Born for Heaven: Jesus Our Brother Makes His Father, Our Father (Pope Francis) Pray the Chaplet to the Divine Mercy for Holy Souls on Christmas Day w/ Fr. Anthony Gramlich, via the Marian App (3rd Ed)
What is the Joy that changes hearts? Merry Christmas / Feliz Natal. Link to our new Chaplet to Divine Mercy Toolkit (text only) post for Christmas Day. Visit theholyrosary.substack.com.
NOTE: FYI, Apologies for the date sent via e-mail re: the Feast of the Holy Family, which is celebrated this year on Dec. 30, 2023. We invite you to pray the Joyful Mysteries every day through the Octave of Christmas, including Dec. 31 through to Jan. 1 as we focus on asking before the tabernacle for the gift of Joy from the Baby Jesus. Visit theholyrosary.substack.com to pray one to four sets of Mysteries of the Rosary with us every day in 2024. Karen Rocha wishes to announce that we’ll be having a new initiative for prayer in 2024 which we’ll be organizing at our next team meeting. If you are a pastor and wish to contribute to this ministry and help the Children’s Rosary Q & A in some way, subscribe to one of our sites located on our Portal and reply to the welcome e-mail. Thank you and enjoy and God bless you.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS: “URBI et ORBI” BLESSING this AM in Rome, Italy:
PORTUGUESE: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/pt/messages/urbi/documents/20231225-urbi-et-orbi-natale.html
ITALIAN:
FRENCH:
“From the manger, the Child Jesus asks us to be the voice of those who have no voice. The voice of the innocent children who have died for lack of bread and water; the voice of those who cannot find work or who have lost their jobs; the voice of those forced to flee their lands in search of a better future, risking their lives in gruelling journeys and prey to unscrupulous traffickers.” (Pope Francis)
Brothers and sisters, we are approaching the season of grace and hope that is the Jubilee, due to begin a year from now. May this time of preparation for the Holy Year be an opportunity for the conversion of hearts, for the rejection of war and the embrace of peace, and for joyfully responding to the Lord’s call, in the words of Isaiah’s prophecy, “to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners” (61:1).
Those words were fulfilled in Jesus (cf. Lk 4:18), who is born today in Bethlehem. Let us welcome him! Let us open our hearts to him, who is the Saviour, the Prince of Peace!” (Pope Francis)
Let us pray for peace with the Holy Rosary. Today is Monday. Here are the Joyful Mysteries with a link to the introduction by Fr. Nuno, the full article of which will be published (officially) on the Feast of the Holy Family via the new site in Portuguese: odiario.substack.com on December 31, 2023 (New Year’s Eve).
2nd EDITION (TYPOS REVISED)
Focus today on being attentive to others on Christmas Day. Ask God for the grace of being present to others, and to be cheerful! If we witness conflict, let us remember to turn to prayer and to ask God for extra graces when we pray more than one Rosary a day! See our news portal: ojornalo.substack.com.
Also, Lucio wrote to us to let you know that 30 people joined the Patrol and that 2024 will be his last year on Street Patrol.
TODAY IS MONDAY
We invite you to pray the Joyful Mysteries through
the Octave of Christmas every day starting today!
Here is Fr. Nuno’s Toolkit to share with ONE person today.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Wg9r3Zb9E0crRoedzjsFoue-vFzCYkzL3xi0moEhFA/edit
MORE FROM FR. NUNO ON THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES
COMING SOON: THE FULL TEXT OF “THE SECRET OF JOY” by PE NUNO ROCHA
Read the Original text in Portuguese with English Footnote Translation
The Second Edition
WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW EVENING! (GOD WILLING, stay tuned!)
AN ACT OF MERCY FOR CHRISTMAS DAY:
LET’S WORK TOGETHER TO BRING
THE SOULS IN PURGATORY HOME TO HEAVEN!
If time, please invite one other person to pray the Chaplet to the Divine Mercy with you today on Christmas Day.
You can make an intention together (or just by making a reminder online).
SAMPLE INTENTION:
“Let us pray for the members of our family who are not present at our Christmas gathering today. Let’s pray for ____________________ and the repose of their immortal souls.”
LINK to the Digital Toolkit for Christmas Day for the “Chaplet Script” as prayed on Radio Maria USA every single 2nd Saturday of the month and led by Amelia and Zosia, members of Children’s Rosary and junior broadcasters for The Rosary Hour Podcast.
Also, you can download the app of the Marian Fathers in which the Founding Spiritual Director of the Rosary Hour Podcast leads the Chaplet to the Divine Mercy. Pray the Chaplet to the Divine Mercy everyday with Fr. Anthony Gramlich by downloading the programme here: https://marian.org/apps.
25 December | THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST NEWSLETTER
Dear Readers: Christ is born!
On behalf of the Rosary Hour Podcast and Children’s Rosary ® we wish to thank you for participating in the "Patiently Waiting" Campaign.
Today is Christmas Day, so you can, like Zosia, replace the sign in your window with one that reads:
“Christ is Born.”
Dear Readers: This is Amelia. I invite you to join my best friend Zosia and our mentor, Dr. Blythe Kaufman who will both lead the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary on Radio Maria January 13, 2024 at 3PM Central / 4 PM Eastern. Please mark your calendar and pray the Rosary Every Day. Here is a fun interview with Dr. Lombardi by Zosia about the traditions that matter to her at Christmas.
We invite you to watch this with young children today and to engage children in talking to other adults over the supper table as an alternative to devices for 5 minutes.
What does it mean for us to do all things with great love?
Love Amelia.
A NOTE FROM CHILDREN’S ROSARY ® & THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST
p.s. We’d like to Fr. Elias Mary Mills who visited the Rosary Hour Podcast Digital Café during our Marian Consecration Advent Journey on December 8th.
In this 2-hour interview co-led with Dr. Kaufman to support member of Children’s Rosary ®, Fr. Elias answered Amelia’s following question about St. Maximilian Kolbe:
AMELIA (RHP HOST):
I love that. And what you said leads me to a related question.
Saint Maximilian Kolbe once said that he wanted
“to win the entire world for the Immaculata”... and “through her for the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.”
Why do you think he said this, Father Elias?
FR. ELIAS ANSWERED IN THIS WAY:
And Fr. Elias also said:
FIRST ANNUAL ADVENT CONSECRATION JOURNEY ENDS:
LET’S PRAY THE ROSARY EVERY DAY in 2024!
REDISCOVERING MARIAN CONSECRATION WITH THE ROSARY HOUR PODCAST & CHILDREN’S ROSARY THIS CHRISTMAS 2023 were 400+ people who took some part in the First Annual 33-Day Worldwide Consecration to the Baby Jesus co-led by Children’s Rosary & The Rosary Hour Podcast.
Here is the certificate provide to all participants who persevered and which was visually reimagined from the text posted on the childconsecration.com website.
We’d like to thank everyone who shared the news of this consecration with others and who participated in this journey.
Below is the full explanation of the Consecration Prayer that Fr. Elias Mills provided to all worldwide participants here:
This line-by-line explanation was written by St. Maximilian Kolbe:
Learn more about St. Maximilian Kolbe with Fr. Elias Mary Mills, FI with GAH:
Learn with Fr. Elias in person: guest to the Rosary Hour Podcast takes pilgrims to Japan: https://www.canterburypilgrimages.com/tour/japan-pilgrimage-with-father-elias-mills/
“Our very own Father Elias Mills, F.I. will be returning to Japan and Akita in April and October of 2024, leading his unique and exciting pilgrimages! Check out the video below for a message from Father Elias from Facebook via Canterbury Pilgrimages:
“Pilgrimages will run from April 2 - 16, and October 8 - 22, 2024. The April pilgrimage sign-up deadline is January 1, 2024, just around the corner. If you are in the USA, please call Canterbury Pilgrimages for more information at (800) 653-0017 or visit the website at canterburypilgrimages.com”
