He is Risen!
The month of April is dedicated to the Holy Ghost.
Cardinal Leo Burke calls the faithful to follow him in praying a nine-months novena seeking Mary’s intercession beginning on March 12 . Our Step-by-Step Rosary Community have add-on's to the nine-month-novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe including the suggested prayer of Cardinal Burke. Let us use this month to ask the Holy Ghost for assistance.
The novena is culminating on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12.
His Eminence Cardinal Burke asks for Our Lady of Guadalupe's maternal care and protection amid the forces of sin.
“The darkness of sin seems so great. But Our Lord has not called us to fear! Evil cannot approach the power of God’s grace. Sin cannot prevent Our Lord’s healing mercy from reaching those who repent and seek it. And nothing can diminish the care and protection of Our Lady for us, which remain as strong today as they were 500 years ago.”
We like to package and structure of how to do it, than just "find it yourself".
“For never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.
This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood.”
Twenty-fifth Rose,St. Louis de Montfort
During Lent, our Step-by-Step Rosary community only prayed the Sorrowful Mysteries. From Easter Sunday to Pentecost, we pray the Glorious Mysteries and after Pentecost, we go back to the traditional way of how to pray it.
During the season of Advent and Christmas, we only pray the Joyful Mysteries.
You can of course pray it how you prefer. We only offer our way of how to pray the Rosary. We have members who pray the three Mysteries every day, regardless of season.
Here below is are the links to our Step-by-Step partner, the Society of the Holy Rosary and its Rosaries.
Ressurection, unknnown after Peter Paul Rubens.. .©The Art of Christianity Collection, inv. nr AP00228.
Our Step-by-Step Rosary community consist of several Step-by-Step community partners and share the visions of our founder. There are today Rosary booklets in six languages and it is an on-going project since its start in 2015/2016. More than 400 consecutive Saturday Rosary prayers are under the umbrella making the Step-by-Step Rosary an advanced "beginners Rosary" with the understanding that it is difficult to learn of how to pray the Rosary. The hundreds of Rosary prayers makes the Step-by-Step Rosary a useful tool for the ones who know of how to pray the Rosary, but wants to deepen the meditation and understanding.
Besides the our website, PrayRosary.info, the group consist of:
- The Commander Cross Rosary
- The Society of the Holy Rosary
- Pray-Rosary.church
- The Art of Christianity Collection
The Commander Cross Rosary launched online on Sept 13, 2019, due to the call from Cardinal Leo Burke and Bishop Athansius Schneider of the need of prayers before the Amazon Synod. It aims to reach men who wants to pray the Rosary. Bishop Athanasius Schneider asked for Knights to step forward in 2019.
The Society of the Holy Rosary launched online on December 6, 2019 in response to the call made by four Catholic exorcists for a day of fasting, prayer and repentance. It was intended to carry a deeper journalistic touch and it had a trending article about St. Maximilian Kolbe.
The Pray-Rosary.church offer Step-by-Step Rosary community Rosary prayers in other languages than just English, such as: French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainan. The Japanese- and the Portuguese versions are under construction.
The PrayRosary.info had the intention to become the actual database for the Step-by-Step community. It is currently under revision of how we can structure the database in a better manner.
The Art of Christianity Collection, Stockholm has purchased more than 300 etchings, which are used within our Step-by-Step community. The vision is to be able to tell the story we want to share when praying the Rosary.
Another project that we are focusing on is the need to protect yourself, your house and family and we need proper blessed gear such as:
- Medals of your choice (St. Benedict and Miraculous medal is a good start ...).
- Rosaries .
- Holy salt (pref. vigil of Epiphany).
- Holy water (pref. vigil of Epiphany).
- Blessed incence (myrrh or francincense, pref. Epiphany).
- Blessed candles.
(our recommendation is that blessings are preferable according to the Rituale Romanum and only performed by a priest. Once you have seen the different approaches, it becomes clear when you see the difference)
Please do remember that once an item is blessed, if there is a transaction, it will breaks the blessing.
MONTHLY DEDICATIONS
January
The month of January is dedicated to the The Holy Name of Jesus.
Jan. 5 : Vigil of Epiphany, exorcism and blessing of Holy Water.
Jan. 6 : Epiphany blessing of incense, myrrh, and gold.
Jan. 13 : Commemoration of the Baptism of our Lord which closes the Christmas season.
Septuagesima Sunday : Pre-lent.
February
The month of February is traditionally dedicated to the Holy Family.
2 February - Candlemas or missa candelarum (Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ)
(Some may do the blessing of candles on the vigil of Candlemas).
3 February - Blasiussegen - St. Blaise and blessing of the throat.
Blessing of your throat, blessing of wine, candles, water and fruits.
March
The month of March is traditionally dedicated to the Holy St. Joseph.
We commence our 40-day Lent on Ash Wednesday.
April
The month of April is traditionally dedicated to the the Holy Ghost.
May
The month of May is traditionally dedicated to the the Holy Mary.
May 1 : St. Joseph, the worker's Feast day.
Pray the Rosary every day during May.
June
The month of June is traditionally dedicated to the Sacred Heart.
We commence our 20-day St. John the Baptist fasting
after the ember days to vigil of the birthday of St. John the Baptist.
July
The month of July is traditionally dedicated to the Precious Blood of Jesus.
August
The month of August is traditionally dedicated to the Immaculate Heart.
Aug 1. : We commence our 14-day Assumption fasting
up to the vigil of the Assumption.
September
The month of September is traditionally dedicated to the our Lady of Sorrows.
Sept 3-11 : Novena to the Holy Name of Mary
Sept 6-14 : Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows
October
The month of October is traditionally dedicated to the Holy Rosary.
Pray the Rosary every day during October.
Oct 24 - Nov 2. : Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
November
The month of November is traditionally dedicated for all Souls in Purgatory.
Nov 1 : All Saints Day.
Nov 2. : All Souls Day.
Nov 13. : We commence our 40-day fasting on the day after St. Martin de Tours Feastday,
which is on St. Pope Martin I Feast Day (unless it is on a Sunday) up to the Ember days in December.
Nov 29 : Novena to Immaculate Conception.
Nov 30. : St Andrew Feast Day, which commence the 20-days Advent Fast (St. Andrew Fast)
December
The month of December is traditionally dedicated to the Immaculate Conception.
Dec 8 : Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception.
Dec 12 : Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The Devil celebrates your "victory" but leaves you alone with the consequences. And, these consequences are not good. Evil wants to alinate you from others. The more alone you are, the more darkness is around you, which is why we include all in our Rosary prayer community, even if you are alone while praying, you are not alone.
... through the 9 Ways We Participate in Other People's Sins:
- By Counsel
- By Par-taking
- By Consent
- By Provocation (to instigate others)
- By Praise or Flattery
- By Silence to Conceal the sin
- By not Punish the Sinner
- By Command or appeal/request
- By Defence of the ill done
The modern Catholic Catechesis states in Article 8, Number 5, Point 1868: "The Proliferation of Sin".
"Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:
- by participating directly and voluntarily in them;
- by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;
- by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so;
- by protecting evil-doers."
In the point 1869:
"Thus sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them.
Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness.
"Structures of sin" are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn.
In an analogous sense, they constitute a "social sin."
The points 1868 and 1869 are the nine ways of how we participate in others sin, regardless if we understand that we are used by others.
That is also why the nine mentioned ways are of importance to put the foot down and say NO or STOP.
The word consequence is interesting as Merriam-Webster defines it as "a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause".
Are there consequences of your actions?
PRAYER ACCORDING TO THE POPES INTENTION
The Raccolta, ed. 1910, #23.
There are people who, today, have difficulties of praying for the Popes intentions - but - few knows of what the intentions actually are:
"The Pope’s intention always includes the following objects:
i. The progress of the Faith and triumph of the Church.
ii. Peace and union among Christian Princes and Rulers.
iii. The conversion of sinners.
iv. The uprooting of heresy.
These intentions may be fittingly recalled and prayed for after Communion, or at the visit;
but a general intention of praying according to the mind of the Pope is sufficient ; and any prayers may be used which are not already of obligation, e.g., the Little Hours of a priests Office.
(July 12, 1847; May 29, 1841.)"