This is the movement of the Holy Family.

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.

Only two means are left to save the church amidst so much confusion, and that is devotion to Mary and frequent communion,

making use of these means and doing our best to practice them, and having them practiced

everywhere and by everybody.

What Bosco saw was that in the great battles that we are fighting right now, as long as we stay united to the captain of the ship, that is the Pope,

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