Every Good Friday there are certain characters who, after making their singular appearance in the gospel narratives, leave our souls in a succession of variant emotions. It was in the throes of his death agony that this "new man," reborn on a cross, was canonized by the gasps of the heaving voice of our Savior Himself as He hung from nails that had transfixed Him to His cathedra of torture. Although the Church, in her prudential wisdom, has refrained from liturgically verifying the actual name of this good thief, known only by way of a few apocryphal gospels, she has given him the greatest of all feastdays, that of the Incarnation, March 25th.
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"You must recite the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war for only she can obtain this."
- Our Lady at Fatima