Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today we meditate on the life of Blessed Bartolongo.

His feast was October 5th, the same as St Faustina.

My friends share many things in common.

So we reflect on his life today.

St. John Paul II called Bartolo Longo the Apostle of the Rosary.

Now, Blessed Bartolo was born on Italy's Adriatic Coast in 1841.

At the age of 10, his mother died, and Bartolo began to lose his way.

During his time in law school at the University of Naples,

he completely gave up his faith.

In his confusion and emptiness, without God to turn to, he began to visit some of Naples

infamous mediums. That was his introduction into the occult. Soon his thirst for the

supernatural led him to outright Satanism where after a period of intense study and rigorous fasting he was

consecrated a satonic priest and gave his soul to a demon. For the next year he began to preside over satonic services and to preach more boldly against God and the Church, treating them as the real evils.

Under the demonic influence, both his physical and psychological health deteriorated rapidly.

And in his despair, he heard the voice of his deceased father urging him, return to God, return to God.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name,

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us

for me but Amen.

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