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Friends of the Rosary,
In many countries, including England, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland, on the first Thursday after Pentecost, the faithful observe the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest, according to the order of Melchizedek.
Christ the Lord is the compassionate and trustworthy high priest (Hebrews 2:17), ever-living to intercede for humanity before The Father (Hebrews 7:25) and mediate between God and mankind.
In him the Father has been well pleased from before all time. And fulfilling his Father’s will, he sacrificed himself on the altar of the Cross, as a saving Victim for the whole world.
The sacrifice is continually renewed in the Church, so streams of divine power might flow, and the whole universe will be perfected.
Priests themselves act “In persona Christi” (“In the person of Christ”).
And the laity are thus urged to pray that priests would be more like Christ,
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• ⁠May 28, 2026, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,
This week, Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), which focuses on how mankind should respond to the rise of AI and the broader digital revolution.
The Pontifex argued that AI is not merely a technical revolution but a civilizational shift, comparable to the Industrial Revolution, as addressed by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 in his Rerum Novarum encyclical, in which the Church's social doctrine was formulated.
Pope Leo XIV introduced the modern age of artificial intelligence as a decisive crossroads for humanity.
The encyclical argues that every generation must choose whether technology will help build a civilization rooted in human dignity and fraternity, or a new “Tower of Babel” marked by domination, confusion, inequality, and loss of human identity.
The core idea is that the human person is created by God with an intrinsic dignity that no machine, system, state, or market can replace. The Pope insists that AI may imitate reasoning and creativity, but it cannot possess conscience, moral responsibility, love, suffering, transcendence, or the spiritual destiny proper to the human person. Human beings must never be reduced to data points, behavioral predictions, or economic units.
Technology is never morally neutral, says the Pope. AI systems reflect the intentions, ideologies, and power structures of those who design and deploy them. Because of this, Leo XIV warns against allowing a small number of governments or corporations to concentrate excessive technological power. He argues that unchecked technological systems can produce new forms of exploitation, manipulation, surveillance, exclusion, and dependency.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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Friends of the Rosary,
Today, May 26, is the Memorial of St. Philip Neri (1515-1595), a gracious, cheerful saint, and Rome's apostle of the sixteenth century.
Born in 1515 to a wealthy Florentine family, the young Filippo Neri was brought up with a classical education by the Dominicans of the Monastery of San Marco.
His unique charism was his burning love of God, a love that he communicated to all. So ardently did this fire of divine love burn that in his twenty-ninth year, the beating of his heart broke two ribs. It was a wound that never healed.
A great educator of youth, Philip Neri, often visited the seven principal churches of Rome. He spent entire nights at the catacombs, near the tombs of the martyrs, meditating on heavenly things. He had a great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and burned with an unbounded love for mankind.
As a confessor, he was in great demand; among his penitents was St. Ignatius. To perpetuate his life's work, St. Philip founded the Congregation of the Oratory, a society of secular clergy without religious vows.
The purpose was to kindle piety among the faithful through social gatherings that included entertainment and religious instruction.
Goethe, who esteemed him highly, called him the "humorous saint."
He died on the feast of Corpus Christi.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
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• ⁠May 26, 2026, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,
Today, May 25, is Memorial Day in the U.S., the day after Pentecost. Pentecost, we celebrate the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church.
In today's Gospel (John 19:25-34), we read,
"Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his ­mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour, the disciple took her into his home."
Christ the Lord, in entrusting his Mother Mary to the Beloved Disciple from the cross, established a relationship between his holy Mother and all who are united to him, that is, the Church.
In 2018, Pope Francis decreed that the ancient devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Mother of the Church, be inserted into the Roman Calendar.
"This celebration will help us to remember that growth in the Christian life must be anchored to the Mystery of the Cross, to the oblation of Christ in the Eucharistic Banquet and to the Mother of the Redeemer and Mother of the Redeemed, the Virgin who makes her offering to God," stated the decree.
By issuing the Decree on the celebration of the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church, Pope Francis wished to promote this devotion in order to “encourage the growth of the maternal sense of the Church in the pastors, religious and faithful, as well as a growth of genuine Marian piety."
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
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• ⁠May 25, 2026, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Friends of the Rosary,
Today, May 24, is Pentecost Sunday, the feast of the Holy Spirit and the end of the Easter Season. It’s the public solemn descent of the Holy Spirit, the Sanctifier, on the Christian Church.
This solemnity marks the completion of the work of redemption, the fullness of grace for the Church and its children, and the gift of faith for all nations.
In Mass, we recite or sing the sequence, Veni Creator, Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit). And in the scriptures, we read,
“And when the days of Pentecost were drawing to a close, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a violent wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as of fire, which settled upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues, even as the Holy Spirit prompted them to speak (Acts 2, 1-4).”
“Pentecost", which means "fiftieth", was a Jewish annual feast of thanksgiving for the harvest. It was very fitting therefore that this feast day was chosen for the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles.
The Christian religion was to be universal, and the gift of tongues showed its universality. The law given by God to Moses was for the Jews only; the new law, given by Christ, and confirmed by the power of the Holy Spirit, was for all men.
Pentecost Day is the "birth-day" of the Church.
The Apostles had already received the Holy Spirit on Christ's first appearance to them after his resurrection (Jn 20:22). But on Pentecost day, the descent of the Holy Spirit was a public manifestation intended to impress and amaze the crowds of local and foreign Jews who thronged Jerusalem on that great festive occasion.
Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!
+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New York
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• ⁠May 24, 2026, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET