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 is the Feast of St. John Bosco.

In the middle of the 19th century, he had a powerful vision of the battles we would face in the church today.

In this vision he saw an immense sea battle between two opposing armadas.

One represented the church, the other the forces seeking to destroy faith in the world.

On the ship representing the church he saw a captain who was the Pope.

Many smaller ships surrounded that ship and

defended it from the opposing fleet trying to destroy it.

Bosco then relates what he saw.

As the battle raged, two mighty columns of great height arose out of the sea,

a short distance one from the other.

On the top of one stood the Immaculate Virgin Mary.

On the other, which was much higher and bigger, stood the Eucharist.

Then he saw that the Pope steered the ship representing the church between the two columns of Mary and the Eucharist.

As long as it remained anchored between those two pillars,

it was safe from the forces seeking to destroy her.

Then John Bosco explains, the enemy ships are persecutions. The most serious trials for the church are near at hand.

What we have faced thus far is almost nothing

in comparison to what will come.

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