January 9, 2025, Thursday after Epiphany, Holy Rosary (Luminous Mysteries)

Friends of the Rosary, Happy New Year in Christ! Our Trinitarian God’s love is much more powerful than the dark powers of this world. The unfaithful, including the lukewarm, unleashed at that time its entire force against the Incarnated Wisdom and ended up putting the Son of God on the Cross. But God the Father expressed His authority by raising the Son and unveiling that human life is about love. It’s about defeating sin and death. “This is the message of Christ. Therefore, when you place yourself on the side of this power, you are on the winning side, though dark powers gather around you. It is expressed in the Paschal Mystery,” Bishop Barron writes today. Nothing can overwhelm or overcome the authority of the Lord God. In today’s Gospel (Luke 4:14–22), Jesus sums up who he is by reading a scroll of the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 61). In his hometown synagogue in Nazareth, he reveals, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,because he has anointed meto bring glad tidings to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captivesand recovery of sight to the blind,to let the oppressed go free,and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord." And He said to them, “Today, this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”  At that time, like today, the lowly, the poor, the unjustly treated, the marginalized, the forgotten, and those oppressed by sin — all of us — hear this and should rejoice in their — our — liberation. This way, through faith and love, we conquer the world. As John writes (1 John 4:19–5:4), also today, “For the love of God is this,that we keep his commandments.And his commandments are not burdensome,for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world.And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.” Emmanuel, God is with us. It’s the message of Christmas. Ave Maria!Jesus, I Trust In You! Come, Holy Spirit, come! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York • ⁠⁠Enjoy this video and enhance your faith in our newly released Holy Rosary University iOS app. • ⁠January 9, 2025, Today’s Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET