"É preciso encontrar uma nova pedagogia para ensinar as crianças a rezar o terço."
- Cardéal António Augusto dos Santos Marto + (Fátima, Portugal) 1
TRANSLATION: "We need to find a new pedagogy to teach children to pray the Rosary." Cardinal Marto
Fr. Anthony Gramlich, MIC, Assistant Rector of the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, MA leads the prayer of the Fátima Rosary — a decade based on the Rosary prayed at the Chapel of the Apparitions at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal. Joining him is Fr. Elias Mary Mills, FI, former Rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Also, uniting in prayer is Dr. Blythe Kaufman, founder of Children’s Rosary. Listen to her story here:
All prayers curated by Fr. Nuno Rocha (Portugal). Watch Chapter 2 of this digital novel here:
Live Record session captured by directed by Amelia w/ Fr. Nuno, Izzy, Godric, Dan, Karen, and Rembrandt.
"Teach that students may become their own teacher. Let us feed our pupils with the right food so that time will come when they will be able to provide their own food." (St. Augustine, Sermon 155, 3, 3)
"The first subject students learn is the teacher. Teachers offer themselves for imitation. This is the essence of what people call teaching." (St. Augustine, De musica 1,6)
WELCOME TO SEASON 3 THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST
Established MARCH 15th, 2022. Last updated 23 January 2025.
IMAGINED by: TRAVESSA DA SENRA HOUSE PRESS
PORTO, PORTUGAL
The Rosary Hour Podcast & Newsletter explores ways to rediscover the beauty & depth of eternal wisdom, strengthen piety, rediscover the virtues, and deepen our devotion to God through offering to Jesus the Christocentric prayer of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Rosary is a special gift from Heaven to the whole world that draws all who pray it closer to sanctifying grace, endless love, sure hope and fathomless Divine Mercy of God:
“Simple yet profound, it still remains, at the dawn of this third millennium, a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness.2 (St. John Paul II)
Contributions of more than twenty liturgical and theological experts help us understand how to meditate on the Mysteries and contemplate the excellence and power of this holy devotion, a treasure inspired by God. (St. Louis Marie de Montfort, “The Secret of the Rosary”).
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE SEASON PREMIERE & PREFACE TO JOY (χαρά)
Introduced by the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception
“TRUE JOY”
“What is the True Joy of Our Humanity?”
In this first episode, Rev. Father Chris Alar, MIC & Rev. Fr. Thaddeus Lancton, MIC from the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy (USA) teach us about the nature of Joy.
Featuring an animated excerpt from “O Segredo da Alegria”, “The Secret of Joy” by Padre Nuno Rocha (PORTUGAL) this preface introduces special guest for 2025, Antonia Salzano Acutis from carloacutis.com (ITALY).
MORE ABOUT THIS SEASON 3 PREFACE
LIVE RECORD on “JOY” (χαρά) features interviews by Amelia with
Fr. Chris Alar, MIC (USA), Provincial Superior of the Marian Fathers at The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy (USA);
An excerpt from “The Secret of Joy” by Fr. Nuno Rocha (PORTUGAL);
Accompanying commentary on "The Secret of Joy” by Fr. Thaddaeus Lancton, MIC (USA);
PODCAST CREDITS
“When teachers have explained, using words, all those subjects which they profess to teach, even the science of virtue and wisdom, then the ones we call pupils consider within themselves whether what they have heard is true. This they do by gazing attentively at that interior truth, so far as they are able. Then it is that they learn, when within themselves they discover that what has been taught is true…” (St. Augustine, “The Teacher” 14 / 45)
Episode Spiritual Director & Music Director: Reverend Father Nuno Rocha (PORTUGAL) w/ Fr. Elias Mary Mills, FI (Episode script and concept support); thanks to the Franciscans of the Immaculate Conception from in the USA and the Marians of the Immaculate Conception in the USA. Season 3 Podcast Presentation style developed by Amelia w/ Dan, Godric, Rembrandt, Karen, Izzy. Thanks to Peter Markage, the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy, CarloAcutis.com, Hyperdulia Media’s Fr. Josemaria Barbin, and EWTN host Fr. Chris Alar, MIC. In memory of Father Seraphim Michalenko (1930-2021); Mother Angelica (Foundress of EWTN: April 20, 1923 – March 27, 2016); Saint Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 - 12 October 2006); Simon Matthew Benkovic (March 3, 1979 - March 20, 2004); Michelle Christine Duppong, Servant of God (January 25, 1984-December 25, 2015) and the Holy Souls. Fr. Thad invites you to learn the prayer below as part of our Season 3 focus (attributed to St. Gertrude):
WE INVITE YOU TO BOOKMARK OUR ROSARY CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@travessadasenrahousepress. THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST NEWSLETTER | STORY SPOTLIGHT
SEASON 3 PRESENTS
FR. ELIAS MARY MILLS, FI ON MARIAN CONSECRATION
“SCAPULAR MIRACLE STORY”
Scapular Miracle Story: Personal Testimony by Fr. Elias Mary Mills, Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate, explains the promise of the grace of Final Perseverance & the contract of this Devotion.
PROLOGUE FOR BUSY PEOPLE: In memory of the Holy Souls in Purgatory for whom we offer our Rosaries on 15 September. This post is especially dedicated to the Father of Rev. Elias Mary Mills, F.I. who passed on 15 September 1990, and who is the main character in today’s Scapular Miracle Story.
ABOUT THIS POST:
If you are new to The Rosary Hour Podcast, please listen to our most popular Newsletter post: Fr. Elias Mary’s “SCAPULAR MIRACLE STORY” shares his personal testimony about the power of silent consecration, the scapular, in a touching story about his father, the power of intercessory prayer, and the importance of the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. here: https://rosaryhourpodcast.substack.com/p/scapular-miracle-story-personal-testimony
FR. ELIAS ALSO TEACHES A HISTORY 101 on the JAPANESE MARTYRS:
SEASON 3: THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST’S FOCUS ON THE HOLY SOULS
Season 3 introduces the Spiritual Direction of FR. THADDAEUS LANCTON, Marian of the Immaculate Conception, and Seminary Formator in Steubenville, USA who took the time to teach our readers how-to-pray more frequently and fervently for the Holy Souls in Purgatory:
Fr. Lancton returned in 2025 to the RHP Live Record studio to record the secret of Joy of the 2nd Luminous Mystery, teaching about the Sacrament of Matrimony in this special episode:
How can couples become aware of the vocational dimension of their relationship — like a miracle?”
"The Wedding Feast at Cana" (Prayer Offering Reviewed by Fr. Nuno Rocha) w/ Live Record by Fr. Thaddaeus Lancton, The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy
He returns again in the Spring the 4th Glorious Mystery with Fr. Nuno’s novena for “The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary”. He will also talk about the Rosary, and better define and explore the concept of conscience.
For SEASON 3, our “ROSARY” CONVERSATION BEGINS WITH REDISCOVERING “THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES”
[A NEW LAYOUT COMING SOON IN 2025 POSTS]
A New Introduction to the Joyful Mysteries
“THE SECRET OF JOY”
by: Padre Nuno Rocha
Pastor on the Camino to Santiago in Portugal
(2nd Edition, December 2024)
Essential Question to write about or discuss with one other person:
“Why are people in need of joy?”
READ THIS TEXT VIA “THE DIARY OF PRAYER” BELOW
(“THE SECRET OF JOY”, in ENGLISH, Copyright © 2024, Travessa da Senra House Press, PORTO, PORTUGAL & PUBLISHED ON odiario.substack.com)
INTRODUCTION BY: J. REMBRANDT, SENIOR CONTRIBUTORAlthough the Incarnation, in which God took on human nature through his son Jesus Christ, is a unique event in history, Fr. Nuno's reflections encourage us to become aware that God remains with us today:
"God communicates through our lives".
Therefore, true joy resides in relating to one another, which is also an expression of faithfulness. Opposing the Word Incarnate is closed individualism, which results in loneliness and unhappiness. The relatedness of true friendship reflects the same faithfulness that brought us joy at the moment of the Annunciation of the Angel to Our Lady.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO PADRE NUNO ROCHA’S E-BOOK AUTHORED BY REMBRANDT, SENIOR EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR OF TRAVESSA DA SENRA HOUSE PRESS) & ADVISOR TO THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST. WITH SPIRITUAL DIRECTION BY FR. NUNO & FR. CHARLES.
In “True Joy” A Preface to Season 3, Amelia asks Fr. Thad Lancton:
“What is the true joy of our humanity?”
("Qual é, então, a verdadeira alegria da nossa humanidade?")
In the first episode for Season 3 (CLICK TO WATCH), Padre Nuno Rocha (PORTUGAL) & Fr. Thaddaeus Lancton, MIC (USA) collaborate to answer one of the various essentials question posed by Padre Nuno’s Joyful Mysteries booklet.3
WATCH HERE “TRUE JOY” ON OUR OFFICIAL “ROSARY CHANNEL”
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DECEMBER 2024 VIDEO FEATURES NOTES ON RECITING THE ACT OF CONSECRATION AND OUR LADY’S MISSION by: FR. ELIAS MARY MILLS
In the following video, Fr. Elias Mary Mills takes the time to talk about the Mission we are called to after a long time of prayer in preparation for the Act of Consecration here:
See the original notes in this December 24, 2024 post:
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NEWSLETTER ABOUT PAGE
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OTHER ABOUT PAGE NOTES
HOW DO I APPRECIATE THE REQUEST TO PRAY THE ROSARY EVERY DAY?
VISIT: https://theholyrosary.substack.com/about
Cardinal Marto's note that we learn a new pedagogy for teaching children the Rosary has awakened in our Podcast a desire to teach the Mysteries of the Rosary by bringing out the beauty in a Solemnity, Feast Day and especially reframing how to prepare for the days in the Liturgical Calendar linked to the Rosary Mysteries. THEHOLYROSARY.SUBSTACK.COM continues what we began on ROSARY365.SUBSTACK.COM with a library of novenas for the Feast Days highlighted in the Rosary. Thus, we will begin with the PRESENTATION in the TEMPLE after our 42 days of reflecting on Christmas during Advent 2024 and in the lead up the Advent 2025 will guide our listeners through the Novena with Our Lady to increase the Virtues and the practice of linking prayer to the Sacraments as a way to encourage pilgrimage, even if it is more often to our local parishes or Cathedrals during 2025. More to follow when you visit https://theholyrosary.substack.com. “Invoco abundantes bênçãos de Nossa Senhora de Fátima para o vosso projecto sobre o Terço do Rosário.” + CARDINAL ANTÓNIO MARTO (Fátima, Portugal).
TRANSLATION, ENGLISH:
"I invoke abundant blessings from Our Lady of Fátima for your project on the Rosary.”
[About Page last updated 17 January during the Jubilee 2025 Ordinary on Memorial of Father of Monasticism, St. Anthony of the Desert (Antonius of Egypt, one of the earliest desert fathers and disciple of St. Paul of Thebes)]ABOUT THE PRAYERS IN SEASON 3
ALL PRAYERS & EPISODE CONTENT for SEASON 3 (2024-2025) of The Rosary Hour Podcast were curated by FR. NUNO ROCHA (PORTUGAL) who authored “THE SECRET OF JOY” published digitally by Travessa da Senra House Press (Porto, Portugal) in Italian, German, French, English translated from the original Portuguese by J. Rembrandt.
This “New Introduction to the Joyful Mysteries” emerges from the Porto region of Portugal where Fr. Nuno is the pastor of Lapa and St. Joseph. From his desk, he presents to our readers his reflections on the first gift of the Holy Spirit (Πνεύματός) that we will explore in 2025 through this first publication: Joy (χαρά).
MORE TOPICS DISCUSSED WITH OUR GUESTS
Ongoing theological support on various topics for “The Rosary: Season 3” include Marian Consecration, Sacramentals like the Scapular (Our shield), the history of the Saints and the “why” of Marian devotions and apparitions led by FR. ELIAS MARY MILLS, Franciscan of the Immaculate Conception (USA).
After providing Spiritual Direction for the Christmas Consecration Journey on the “O Antiphons” in the lead up to Christmas, Fr. Elias will return in 2025 to teach our readers about his latest pilgrim journeys, give more notes on the Joyful Mysteries, and reflect on the Immaculate Heart of Mary as we celebrate the 100th year since the special First Saturday Apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in Tuy, Spain on 10 December 1925. To get started on understanding this First Saturday Devotion, visit our First Saturday Devotion beta site here.
FR. DAVID MICHAEL MOSES, pilgrimrosary.com (Texas, USA) & content creator helps finish last season’s discussion on “what it means to be a child of God”:
Fr. David Michael also presents with Asher and Amelia the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary via our YouTube channel on the video below:
NOTE: If you missed Fr. David Michael’s Masterclass on Humor, click here to see the episode he co-produced with our Podcast: “The Theology of Humor” from Season 2.
THE FOUNDING SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR OF THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST
FR. ANTHONY GRAMLICH, MIC, Assistant Rector of the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA (shrineofdivinemercy.org) returned to our Live Record Studio on December 8th, 2024, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, to teach our readers and listeners about the 3rd Joyful Mystery.
This Christmas 2024 visit included a conversation with Amelia about his favorite Christmas Cookies and traditions. Click here to watch part of this discussion on our Rosary Channel, “Christus Est Qui Natus Hodie”:
You can read more about our approach to teaching the Rosary here via the ABOUT PAGE:
UPCOMING PODCASTS
In 2025, Fr. Anthony Gramlich, MIC will return to the Live Record Studio with return guest, Dr. Blythe Kaufman, founder of Children's Rosary, for a *new* Roundtable Live Record conversation prior to Lent. Together they will explore the relationships between Joy, Suffering, and Patience within the context of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. ALSO IN 2025: A SPECIAL JUBILEE PRESENTATION w/ carloacutis.com
ANTONIA SALZANO ACUTIS (ITALY)
“SANCTITY & THE SECRET OF JOY”
(Last updated on 17 JANUARY 2025)
ABOUT SAINT CARLO ACUTIS | A SAINT FOR OUR TIMES
Like the shepherd children of Fátima, Saint Carlo Acutis was acutely aware of the importance of Our Lady in his own sanctification when he prayed the Rosary every day, and the urgency with which he developed his own efforts to bring others to Christ through an online ministry which can be found on carloacutis.com. His Eucharistic Miracles Exhibit will continue to be a feature of Season 3 of The Rosary Hour Podcast as we teach with Carlo Acutis these stories, and also approach and then celebrate the Canonization on April 27th, 2025 which also takes place on Divine Mercy Sunday (also the anniversary of the Canonization of St. John Paul II).
ABOUT DEVELOPING THIS EPISODE ON SANCTITY & BECOMING A SAINT
With the help of our Spiritual Directors, the Franciscans of the Immaculate and Marians of the Immaculate Conception from the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy, Season 3 of the Rosary Hour Podcast will find various ways of exploring the story of Saint Carlo Acutis during Jubilee 2025, as well as share PDFs from his Eucharistic Miracles website.
Fr. Thad Lancton, MIC has already introduced through his discussion of Holy Souls the concepts of sanctity, the virtues we request when we pray the Rosary, and the idea of conscience as he continues to discuss the Joyful Mysteries, some of the Luminous and Glorious Mysteries prior to the release of this special episode which is evolving under the Spiritual Direction of Fr. Nuno Rocha who invites you to watch the 1 minute trailer to the original talk format this episode was imagined for:
EPISODE RELEASE DATE STILL TO BE DETERMINED
NOTE: HAVE YOU HEARD FR. ANTHONY’S ST. LOUIS MARIE DE MONTFORT BOOKTALK from SEASON 1?
If you missed this popular video on “The Secret of the Rosary”, click here:
SERENDIPITY & A QUICK BACKSTORY
In his sermons and talks, FR. CHRIS ALAR, MIC, Provincial Superior at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy at divinemercyplus.org (USA) and host of “Living Divine Mercy” on EWTN discusses the primary importance of Trust and Faith in God’s love, as well as the importance of our own persevering prayer and the role of the Rosary in our times.
Fr. Chris reminds viewers watching his livestreams around the world that each of us has a responsibility to consider why we must take up our Rosaries and be part of this worldwide effort to strive to pray for the salvation of souls. In his own life, Fr. Chris has reflected on this personal call to finding ways, daily, to bring souls to God’s Love and Mercy, and his reflection on True Joy for Season 3 of The Rosary Hour Podcast inspires us to think of new ways to transform the graces granted to us into avenues for bringing the various people in our lives back to God’s abundant and sanctifying grace.
In this way, the Rosary prayer as a School of Our Lady might become the means through which we might deliver others to the Divine Mercy of Christ — even those who might even be paralyzed by the obstacles of this world or difficult circumstances in life preventing their encounter with the Living God. (c.f. Gospel Reading, Friday January 17, 2025).
In that same spirit, this conversation on the Rosary emerged in 2021 — at first from collaborative discussion among mothers who were also friends with different backgrounds in education, and who were simply re-discovering how to pray the decades of the entire Rosary together as a group, and sought Spiritual Direction that might help them help their children know “why” and “how” they should pray the Holy Rosary.
It was the serendipitous Spiritual Direction of Fr. Anthony Gramlich, MIC, the Rector of the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy, at the time, who then set us and our guests on this prayer group’s journey into discovering that the Rosary was, in fact, a school, as St. John Paul II defined it in ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE.
Fr. Anthony’s challenge to each of us, including our children, to find a way to re-discover the Rosary in our times and to invite others to pray this prayer through the podcast medium was something we never imagined was even possible until Fr. Chris Alar helped us to prepare the podcast launch and introductory commentary to our May 2022 meeting with Fr. Anthony after the quiet of the pandemic — our first attempt to teach the catechesis of the Rosary through a series of Micro talks that we documented in this very basic Sept. 11, 2022 presentation here:
Read more about our approach on our About Page here:
ABOUT OUR ESCHATOLOGICAL FOCUS
His Eminence, Cardinal Thomas Collins, the Emeritus Archbishop of Toronto at the time of our podcast interview in 2022, was instrumental in helping us to collect our thoughts and to define our eschatological focus for this podcast.
His graduate studies and theological research on Revelation and his profound understanding of the ‘Four Last Things’ helped us rediscover the Rosary prayers in light of certain authors like Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Pope St. John Paul II, St. John Henry Newman, Dietricht von Hildebrand, etc. which led us to pinpointing in this body of reading ways to enter into a meaningful conversation on the Rosary. It was this simple conversation about the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Devotion to Our Lady which helped us rethink why we wanted to talk about the Rosary in the first place.
Cardinal Collins began our eschatological journey4 into the heart of this prayer first by sharing with us his thoughts on the concept of “Eternity”, which we felt was important because of Our Lady’s teaching in her apparitions that “if we knew what eternity was”, “we would do everything to change our lives”:
THE BIRTH OF A CHILDREN’S LED APOSTOLATE
Also, and most importantly, Cardinal Collins spent a large part of his podcast time answering Amelia’s questions when she was 8-years-old. It was his taking the time to teach her about his favorite books and his favorite things which helped form this unexpected podcast format — unfolding the current Q and A approach to this podcast’s content for Season 3. We invite you to witness Cardinal Collins’s response to Amelia’s question “What is Your Favorite Book?” here.
Re-joining Amelia in this journey in 2025 is her best friend, Zosia. The two have prayed the Rosary for 1 hour a month together, broadcasting LIVE on RADIO since June 2022. Their show on Radio Maria USA has evolved under the mentorship of Dr. Blythe Kaufman, founder of Children’s Rosary and using the model we created for this podcast: see here the older version of our original “Digital Toolkit for Rosary Leaders” which is the model for three years of Rosary Broadcasts — and which we’ll share and update when time permits in 2025.
Dr. Bailey’s help with the toolkits have made for these girls a fun monthly meeting — something that Our lady forged to create a very special friendship.
Zosia (now 10) and Amelia (now 11) lead together a Holy Hour each month and pray the Chaplet the Rosary and the Litany of the Month.
Most recently, Zosia has had a little more time time help Amelia with the Presentation Novena, so we invite you to join her 9-day journey here:
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FOOTNOTES
Cardinal Dom António Marto, Bishop emeritus of Leiria-Fátima, (Portugal) is a member of the Dicastery of the Cause of Saints. He was pronounced a new cardinal of the Catholic Church, during a ceremony held at Saint Peter’s Basilica on 28 June 2018 of the Title of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. His public commentary in Fátima unknowingly transformed the path of this podcast when we read his challenge published on the Sanctuary website several days after recording the Terço in Portuguese:
"É preciso encontrar uma nova pedagogia para ensinar as crianças a rezar o terço"- Cardeal António Marto
SEE THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://www.fatima.pt/pt/news/e-preciso-encontrar-uma-nova-pedagogia-para-ensinar-as-criancas-a-rezar-o-terco--cardeal-antonio-marto
NOTE: In 1979 St. John Paul II wrote in the following exhortation
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_16101979_catechesi-tradendae.pdf and on “Continual Balanced Renewal” item 17, he notes:
Finally, catechesis needs to be continually renewed by a certain broadening of its concept, by the revision of its methods, by the search for suitable language, and by the utilization of new means of transmitting the message. Renewal is sometimes unequal in value; the synod fathers realistically recognized, not only an undeniable advance in the vitality of catechetical activity and promising initiatives, but also the limitations or even "deficiencies" in what has been achieved to date.(45) These limitations are particularly serious when they endanger integrity of content. The message to the People of God rightly stressed that "routine, with its refusal to accept any change, and improvisation, with its readiness for any venture, are equally dangerous" for catechesis.(46) Routine leads to stagnation, lethargy and eventual paralysis. Improvisation begets confusion on the part of those being given catechesis and, when these are children, on the part of their parents; it also begets all kinds of deviations, and the fracturing and eventually the complete destruction of unity. It is important for the Church to give proof today, as she has done at other periods of her history, of evangelical wisdom, courage and fidelity in seeking out and putting into operation new methods and new prospects for catechetical instruction.“In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium.(2) It is an echo of the prayerof Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.”
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/2002/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae.html
Santuário oferece Lectio Divina para preparação das celebrações dominicais
Encontros são de participação gratuita e decorrem entre dezembro de 2024 e junho de 2025.
O Departamento de Liturgia do Santuário de Fátima oferece encontros de Lectio Divina de preparação para as celebrações dominicais entre dezembro de 2024 e junho de 2025. A iniciativa é aberta a toda a comunidade e visa aprofundar a escuta orante da Palavra de Deus e promover uma participação mais ativa e consciente na Liturgia.
A decorrer na Sala do Espírito Santo, na Casa de Retiros de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, cada encontro será conduzido pelo Departamento de Liturgia, num total de 23 sessões, que ocorrerão nas datas indicadas abaixo.
Esta ação é de participação livre, não carece de inscrição prévia e pode ser frequentada por quem deseje aprofundar a sua relação com a Palavra de Deus. Recomenda-se que os participantes levem consigo um missal popular ou a Bíblia, para poderem acompanhar as reflexões propostas.
A Lectio Divina é uma prática espiritual cristã de leitura orante das Escrituras, que convida à meditação, oração e contemplação da Palavra de Deus, numa metodologia que promove um encontro mais profundo com a Palavra.
O tema escolhido para esta iniciativa, "Ignorar as Escrituras é ignorar a Cristo", é uma frase do prólogo ao comentário de São Jerónimo sobre o Livro do Profeta Isaías que destaca a centralidade da Palavra de Deus na vida cristã.
Num ano jubilar da Igreja, dedicado ao tema "Peregrinos da Esperança", estes encontros de Lectio Divina são uma oportunidade concreta de esperança e a comunhão com Deus através da escuta da Palavra.
DIAS DOS ENCONTROS
2025, Janeiro: 17 e 24; Fevereiro: 12, 21 e 26; Março: 5, 12, 19 e 26; Abril: 2, 9 e 30
Maio: 9, 21 e 28; Junho: dias 6, 11, 18 e 25.
Karen has found these “Deliverance Prayers for the Laity” Archive from the St. Michael Center for those requiring further prayers — these have been reviewed as useful by Fr. Charles — and they are tied to the themes in the Year C Gospel Readings. Matthew 8:28-30 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition) notes:
28 And when he was come on the other side of the water, into the country of the Gerasens, there met him two that were possessed with devils, coming out of the sepulchres, exceeding fierce, so that none could pass by that way.
29 And behold they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
30 And there was, not far from them, an herd of many swine feeding.
St. Paul reminds: “at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11, NRSV). Deliverance in this sense, brings about restoration by the Divine Power of God, making this act eschatological in nature.
