COMMANDER CROSS ROSARY

a Step-by-Step Rosary

Pray the Rosary!

We will only pray the Joyful Mysteries

during the season of Advent and Christmas.

We are Soldiers of Christ, in the service of Virgin Mary

and we Do NOT Abandon Our Mother Church.

We pray for His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV to listen to his brother Cardinal Leo Burke,

for the restoration and the preservation without restrictions

of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. 

The Month of March is dedicated to the Holy St. Joseph.

AshWednesday marks the beginning of Lent and it is 40 days to Easter - just like Jesus was in the dessert for forty days, and he fasted and prayed, being temped by demons. 

Lent is a period of repentance - and we for sure need to push it when we view the state of the Church. The Lenten sacrifice can be using the virtue Moderation against several of the seven deadly sins. Fasting is about giving up something, it is not only in connection to eating. 

• The calendar set specific fasting and abstinence periods. Below is the requirements stated from Pope Paul VI, 1966, in the 1962 Daily Missal.

  The law of Abstinence forbids the use of meat, but not of eggs, the products of milk, or condiments made of animal fat.

  The law of Fasting allows only :

  • One full meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food in the morning and evening.
  • Eating between meals is not permitted, but liquids, inkluding milk and fruit juices, are allowed.
  • Fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten, e.g., frogs, clams, turtles, etc.

• Wednesday and Friday are non-meat days. 
• The Ember days are three fast and full abstinence days: Wednesday (Feb 25), Friday (Feb 27) and Saturday (Feb 28).
• The 1917 Code of Canon Law mandated a Eucharistic Fast from midnight until the reception of Holy Communion. Water does not break the fast. Pope Pius XII (1957): Abstinence from solid food and alcoholic drinks for three hours.

• Fasting and Abstinence (1962) : Liquids, incl. milk and fruit juices, might be taken at any time of a day of fast.
  
  

  Exceptions for Health: Where health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige. Only those with serious medical conditions could receive special permission to modify the fast. Medical needs are exempt.
  
  

• Lent is a good period of giving up, making a sacrifice, every day to :
  • Eat less. avoid fast food, avoid crap food, not to eat between meals. If your job is a hardworking job, and you need to eat, you do eat. 
  • Ditch the candy, cakes, buns, cookies or whatever. 
  • Reduce time you spent on watching TV, surfing the Internet, Social media, using your digital devices. 
  • Daily exercise, (no need to be in the gym, but use the outdoors around you. You walk around the blocks, or ride a bicycle to work, play golf, walk the dog for an hour. 
  • Pray the Rosary, read the Bible, listen to sermons ...
  • Particpate in adorations, Rosary prayers, go to church more often.

If you fail, no biggie. Just continue to do it the next day. Do not be a party pooper, but use the virtues to fight the deadly sins trying to tempt you. It is a long-term change. 

Why not start praying/meditating on the Stations of the Cross every Thursday and Friday up to Easter Week?

Personally, we only pray the Sorrowful Mysteries all through Lent!

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We are called to pray and to defend our Faith, since our Confirmation, when we became Soldier of Christ. The Rosary is our only spiritual weapon. The Rosary is not only for defence, but also for attack - to send your prayers deep down into enemy end-zone: to keep the demons busy on their side, instead of hanging around on our turf.

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

Keep praying, and keep spreading the Rosary!

Prayer In Reparation for Insults Offered to the Blessed Virgin Mary

“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

The family that prays together, stays together.

Our signature "Step-by-Step Rosary" encompasses the traditional 15 mysteries, going back to St. Benedict and the fight against the heresies in France and Spain in the 13th C. The mysteries of the public life of Jesus, created by St. Pope JP II, are not included in our traditional structure but exist as a stand-alone. Sacred 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 Step-by-Step Rosary community offers the Rosary several languages, even though not all of them are online. English is the main language as many people knows it. Some of our language editions are under construction due to lack of time. It exist in Danish, Czech, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.  

Make sure you have properely blessed gear; such as:

• Medals of your choice (St. Benedict and Miraculous medal is a good start ...). You should have it close to you, if you do not have it around your neck.
• 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 in it but any candles work, as long as it is not "electric" or made of paraffin.

Fasting is a good way and our aim is to do 4 fasts per year, which is the following:

• 40-days St. Martin Fast (Nov-Dec.)
• 40-days Lent.
• 20-days St. John the Baptist birthday Fast (June).
• 14-days Assumption Fast. or 40-days St. Michael the Archangel Fast (Aug 15 - Sept. 29).