. The evil one may be able
- [5-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/04/5-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "God is truth and will not permit liars to remain hidden for long. The evil one may be able to disguise himself for a time, but the truthful man will finally prevail, and the one who utters falsehoods will be reduced to confusion when he least suspects." --Venerable Thomas A. Kempis (+ 1471) Intention:
- [5-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/04/5-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Stand firmly in the truth, and the truth will set you free from all deceit, iniquity, and falsehood spoken against you. All that is maliciously fabricated about a neighbor will revert to the head of the fabricator." --Venerable Thomas A. Kempis (+ 1471) Intention: Please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism. I thank
- [5-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/03/5-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Only if God exists, only if he becomes the center of my life, is this love my neighbor as myself possible. But if he exists, if he becomes my center, then it is also possible to reach this inward freedom of love." --Pope Benedict XVI (+ 2022) Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a
- [5-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/02/5-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Those who do not accept themselves take exception to others. True love is fair: where it is leading us is to love oneself as one of the members of Christ's body. Oneself like the others -- becoming free of that false perspective with which we are all born, as if the world revolves around me
- [5-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/05/01/5-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Inner agreement with God belongs to the happy life. Only if this fundamental relationship is right can all the other relationships be right. For that reason it is important throughout one's life and from one's youth onwards to learn and to practice thinking with God, feeling with God, willing with God, so that love may
- [4-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/30/4-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Those who believe see; they see with a light that illumines their entire journey, for it comes from the risen Christ, the morning star which never sets." --Pope Francis Intention: I pray for Your help, Lord, today, in carrying out the work that You have given me to do. Tuesday: God’s Will 1st
- [4-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/29/4-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "I beg you, for love of Christ crucified, let your soul's eye be directed toward God in all that you do." --Saint Catherine of Siena (+ 1380) Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Monday: Humility 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel
- [4-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/28/4-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Many times one goes to a friend for advice and comes away feeling consoled even though no solution to the problem has been found. The reason is that the loving attention the friend has given is worth more than any concrete answer would be. I think that this is what happens very often when we
- [4-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/27/4-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "We blindly abandon our souls to a God who is not seen or felt, but in whom one believes and hopes and sleeps the sweet sleep of love because the soul has found the place of its rest. This is not yet the perfect rest of heaven because that is in eternity and we are
- [4-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/25/4-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "May the sorrows of Jesus and Mary be ever engraved on our hearts and strengthen our union with them, especially during this time in which the torrent of divine grace flows more abundantly in order to blot out iniquities and sanctify souls." --Venerable Mary Magdalen of Jesus in the Eucharist, C.P. (+ 1960) Intention:
- [4-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/24/4-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The Lord Jesus will fortify your souls, he will cleanse them, he will slowly change them in him, so that you may be perfectly one with him, that love may change you here in him." --Blessed Honoratus Kozminski (+ 1916) Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels
- [4-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/24/4-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Prayer is the one occupation of the soul that is really worthwhile. And it is the most effective of all towards what is sometimes called progress in virtue." --Monsignor Philip Hughes (+ 1967) Intention: I praise You, Lord, that You are stronger than communism and totalitarianism. Wednesday: Beginning of New Eternal Life 1st
- [4-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/22/4-23-24/) - "The essence of prayer is that I raise my mind to God. I turn my attention from every other thing. I empty my mind of every other thought. I give my whole mind wholly to God to be filled only by God, so that nothing, literally nothing, stands for the moment between my soul and
- [4-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/22/4-22-24/) - "Jesus here poses the spirit of self-renunciation and mortification as the indispensable condition for following him, for imitating him, for going through this world performing good works. He invites us to taste the sweet pain of a life of voluntary sacrifice, in union with him." --Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida (+ 1937) Intention: Thank
- [4-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/21/4-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Following Jesus means nothing other than reproducing his virtues in ourselves, in order to do all things well." --Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida (+ 1937) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day,
- [4-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/19/4-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "This is the one trait that Jesus points out for us to distinguish him by: he has given his life in the fight for yours. Whatever harm we experience will not go unanswered." --Sister Faustina Maria Pia, S.V. Intention: Lord, please make of America a nation that becomes like a shining city on a
- [4-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/19/4-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Let's learn to open our heart to Jesus, even if sometimes we feel tired and wounded, to free ourselves from the weight of our sin through the only medicine able to heal the deepest wounds of our lives: the Eucharist." --Mother Elvira Petrozzi Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections. Friday:
- [4-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/18/4-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "In order, then, to understand the stages that this divine life offers from the time it is received in baptism until it is fully unfolded in glory, it is essential to keep well before the mind all the mysteries -- joyful, sorrowful, and glorious -- of the life of our Lord. To that end, it
- [4-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/16/4-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "We renew our baptismal vows during the Easter liturgy. What does it mean to renew them? It means to walk in the footsteps of Christ. It means to imitate him. It means to do so without compromise. It means to change the world, and to turn its face to Christ..." --–Servant of God Catherine de
- [4-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/16/4-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The Resurrection of Christ bought us the new life which we received on the day of our baptism. We say that death is no more -- which does not mean that physical death has been abolished; it will come to each one of us. But Jesus Christ changed the very nature of death, made it
- [4-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/15/4-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Christ, who descends into your heart, wants to love; he wants to give himself to others and desires their good. He wants to love more and more, and he desires the greatest good for others, which in the light of faith means desiring their sanctity." --Father Tadeusz Dajczer (+ 2009) Intention: Lord, please bless
- [4-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/14/4-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The imitation of Christ is not as much to literally follow the example of his deeds as it is an adherence to Christ through faith, so that his will becomes our will, so that his life could continuously be expressed in our lifestyle." --Father Tadeusz Dajczer (+ 2009) Intention: Lord, please bless us with
- [4-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/13/4-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Through faith, which allows you to listen intently to the revealed Word and adhere to the person of Christ, you will come to know him who is the example of love, and you will desire to love just as he loved, as he loved to the end." --Father Tadeusz Dajczer (+ 2009) Intention: Lord,
- [4-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/11/4-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We should meditate on [God's] excess of love. True love whereby another being is loved, not only for one's own self-interest but for the other being itself, is not only a passive love but is also active. It is not a simple emotional satisfaction that is born at the sight of a pleasing object, but
- [4-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/10/4-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "In her answer to the angel's message, Mary fulfilled the purpose of her creation. All that God had planned for her she accepted and embraced with her whole will." --Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P. )+ 1988) Intention: Lord, please bless all my loved ones on the other side with love and joy, and may
- [4-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/10/4-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "O my Jesus, direct my mind, take possession of my whole being, enclose me in the depths of your heart, and protect me against the assaults of the enemy. My only hope is in you." --Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (+ 1938) Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all my friends
- [4-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/09/4-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Mary shares our human condition, but in complete openness to the grace of God. Not having known sin, she is able to have compassion on every kind of weakness. She understands sinful man and loves him with a Mother's love." --Saint John Paul II (+ 2005) Intention: The favor of God is upon me.
- [4-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/08/4-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Mary is Mother of Mercy because her Son, Jesus Christ, was sent by the Father as the revelation of God's mercy. Christ came not to condemn but to forgive, to show mercy." --Saint John Paul II (+ 2005) Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Monday: I Love
- [4-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/07/4-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Natural activity does not take the words of Jesus seriously: Apart from me you can do nothing (Jn 15:5). Saint Paul, on the other hand, was convinced that he must let go of all his own strength in order to let God's strength work in him (2 Cor 12:1-10)." --Father Wilfrid Stinissen, O.C.D. (+ 2013) Intention:
- [4-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/06/4-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Doing nothing oneself does not mean that one does nothing at all. It is just the opposite, but one does not do it alone... One should do it, not alone as an independent creature, but as incorporated into the Son and, therefore, like him and with him, the Father's instrument, activated by the Spirit." --Father
- [4-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/04/4-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Another fruit of peace is equilibrium of the soul. Peaceful souls are neither pessimists nor neurotics. They are not smug optimists, but have a wise and legitimate optimism, based on the heart of Jesus, for they know that nothing happens but what God wills and that for the one who lives in faith, everything is
- [4-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/04/4-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Christ's risen life was a hidden life. His glory was hidden during the forty days between the Resurrection and the Ascension; his glory is hidden in his risen life now. The forty days, the hidden life in Nazareth, the hidden life in the world today, have a likeness which is a revelation of the consistency
- [4-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/02/4-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "If, then, you have been raised with Christ, Saint Paul exhorts us, seek the things that are above... Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth (Col 3:1-2). This does not mean cutting oneself off from one's daily commitments, neglecting earthly realities; rather, it means reviving every human activity with a
- [4-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/02/4-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Christ's Resurrection is life to the dead, pardon to sinners, and glory to the saints." --Saint Maximus of Turin (+ 5th century) Intention: Lord, I call in healing and righteousness for America. Tuesday: Devil’s Trap of Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Day after day I was with you
- [4-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/04/01/4-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Let us remember, those of us who have discovered to our surprise that living a Christian life in a pagan world is difficult, that here in the Pieta is an answer if we want one. Here is Mary Mother of all; here is the Mass, the sacrifice of Christ until the end of time." --Sister
- [3-31-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/31/3-31-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "In saying that man profited by the Redemption we do not exaggerate. Two gifts were given us at that great reconciliation: his Mother and the Mass." --Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P. (+ 1988) Intention: Thank You, God, that You’re in control. Thank You that You’re working behind the scenes. Thank You that You’re arranging
- [3-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/30/3-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "In [Christ], and through his tremendous love, the transgression was not only blotted out, but man was elevated to a height that he never could have reached without the merits of Christ. No wonder the Holy Saturday liturgy sings so exultantly of Adam's 'happy fault.'" --Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P. (+ 1988) Intention: Lord,
- [3-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/29/3-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Because of the magnitude of man's sin only one atoning sacrifice could blot it out, and in the fullness of time, when man had strayed for centuries, Christ came to pay our debt and to open the sealed gate to heaven..." --Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P. (+ 1988) Intention: Lord, please make of America
- [3-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/28/3-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Christ has given us his own heart to love him with, his own mind to know him with, his own will to surrender ourselves to him with and with which to put those whom we love into his hands, his hands of infinite mercy." --Caryll Houselander (+ 1954) Intention: Lord, please give us fair
- [8-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/27/8-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "To his enemies, this seems to be the hour of their triumph and Christ's defeat, but in fact it is the supreme hour of his triumph. Now, when he seems to be more helpless than he has ever been before, he is in fact more powerful. When he seems to be more limited, more restricted,
- [3-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/25/3-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "No one can speak in the name of Jesus on his own. He alone can empower us to do so. I have put my words in your mouth, God said to Jeremiah at the beginning of his vocation (Jer: 1:9)" --Pope Benedict XVI (+ 2022) Intention: Please give us a population that becomes more religious
- [3-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/25/3-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The disciple whom Jesus loved exclaims: We know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him (1 Jn 4:16). We should proclaim this in the first person with equal forcefulness: I have known and therefore I believe in God's mercy!"
- [3-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/24/3-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Sunday: New Life of Glory 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone
- [3-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/23/3-23-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "We want to be the love that is composed of small daily gestures, which day after day become our life and lead us to realize that our life is a gift for those around us." --Mother Elvira Petrozzi Intention: Please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly.
- [3-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/22/3-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We were born to live. We are called to life, to be the extension of Jesus in the midst of a suffering and lost humanity." --Mother Elvira Petrozzi Intention: Lord, please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Friday: Embraced Our Humanity 1st Sorrowful
- [3-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/21/3-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "During this Easter walk that we are traveling together, we would like to live and experience the healing of our true, profound, interior sickness. In the crossing of the desert... we cleanse ourselves from all that is useless, of our interests, our ambitions..." --Mother Elvira Petrozzi Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with
- [3-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/20/3-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all my friends and relatives and the people who dislike me with good health, financial stability and uplifting relationships with their friends and family. Please bless them with peace, love, joy, happiness and harmony, and please, when their time comes, give them each a peaceful,
- [3-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/19/3-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "When you study in books those beautiful doctrines and that profound science of sanctity that attracts the soul and fills it with enchantment and holy enthusiasm, do not ever forget that it has all come from that school, and only in that school -- in the interior of the soul united to God -- can
- [3-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/18/3-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Peter, the chief and foremost of the apostles, denied the Lord; but, moved to repentance, he wept bitterly. His weeping revealed his heartfelt repentance, and for that reason not only did he receive pardon for his denial, but [he] retained his apostolic prerogative." --Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (+ 386) Intention: Lord, thank You for
- [3-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/17/3-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "[Jesus said:] Do you think that I will abandon you at the moment of death, you who cannot live without me? As a mother embraces her newborn child, so will I enfold you in my love because you are my tiny child, and I know that you cannot do without me." --Sister Mary of the
- [3-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/16/3-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Jesus was born, lived, and died, obeying in order to manifest his love for the Father and by this means to save us... O Holy Virgin, obtain for me the grace of never wasting the least opportunity to obey, because this is the indisputable road to holiness, to maintain interior peace, to please Jesus, and
- [3-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditation for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/15/3-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditation-for-today-friday/) - "Precisely because he was able to say, The Father and I are one (Jn 10:30), he was also able to affirm, Without me you can do nothing (Jn 15:5)... For not one moment is man self-made. At every single moment, he is made by Another." --Servant of God Luigi Giussani (+ 2005) Intention: Lord, I thank You
- [3-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/14/3-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "[Jesus'] insistence on prayer resounds in the chapters on the Last Supper. And the final prayer is the one that would synthesize the luminous and mysterious content of the conscious, constant bond between Jesus and the Father: All I have is yours and all you have is mine (Jn 17:10)..." --Servant of God Luigi Giussani (+ 2005)
- [3-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/13/3-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Take up your cross, and follow me. Up to this time God has put his shoulder to all the heavy burdens of my life; now he has stepped out from under the load, and heavy is its weight, and bitter is its bitterness. Now the watchword is: Bow down in suffering, love your enemies, avoid your
- [3-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/11/3-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "When nothing any longer arises for the soul except bitterness, both from God and from men; when one is reduced to the same state as our Lord when he exclaimed on the cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?, then it is that the soul's act of love saves the world and it becomes,
- [3-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/10/3-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Jesus purifies in the crucible of pain the hope of his most intimate friends." --Father Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, O.P. (+ 1964) Intention: I have my trust and confidence in Almighty God. He is my source. Monday: Vocations to Religious Life 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Above all, let your love for one another
- [3-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/10/3-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The Christian, in the Church, must always await the return of Christ, who died and rose again once for all, bringing with him, as well as death to the present world, the resurrection of believers, the new creation of a world regenerated." --Father Louis Bouyer (+ 2004) Intention: Lord, thank You that I am
- [3-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/08/3-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "We have to decide first of all between the prince of this world and Christ. Humanity has gone astray by following the promptings of pride and pleasure-seeking egotism. The new Christian is first of all someone who wants to break with this error and to follow the Son of Man, who came not to be
- [3-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/08/3-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "All people must take great care not to allow themselves to be tainted by the attitude of the Pharisee [in the Gospel parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector], which would seek to eliminate awareness of one's own limits and of one's own sin..." --Saint John Paul II (+ 2005) Intention: Lord, please
- [3-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/07/3-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "I beg you for the love of Jesus Christ to keep three things in mind: the first is the hour of death, which none of us can escape; the second, the pain and suffering of hell; and the third, the glory and beatitude of paradise... Reflect on the glory and beatitude that Jesus Christ has
- [3-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/06/3-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Your time each day should be taken up with three things: prayer, work, and looking after your bodily needs." --Saint John of God (+ 1550) Intention: Lord, please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for freedom of religion, the right for freedom of assembly, the
- [3-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/05/3-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "We owe God three things: love, service, and reverence. Love: as our heavenly Father we should love him above all the things of the world. Service: as Lord, we should serve him not for the sake of the glory he will give to those who have served him, but solely for his goodness. Reverence: as
- [3-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/04/3-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "May we never go without the affection and tenderness of Mary, who whispers the word of God in our ears. Then we will receive the power to turn a deaf ear to the blandishments of the Evil One, and walk away laughing." --Pope Francis Intention: Lord, please bless us with a President and Justice
- [3-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/03/3-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "To aim for the truth is to follow a call planted in us by God. So it is natural for every man to follow the truth and to abhor lies. Truth is always associated with love, and true love is self-sacrificing." --Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko (+ 1984) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a Constitution
- [3-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/03/02/3-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "During the infamous trial of Jesus Christ, Pontius Pilate asked what was, is, and ever shall be a topical question: What is truth? For a Christian the answer is fairly simple. It was given to us by the same Christ when he described himself saying: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. It follows that Christ
- [3-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/29/3-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Those Christians are mistaken who think that religion consists in saving their souls in the sense of simply frequenting the sacraments and saying their daily prayers while they pay very little or no attention to their duties toward their neighbor. They have to learn that to be a good father, mother, spouse, son, daughter, citizen,
- [2-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/29/2-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "I can always rejoice in the face of any suffering, humiliation, trial, interior or exterior pain, by reflecting that you, O Jesus, do me the honor of inviting me to participate in your Passion, in your redemptive work for souls. Therefore, far from considering these sorrows as evils, teach me to embrace them and to
- [2-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/28/2-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Oh Lord, I wish to draw down your mercy on this poor world, not only by the generosity of my sacrifice and my detachment, but also by the generosity of my confidence. I want to believe against all evidence, hope against all hope; I want to believe with unshakable confidence, even when things seem to
- [2-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/27/2-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Love of our neighbors is the greatest act of gratitude that we can show God for his love." --Blessed Franz Jagerstatter (+ 1943) Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Tuesday: Accepting Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: When he rose from prayer and returned
- [2-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/26/2-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Why has God created us? That we might serve him, love him, and worship him in order to become eternally happy. Is God pleased when we meditate frequently on eternal happiness? It would very much displease God if we were to reflect only a little on heaven. Eternal joy, eternal delight, light without darkness, and
- [2-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/25/2-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The apostles, privileged to witness the Transfiguration, certainly knew our Lord better as a result. The human veil over his divinity was for a moment lifted, and they beheld his heavenly splendor... They also beheld the 'upward call' of every Christian... Saint Augustine says that the transfigured Christ reveals what his Body is to become.
- [2-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/24/2-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "All are created in the image of God and called to be part of his family and enjoy the same glory. Therefore, it is clear that we ought to love those also who are naturally indifferent to us, and even our enemies, because they do not cease by this reason from being sons of God
- [2-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/23/2-23-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "To love our neighbor in a supernatural way it is sufficient to look at him with the eyes of faith and to remember that, though he differs from us in condition and character, he is still born, like us, not only of flesh, of blood, and of the will of man, but of God (Jn
- [2-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/21/2-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Now, he who has raised him from the dead will raise us also, provided we do his will, make his commandments our rule of life, and love what he loves; if we abstain from every kind of wrongdoing, avarice, love of money, slander, and false testimony; if we do not repay wrong with wrong, abuse with abuse, blow with
- [2-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/21/2-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "[Jesus] wants to personally come to every land and nation, in every time and place, particularly in the Eucharist. In his love for all, Jesus does not excuse those who veer off the path or pretend that scandal does not seriously hurt us and others (Lk 17:1-2). He corrects in order to heal." --Saint Faustina
- [2-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/20/2-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "With the Our Father, we need not fear the forms of narrowness we can find in prayers of request. Its supplications are related entirely to God's glory, and everything converges with a perfect order toward God's honor. And in this we find the supreme praise of this sublime prayer, namely...to have transformed the expression of
- [2-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/19/2-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "As a collaborator of love, I do everything to Jesus, my beloved Lord. Here is an easy formula to remember: 'Others = Jesus.'" --Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan (+ 2002) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we
- [2-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/17/2-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "We would be removing an important part of the Gospel were we to leave out [the angels] sent by God, who announce and are s sign of his presence among us. Let us invoke them frequently so that they may sustain us in our commitment to follow Jesus to the point of identifying with him.
- [2-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/17/2-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "A conversion may entail a soul's return to the state of grace with a sacramental confession of serious sins. But even then the significance is less the expunging of sin and much more the entry of God into the deeper hunger of the soul. This gift of God to the soul, however, does not prevent
- [2-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/16/2-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Not long after a serious conversion, it happens that the immense distance between goodness and evil can become very lucid to our awareness. There is an intuition of soul that there is no middle ground between the two, no overlap or sharing, and that a choice in life is inevitably made for one or the
- [2-15-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/15/2-15-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Lord, here are my hands./ Place in them what you will,/ Take from them what you will,/ Lead me where'er you will,/ In everything -- your will be done." --Blessed Eduard Muller (+ 1943) Intention: Lord, please give us a population that becomes more religious again, and has a revival. I thank You God
- [2-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/14/2-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "[Christ's] every act, his every word, must be enclosed in our desire, for if we are to fulfill our desire to see him when the door of death opens (and even before, for the kingdom of God begins now) we have to imitate him whom we are going to look at." --Servant of God Catherine
- [2-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/13/2-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Lent should fan our desire for God into a bonfire... Each one of us can enter into his own heart and look for that desire for God. It might be a little flame barely visible, or it might already be a bonfire in us." --Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty (+ 1985) Intention:
- [2-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/12/2-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Saint Peter shows great serenity at the thought of the fact that death is not far away, but at the same time he does not forget the people entrusted to him. He wrote them: I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. And I will see
- [2-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/11/2-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Someone has remarked that Pope John Paul II taught us more from the wheelchair than from his fourteen encyclical letters. This is a way of underlining his complete acceptance of the will of God, which came to him by way of so many hospitalizations and surgical interventions, and difficulty in walking and even in speaking.
- [2-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/10/2-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "[God] wants to test you as gold is tested in a furnace; the dross and impurity that are in the gold are consumed in the fire, while the good gold is preserved and increases in value." --Saint Jerome Emiliani (+ 1537) Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a moral, law-abiding, and God-honoring
- [2-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/09/2-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Our benign Lord has wanted to increase in you the faith and to answer your holy prayer to him. He also wants to make use of you who are poor, troubled, afflicted, wearied, despised by all. Our blessed Lord wants to show you that he desires to number you among his dear children, if you
- [2-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/08/2-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "When we pray the Rosary, we certainly give great pleasure to the divine Mother and draw great blessings from God upon ourselves and our families." --Saint Maximillian Kolbe (+ 1941) Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Thursday: Sanctified Waters 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the
- [2-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/07/2-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "[Asking the intercession of the Immaculata in the rosary] is an easy prayer. It is also a very sublime prayer, though, because by reciting it we reflect on the mysteries of faith. Moreover, the more one is keen and competent in matters of faith, the deeper one can reflect on these mysteries and be led
- [2-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/06/2-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The concerns the Lord gives me are very great: the salvation of souls, their sanctification, that those who are called children of God may be so in truth, that God be loved as he desires by each one. The sanctification of souls -- this seems to be my special mission on earth and in heaven."
- [2-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/05/2-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "... adopting the Christian faith means taking up the cross, in the sense the crusaders gave to the expression. It means not only being ready to stand up for one's beliefs but actually enlisting, equipped with the appropriate arms, in the struggle in which the prize is our true freedom and, with it, the liberation
- [2-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/04/2-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The prayer of silence has always been part of Catholic worship, though many are unfamiliar with it. If you try spending ten minutes a day quietly letting God's love permeate you, you will be participating in a very traditional mode of prayer. It is the dialogue of heart speaking to heart which takes place in
- [2-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/03/2-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Even in the very little that is said about Our Lady in the Gospels, there is evidence that she brought the utmost trust in God and courage to Christ's growing from babyhood to boyhood. That travail of the heart bravely borne had prepared her for his adolescence, and when it came her heart answered as
- [2-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/02/2-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The ways of God for attaining perfection are ways of struggle, of dryness, of humiliations, and even of falls. To be sure, there is light and peace and sweetness in the spiritual life: and indeed a splendid light [and] a peace above anything that could be desired, and a sweetness that surpasses all the consolations
- [2-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/02/01/2-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Every time we suffer a calamity in our spiritual life, we grow alarmed and think we have lost our way. For we have fancied an even road for ourselves, a footpath, a way strewn with flowers. Hence, upon finding ourselves in rough way, one filled with thorns, one lacking all attraction, we think we have
- [1-31-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/31/1-31-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "[The Lord] goes so far as to say that if the sinner repents, he wants to forget his sins as though they had never been committed. Hear his very words: If the sinner repents, he shall be forgiven, and I shall forget all his iniquities (Ez 18:21-22)." --Saint John Bosco (+ 1888) Intention: Thank
- [1-30-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/30/1-30-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Oh, with what love, with what tenderness does God embrace a sinner who returns to him! Let us recall again the well-known parable of the lost sheep. The Good Shepherd finds the sheep, carries it on his shoulders, takes it back home, and calls his friends to share the good news: Rejoice, because I have found
- [1-29-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/29/1-29-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "God has so ordained from all eternity that those who for his honor are united in doing good enjoy every prosperity, and that what they do turns out well, because they have God himself and every one of his creatures in their favor." --Saint Angela Merici (+ 1540) Intention: Lord, please make of America
- [1-28-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/28/1-28-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "When you love you understand many things, and you will see how the golden thread of your life, apparently interrupted, continues to shine as brightly and even more so than before." --Servant of God Chiara Lubich (+ 2008) Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections. Sunday: Help My Unbelief 1st Glorious
- [1-27-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/27/1-27-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "If we Christians do not want to be behind the times, we must put love into everything we do. And we need to be especially vigilant that we are not lacking in love when life proves most difficult and painful..." --Servant of God Chiara Lubich (+ 2008) Intention: Lord, please preserve our rights to
- [1-26-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/26/1-26-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "You see, it is our Lord garbed as a gardener whom we meet day by day, here and there, in the ordinary mortifications that present themselves to us. We want more noble-seeming ones. But the ones that seem the most noble are not the best." -- Saint Francis de Sales (+ 1622) Intention: Lord,
- [1-24-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/24/1-24-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "If you can refrain from trying to do all things, but instead attempt to do only some one thing, then you will do much. Practice the mortifications that most often present themselves to you, for that is the first duty to be done." --Saint Francis de Sales (+ 1622) Intention: Lord, please bless us
- [1-25-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/25/1-25-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Lovingly kiss the crosses that our Lord himself lays upon your arms, without looking to see whether they are of precious or aromatic wood. They are more truly crosses when they are made of a wood that smells dirty and is considered useless." --Saint Francis de Sales (+ 1622) Intention: Lord, please bless us
- [1-23-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/23/1-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "For twenty-six -- from 1942 to 1968 -- I went regularly to San Giovanni Rotundo to meet with Saint Pio of Pietrelcina. Some of the friars had posters in their cells with inscriptions and reminders. Some were from the Bible but Padre Pio had this: "Human greatness has always had sadness for a companion." --
- [1-22-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/22/1-22-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "I love to meditate on this phrase from the Gospel: I am the vine, you are the branches. When we allow ourselves to be infused by the life-giving sap of the Gospel, we will be completely renewed and will be the true Gospel, because we will be filled with the Lord Jesus." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+
- [1-21-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/21/1-21-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "I must be permeated with the Gospel, and then help it to permeate others and today's society. Only in this way will I help to build up a renewed society." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+ 2002) Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a moral, law-abiding, and God-honoring citizenry, so that
- [1-20-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/20/1-20-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Living with Jesus -- what an exhilarating prospect! It would be the same experience that Mary, Joseph, and the apostles lived. Jesus is meek and humble of heart, rich in mercy, the Holy One par excellence in whom all virtues dwell." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+ 2002) Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I
- [1-19-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/19/1-19-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We need to have faith that God brings good out of evil... God really does bring the best out of the worst." --Ruth Pakaluk (+ 1998) Intention: I pray for Your help, Lord, today, in carrying out the work that You have given me to do. Friday: Your Will Be Done 1st Sorrowful
- [1-18-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/18/1-18-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The experience of physical or spiritual suffering patiently endured for God's sake is a most effective way of realigning our will correctly." --Ruth Pakaluk (+ 1998) Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Thursday: Baptism 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: I prayed
- [1-17-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/17/1-17-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Why must we suffer? What does it accomplish? The sin of Adam and Eve was to put their will above God's. This is the essential sin -- to prefer our will to God's will. You can understand suffering as the medicine needed to right the underlying problem." --Ruth Pakaluk (+ 1998) Intention: Father, thank
- [1-16-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/16/1-16-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Therefore, my dear children in the Lord, I want you to know that because of our foolishness he took the form of foolishness, and because of our weakness the form of weakness, and because of our poverty the form of poverty, and because of our death put on the form of a mortal, and endured
- [1-15-24 Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/15/1-15-24-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "It befits you, on account of him who has visited you, not to grow weary in your striving, until you offer yourselves as a sacrifice to God in all holiness, without which none can receive the inheritance..." --Saint Anthony of the Desert (+ 356) Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this
- [1-14-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/14/1-14-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday0/) - "We believe Jesus when we accept his word, his testimony, because he is truthful. We believe in Jesus when we personally welcome him into our lives and journey towards, him, clinging to him in love and following in his footsteps along the way." --Pope Francis Intention: Lord, I praise You that You’re greater than any trouble
- [1-13-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/14/1-13-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "We trust the architect who builds our home, the pharmacist who gives us medicine for healing, he lawyer who defends us in court. We also need someone trustworthy and knowledgeable where God is concerned. Jesus, the Son of God, is the one who makes God known to us. Christ's life, his way of knowing the
- [1-12-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/12/1-12-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Faith does not merely gaze at Jesus, but sees things as Jesus himself sees them with his own eyes: it is a participating in his way of seeing." --Pope Francis Intention: Thank You, Lord, that I am well able to do what You have called me to do. Friday: Press On 1st Sorrowful Mystery:
- [1-11-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/11/1-11-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "God's grace is not measured by what we are. Nor is it given in proportion to our merits." --Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida (+ 1937) Intention: Lord, thank You God that You’re in control. Thank You that You’re working behind the scenes. Thank You that You’re arranging things in our favor. Thursday: Fire
- [1-10-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/10/1-10-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "How different earthly love is when compared to the love of Jesus! We have the assurance that he loves us despite the fact that he knows our lack of beauty and our deficiencies." --Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida (+ 1937) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth
- [1-9-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/09/1-9-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "When I look back in spite of suffering and tears, I can only bless and adore. I begin this new period of life -- long or short, peaceful or sorrowful, according to God's will with these words from my depths: I believe, I adore, I hope." --Servant of God Elisabeth Leseur (+ 1914) Intention:
- [1-8-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/08/1-8-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Baptism only becomes total when faith is total. Then truly we have died with Christ to a purely human life, and risen to his divine way of being." --Ruth Burrows, O.C.D. Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections. Monday: I Love You 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: The true light, which
- [1-7-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/07/1-7-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "To be baptized, to live in the state of baptism, is to live in and by faith: not just to make acts of faith now and then but to live our lives by faith -- absolute trust in the forgiving, self-donating God." --Sister Ruth Burrows, O.C.D. Intention: Dear Lord, please preserve our rights to
- [1-6-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/06/1-6-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Baptism is ultimately the sacrament of the fatherhood of God: by it we become his sons and daughters, which is what being human is all about." --Sister Ruth Burrows, O.C.D. Intention: Lord, please give us a population that becomes more religious again, and has a revival. I thank You God for the revival that
- [1-5-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/05/1-5-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "On Epiphany and the days after it we celebrate [Christ] as the object of our worship. His throne was his undefiled Mother's arms; his chamber of state was a cottage or a cave; the worshipers were the wise men of the East, and they brought presents of gold, frankincense and myrrh." --Saint John Henry Newman
- [1-4-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/04/1-4-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "[The Epiphany feast] is to remember the call of the Gentiles to Christianity and to be the yearly remembrance of this marvelous event. Therefore, this day ought to be for all of us a day of joy and spiritual delight." --Blessed Basil Moreau (+1873) Intention: Dear Lord, please bless us with a Constitution that
- [1-3-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/03/1-3-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "For [the conversion of those who oppose the Catholic faith] it is one of your sacred duties to pray." --Saint John Newmann (+ 1860) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Wednesday: Clean New
- [1-2-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/02/1-2-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Certainly, only he may choose to live who has chosen the name of Jesus for his special own. For no wicked spirit can trouble when Jesus is much in mind and named by the mouth..." --Richard Rolle (+1349) Intention: Please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism. I thank You God ahead of time
- [1-1-24 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2024/01/01/1-1-24-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Imitate Paul, and run, wrestle, and box; and like a good boxer, keep the gaze of your soul undistracted... In the race, stretch forward to what lies ahead. Run so that you may obtain. In wrestling, struggle against the invisible opponents..." --Saint Basil the Great (+ 379) Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America
- [12-31-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/31/12-31-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Soldier, share in sufferings for the Gospel, fight the good fight against the spirits of evil, against the passions of the flesh, take up the full armor of the Spirit..." --Saint Basil the Great (+ 379) Intention: Lord, please bless all my loved ones on the other side with love and joy, and may
- [12-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/30/12-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Thanks to her actual kinship with God according to his human nature, there is a union between Our Lady and God that no other saint can come to, and because of this union her power of intercession is unique." --Msgr. Philip Hughes (+ 1967) Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless
- [12-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/29/12-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "You, seated in majesty on a high throne, were laid in a manger, retaining all your dignity." --Fragment from an Ancient Eucharistic Liturgy Intention: The favor of God is upon me. I am anointed for this assignment. I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Friday: Jesus is Model 1st Sorrowful
- [12-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/28/12-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Let us learn from Our Lady how to cooperate with the divine action... always and everywhere in hidden ways -- its majesty obscured by lowliness, humiliation, suffering." --Sister Ruth Burrows, O.C.D. Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Thursday: Renewal of Baptismal Promises 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism
- [12-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/27/12-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Every Christian life must be a contemplative life overflowing in loving sacrifice." --Sister Ruth Burrows O.C.D. Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when I allow Jesus to step in and be a part of it! Wednesday: All Things Work for Good 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection
- [12-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/26/12-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Satan, the archenemy of God, constantly attacks the innocent, and the world, filled with the spirit of the devil and in imitation of him, does the same." --Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (+ 1619) Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians and keep them safe. Tuesday: Offer to God 1st Sorrowful Mystery:
- [12-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/25/12-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Let us not only love our friends but also our enemies. Then we can come before the tribunal of the eternal judge with a secure conscience and say: Give, Lord, because we have given; forgive, because we have forgiven. We have done what you commanded; so now fulfill what you promised." --Saint Caesarius of Arles
- [12-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/24/12-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Therefore, dearly beloved, let us imitate blessed Stephen as far as God gives us the grace to do so. Let us not only love our friends but also our enemies, because there is nothing whereby we can so well redeem our sins, overcome the devil, and please God." --Saint Caesarius of Arles (+ 543)
- [12-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/23/12-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Behold, I am speaking to whoever says that he is unable to imitate his Lord in love of enemies. Surely blessed Stephen was a man and not God. He was what you are, but he did what he did only with the help of God." --Saint Caesarius of Arles (+ 543) Intention: Lord, thank
- [12-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/22/12-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "May [Jesus] make us into children of God, since for our sake he was willing to be made a child of man." --Saint Augustine (+ 430) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day,
- [12-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/21/12-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "I shall say many prayers of the rosary and read the Holy Scriptures. In this way, I hope, the peace of Christ will be my portion and his grace will be my glory. I am without bitterness; I bear everything with the patience that only Christ gives." --Father Alfons Maria Wachsmann (+ 1944) Intention:
- [12-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/20/12-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "In order to practice quiet within oneself, it is necessary to call on the aid of the virtues: patience, which calms the torment of sadness in us; perseverance and constancy, which overcome disquiet and fickleness, the shifting of intentions, plans and goals from one object to another. Longanimity (or long-suffering) plays its part by controlling
- [12-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/19/12-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "When [God] became man, he could choose the Mother whose Child he was going to be... He made her special, beautiful, without stain of sin, the perfect human." --Servant of God Ida Peterfy (+ 2000) Intention: Lord, please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for
- [12-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/18/12-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "John the Baptist is always preparing the way of the Lord in the hearts of men and of nations. Since Christ is forever 'he who is to come,' since the whole history of the Church, from Ascension Day to the Last Judgment, is the history of his coming in the hidden world of men's souls,
- [12-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/17/12-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Yes, today we are those who walk in darkness yet see a great light. It is the same light that rent open the sky of Bethlehem to lead the shepherds of that time to the Grotto where, in front of that child, they found a great joy." --Mother Elvira Petrozzi Intention: Lord, please bless
- [12-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/16/12-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Pope Paul VI always said that the world today needs glowing witnesses who know how to break open the dark skies of the world, not with words but with the witness of their lives." --Mother Elvira Petrozzi Each of us who strives to follow Jesus' Way in their lives is helping the world to
- [12-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/15/12-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The danger is that we shall want to know too much now. If we insist on knowing God's reasons for things before submitting, we shall never be given understanding." --Father Bonaventure Perquin, O.P. (+ 1970) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly. Friday:
- [12-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/14/12-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "We can look forward to the day when we shall see his design fulfilled, including our own little part in the context of the whole." --Father Bonaventure Perquin, O.P. (+ 1970) Intention: Please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Thursday: Be a Lamp
- [12-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/13/12-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Acceptance of God's wisdom in planning our lives and submission to it in the events we do not understand bring great peace of soul. To accept a mystery we must submit -- Fiat -- and then ponder in our hearts, as Our Lady did: not ponder first and then submit if we understand." --Father Bonaventure
- [12-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/12/12-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "All the goodness we possess is lent to us, and God considers it his own work." --Saint John of the Cross (+ 1591) Intention: Dear Lord, please bless all my loved ones on the other side with love and joy, and may they rest in peace, and come into heaven to be with You
- [12-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/11/12-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all my friends and relatives and the people who dislike me with good health, financial stability and uplifting relationships with their friends and family. Please bless them with peace, love, joy, happiness and harmony, and please, when their time comes, give them each a peaceful,
- [12-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/10/12-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Sunday: Deliver Me 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. —Matthew 28:1 Reflection: Jesus empowers us as His followers; He gives
- [12-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/09/12-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians in the world, and keep them safe. Saturday: Completed the Father’s Will 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: You guide me along the right path/ for the sake of your name. —Psalm 23:3 Reflection: With Mary’s “yes” she completed the Father’s will. She will be
- [12-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/08/12-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me. Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise. Friday: Strengthen 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: When he arrived at the place he said to them, “Pray that you
- [12-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/07/12-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "So long as we remember that Mary is God's handiwork, we can never extol her enough..." --Msgr. Edward Betowski (+ 1969) Intention: Lord, I praise You that You’re greater than any trouble I might encounter in life; you are bigger than any problem I could possibly have. Jesus, I trust in You! Thursday:
- [12-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/06/12-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Let us be united to God by meditating and reading and searching, and let us be united to God by meditating and reading and searching, and let us come to know him according to our ability." --Saint Ambrose (+ 397) Intention: I call in healing and righteousness for America, Lord. Amen. Wednesday: New
- [12-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/05/12-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: I have my trust and confidence in Almighty God. He is my source. Tuesday: Drowsy Disciple 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be troubled and distressed. Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain
- [12-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/04/12-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "There is nothing I affirm with more assurance to a soul than the fact that Jesus loves each of us to the point of the foolishness of the cross and the glory of the Resurrection." --Father Jean du Coeur de Jesus d'Elbee (+ 1982) Intention: Thank You, Lord, that I am well able to
- [12-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/03/12-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His mighty power! I thank You God ahead of time for this! Sunday: Jesus’s Peace 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture:
- [12-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/02/12-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Jesus warns that he may come suddenly and find [the disciples] sleeping -- which is just what will happen during his agony in Gethsemane. To be asleep signifies spiritual torpor and self-indulgence; to be awake is to be alive in faith." --Mary Healy Intention: Please make of America a nation that becomes like a
- [12-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/12/01/12-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "[The day of judgment] will be the birth for which humanity has been in travail. The suffering, the labor, the patience, that what was hidden will bear fruit, the fruit will be red on the bough. The ugliness that disfigured grief will give place to beauty. The blood spilt in the dust will blossom like
- [11-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/30/11-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for freedom of religion, the right for freedom of assembly, the right to bear arms, and having a country with firm borders. Thursday: Adopted Child 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: Then
- [11-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/29/11-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Please give us a population that becomes more religious again, and has a revival. I thank You God for the revival that is already started. Wednesday: Restores Us to New Life 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared
- [11-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/28/11-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Tuesday: Accepting Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: When he rose from prayer and returned to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief. He
- [11-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/27/11-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Monday: Mary’s Leading 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. —Luke 1:29 Reflection:
- [11-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/26/11-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "While inaugurating the kingdom of God, Jesus taught the people. His voice is clear, not ambiguous; it is a voice of love and not of condemnation, of hope and not of desperation, of invitation to repentance and not of rejection of the sinner." --Francis Cardinal Arinze Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society
- [11-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/25/11-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Soul, what are you afraid of? You have been consecrated to Christ the Lord, and with his grace you live properly and struggle to come to the kingdom of God. So why are you afraid of the chariot of death?" --Saint Quodvultdeaus (+ c. 450) This is just a temporary place here on earth;
- [11-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/24/11-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "If you ask what my favorite prayers are, in all sincerity I would say I love best the short and simple prayers of the Gospel: They have no more wine... (Jn 2:3). Magnificat... (Lk 1:46-55). Father, forgive them... (Lk 23:34). Into your hands... (Lk 23:46). That they may be one... (Jn 17:21). Be merciful to
- [11-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/23/11-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "And while our hearts overflow with gratitude, and our lips set forth the praises of our great Creator, we also offer up fervent supplications that it may please him to pardon all our offenses, to give wisdom and unanimity to our public councils, to cement all our citizens in the bonds of affection, and to
- [11-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/22/11-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The interposition of divine providence in our favor hath been most abundantly and most graciously manifested, and the citizens of these United States have every possible reason for praise and gratitude to the God of their salvation. Impressed, therefore with an exalted sense of the magnitude of the blessings by which we are surrounded, and
- [11-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/21/11-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Each of us, whether he likes it or not, is an advertisement of the Catholic faith to the little circle of his neighbors: a good advertisement or a bad advertisement." --Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (+ 1957) All we can do is ask God for His help, and then do our best. Intention: Jesus,
- [11-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/20/11-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Every experience of conversion therefore raises an essential question: Will we now seek him in prayer with ever-increasing hunger and need? If we do, our life will be entirely altered from what it might have been." --Father Donald Haggerty Prayer is a way we can magnify the Lord with our souls. Intention: I’m
- [11-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/19/11-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "In a word, the Lord asks us to make the most of the present moment, not yearning for the past, but waiting industriously for his return." --Pope Francis I am trying to make the most of the present moment by praying as many Rosaries as I can each day, since the Rosary is so
- [11-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/18/11-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "I call prayer supernatural when God, bestowing this gift upon the soul and filling it with his presence, so elevates the soul that it is stretched, as it were, beyond its natural capacities." --Saint Angela of Foligno (+ 1309) Once in a while, I can get a glimpse of a larger truth or reality
- [11-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/17/11-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Prayer is mental when meditating on God so occupies the soul that one thinks of nothing but God." --Saint Angela of Foligno (+ 1309) I strive to focus on the mysteries of each decade of the Rosary, and when I lose focus, to refocus again and again. Intention: Father, thank You that every
- [11-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/16/11-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "It is in prayer that one finds God." --Saint Angela of Foligno (+ 1309) The Rosary prayers can solve anything, I am convinced. We just need to pray them. Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians and keep them safe. Thursday: Protection From Evil 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of
- [11-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/15/11-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "There is nothing keener than love, nothing more subtle, nothing more penetrating. Love cannot rest until it has sounded all the depths and learned the perfections of its Beloved." --Saint Albert the Great (+ 1280) Love is diametrically opposed to pride and greed. Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this
- [11-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/14/11-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Those who are faithful in little things are also entitled to the reward of eternal happiness -- which is the greatest reward there is. From such trifles of life, when they are performed with a great heart, arises the greatness of man." --Blessed Stefan Wyszynski (+ 1981) When I perform the duties of my
- [11-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/13/11-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Whatever we do, we should regard as being done on God's orders. Seeing things in this light, we must be faithful even in small matters; the great God ordained them, and by faithfulness to God and love for him, everything becomes great." --Blessed Stefan Wyszynski (+ 1981) When I live a God-centered life, everything
- [11-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/12/11-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "At the gate of heaven the lovers, God and the soul, meet. The noble glance with which God receives her has such power that she can think no longer of past sorrows or pain." --Sister Mechthild of Magdeburg (+ 1282) I know that whatever happens in this increasingly perilous world, Jesus has prepared a
- [11-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/11/11-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - My goal is to pray the Rosary many times a day, while also praying for people in the news, to help to counteract all the negativity in the world these days. "People who are unceasingly faithful in little things are always found ready when God tries them severely so as to sanctify them more
- [11-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/10/11-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Please give us fair and honest elections. Friday: Something Beautiful 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done. —Luke 22:42 Reflection: Jesus asked us to take up our cross and follow Him; yet
- [11-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/09/11-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "When Jesus Christ spoke to his apostles of the food that they did not know, he explained to them that it was to do the will of him who sent me. --Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (+ 1906) The Father was well pleased with Jesus because He did the Father's will so perfectly. Intention: Please
- [11-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/08/11-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "It seems to me that all is loss since I have known the excelling knowledge of my Lord Jesus Christ." --Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (+ 1906) Conversion of the heart is a gift from God, for which we can pray. Intention: Please give us a population that becomes more religious again, and
- [11-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/07/11-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Love desires community of goods, society of life, and sharing of sentiments. The one who loves Jesus Christ as Jesus Christ loves him will then tend with all his strength to unity of life." --Saint Peter Julian Eymard (+ 1868) Jesus modeled for us sacrifice for one another, to show us how we truly
- [11-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/06/11-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "There are many, many people -- old people, crippled people, mental people, people who have no one, nobody to love them -- they are hungry for love. And maybe that kind of hunger is in your own home, your own family, maybe there is an old person in your family, maybe there is a sick
- [11-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/05/11-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Our Lord, who knew he had received all things from his Father, had gone forth from his Father and was to return to God in glory, nevertheless did not disdain to wash the feet of poor fishermen... To all he showed an equal proof of goodness and gave a sign of his love." --Saint Charles
- [11-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/04/11-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Both [Jesus'] own testimony and the Gospel story are in agreement on how much humility and obedience he showed toward men, who were so far inferior to him: I did not come, he says, to be ministered to but to minister..." --Saint Charles Borromeo (+ 1584) Jesus is my North Star, Who shows me how to love
- [11-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/03/11-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "After having undergone the worse humiliations, [God] shed his blood in the midst of atrocious sufferings. This he did to restore our inheritance and make us, in some way, equal to himself. He elevated us to the order of the supernatural, divine, and eternal life which in our blindness we had despised and lost." --Father
- [11-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/02/11-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "As Saint Paul says, [God] emptied himself to bring himself down to our level. He took a body and a soul like ours, divesting himself of all glory and choosing the most humble condition among men. He wished to be born the son of a laborer and to place himself in the number of the
- [11-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/11/01/11-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The cry of hope and encouragement from the finish line reaches those who are still on the journey. It is a cry made up of many voices; a cry that causes hope to dawn; hoping with assurance and trust, hoping in a community and in a brotherhood that knows no disturbance, because the one calling
- [10-31-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/31/10-31-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The saints treasured the present moment; without neglecting a single instant, they made each moment a response of their whole being to God's love. The saints lived in the present as in an immense ocean of peace because they already lived in that unending present of eternity." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+ 2002)
- [10-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/29/10-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "I must accomplish the tasks of the present moment, Lord, and respond to your grace at every instant, placing total confidence in you and leaving you free to accomplish in me your plan and not mine. I must collaborate with all of my strength." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+2002) Lord, help me
- [10-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/29/10-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Each saint has his or her own way of holiness. Yet a common way exists that everyone, without exception, must undertake. I must resemble the Lord Jesus. I must do the will of him who sent me. I have kept the commandment that the Father gave me." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+ 2002)
- [10-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/27/10-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me. Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise. "Through baptism we become changed, sealed with what theologians call the indelible character of baptism. We "put on Christ." --Dr. Matthew Minerd As
- [10-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/27/10-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Lord, I praise You that You’re greater than any trouble I might encounter in life; you are bigger than any problem I could possibly have. Jesus, I trust in You! "The new law of Christ is an interior law, the 'law of grace.' It is more demanding than the old law. It requires
- [10-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/26/10-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The less good I see or find in myself, the more content I am, convinced that whatever I give to others I must draw from the fountain of all true good -- God." --Venerable Mary Magdalen of Jesus in the Eucharist, c.p. (+1960) I have a God-shaped hole in my heart, and only God
- [10-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/25/10-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Open your soul completely, without any fear of appearing wretched, and you will see how Jesus will make you happy and will make you understand many more things than you know now." --Venerable Mary Magdalen of Jesus in the Eucharist, C.P. (+ 1960) When I do my best in life, and trust in Jesus
- [10-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/24/10-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "God abandons no one who is faithful to him, and he will not abandon you if you rely on him." --Blessed Nikolaus Gross (+ 1943) We are conquerors if we rely on God, Who loves us so -- no matter what happens. Jesus, I trust in You! Intention: Thank You that I am
- [10-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/23/10-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "It is possible, in other words, to begin to live here and now the way will live in the definitive establishment of the kingdom, where earthly good will no longer have any value but where God will be all in all." -- Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M., CAP. If Jesus humbled Himself to experience death
- [10-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/22/10-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Missionary cooperation is rooted and lived, above all, in personal union with Christ. Only if we are united to him as the branches to the vine can we produce good fruit." --Saint John Paul II (+ 2005) The Holy Spirit will help us to maintain a good relationship with Jesus. Jesus, I trust in
- [10-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/21/10-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "You will tell me that you are carrying the cross; this is a good sign, for this is what the Lord wants of you. Afterward will come the time of consolation." --Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (+ 1862) Obedience is so crucial. If it is time for us to carry our cross,
- [10-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/19/10-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "In us, reclining at his wedding banquet, the Father comes looking for the face of his eternal Word that he etched into our souls at the creation, the Christ-likeness that we put on like a garment at our baptism -- that is, when we accepted the king's invitation to share in the joy of his
- [10-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/18/10-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "You alone, O Jesus, could satisfy a soul that needed to love even to the infinite." --Saint Therese of Lisieux (+1897) Thank God for Jesus' love, His listening ear and His understanding heart. Where would we be without Him... Intention: Please make of America a nation that becomes like a shining city on
- [10-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/18/10-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "When you know how much God is in love with you, then you can only live your life, radiating that love." --Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa (+ 1997) When God's love touches us, we become changed, and more generous toward others. Intention: I pray for fair and honest elections, in Jesus'
- [10-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/17/10-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "If the soul longs for nothing else than to love its God then don't worry and be quite sure that this soul possesses everything, that it possesses God himself." --Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (+ 1968) As we make our way to the "finish line" of life, we can be yoked to Christ and He
- [10-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/16/10-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "May your faith be increased so as to realize the fact that you are never alone, wheresoever you may be, that the great God is with you, in you." --Saint Katharine Drexel (+ 1955) The quantum leap in human evolution was when we realized that we have the Kingdom of Heaven inside of us,
- [10-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/15/10-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Jesus, I trust in you." --Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (+ 1938) I am learning to trust Jesus with every day of my life, and also with my death, too. Intention: Please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. I thank You God ahead of time for
- [10-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/13/10-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "It seems to me that I have found my heaven on earth, because my heaven is you, my God, and you are in my soul. You in me, and I in you -- may this be my motto." --Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (+1906 We each must find God and cling to Him, to
- [10-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/13/10-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We must love God in the way that pleases him, and not just in a way that suits ourselves. God wishes people to empty themselves of everything and to be filled with his divine love." --Saint Alphonsus Liguori (+ 1787) Our crosses help us to mortify ourselves of ego and pride, which would get
- [10-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/11/10-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "The soul can feed only on God; only God can suffice it; only God can fill it; only God can satiate its hunger. Its God is absolutely necessary to it." --Saint John Vianney (+ 1859) God came down to be with us, in Jesus, because we needed Him so much. Intention: Lord, please
- [10-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/11/10-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "In Mary alone, by the grace of Jesus Christ, man is made godlike as far as human nature is capable of it." --Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort (+ 1716) Our Lady is only a creature, oh but what a creature she is! We do not worship her, but yes, we do venerate her and
- [10-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/09/10-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "All my pleasure in this land of exile is that of having every kind of suffering found on the cross, deprived of every other consolation except that of the Sacred Heart." --Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (+ 1690) No matter how dire circumstances may become (with the wars and unrest in the world), I will
- [10-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/09/10-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Man's salvation and perfection consist in doing the will of God, which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life." --Saint Peter Claver (+ 1654) Our Lady and St. Joseph always strove to do the will of God, and what fruit they left us from their lives.
- [10-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/08/10-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "The endurance of darkness is the preparation for great light." --Saint John of the Cross (+ 1591) In these days of great darkness in our world, we must cling to the Holy Spirit, which will give us hope and Light. Intention: My faith will make me whole. In Jesus' name, Amen. Sunday:
- [10-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/07/10-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Be joyful, for there is someone who loves your God as he deserves, who knows him as her only Son." --Saint Teresa of Avila (+ 1582) Thank God that Our Lady gave her fiat! Intention: I’m expecting that no weapon formed against me will prosper, in Jesus' name. Saturday: Faith 1st Joyful
- [10-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/06/10-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "If the death of his saints be glorious in the sight of God, it can never be shameful in fact, however shameful it may seem here in the sight of men." --Saint Thomas More (+ 1535) Self-sacrifice is not well respected in our day and time; but God sees and He values it highly.
- [10-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/05/10-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "God lets the soul share his goodness so that it becomes one with him. The nearer the soul comes to him, the more it partakes of what is his." --Saint Catherine of Genoa (+ 1510) As the Lord illuminates me so that I may see my shortcomings more and more objectively, He starts to
- [10-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/04/10-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "It is more in frailty than in strength that Christ reveals Himself upon earth; more in littleness than in greatness; more in lowliness than in glory; for He is the Way and such is the Way of Love." --Caryll Houselander (+ 1954) As I allow the Holy Spirit to make my soul and spirit
- [10-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/03/10-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The only thing necessary for us is God. Finding God consists in recollecting our souls in him." --Saint Angela of Foligno (+ 1309) My cross is secondary to Jesus' relationship with me. Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Tuesday: Devil’s Trap of Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery:
- [10-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/10/02/10-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "May I feel in my heart, as far as possible, that abundance of love with which you, Son of God, were inflamed." --Saint Francis of Assisi (+ 1226) We are of the same family -- Jesus and me. Jesus is my brother. (See Hebrews 2:11.) I am made in God's image. I can imitate
- [10-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/30/10-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Let us be raised to the one who made the dust of our lowliness into the body of his glory." --Saint Leo the Great (+ 461) We will be one with God someday! Intention: I praise You, Lord, that You are stronger than communism and totalitarianism. Sunday: Belief in Resurrection 1st Glorious
- [9-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/30/9-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Jesus Christ gave you all; he left nothing for himself." --Saint John Chrysostom (+ 407) If I seek to save my life, I will lose it; if I spend all my life for the Kingdom of God, I will preserve it. It is a mystery. Intention: I call in healing and righteousness for
- [9-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/29/9-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The greatest grace God can give someone is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers -- and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved." --Saint Justin Martyr (+ 165) When I unite my sufferings with those of Christ on the
- [9-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/28/9-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Today, Christ, with the thief, has removed the flaming sword and reopened the gate of paradise that no one has been able to storm... Once this gate has been opened, it is never again closed to those who believe." --Saint Jerome (+ 420) The more I believe in Jesus, contemplate His teachings, and develop
- [9-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/27/9-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Our Lord came into the world to reestablish the reign of his Father in all persons. He won them back from the devil who had led them astray by the cunning deceit of a greedy desire for wealth, honor, and pleasure." --St. Vincent de Paul (+1660) Jesus has prepared a place for each of
- [9-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/26/9-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The saint assists the miserable and those who have sinned and brings reconciliation, peace, and love to the world." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+ 2002) The saint prays for those who have been cruel to them. Intention: Lord, please make of America a nation that becomes like a shining city on
- [9-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/25/9-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The holiness of the saintly person shines like the light of the silent stars in the vault of the heavens." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+2002) Heavenly Father, please mirror myself back to me and help me to become holy. Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections. Monday: Yes,
- [9-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/24/9-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Yes, serene in our faith and tranquil in soul let us pray and continue to pray, because intense and fervent prayer pierces the heavens and is backed up by a divine guarantee." --Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (+ 1968) (aka "Padre Pio) The intensity of our prayer is so important! Intention: Dear Father, please
- [9-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/23/9-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile, while our true homeland
- [9-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/21/9-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Against the dark background of the position of women in ancient and modern paganism, Christ stands out as a figure of light..." -- Maria Von Trapp (+ 1987) Christ may not have been a political revolutionary, but He certainly was revolutionary in the way He treated women. Intention: Lord, please bless us with
- [9-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/21/9-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "[God] wants the remembrance of any former sin simply to compel our soul to a clear recognition of mercy." --Father Donald Haggerty We are no longer in the grip of sin, after Jesus has forgiven them. Intention: Lord, please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function.
- [9-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/20/9-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The Korean Martyrs have born witness to the crucified and risen Christ... The words of Saint Paul the Apostle could truly have been spoken by them: We are always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies... We are always being given up to
- [9-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/19/9-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The more we know who Christ is -- his absolute lordship over the whole universe, his victory over sin and death won on the cross, his unconditional love for every human being -- the more faith we have. That faith is what enables us to pray against sickness and infirmity with confident authority." --Mary Healy
- [9-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/18/9-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Each one of us has a part in Christ's mission to dismantle the kingdom of darkness and make the kingdom of God present wherever we are." --Mary Healy If we want to play our part in Christ's mission, we must be obedient to His commandments first, then learn to be sensitive to His promptings
- [9-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/17/9-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "In doing good to our enemies we entrust them to God, we call down on their heads the fire of the divine initiatives and attentions..." --Raissa Maritain (+ 1960) We can help our enemies to come to conversion -- or a greater conversion of heart -- by praying for them. It is not easy
- [9-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/16/9-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "While [the instructions of the Gospel] instruct the mind of those who are learning the faith on earth they are leading us to the heavenly kingdom." --Saint Cyprian (+ 258) It is so valuable to our spiritual lives to spend time every day praying the Rosary, while meditating on its mysteries. Much like physical
- [9-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/15/9-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "[Mary] knew that all these crosses were in the divine plan, necessary for the salvation of men and the greatest proof of love Jesus could give her." --Father Jean du Coeur de Jesus d'Elbee (+ 1982) The restoration of the human race was Jesus' ultimate goal, which He achieved in His final hour.
- [9-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/14/9-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Everything is consummated on Calvary: the truth to which Jesus came to give testimony, the fire which he came to bring to earth, the life for which souls await hopefully." --Servant of God Luis Maria Martinez (+ 1956) The truth inside of Jesus communicates to us and rings like a bell inside of us.
- [9-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/13/9-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "When this day is cast aside, and that terrible night comes, or rather day -- night indeed for sinners, but day for the righteous -- when the play is ended, when the masks are removed, when each person is judged with his works, not each person with his wealth, not each person with his office,
- [9-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/12/9-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Mary in her turn has loved God and souls to the extent of delivering up her Son, Jesus, on Calvary. She is in consequence all-powerful with God the Father and with Jesus to obtain all that is necessary for the salvation of those who turn to her mediation." --Father Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, O.P. (+1964) Our
- [9-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/11/9-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Knowing our spiritual needs and even the temporal needs which are connected with our salvation, Mary is obviously impelled by her great charity to intercede for us." --Father Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, O.P. (+ 1964) Our Lady is very generous toward us because she truly, truly loves us so much. Intention: I praise You, Lord,
- [9-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/10/9-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Personal prayer is, of course important, indeed indispensable, but the Lord guarantees his presence to the community -- even if it is very small -- which is united in agreement, because this reflects the very reality of the Triune God, perfect communion of love." -- Pope Benedict XVI (+ 2022) When we pray to
- [9-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/09/9-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The Apostle Paul says that the whole Law of God finds fullness in love, so that in our relationships with others the Ten Commandments and every other precept are summed up in these words: Love your neighbor as yourself." --Pope Benedict XVI (+ 2022) We have to say "YES" to all the things of love
- [9-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/08/9-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Perhaps it was on old-fashioned faith. It centered for these people in the Church and the sacraments, in devotions and novenas and prayers. Perhaps it wasn't too sophisticated... But it was a faith that had been tested and purified in the fire of constant low-keyed persecution, had been attacked and ridiculed by atheist propagandists on
- [9-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/07/9-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "How could you explain such faith in a country where atheism and fear were the order of the day? There was no explanation except the traditional one: such faith was a gift from God, as faith always is. God was a reality for these people, a reality they clung to and placed ahead of all
- [9-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/06/9-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "The Creator chose to become a creature, one with us like us, to be dependent on others, to need food to eat, clothes to wear, drink to quench his thirst, to need rest, to be tired like us... One with us in all things: Why? For love of us, with unconditional trust in the Father."
- [9-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/04/9-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "He had come to give us the Good News of the tenderness and love of a Father -- to whom we are precious because he has created us in his own likeness for greater things -- to love and to be loved." --Saint Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa) (+ 1997) Jesus came down to
- [9-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/04/9-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "We renew our hope by contemplating that a Child has been given to us. [We] draw strength before the maternal warmth and fecundity of the Virgin. And we can also turn our gaze toward St. Joseph, the man who assumed paternal charge of the Child he did not sire. He inspires us to an ever
- [9-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/03/9-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "[God] much prefers us to accept [the cross] willingly and even to desire it because it is the only means that makes us like Christ crucified and therefore, in time, like Christ glorified. And if we are brave in taking it up, it becomes a burden of love." --Father Bonaventure Perquin, O.P. (+1970) We
- [9-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/02/9-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "The cross has always been the symbol of God's will because it is the symbol of the most perfect obedience that ever existed." --Father Bonaventure Perquin, O.P. My obedience to God is what develops discipline in me, which helps to improve my life (as a side benefit of pleasing God!). Our Lady is also
- [9-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/09/01/9-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "If only we understood and lived by [our Lord's] love, every day would be a honeymoon with God!" --Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty (+ 1985) We all need the grace of continual conversion to see with the eyes of Love, more and more, as we progress through our lives. Intention: Please
- [8-31-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/31/8-31-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Our faith centers around the truth that God loved us first, and all we have to do to be fiery apostolic Catholics is to love him back." --Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty (+ 1985) Saying "Thank You" to God is a great way to express our love for Him. We don't even
- [8-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/30/8-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Do not calumniate; do not bear malice. Do not be double-minded or double-tongued, for a double tongue is a deadly snare." --From The Didache We must not gossip, because gossiping is doing the opposite of bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to the Earth. Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society that seeks
- [8-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/29/8-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Let us exult at decreasing in the sight of human beings; let us be tested so that by advancing in good deeds we may be capable of growing in his sight, and of being exalted with him who deigned to come from heaven to earth to raise us who are of the earth to heaven:
- [8-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/28/8-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Beware of practicing your righteousness in the presence of men, in order to be seen by them... Don't accomplish whatever good you do for your own praise, then, but for the praise of him from whom you have the means to do good..." --Saint Augustine (+ 430) Lord, let my life be all about You
- [8-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/27/8-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Love is a sweet word but a sweeter deed... The works of mercy, the warmth of charity, the holiness of devotion, the incorruption of chastity, the modesty of sobriety: these things must always be kept whether we are in public or at home or in the presence of others or in our room or speaking
- [8-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/26/8-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Mary receives [the love of God] and shares it with us, because we belong to Mary and Mary belongs to God and God to her. All things tremble before her not only because of who she is but because of the love God has for her." --Saint Mariam Baouardy (+ 1878) Mother Teresa said, "No Mary,
- [8-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/25/8-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Whether I am in joy or in sorrow, Lord, may your Holy Name be blessed! In suffering or in pleasure, may your Holy Name be blessed, O Lord!" --Saint Mariam Baouardy (+ 1878) When I offer up my sufferings for a holy cause (such as peace on earth), it has tremendous value. The Lord
- [8-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/24/8-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Saint Bartholomew stands before us to tell us that attachment to Jesus can also be lived and witnessed to without performing sensational deeds." --Pope Benedict XVI (+ 2022) I may never make a "splash" in life, but I can follow Jesus and Our Lady to the best of my ability, and be grateful for
- [8-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/23/8-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Hold on for a bit longer, and you will see great wonders when the last trumpet sounds. It is then that I [the Lord] shall give my saints rest and eternal life in exchange for all their pains and labors." --Thomas a Kempis (+1471) If I withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh
- [8-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/22/8-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "Because of her sinlessness, [Mary] suffers more than the others gathered [at the foot of the cross]. Her perfect capacity to receive our Lord's words and to interiorize his message makes her all the more vulnerable to the cruelty she witnesses and hears against her Son..." -- Father Paul Scalia Sometimes our cross is
- [8-21-23 Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/21/8-21-23-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "We see in [Our Lady] the tender response of an expanded spirit flowing out of humility, whereas the proud mind is always constricted, and the proud heart is always harsh..." --Mother Mary Francis of Our Lady, P.C.C. (+ 2006) I hope and pray that the Lord will expand my spirit also, and thus, birth
- [8-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/20/8-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "It is as though our great teacher, Holy Mother Church, is saying, 'yes, we have had this great solemnity. She [Our Lady] has been assumed into heaven, whose Queen she is, but she is still Queen on earth. Now let us celebrate her Queenship, still perduring, always to perdure upon the earth.'" --Mother Mary Francis
- [8-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/19/8-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "O Lord, you were not satisfied to live and associate with mankind during your mortal life. When you were on the point of returning to heaven, your most insatiable love and exceeding great desire to prove the tremendous truth that your delight is to be with the children of men inspired you to devise a
- [8-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/18/8-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Many say that love is blind, which is partially true in relationship, to some traits. But it is also possible to say that love alone is able to see -- in reference to the unique meaning and value of a person." --Ronda Chervin God sees each one of us through His lens of incredible
- [8-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/17/8-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "If my whole being is not full of mercy for others, I am not worthy to call myself a Christian. Without mercy, I cannot hope to receive the Lord's mercy." --Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (+2002) I need to give mercy from my heart, to everyone I know, everyone I see, everyone I
- [8-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/16/8-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "There is one characteristic of this generation that is wholly good -- our growing realization of human solidarity, of our need for one another, the real oneness of all human creatures. Perhaps this realization is the seed that has been sown in secret by all the nameless martyrs of this century." --Caryll Houselander (+1954)
- [8-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/15/8-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "You must be prepared for moments of darkness, anguish, uncertainty, fear, sometimes very insistent temptations, and suffering of the body and of the soul -- that are a hundred times more severe. In fact, if there were nothing to bear, for what would you go to heaven? Without struggle victory would be impossible and without
- [8-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/14/8-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "What courage it would take to try to walk on the sea, even if we could see the face of Christ; but it needs much more courage to leave our false securities, our leaking boats of materialism, and to walk towards Him on the churned-up, angry sea of our civilization." --Caryll Houselander (+1954) It
- [8-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/13/8-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "We ought to say: 'I will sanctify myself precisely by the events of this day because the loving providence of God has sent them to me. He is acquainted with my necessities; he knows what is most conducive to my sanctification.' If we were to understand this, would not our soul be a veritable ocean
- [8-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/12/8-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "[Our Lady] was a reed through which the Eternal Love was to be piped as a shepherd's song." --Caryll Houselander (+1954) May I model myself after Our Lady to be full of grace, and able to see Jesus in everyone around me! Intention: Please preserve our civil liberties: our rights to meaningful representation
- [8-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/11/8-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "We cannot choose a cross. We cannot decide what suffering is best for the training of our invisible souls. We must grow strong in a way known only to God, for few of us know ourselves or our weaknesses well enough to choose the suffering best suited to change us." --Mother Angelica of the
- [8-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/08/8-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The way of perfect renunciation has already been called the narrow way that only a few find. The way that leads to the high mountain of perfection can only be traveled by those who are not weighed down by any burden." --Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) (+1942) The Way of
- [8-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/07/8-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "Love, which is as strong as death, makes us die to ourselves that we may be born to another life. Such is the response of the saints to God's love." --Father Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, O.P. (+1964) As we take care of the world around us -- and bless it -- we are demonstrating love
- [8-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/06/8-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "God had stooped down toward us, in the excess of his love, abasing himself even to our level; he had descended quite lower than we, even to the point of taking upon himself the gravest humiliations." --Father Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, O.P. (+1964) It will all be worth it when we see Jesus face-to-face someday.
- [8-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/05/8-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "All the saints have a great devotion to Our Lady; no grace comes from heaven without passing through her hands. We cannot go into a house without speaking to the porter; well, the Holy Virgin is the portress of heaven." --Saint John Vianney (+1859) Thank God we have Our Lady to help guide us
- [8-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/04/8-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "The heart of Mary is so tender towards us that those of all the mothers in the world put together are like a piece of ice in comparison to hers." --Saint John Vianney (+1859) We are so blessed to have Jesus and His mother, Mary, to love us, no matter what. Intention:
- [8-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/03/8-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Give praise and thanks as a mortal man in need of God's mercy and as one always seeking and begging it. Though you may often fall, sin, and offend God, do not stop praying or praising him; nor are you to yield to despair; rather, you are to humble yourself and pray." --Venerable Thomas
- [8-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/02/8-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "This is a time of testing; this is a time for those who are tested to be made known... I beg you to protect your faith with great vigilance, to preserve harmony, to remain steadfast in prayer, to remember us unceasingly, that the Lord will deign to grant liberty to his Church, now in labor
- [8-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/08/01/8-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "The call to leave this world, which is so full of terror for those who love it, does not alarm good people. Those who love God are not afflicted at the thought of having to leave riches, possessions wealth, or this world's goods." --Saint Alphonsus Liguori (+1787) My life is in God's hands. My
- [7-31-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/31/7-31-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "I need to put aside everything, let go of it all, even the most beautiful and holy things, all that I could legitimately love, but which are not God." --Servant of God Chiara Lubich (+ 2008) I am learning to hold onto the created things of this world -- even my own dear loved
- [7-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/30/7-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus gives me the sure hope and belief that I will be carried into Heaven someday. I find that I must pray for all my brothers and sisters to make it there too; even those with whom I disagree... especially those with whom I disagree! That is truly letting the
- [7-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/28/7-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "Now the exercising of the spirit is of much greater value than the exercising of the body, for this latter avails only a little. Such meditations [exercising the spirit] purify the soul." --Blessed Humbert of Romans (+ 1277) I pray to become more pure in my soul as Mary was, who demonstrated such
- [7-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/28/7-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - "Do not think of God's action as something extraordinary. On the contrary, it makes itself felt in the tiny practical inspirations of every day: do this, give up that, and so on. Live thus, knowing that you are not alone..." --Dom Augustin Guillerand, O. Cart. (+1945) Jesus is our constant companion in life, Who
- [7-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/27/7-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - "Know also that holy meditations...greatly benefit the one who meditates. First of all, they stir up in his spirit. I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was exercised (Ps 77:7). that is, by meditating." --Blessed Humbert of Romans (+1277) As I meditate on the scriptures, I am transformed and my virtues
- [7-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/26/7-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - "Do you want to know what the effect of this unification is? It is a slow transformation into Jesus Christ." --Blessed Honoratius Kozminski (+ 1916) As we seek to follow Jesus and receive Holy Communion, we will become more and more like Him. As we do, we will experience more and more of what
- [7-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/25/7-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - "'Yes, with my spirit and with my blood, I redeem you, my well-beloved.' Such is our king, who dies that we might live. He accepts humiliations and torture; a king in solidarity with those who suffer in their bodies and in their souls, those who endure all kinds of violence, disdain, oppression, threats, hunger, thirst,
- [7-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/24/7-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - "The fact that there is disharmony, vitiation, in the field of the Church and of the world is apparent to all, but only the Lord of the field and of the harvest can see beyond the confused present state of things." --Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis (Father Simeon) I have to try to hang onto my roller-coaster of
- [7-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/23/7-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - "Love surrounds us always; it is in us; it is the movement that gives life to our being." --Venerable Mary Magdalen of Jesus in the Eucharist, C.P. (+ 1960) May we all go to a "heavenly place" which is full of this love -- someday, when this earthly
- [7-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/22/7-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - "For God love is a necessity, so that it is impossible for God not to love, as impossible as it is for him not to be, for God is love." --Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (+1619) Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all my
- [7-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/21/7-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Lord, please help me to become more virtuous, as I go through my life. "It is not death as much as faith and dedication that make one a martyr; and just as it is a mark of virtue to fall in battle, in conflict, for the love of the king, so it is a
- [7-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/20/7-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - When we listen to others attentively and sincerely, we are giving them the gift of Jesus' ears and Jesus' heart. It is a nice example of living Matthew 25: "You did it to me." Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Thursday: Baptism 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of
- [7-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/19/7-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - The Resurrection brings new possibilities to us of a future filled with love and fellowship. The Holy Spirit, also, transforms us and makes us more merciful, like Jesus. The world, the flesh, and the devil will resist such an upward pull, but if we have the will to try to swim upstream, God will help
- [7-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/18/7-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Some people are too wrapped up in their sin to see themselves and what they are doing accurately. When or if they lash out at us directly or indirectly, sometimes it is wise to just keep in silence, because that can be a more powerful witness to them than anything else. Jesus did this in
- [7-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/17/7-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - It was a great leap forward in human evolution, when the angel came to Mary in the annunciation of the conception of the Son of God, Jesus. He came to visit us when we were imprisoned in our sins, and freed (redeemed) us from those sins. He taught us to act with charity towards our
- [7-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/16/7-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - A person in love with God walks with the Holy Spirit, and brings holiness wherever they go. I aspire to become so, and to influence my world for the better. Intention: I praise You, Lord, that You’re greater than any trouble I might encounter in life; You are bigger than any problem I could
- [7-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/15/7-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - When Jesus was in the temple discussing doctrine with the doctors of the Old Testament, He must have discussed the passages that admonish us to love our neighbors as ourselves. He and his wonderful mother sacrificed their lives so that this message could be spread to every corner of the world. We owe so much
- [7-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/14/7-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - In this life, I am called to shoulder the crosses that come to me, to try to mortify my passions, and to use my gifts for the good of all, in order to be in solidarity with Jesus. Even though it is extremely counter-intuitive, I should also try to be grateful for my cross, because
- [7-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/13/7-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Jesus Christ is with me always, even though most of us have never seen a glimpse of His glory. We have so much to look forward to someday, in Heaven! In the meantime, we can pray for the Holy Spirit to spread across humanity in a more powerful way. We can even pray this prayer
- [7-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/12/7-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - It seems that Jesus tried to be as clear as He could with us about what life would be like after He went back to Heaven: He would always be with us, as well as the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Saints, the Angels, the Father, and of course the Holy Spirit. He said this Spirit
- [7-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/11/7-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - My suffering purifies me of my egocentricities, so I can become more in touch with God. Intention: Please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His mighty power! Tuesday:
- [7-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/11/7-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - There is a purity that comes upon us as we contemplate Jesus in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or in His sweet manger as a Babe, or as Simeon was gazing into His sweet eyes at the temple. He teaches us to be humble, and to perform the duties of our state in
- [7-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/11/7-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - FYI: I am having to post this the following day, due to a computer problem. Since Jesus Christ is ascended to Heaven, we can be encouraged in our journey here because we know that He is waiting for us, and has a place prepared for us with Him! In the meantime, He can give
- [7-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/08/7-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Jesus and the Blessed Mother are ultimate examples of the virtues of faith, charity, humility, justice, and prudence. We can learn from their examples and grow in our virtues over time, through the help of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Grace + Perseverance. Intention: Please give us a population that becomes more
- [7-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/07/7-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - As a Christian, a true Christian, we know that persecutions might come to us -- or probably will come to us -- because Jesus told us so. The devil would love for us to cave in and abandon our hard-won virtues, in the process. But we have to hang onto them. Those who treat us
- [7-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/06/7-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Jesus, please come to heal me! Intention: Please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. Thursday: Holiness 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: On coming up out of the water he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a
- [7-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/05/7-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Jesus is what is important in my life, because not only does He give me my salvation, but He purifies me more and more of my egocentricities, which can be accomplished so much faster on earth than after this early life is over (in Purgatory). In Heaven, I pray to be of service to others
- [7-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/04/7-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Jesus was a prisoner in inhumane conditions; His reputation was destroyed as He was ridiculed and humiliated; and He was in the Devil's trap of suffering -- all for us, for love of us. He was the bravest warrior who ever lived, because He defeated Satan. Still though, we were left our own cross to
- [7-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/03/7-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - All babies' births -- including our own -- are heavenly events, that reach into and touch the divine. We can still bring our children up in a Godly manner, even though we may be poor. And, we can teach our children to imitate Jesus and the Blessed Mother in their helpfulness, generosity, and honesty, as
- [7-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/07/02/7-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - It is important that I keep in mind that this earthly life is only a journey to a heavenly life for eternity, and so try to keep as detached as I can from what goes on here in the world. Jesus' resurrection and the Blessed Mother's assumption are reference points to me of what awaits
- [7-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/30/7-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - I am trying to balance my responsibilities between my prayer life and my everyday tasks, while loving God, my neighbor and myself. It helps to have a set time each night when I pray my Rosary; it is like my little date with my self, when I can reconnect to God in a more powerful
- [6-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/30/6-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - When I am suffering physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual pain, I can soften it if I remember that Jesus experienced all these things first, and that I can offer them up to God for peace on earth, or some other worthy outcome. Also, I can trust and be assured that Jesus will take care of
- [6-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/29/6-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - How to be a good disciple of Jesus? It includes getting baptized, attending Mass, studying His words for the deeper meaning, and putting our petitions into His hands, knowing that He will come through with what we need. It is all about putting Him first in our lives, and getting closer to Him as we
- [6-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/28/6-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - The Holy Spirit gives us guidance as we practice small acts of love in imitation of our Blessed Mother, and ask the intercession of all the saints in heaven. That way, we know that all things will work together for the good, and we are encouraged by knowing that all pain and tears will end
- [6-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/27/6-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Jesus' sufferings were offered up to God, and were so powerful that they made up for our sins (if we repent). We can emulate Him by making a morning offering of our own crosses, and knowing that everything will work out if we love Him and do what He asks. Intention: I can do
- [6-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/26/6-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Father God is our authority and we must obey Him or we suffer consequences. But really, He is only asking of us what will make our lives and the lives of others better, and what He really wants is our relationship with Him and our friendship with our neighbors, treating them as we would want
- [6-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/25/6-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - We have the honor of participating in Jesus' work of reconciliation, while we live in the Spirit (with His help, and with the help of the Blessed Mother's example and intercession). Then someday, we will live in a new life of glory in Heaven, as our sweet reward. We must keep on trusting in Him
- [6-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/24/6-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - We are called by the Lord to bear good fruit to transform the world through its redemption -- helping Jesus accomplish His blessed end. Everyone has a unique calling and can contribute to this grand goal in his or her own way, while practicing their faith well. It all depends on revival! Intention: Lord,
- [6-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/23/6-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Jesus Christ is the Scapegoat who suffered in solidarity with us, when we suffer. He embraced our humanity so as to alter our sinfulness with His love, and He also fills our God-shaped hole with His love. He reminds us that the Way of the Cross is the way to the Father's heart. Jesus is
- [6-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/08/6-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: I pray for Your help, Lord, today in carrying out the work that You have given me to do. Thursday: The Strong Man 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied
- [6-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/07/6-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Wednesday: New Kind of Existence 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: And behold, Jesus met them [the women] on their way and greeted them. They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. —Matthew 28:9 Reflection: Jesus’s resurrection was more
- [6-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/06/6-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Tuesday: Drowsy Disciple 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be troubled and distressed. Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and
- [6-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/05/6-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when I allow Jesus to step in and be a part of it! Monday: Kingdom Without End 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. —1
- [6-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/04/6-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me. Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise. Sunday: Jesus’s Peace 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked,
- [6-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/03/6-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: I praise You, Lord, that You’re greater than any trouble I might encounter in life; you are bigger than any problem I could possibly have. Saturday: God’s Call 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: And the angel said to her in reply, “The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
- [6-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/02/6-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: I call in healing and righteousness for America. Friday: Jesus Had No Sin 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: [And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him.] — Luke 22:43 Reflection: Not even Jesus Christ could be spared by the Father His terrible suffering in order to
- [6-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/06/01/6-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: In Jesus’ mighty name, I will overcome every obstacle, and shake off every setback. I have my trust and confidence in Almighty God. He is my source! Thursday: Adopted Child 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be
- [5-31-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/31/5-31-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Thank You God that You’re in control. Thank You that You’re working behind the scenes. Thank You that You’re arranging things in our favor. Thank You that we are full of Your wisdom. Thank You that I am well able to do what You have called me to do. Wednesday: Restores Us to
- [5-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/30/5-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His mighty power! I thank You God ahead of time for this! Tuesday: Accepting Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in
- [5-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/29/5-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Please make of us a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the rest of the world, and inspires the world to become more just, kind, peaceful, free, and resistant of Communism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Monday: Mary’s Leading 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation
- [5-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/28/5-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for freedom of religion, the right for freedom of assembly, the right to bear arms, and having a country with firm borders. Sunday: Peace 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: While they were still speaking about this,
- [5-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/27/5-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: Please give us a population that becomes more religious again, and has a revival. I thank You God for the revival that is already started. Saturday: Woman 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: I rejoice heartily in the Lord,/ in my God is the joy of my soul;/ For he has clothed me
- [5-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/26/5-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. Friday: Offering Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I
- [5-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/25/5-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Thursday: Christ’s Mind 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him
- [5-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/24/5-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Wednesday: I am Your Sheep 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” which
- [5-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/23/5-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Please help us to resist communism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Tuesday: Invoke the Blood of Jesus 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground. —Luke
- [5-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/22/5-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Please bless America with a law-abiding and God-honoring citizenry, so that we are worthy of self-governance. Monday: New Type of Humanity 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
- [5-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/21/5-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Thank You, Lord, for Your comforting presence. Sunday: Grasp the Significance 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: And if Christ has not been raised, then empty [too] is our preaching; empty, too, your faith. —1 Corinthians 15:14 Reflection: The Rosary proposes that we look past the death and burial of
- [5-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/20/5-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: I’m expecting that no weapon formed against me will prosper. Saturday: In Favor of God’s Will 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her. —Luke 1:38 Reflection: The Father’s
- [5-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/19/5-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Lord, send favor now! Friday: Ease the Burden 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: After withdrawing about a stone’s throw from them and kneeling, he prayed. —Luke 22:41 Reflection: Jesus was tempted mightily by Satan in the Garden of Gethsemane, to say “no” to the anguish awaiting Him in His
- [5-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursay)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/18/5-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursay/) - Intention: I pray for Your help, Lord, today in carrying out the work that You have given me to do. Thursday: Protection From Evil 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened [for him], and
- [5-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/17/5-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me. Wednesday: Emanate the Kindness 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: But at daybreak on the first day of the week they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. —Luke 24:1 Reflection: For two days, the precious
- [5-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/16/5-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Tuesday: Generous 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: One of the bystanders drew his sword, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his ear. Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you come out as against a robber, with
- [5-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/15/5-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when I allow Jesus to step in and be a part of it! Monday: We Have Help 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. —Luke
- [5-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/14/5-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me. Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise. Sunday: Follow in His Footsteps 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple
- [5-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/13/5-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: I praise You that You’re greater than any trouble I might encounter in life. Saturday: Accompany Me 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.” —Luke 1:30 Reflection: Mary was probably just puttering around her house, working,
- [5-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/12/5-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Thank You God that You’re in control. Thank You that You’re working behind the scenes. Thank You that You’re arranging things in our favor. Friday: Something Beautiful 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours
- [5-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/11/5-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His mighty power! I thank You God ahead of time for this! Thursday: Sanctified Waters 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of
- [5-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/10/5-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Please make of us a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the rest of the world, and inspires the world to become more just, kind, peaceful, free, and resistant of Communism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Wednesday: Labor in Heaven 1st Glorious Mystery: The
- [5-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/09/5-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for freedom of religion, the right for freedom of assembly, the right to bear arms, and having a country with firm borders. Tuesday: Took on our Sins 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: [Jesus]
- [5-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/08/5-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Please give us a population that becomes more religious again, and has a revival. Thank You, God, for the revival that has already started. Monday: Let it Be 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: And coming to her, he said, “Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.” —Luke 1:28 Reflection: Something wonderful
- [5-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/07/5-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Please, Lord, bless the world leaders with wisdom, honesty, guidance from the You, compassion for all people, and help them to value human rights: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom to bear arms, firm borders, etc. Sunday: Eternal Life 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: Then [Jesus] said to
- [5-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/06/5-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Saturday: Jesus’s Love for Us 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?”
- [5-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/05/5-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Friday: Comforting Balm 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here
- [5-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/04/5-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Thursday: Openness to Holy Spirit 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: In those days John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea
- [5-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/03/5-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Please help us to resist communism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Wednesday: Faith 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. —Luke 24:2–3 Reflection: On
- [5-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/02/5-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a law-abiding and God-honoring citizenry, so that we are worthy of self-governance. Tuesday: God’s Will 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Then going out he went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. —Luke 22:39 Reflection:
- [5-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/05/01/5-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Please bless all my loved ones on the other side with love and joy, and may they rest in peace, and come into heaven to be with You forever and ever, if they’re not already there. Monday: Humility 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent
- [4-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/30/4-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Lord, please inspire all our world leaders to seek Your face and Your guidance. Sunday: Help My Unbelief 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: His disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” Then
- [4-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/29/4-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please bless all my friends and relatives and the people who dislike me with good health, financial stability and uplifting relationships with their friends and family. Please bless them with peace, love, joy, happiness and harmony, and please, when their time comes, give them each a peaceful,
- [4-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/28/4-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: I can do all things through Christ -- even "simply" doing the best I can with my own state in life. Friday: Heroism Over Horror 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: When he returned he found them asleep. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep
- [4-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/27/4-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Lord, thank You for blessing America. Thank You for blessing America! Thursday: Waters of Rebirth 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: John [the] Baptist appeared in the desert proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. —Mark 1:4 Reflection: Jesus took on all our physical, emotional,
- [4-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/26/4-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when I allow Jesus to step in and be a part of it! Wednesday: Beginning of New Eternal Life 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also
- [4-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/25/4-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me. Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise. Tuesday: Alone With His Thoughts 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: O Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer,/ my God,
- [4-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/24/4-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: I praise You, Lord, that You're bigger than anything happening in my country and in the world. I praise You that You’re greater than any trouble I might encounter in life. Monday: Trust in Holy Spirit 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: He is the image of the invisible God,/ the firstborn of
- [4-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/23/4-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: I call in healing and righteousness for America. Sunday: Heavenly Place 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. But they urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is
- [4-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/22/4-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: I trust You and I thank You, ahead of time, for defeating the enemies of America, in Jesus’ name. Saturday: Anger and Bitterness 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? —1 Corinthians 3:16 Reflection:
- [4-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/21/4-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: I have my trust and confidence in Almighty God. He is my source. Friday: Your Will Be Done 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Do you think that I cannot call upon my Father and he will not provide me at this moment with more than twelve legions of angels?
- [4-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/20/4-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Thank You that I am well able to do what You have called me to do. Thursday: Baptism 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: I prayed to the Lord, my God, and confessed, “Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, you who keep your merciful covenant toward those who
- [4-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/19/4-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His mighty power! Wednesday: New Possibilities 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: Blessed be the God and Father
- [4-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/18/4-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Please make of us a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the rest of the world, and inspires the world to become more just, kind, peaceful, free, and resistant of Communism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Tuesday: God’s Gentleness is Grace 1st Sorrowful Mystery:
- [4-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/17/4-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for freedom of religion, the right for freedom of assembly, the right to bear arms, and having a country with firm borders. Monday: Quantum Leap 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: In the lifetime of those kings
- [4-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/16/4-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Please give us a population that becomes more religious again, and has a revival. I thank You God for the revival that is already started. God bless America. Sunday: My Resurrection 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: Very early when the sun had risen, on the first day of the week, they
- [4-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/15/4-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. God bless America. Saturday: Redeemed 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: He had to become like his brothers in every way, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest before God to expiate the sins of
- [4-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/14/4-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. Lord, please bless America. Please bless America. Friday: Press On 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs
- [4-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/13/4-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly. God, bless America. Thursday: Fire of the Spirit 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier
- [4-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/12/4-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Please bless all my friends and relatives with good health, financial stability and uplifting relationships with their friends and family. Please bless them with peace, love, joy, happiness and harmony, and please, when their time comes, give them each a peaceful, easy and happy death, and bring them into heaven to be with you
- [4-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/11/4-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Please help us to resist communism. Tuesday: Watchful Prayer 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He returned a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is to be handed over to
- [4-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/10/4-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a law-abiding and God-honoring citizenry, so that we are worthy of self-governance. Monday: I Love You 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. —John 1:9 Reflection: Imagining the annunciation, we can pretend that we are an
- [4-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/09/4-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: My faith will make me whole, in Jesus's name. Sunday: Peace of Christ 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: A child is born to us, a son is given us;/ upon his shoulder dominion rests./ They name him Wonder-Counselor, GodHero,/ Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. —Isaiah 9:5 Reflection: After He rose from the dead,
- [4-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/08/4-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: In Jesus' name, I’m expecting that no weapon formed against me will prosper. I expect to rise higher, in Jesus' name! Saturday: Faith 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Your faith has saved you; go in peace. —Luke 7:50 Reflection: The angel announced to Mary that the Baby she was to conceive by
- [4-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/07/4-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: I can do all things through Christ. This giant is huge, but I will defeat it, in Jesus’ name. Friday: Reverence, Worship and Faith 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Lord, I call to you;/ come quickly to help me;/ listen to my plea when I call./ Let my prayer
- [4-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/06/4-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: The favor of God is upon me. I am anointed for this assignment. Thursday: Holiness 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: On coming up out of the water he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him. —Mark 1:10 Reflection: When
- [4-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/05/4-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Lord thank You for blessing my country. Thank You for blessing my country! Wednesday: Clean New Start 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: Then they [Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome] went out and fled from the tomb, seized with trembling and bewilderment. They said nothing to anyone,
- [4-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/04/4-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Father, thank You that every part of my day can be exciting when I allow Jesus to step in and be a part of it! Tuesday: Devil’s Trap of Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Day after day I was with you in the temple area, and you did
- [4-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/03/4-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Lord, I thank You that wherever I go this day, You and Your angels will be with me. Thank You, Lord, for the peace, love and security You promise. Monday: Godly Values and Virtues 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion,/ shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem!/ See, your
- [4-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/02/4-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: I praise You that You’re greater than any trouble I might encounter in life. Sunday: Belief in Resurrection 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who
- [4-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/04/01/4-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: I call in healing and righteousness for America. Saturday: Move Forward in God’s Will 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion! See, I am coming to dwell among you, says the Lord. —Zechariah 2:14 Reflection: Mary had doubts about how Jesus’s conception would take place after the angel announced
- [3-31-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/31/3-31-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: I have my trust and confidence in Almighty God. He is my source. Friday: Jesus is Model 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Withdrawing a second time, he prayed again, “My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass without my drinking it, your will be done!” Then he
- [3-30-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/31/3-30-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Thank You God that You’re in control. Thank You that You’re working behind the scenes. Thank You that You’re arranging things in our favor. Thank You that we are full of Your wisdom. Thank You that we are well able to do what You have called us to do. Thursday: Renewal of Baptismal Promises
- [3-29-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/29/3-29-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace – true peace, like that which we experience on Christmas Day, in Jesus’ name and in His mighty power! Wednesday: All Things Work for Good 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: We know that all
- [3-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/28/3-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Intention: Please make of us a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the rest of the world, and inspires the world to become more just, kind, peaceful, free, and resistant of Communism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Tuesday: Offer to God 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony
- [3-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/27/3-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: Please preserve our rights to meaningful representation in government, the right for free speech, the right for freedom of religion, the right for freedom of assembly, the right to bear arms, and having a country with firm borders. Monday: Yes, to God 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Therefore the Lord himself will give you
- [3-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/26/3-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Intention: Please give us a population that becomes more religious again, and has a revival. I thank You God for the revival that is already started. Sunday: New Life of Glory 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and
- [3-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/25/3-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a President and Justice Department which are non-partisan in their actions. Saturday: Trust the Lord’s Call 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: I wait for you, O Lord;/ I lift up my soul/ to my God./ In you I trust; do not let me be disgraced. —Psalm 25:1–2 Reflection: Mary
- [3-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/24/3-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a Constitution that functions as it was intended to function. Friday: Embraced Our Humanity 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: While he was still speaking, a crowd approached and in front was one of the Twelve, a man named Judas. He went up to Jesus to kiss
- [3-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/23/3-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Intention: Please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays to You earnestly. Thursday: Receive Me 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the
- [3-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/22/3-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Intention: Please help us to resist communism. I thank You God ahead of time for this. Wednesday: He is Alive 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. —John 20:20 Reflection: We can
- [3-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/21/3-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Tuesday: Benefit in the End 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Even if you should suffer because of righteousness, blessed are you. —1 Peter 3:14 Reflection: Although suffering cannot be erased from human existence, it does have meaning when it is offered up to God and is placed in His loving hands.
- [3-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/20/3-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Intention: In Jesus’ name, please bless America with a law-abiding and God-honoring citizenry, so that we are worthy of self-governance. Monday: Nothing Impossible for God 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was
- [3-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/19/3-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Sunday: Changed the World 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of [his] disciples that are not written in this book. But these are written that you may [come to] believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may
- [3-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/18/3-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Saturday: Yes, to the Angel 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Let your “Yes” mean “Yes,” and your “No” mean “No.” —Matthew 5:37 Reflection: It was fitting that an angel came to Mary to tell her about the coming of the Messiah, because it was critical that Mary be given the choice to give her
- [3-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/17/3-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Friday: Restoration of Human Race 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: His betrayer had arranged a sign with them, saying, “The man I shall kiss is the one; arrest him.” Immediately he went over to Jesus and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and he kissed him. Jesus answered him, “Friend, do what you have
- [3-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/16/3-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Thursday: Be a Lamp 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. —Matthew 11:11 Reflection: John the Baptist was a very
- [3-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/15/3-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Wednesday: Sea of Love 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race. He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will always be with them [as their God]. He will wipe
- [3-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/14/3-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Tuesday: Use My Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me.” —Matthew 26:38 Reflection: Jesus gave us an example of what to do when suffering shows up: submission, charity, and offering the suffering up
- [3-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/13/3-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Monday: Vocations to Religious Life 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining. As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace.
- [3-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/12/3-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Sunday: Deliver Me 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. —Matthew 28:1 Reflection: Jesus empowers us as His followers; He gives us victory over sin and death through His passion and resurrection. Prayer:
- [3-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/11/3-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Saturday: Completed the Father’s Will 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: You guide me along the right path/ for the sake of your name. —Psalm 23:3 Reflection: With Mary’s “yes” she completed the Father’s will. She will be blessed forever, because she embraced God’s will. Prayer: Father, as I walk the dusty roads of life,
- [3-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/10/3-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - I found photos online of some world leaders such as Joe Biden, Xi Jingping, and Vladimir Putin, and have been praying for them for divine guidance, wisdom, integrity and compassion while looking at their photographs. I find it is a great way to contribute to world peace, and I encourage you to try it too!
- [3-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/09/3-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Thursday: The Strong Man 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied and distributes the spoils. —Luke 11:22 Reflection: In Jesus’s baptism, He descended into the dwelling of Satan and fought with the
- [3-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/08/3-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Wednesday: New Kind of Existence 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: And behold, Jesus met them [the women] on their way and greeted them. They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. —Matthew 28:9 Reflection: Jesus’s resurrection was more than just an isolated event that happened long ago in human history.
- [3-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/07/3-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Tuesday: Drowsy Disciple 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be troubled and distressed. Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch.” —Mark 14:33–34 Reflection: Jesus called His disciples to be vigilant in
- [3-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/06/3-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Monday: Kingdom Without End 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. —1 Timothy 1:17 Reflection: The Angel Gabriel told Mary about Jesus, “Of his kingdom, there will be no end” (Luke 1:33). Jesus’s Kingdom is created through trust and
- [3-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/05/3-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Sunday: Jesus’s Peace 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” —John 20:19 Reflection: Once one is informed
- [3-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/04/3-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Saturday: God’s Call 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: And the angel said to her in reply, “The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.” —Luke 1:35 Reflection: Mary found grace, which
- [3-3-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/03/3-3-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Friday: Jesus Had No Sin 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: [And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him.] — Luke 22:43 Reflection: Not even Jesus Christ could be spared by the Father His terrible suffering in order to achieve our salvation. Prayer: Dearest Jesus, I know that God
- [3-2-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/03/3-2-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Thursday: Adopted Child 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. —Matthew 3:13 Reflection: Jesus was already being called “the Lamb of God” by John the Baptist, at His baptism. He participated in baptism to be in
- [3-1-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/03/01/3-1-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Wednesday: Restores Us to New Life 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them. They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He
- [2-28-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/28/2-28-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Tuesday: Accepting Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: When he rose from prayer and returned to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief. He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not undergo the test.” —Luke 22:45–46 Reflection: Jesus is not like us;
- [2-27-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/27/2-27-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Monday: Mary’s Leading 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. —Luke 1:29 Reflection: The Angel Gabriel told Mary that the Lord was with her. This was to convey the message that she was called to carry out an
- [2-26-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/26/2-26-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Sunday: Peace 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” —Luke 24:36 Reflection: Jesus greeted the disciples with peace—not merely a peace of calmness alone, because one can calmly sin. He gave them the true peace of
- [2-25-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/25/2-25-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Saturday: Woman 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: I rejoice heartily in the Lord,/ in my God is the joy of my soul;/ For he has clothed me with a robe of salvation,/ and wrapped me in a mantle of justice,/ Like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem,/ like a bride bedecked with her jewels./
- [2-24-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/24/2-24-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Friday: Offering Suffering 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.” —Matthew 26:39 Reflection: Jesus Christ’s human nature shrank back from death; yet,
- [2-23-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/23/2-23-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Thursday: Christ’s Mind 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. —John 15:5 Reflection: In Christian spirituality, we are called to be grafted onto Christ’s
- [2-22-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/22/2-22-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Wednesday: I am Your Sheep 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” which means Teacher. —John 20:16 Reflection: Jesus had once said that He called His sheep by their names. When He called Mary by her name and she
- [2-21-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/21/2-21-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Tuesday: Invoke the Blood of Jesus 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground. —Luke 22:44 Reflection: Men of today shed each other’s blood in war to satisfy their desire for reparation
- [2-20-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/20/2-20-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Monday: New Type of Humanity 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no
- [2-19-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/19/2-19-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Sunday: Grasp the Significance 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: And if Christ has not been raised, then empty [too] is our preaching; empty, too, your faith. —1 Corinthians 15:14 Reflection: The Rosary proposes that we look past the death and burial of Our Lord and into His resurrection, to see Him
- [2-18-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/18/2-18-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Saturday: In Favor of God’s Will 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her. —Luke 1:38 Reflection: The Father’s plan of redemption all depended on Christ, and Christ’s coming to earth
- [2-17-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/17/2-17-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Friday: Ease the Burden 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: After withdrawing about a stone’s throw from them and kneeling, he prayed. —Luke 22:41 Reflection: Jesus was tempted mightily by Satan in the Garden of Gethsemane, to say “no” to the anguish awaiting Him in His passion and death. But He said
- [2-16-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/16/2-16-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Thursday: Protection From Evil 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened [for him], and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove [and] coming upon him. —Matthew 3:16 Reflection: In the waters of
- [2-15-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/15/2-15-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Wednesday: Emanate the Kindness 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: But at daybreak on the first day of the week they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. —Luke 24:1 Reflection: For two days, the precious Body of Jesus laid on a cool slab of stone, cold and
- [2-14-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/14/2-14-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Tuesday: Generous 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: One of the bystanders drew his sword, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his ear. Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to seize me? Day after day I was with
- [2-13-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/13/2-13-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Monday: We Have Help 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. —Luke 1:31 Reflection: When Jesus was conceived in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, most of the established world was controlled by Rome, including the Holy Land.
- [2-12-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/12/2-12-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Sunday: Follow in His Footsteps 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” —John 20:2 Reflection: Even though Jesus had told His
- [2-11-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/11/2-11-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Saturday: Accompany Me 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.” —Luke 1:30 Reflection: Mary was probably just puttering around her house, working, doing her chores and praying as usual, when suddenly an angel appeared to her and said,
- [2-10-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Friday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/10/2-10-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-friday/) - Friday: Something Beautiful 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done. —Luke 22:42 Reflection: Jesus asked us to take up our cross and follow Him; yet when His passion was close at hand, He agonized
- [2-9-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Thursday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/09/2-9-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-thursday/) - Thursday: Sanctified Waters 1st Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan Scripture: A voice came from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” —Matthew 3:17 Reflection: Jesus was in the midst of His Father’s business when He went to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
- [2-8-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Wednesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/08/2-8-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-wednesday/) - Wednesday: Labor in Heaven 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection of Our Lord Scripture: He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. —Matthew 28:6 Reflection: Jesus in His risen state showed us that His Body was the same as before in some ways,
- [2-7-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Tuesday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/07/2-7-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-tuesday/) - Tuesday: Took on our Sins 1st Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden Scripture: [Jesus] said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup away from me, but not what I will but what you will.” —Mark 14:36 Reflection: The Lord’s agony was so harrowing because He became the sin-bearer for us
- [2-6-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Monday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/06/2-6-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-monday/) - Monday: Let it Be 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: And coming to her, he said, “Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.” —Luke 1:28 Reflection: Something wonderful happened when Mary said, “Let it be” (see Luke 1:38). The Son of God became incarnate in a human body to live with all of us
- [2-5-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Sunday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/05/2-5-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-sunday/) - Sunday: Eternal Life 1st Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection Scripture: Then [Jesus] said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.” —John 20:27 Reflection: Because of Jesus’s resurrection, we can believe in eternal life. Jesus said that
- [2-4-23 Rosary Mystery Meditations for Today (Saturday)](https://www.howtomeditatetherosary.com/2023/02/04/2-4-23-rosary-mystery-meditations-for-today-saturday/) - Saturday: Jesus’s Love for Us 1st Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation Scripture: But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” —Luke 1:34 Reflection: Mary said “yes” to the angel. Like her, we must say “yes” to Jesus: “yes” to becoming His disciple, “yes” to allowing Him

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