The month of July is dedicated to His Most Precious Blood.

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Our Step-by-Step Rosary Community continue to commit to the Nine-Month Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe, and, looking at our statistics, we are growing. We are now launching our new tag-line :

'Step-by-Step Rosary soldiers of Christ in the service of our Lady'

It is a wonderful tag-line to show the world how far we have come since we commenced our Rosary prayers in 2015. When you have done your Confirmation, you become a soldier of Christ. Were you even told such before your Confirmation? 

How can you be a soldier of Christ, if you even do not know you are considered on?

What are you supposed to do, as a soldier of Christ?

We, the 'Step-by-Step Rosary soldiers of Christ in the service of our Lady', we pray the Rosary, which is our only weapon, hence, we are in the service of Our Lady of the Rosary.

We tell the truth, we must try to avoid the 7 deadly sins , avoid and stand up against the 9 ways we participate in other people's sins, and instead promote the 7 virtues and follow the 10 Commandments.

It is not easy to avoid temptations, but we try to use four fasting periods a year as a way to build understanding of them. We all have different ones too.

Are we ready to take our stand, dig our boots into the ground,

kneeling before God, with our Rosary in our hand,

in the trenches and say:

So be it!

Let it be!

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His Eminence calls the faithful to join him in praying a nine-months novena seeking Mary’s intercession beginning on March 12 and culminating on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12. He asks for Our Lady of Guadalupe's maternal care and protection amid the forces of sin.

Our Lady's participation in the Paschal mystery and in Pentecost with which the Church begins.

“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.”

Here are the messages and reflections of Cardinal Burke.

Keep on praying the Rosary!

The Commander Cross Rosary team will include his requested prayer into our Step-by-Step Rosaries as a way to make it easier for all users who participate.

If you are using our Rosary set up, and you have already prayed the novena, you can of course just continue.

Click here for our daily novena prayer .

Here are the messages and reflections of Cardinal Burke.

Let us all pray that every Catholic in your own country, return to Our Lady!

There will be false Christs and false prophets,

who will rise up and shew great signs and wonders,

so that if it were possible, even the elect would be deceived.

Matt 24:24

All images in this section, unless other stated, are ©CardinalBurke.

Our Step-by-Step Rosary community will commit to the Nine-Month Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe, according to the request from Cardinal Leo Burke. We have therefore a link to our community novena and we have the standard format of the novena here.

Here is the official prayer of Cardinal Burkes nine-month Novena to our Lady of Guadalupe , which is to be prayed daily throughout the nine-month novena from March 12 to December 12, 2024. This prayer has been added to all our Rosaries and to to our own website.

You can join His Eminence Cardinal Burke by signing up here. You can watch his introduction video here. His second reflection and be viewed here. We have of course kept his messages and reflections .

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"But there is no way of casting out such spirits as this except by prayer and fasting"

Matt 17:20

Our aim is to do four fasts per year, which are the following:

• 40-days St. Martin Fast.
• 40-days Lent.
• 20-days St. John the Baptist Fast.
• 20-days Assumption Fast.

And, we believe that it will be a good complement to the nine-month-novena of Cardinal Burke.

Remember that if you fail once, just keep on going.

“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

Sacred Heart of Christ, Josef von Fuerich, c. 1850.  ©The Art of Christianity Collection, inv. nr AP00014.

The family that prays together, stays together.

If a household do not have a "head of family", which is one man's obligation, who is actually the "head of family"?

It has been suggested that we at Commander Cross Rosary try to give the single mothers a focus, in particularly concerning the ones who have boys or young men at home. 

• How can we assist single-mothers with young men in their home, and how can we try to reach these women to assist them - or more so, assist their young sons.
• How important is the Rosary in this matter?

What happens when the husband/father no longer is around? 

It is "always" easy to tell you what you want to hear, not what you need to hear.

Now, we will need some time to put this into focus and it is a good opportunity while we continue to pray the requested Novena to our Lady of Guadalupe.

Our signature "Step-by-Step Rosary" encompasses the traditional 15 mysteries, accompanied by historical Christian artworks depicting each scriptural scene. Religious art, language, and music are powerful tools in the battle against evil as they forge a connection between ourselves and God and serve as a constant reminder of the goodness in the world.

Our current Step-by-Step Rosary community offers the Rosary in eleven languages; English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.

Not all versions are online, as they may be under a final local touch to complete each Rosary.

Father Chad Ripperger had recently an interesting speech in the St. Patrick's Cathedral where he said that the top-exorcists in the USA estimate that about 25% of the adult population is diabolical obsessed. The diabolical oppression is also on the rise!

St. Patrick Cathedral was under a sacrilege attack (Feb 15, 2024) and the cathedral ought to be exorcised - just like many churches around the world.

All responsible bishop's need to wake up and to enter all their churches and slam their crosier's into the ground and chase demons away. 

We, men and head of families, we need to make sure our houses and family members are protected.  This is our duty as a man and as the the head of the household. Make sure you have proper blessed gear; such as :

• Medals of your choice (St. Benedict and Miraculous medal is a good start ...). It may be a neclace, attached to your Rosary.
• Rosaries,
• Holy salt (pref. vigil of Epiphany) but salt can be exorcised and blessed all through the year. It is apparently stronger if it exorcised and blessed on the vigil of Epiphany due to January 5 being linked to the Baptism of Jesus. 
• Holy water (pref. vigil of Epiphany). - see above.
• Blessed incence (myrrh or francincense, pref. Epiphany). - just like above, it can be blessed all year around but the three Magis came with gold, myrrh, and frankincense.
• Blessed candles. The candles should be blessed on Candlemas but can be blessed all year around. It should be beeswax but any candle works, as long as it is not electric or paraffin.

In 2020/2021, we started a project making sure that there was frankincense available to all who wanted. We try to make sure that as many as possible join on the Vigil of Epiphany (Jan 6) and Epiphany (Jan 7) and if they had no incense, they could purchase beforehand or were given (once it is blessed, no transaction can occur as the transaction breaks the blessing).  

If you attend a traditional Latin Mass, you are fully aware that there is a difference between a TLM-priest blessing your Rosary and a Novus Ordo blessing.
This goes also with the medals attached to your Rosary, not to mention icons. .

The St. Benedict medal is exorcised and blessed. Each medal on your Rosary is blessed according to which medal is included as well as the Rosary is blessed by itself.

(We sponsor our local priest with myrrh and frankincense).

• Religious art helps us to visualize the stories of our faith and contemplate the mysteries of God.
• Sacred language enables us to connect with the traditions of our faith and engage in profound and meaningful prayer.
• Sacred music, as an integral part of the solemn liturgy, participates in its general purpose, which is the glory of God and the sanctification. It empowers our soul, and offer praise to God.

Gregorian chant, the only chant that the Catholic Church has inherited from the ancient fathers, is considered as the supreme model of sacred music. All are powerful weapons that can help you to overcome darkness.