COMMANDER  CROSS ROSARY


a Step-by-Step Rosary


We Do NOT Abandon Our Mother Church  


- important call to All men  -

Pray the Rosary!


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.

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.


“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.”


The Commander Cross Rosary team will include his requested prayer into our Step-by-Step Rosaries as a mean to make it easier for all who participate and use our website. If you have prayed the novena, there is no need to pray it within the actual Rosary, unless you want to.


Click here for our quick novena prayer ... or here for our daily novena prayer .



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.




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We do hope that your fasting during Lent is fruitful.

Remember that if you fail on one occassion, just keep on going.



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

Matt 17:20


“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


Here below is Commander Cross Rosary's quick add-on prayers

to the nine-month novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe.


This link takes you to our daily novena,

The section below is our 'base' novena structure - which can be used for a quick one.





+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.



Introduction Prayer


Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.


Memorare


Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.


Prayer


O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.

O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.



Daily Prayer


Dearest Lady of Guadalupe,

fruitful Mother of holiness,

teach me your ways of gentleness and strength.

Hear my humble prayer offered with heartfelt confidence to beg this favor _______

(mention your intention here)



Concluding Prayers:


Our father x 1


Hail Mary x 1


Glory x 1




+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.




Our Lady of the Rosary with St. Dominic and St. Catherine, school of Seville, unknown, c. 1760. ©The Art of Christianity Collection, inv. nr AP00011.




The family that prays together, stays together.


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.



  • 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.



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


Even if we (the Step-by-Step Rosary community) commenced onSeptuagesima Sunday, until Shrove Tuesday (which is the pre-season) and the acutal fast commenced on Ash Wednesday - many of us were still not "prepared enough" once the Lent started.

Our community will try to follow the following (personal touch) concerning fasting.






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).



We seek refuge and come to Jesus, Boetius A. Bolswert, 1620. ©The Art of Christianity Collection, inv. nr AP00251.


We are now in a diabolical dissorientation where everything now is an up-side-down structure. We have the advantage that we can seek refuge at the foot of the Cross of our Lord.

There is a thick smoke-screen in place, building a new distorted order, where the the seven deadly sins are in place instead of the seven virtues.  The new world order is rather a new world in dis-order


The attack on the Church, occurs from several angles and in particularly from the enemy of our enemy. Remember that God has a plan and can and most likely will chastice us. But, we have trained for several years now to be the soldier of Christ and to be in the service of our Lady.


The sound of silence or more so, the silence is deafening from the hierarchy and each cardinal, bishop and priest will have to face it when the days come meeting our creator, like all of us will. Bishops need to break the spells keeping them afraid.


Their job is to save souls ... but they risk their own eternity by keeping quiet.


 


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.)"



THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL PRAYER


English:

O MARY, conceived without sin,

pray for us who have recourse to thee.


Latin:

O Maria, sine labe concépta,

ora pro nobis qui ad Te confúgimus.


or


O Maria sine labe concépta,

ora pro nobis, qui confúgimus ad Te.



We have already been in the catacombs for quite some time...