Jim Havens: In time for a Rosary crusade today on The Simple Truth, we consecrate everything to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the pure, strong, chaste Heart of Saint Joseph. I am your host, Jim Havens, and our guest today is His Excellency, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, one of the foremost defenders of Catholic orthodoxy today. He serves as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan. He is the author of many good books, and he is here with us today to discuss his newest one, Salve Regina, a Rosary Crusade to Plead for Holy Popes. You can get it now at sophia institute dot com. Bishop Schneider, great to have you back with us. How are you today, and will you lead us in an opening prayer?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Thank you. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and in the hour of our deaths. Amen.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Jim Havens: Thank you, Bishop. We greatly appreciate that, and we are going to dive in. Very excited to get into this topic today. Before we begin, I just want to remind everybody about iCatholic Mobile. It is the only Catholic mobile phone company in the United States today. When you subscribe to iCatholic Mobile, you help fund the Station of the Cross. Check out iCatholicmobile@icatholicmobile.com.
All right, Bishop Schneider, you begin this little book with a quote from Servant of God Sister Lucia of Fatima, who said in an interview in 1957 that in these times in which we live, the Most Holy Virgin Mary has given a new efficacy to the prayer of the Holy Rosary, and that she has granted us that efficacy in such a way that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it may be, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal lives of each one of us or of our families, that cannot be resolved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, she says, no matter how difficult it may be, that we cannot resolve through the prayer of the Holy Rosary. That is a powerful quote. There is no problem that cannot be resolved by praying the Holy Rosary.
You then apply this to a big problem that needs to be resolved and for which we need to pray the Holy Rosary. Tell us about the big problem as you see it, that is the focus of the Rosary crusade you are calling for.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: It is for our Holy Mother Church. We are witnessing an unprecedented, extraordinary crisis of the Church for decades already, since the Second Vatican Council. No one can deny this anymore. There was no springtime at all, globally speaking. It was a time of crisis and confusion. Even Pope Paul VI himself confessed this, that it was not a springtime but a hard winter. Pope Paul VI also made the famous expression that the smoke of Satan penetrated even within the Church.
Since then, from Paul VI onward, this confusion has grown, and now we have the peak, the summit in some way, especially with the past pontificate of Pope Francis, which left the Church in a huge confusion in doctrine, morals, and liturgy. This crisis is growing. It is basically a penetration of the spirit of the world within the Church. It is partly a takeover by unbelieving and worldly people in high ecclesiastical offices who hold key influences.
Many high-ranking clergy in strategic positions over the last decades fostered and promoted the spirit of the world, not the Gospel. Their agenda was and still is to accommodate the Church to the shape of this world, which is an unbelieving world, a vision of naturalism. They want to transform the mission and the life of the Church simply to be at the service of a global movement that exalts only temporal life, material life, this life, while eclipsing almost completely the supernatural life, the spiritual life, and eternity, which is the core of the Gospel.
The sacramental life of grace and the glorification of God have been darkened. The supernatural vision, the centrality of the grace of Christ Himself and His action, has been obscured. This is, in some way, a summary of the crisis.
As in any other time of crisis in the Church, there is an axiom, a motto, especially from the last great crisis during the so-called Reformation at the time of Martin Luther, which was not a reformation but a deformation. Even then, good Catholics who truly wanted to reform the Church, including cardinals and bishops, had this motto: to reform the Church, starting with the head and going down to the members, because the Church is a mystical and spiritual body. In Latin, reformatio ecclesiae in capite et in membris.
First of all, where is the head of the Church, the operational and administrative center? It is, of course, the Holy See. Rome is where the true renewal and reformation must begin, the liberation of our Mother Church from this partial occupation by unbelieving clergy who want to shape the Church according to the spirit of the world.
I do not say the Church is completely taken over, but even so, we must pray that the Holy See, beginning with the papacy, will again renew the Church according to the Gospel. Renew it in the supernatural view, re-establish the supernatural primacy in the life of the Church, and restore the courageous witness of the Gospel and divine truth, without fear of the world.
This is a summary. Therefore, I made this crusade to implore God to grant us holy popes. That means courageous popes, uncompromising popes. We do not need only one holy pope; we need a serious and continuous sequence of holy popes. This we can only implore through the Rosary, through a worldwide chain and crusade of Holy Rosary prayer.
Jim Havens: Bishop Athanasius Schneider is with us. We are talking about his new book, Salve Regina, a Rosary Crusade to Plead for Holy Popes. Bishop, you are saying that we need holy popes, saintly popes, who are truly willing to be martyr popes. In your view, why will decent, fairly good popes not be enough for our times, popes who are average or maybe a little above average, at least not bad popes or doing terrible things? Why is that not good enough? Why do we urgently need heroically virtuous, saintly popes in our present time?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Well, you know that the Pope is the Vicar of Jesus Christ, His representative. So of all the clergy, he must be the one who is closest, in some way, in his imitation of Christ, because of his highest position. It is logical when we pray. Many people say, O God, give us holy priests. This is a very common and frequent expression, give us holy priests. But a priest does not represent Christ in the same way as the Pope. This also applies to bishops. Therefore, there is even more urgency that we have not mediocre popes, but truly zealous popes of holiness. Holiness means courage to confess Christ and to be ready to be a martyr, as Saint Peter was, as all the first popes were until the fourth century. They were confessors and martyrs.
Jim Havens: Yes, yes. Bishop Athanasius Schneider is with us. We are very blessed to have him here today. We are going to get back with him in just a moment after the break. In this book, the introduction lays all this out: the problem and the call for this new Rosary crusade. He writes, we are called to unite in a new Rosary crusade, begging God to free the Holy See from subjection to Christ’s enemies. May He grant us an era guided by holy popes who do not fear worldly powers, who make no compromises with the spirit of the age, but rather who preserve, strengthen, and defend the Catholic faith, even to the point of shedding their own blood. May they also safeguard, protect, and pass on the venerable liturgy of the Roman Church. We will be back with much more in just a moment. Stay tuned.
Welcome back to The Simple Truth. Jim Havens here with our guest today, Bishop Athanasius Schneider. We are talking about his call for a new Rosary crusade to plead for the Holy Popes. You can learn all about it in his new book, Salve Regina. You can get it now at sophiainstitute dot com. We are going to dive back in in just a moment, but real quick, if you are buying or selling a home, there is an easy way to help the Station of the Cross at the same time. Real Estate for Life has fourteen hundred experienced, morally grounded agents in the United States and Canada. You can visit realestateforlife dot org to find a Christ-centered, experienced realtor near you, and do not forget to mention the Station of the Cross.
All right, Bishop Schneider, you wrote this book first in Portuguese, published in 2024, when Pope Francis was still our Pope. Then this English edition came out in March of this year, just one month before the death of Pope Francis. Now we have Pope Leo the Fourteenth serving as our Holy Father. We have this Rosary crusade to plead for the Holy Popes. At the end of each one of the meditations on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary in this book, which take up the bulk of the book, you include the prayer we are praying, grant us holy popes, grant us many holy popes. This is not just specifically about Pope Leo the Fourteenth, our current Holy Father. At the same time, right now, is this Rosary crusade immediately directed toward fulfilling our role of praying specifically for Pope Leo the Fourteenth? We need him to be more than average or just above average. We need him to be a holy saint, as you were talking about in that first segment. For that, we need to do the work of praying for him, and not just that, but specifically praying the Holy Rosary for him. Is that right?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Yes. As we call him Holy Father, holy means holy, not only a name, not an empty word. Therefore, it is evident that we desire for him that he truly be a holy Pope, a holy father, with God’s grace. Holiness means to fulfill the will of God in the most perfect manner possible here on earth. This is holiness. What is the will of God? The will of God is the revelation of Jesus Christ. He is the truth. He brought us the entire truth. Therefore, to be holy as a pope is to proclaim the entire integrity of the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ, to proclaim Him as the truth, as the only way, and as the only life, the divine life, the supernatural life, the life of grace.
The Pope must strive for this with all his strength in his personal life and then transmit it in his task as the supreme shepherd of the entire flock of Christ and to the entire world, to go to all people and nations and invite them with love and with zeal to believe in Christ and to accept Him as the only salvation and the only truth. Therefore, holiness is linked to zeal, to the care of transmitting divine truth. For this, one must be ready to suffer. When someone is not ready to suffer for Christ and for His truth, that is not holiness. These are the pillars of holiness, the will to do the will of God concretely, to love the truth, to live the truth, to transmit the truth, and to defend the truth.
It also means to care scrupulously that the flock of Christ has good shepherds and to protect the flock of Christ from false shepherds and from wolves in sheep’s clothing. This is the task of the Pope. This is his love for Christ. As Jesus said to Peter, do you love me, then take care of my sheep and my lambs. This means to give his life, because the greatest sign of love is to give one’s own life, even to defend Christ, without fear.
We wish this for Pope Leo. Of course, we are all human beings, and the Pope is a human being. He is not God, he is not an angel. He also needs to grow daily in fidelity, boldness, and fearlessness toward Christ and His mission. Therefore, we must pray for him and support him with the concrete intention that he may be strengthened in conviction and in the fullness of the truth of Christ, His divine worship, and the dignity of that worship. We must pray that he provides good and holy bishops for the flock of Christ and proclaims all the truths of Christ without fear. He needs this growth daily. We all need this, and we wish this for him. Therefore, we pray for him. This crusade also.
Jim Havens: Yes, thank you for proclaiming this crusade to pray the Holy Rosary for our current Holy Father, but also for many holy popes, that God might grant us this great gift. I know many who are listening are very enthusiastic to say yes to this call as well. We are going to get into the specifics of what that means in just a moment. First, I want to follow up on your last answer by asking about this. If a pope, for instance, it is one thing to have the fortitude and courage to be willing to lay down his life, to sacrifice in love for others. It is another thing that he actually sees the problem. Is it possible that we could have a pope who desires holiness, who desires even to be willing to lay down his life for the good of others out of love, as he sees it, but maybe he is not seeing it accurately? He needs the light of understanding to really be able to see the true problem.
For instance, in the introduction of your book, you write about the problem, much as you spoke about in the first segment. You say our Holy Mother Church suffers at present from an unprecedented crisis that affects her entire body, faith, moral life, pastoral and clerical life, the sacred liturgy, and even the highest echelons of the Church hierarchy. The Holy See, whose essential mission is to be the chair of truth, is partially occupied by her enemies, who have succeeded in exerting a decisive influence on the Roman Curia itself, on the very governance of the Catholic Church.
Is it possible that we could have a Holy Father who simply does not see it, who is blind to it, and therefore we are not seeing the results we would hope for from a holy pope, such as cleaning out the corruption within the Curia? What do you say about that? This is obviously something we are praying for as well, that we would have a Holy Father who truly sees the problem and then does what it takes to resolve it. What are your thoughts on this?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Of course, we have to implore for him the divine light and illumination, that he recognizes the seriousness of the current crisis, which is obvious. Then it depends on him. When he sees the crisis, he must take concrete steps, starting with providing truly holy bishops. It is better not to appoint a bishop, better to leave a diocese for many years without a bishop, rather than appoint a compromise candidate who will not lead his flock courageously through the crisis of our day.
Therefore, he must be very careful, first, to make a careful and scrupulous selection of candidates for key positions in the Vatican and for dioceses, men who are truly men of God. They must be men of one hundred percent Catholic faith, faithful men of prayer, men of the Catholic faith, especially candidates who are not bound to this world, not serving the spirit or fashions of our time.
Then he must proclaim the truth. This is one of his most important tasks. He must publish a kind of credo, a confession or profession of faith, with detailed points addressing those aspects of doctrine and morals that are confused today within the life of the Church. This is his first task: to strengthen everyone in the faith, as Jesus commanded Peter.
So again, to provide all dioceses with good bishops, one hundred percent faithful to the Catholic faith, men of God and men of prayer, not bound to the agenda of this world, and then to proclaim the truth through a clear profession of faith. These two points are the most urgent expressions of his ministry as pope in order to address the current crisis.
Jim Havens: Bishop Athanasius Schneider is with us. We are talking about his new book, Salve Regina, a Rosary Crusade to Plead for Holy Popes. More than a book, this is really a call for us to join this crusade, to pray the Holy Rosary, and to plead for holy popes. You can get it now at sophia institute dot com. This book is wonderful. We have a great introduction, and also prayers, a prayer to plead for holy popes, a prayer called the Litany of the Child Jesus, and the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. The fifteen traditional mysteries of the Holy Rosary are included with meditations on each mystery. We are going to talk to Bishop Schneider about this when we get back. How do we really take part in this Rosary crusade? Many of us are already praying the Holy Rosary every day. Is this simply including the pope in our intentions? Is it also praying the short prayer in the book, as well as the Litany of the Child Jesus? Is it reading these meditations as we pray the Rosary every day? We are going to talk about all of this. I will also ask Bishop Schneider about the Luminous Mysteries and his thoughts on why they were not included in the book. Can we still add them? We will discuss it all. We are going to dive into how we can fully participate in this Rosary crusade. We will be right back. Stay tuned.
Welcome back to The Simple Truth. Jim Havens here with our guest. We are very blessed to have him. Bishop Athanasius Schneider is with us today. We are talking about his new book, Salve Regina, a Rosary Crusade to Plead for Holy Popes. You can find it at sophia institute dot com or wherever you find books. Check out your local Catholic bookstore as well. It is always good to support them. You can also get it at sophia institute dot com straight from the publisher.
Let us dive in. There are many faithful Catholics, Bishop, who already pray the Holy Rosary every day and include the pope in their intentions. Are you simply calling for more Catholics to do this, or are you also calling on all of us to do more? For example, you include a short prayer to plead for holy popes. You also include the Litany of the Child Jesus, and you have meditations on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. In calling us to participate in this Rosary crusade to plead for holy popes, are you asking us to include all of this as we pray the Rosary each day?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Yes. When we pray for the pope, we have to be very concrete and take into account the reality in which we live, the reality in which the Church is living. The Church is passing through great confusion and crisis. For this intention, we must pray for the pope that he may receive from God illumination, divine light, and divine grace of courage and fortitude to address this crisis and to take concrete steps. I think this is the best intention to pray for the Pope in our time. Of course, God accepts all prayers, but Our Lord and the saints instruct us to pray concretely for specific intentions. Therefore, the more we pray for the concrete holiness and sanctity of the life and ministry of the current pope, the more benefit it will bring to all of us and to the entire Church.
Jim Havens: Yes. Also, traditionally, in earlier centuries, it seems clear that faithful Catholics understood the call to pray the Rosary every day to mean praying the entire Rosary each day, all the mysteries, not just one set of mysteries. Are you also calling us to consider returning to that idea of praying all the mysteries each day, the entire Rosary daily?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: No. At least the five mysteries, as is commonly practiced, are sufficient. To pray all fifteen mysteries is not possible for everyone. It is possible for some people who have the time, ability, and practice, but for wider participation, it would already be a great work if every Catholic prayed the five mysteries every day. We have to start with this and leave it to personal zeal and piety to add a second set or a third set, and so on.
Jim Havens: That is very helpful. Why did you include only the traditional fifteen mysteries in this book? Why not add the Luminous Mysteries as well? Was this something you considered?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: I chose the traditional fifteen mysteries because, since the Middle Ages, they were commonly known as the mysteries of the Rosary. They summarize the entire life of Our Lord Jesus Christ. There is also a symbolic reason. These fifteen mysteries together form one hundred fifty Hail Marys. The number one hundred fifty corresponds to the one hundred fifty Psalms in the Book of Psalms, which contains the most precious prayers of Sacred Scripture and which the Church prays in the Divine Office. This gives the Rosary a fullness, since the number one hundred fifty reflects the Psalter.
When the number is increased to two hundred with the addition of the Luminous Mysteries, this biblical symbolism of the Psalter is lost. That is a pity. Of course, the Luminous Mysteries are beautiful and deep, and one can pray other mysteries as well. The life of Christ is very rich, and many mysteries can be contemplated. However, I believe we must keep moderation and respect for tradition and for biblical symbolism in this case.
I repeat that other mysteries may be prayed, and one could even substitute them, but I prefer to stress the traditional symbolism of the one hundred fifty Hail Marys. These mysteries, divided into three parts, also reflect the mystery of the Holy Trinity. In some way, the joyful mysteries can be related to the Father who sent His Son. The sorrowful mysteries are centered on Christ, our Redeemer, the Son of God. The glorious mysteries relate to the Holy Spirit, the sending of the Holy Spirit, the glorification of Mary, and our life in heaven. There is a beautiful Trinitarian symbolism in this as well.
Jim Havens: Yes, very good. I really like the word you used when talking about the last question regarding praying the full Rosary, all the mysteries, and whether you are asking for that. You said no, it is sufficient to pray one set of the mysteries each day in this Rosary crusade. That word sufficient is important. I think Pope Saint John Paul II would agree with you on that point as well. The traditional fifteen mysteries are sufficient to pray the Holy Rosary. I do not even think he would say it is necessary to have the Luminous Mysteries. The fifteen are sufficient. He gave us something extra, additional meditations and mysteries to ponder, but the fifteen can certainly be said to be sufficient. Very good.
Now, this prayer, the Litany of the Child Jesus that you include, why did you choose that particular litany? What is the significance of the Litany of the Child Jesus for this Rosary crusade to plead for holy popes?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: I was inspired by the words of Sacred Scripture, by Saint Paul, and by Our Lord Jesus Christ, when He says that if you do not become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of God. Saint Paul says that God has chosen the little ones, the weak, the despised, to manifest His works and to shame the strong of this world.
God loves to use the little ones to accomplish His great wonders, miracles, and works, as He did throughout the entire history of salvation, and He will do the same in our time to resolve the crisis of the Church. He will primarily use the little ones, the simple faithful, those who are not members of what I call the ecclesiastical nomenclature, the ecclesiastical establishment. They do not have administrative power in the Church or high-ranking bureaucratic positions. They are simply faithful. They can be children, young people, families, people of all ages, sick people who suffer in a hidden life, religious sisters, enclosed sisters who live a life of reparation and expiation, who are unknown to the world.
To these souls, I especially address this crusade. Therefore, I chose the Litany of the Child Jesus to stress this important truth, to become like children. God loves the little ones. God loves the child. That is why He Himself became a child. Throughout his childhood, He conquered the powerful of this world. This is also the spirit of Our Lady in her Magnificat. He has exalted the little ones and cast down the powerful.
Jim Havens: Yes, wonderful. We might be tempted to think that there is not much we can do, that we do not have much power. On one level, that is true. However, the access we have to the heart of God through prayer, and the power of prayer, especially from a small and holy heart that has nothing else to give, is very powerful.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Yes. At Fatima, God gave us these holy children, Saint Francisco and Saint Jacinta. They were children, and the Church proposed them as examples of virtuous and heroic Christian life. Even at such a young age, it is possible to achieve the maturity of a Christian life. They achieved heroic virtues, which is why the Church canonized them, not because they had visions of Our Lady, but because they lived heroic and exemplary Christian lives in imitation of Christ.
Even in their physical weakness and in their childhood, this is a sign of hope for us all.
Jim Havens: Yes, and they give us an example of prayer, praying the Rosary, but also offering little sacrifices each day that were significant to them, giving up their lunch, acts of penance. They added these offerings as well. You are not necessarily speaking about that directly in this Rosary crusade. It may be sufficient just to pray a set of the mysteries of the Holy Rosary each day. Nevertheless, even though it may not be strictly needed, it is a good thing to do. In our overall spiritual life, it is necessary to offer sacrifices.
Those sacrifices will come whether we voluntarily seek them out or not. We will have sacrifices to offer, so we might as well offer them in love, in union with Our Lord Jesus Christ, and for this special intention, to pray for our current Holy Father and to plead with God for holy popes to rectify the grave situation we find ourselves in today. It makes sense that if we have a saint at the top, graces will flow throughout the entire Mystical Body of Christ.
We will be right back. Stay tuned.
Welcome back to The Simple Truth. Jim Havens here with Bishop Athanasius Schneider, talking about Salve Regina, a Rosary Crusade to Plead for Holy Popes. It is Bishop Schneider’s new book. You can get it at sophia institute dot com. I want to make sure we leave time for you, Bishop, to share anything you wish to say to us today. Before that, I want to ask one more question.
I want to go back to a portion of Pope Benedict XVI’s homily at his inaugural Mass in 2005. He said, one of the basic characteristics of a shepherd must be to love the people entrusted to him, even as he loves Christ whom he serves. Feed my sheep, Christ says to Peter, and now at this moment, he says it to me as well. Feeding means loving, and loving also means being ready to suffer. Loving means giving the sheep what is truly good, the nourishment of God’s truth, of God’s word, the nourishment of His presence which He gives us in the Blessed Sacrament. My dear friends, at this moment, I can only say, pray for me that I may learn to love the Lord more and more. Pray for me that I may learn to love His flock more and more. In other words, you, the Holy Church, each one of you, and all of you together, pray for me that I may not flee for fear of the wolves. Let us pray for one another, that the Lord will carry us and that we will learn to carry one another.
Bishop, as I continue to ponder these remarks, I ask you this. Did we fail him? Many fault Pope Benedict XVI for resigning in 2013, but here he is at his inaugural Mass expressing his desire for holiness, even martyrdom if needed, pleading with the faithful to pray for him that he may not flee for fear of the wolves. Do you think the faithful failed to take that call as seriously as we should have?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Yes, I think we can say this. He was ready, as he said in his inaugural address, to give his life. He even said, please pray for me that I will not flee from the wolves. Yet, in some way, he fled. He resigned, and this is very regrettable. Probably, people did not pray enough for him so that he would have had more courage to give his life directly for Christ, as he himself expressed, and not to fear the wolves, who were also within the Vatican at that time, and the wolves of the world who exerted pressure on him.
Good Catholics were accustomed to having a good pope, and perhaps became complacent, not vigilant enough, not aware that we must always be watchful and pray intensely. After the pontificate of Pope Francis, I think many faithful Catholics awakened and began to pray earnestly for the pope, even for the deceased pope, that he might receive illumination from God, to stop confusion in the Church, and to convert deeply to the truth and clarity of Christ.
Now we have Pope Leo, who gives signs of hope, but without doubt, he needs many prayers, that he may be ready to give his life for his flock, defending the truth of Christ, recognizing the need not to flee from the wolves, and not to admit wolves into high positions in the Church. Some wolves do not present themselves openly, but hide under the clothing of sheep. Therefore, he must be careful, discerning, and surrounded by good collaborators, and he must provide good bishops.
Your reflection on Pope Benedict is correct. Now we pray that holy popes in Heaven will help the Church and Pope Leo as well.
Jim Havens: Yes, thank you. Thanks be to God, there are many of those. We have to fulfill our role, and we have to take this very seriously. Bishop Athanasius Schneider is helping us to do that in a big way here. Get this book, Salve Regina, a Rosary Crusade to Plead for Holy Popes, at sophiainstitute dot com. Bishop, what else would you like to say to us today about this book or anything at all?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: First, I would like it through this book that we all come to love the Rosary more and more and to be faithful to this prayer. I also hope that we pray this prayer consciously and fruitfully, that we meditate on what we are praying. For this reason, I provided these short meditations so that the Rosary may also be a deep and thoughtful prayer.
I hope that we come to love the mysteries we are praying to and to deepen them in our lives. For example, when we pray about Jesus Christ being crucified or carrying His cross, we truly love this truth and allow it to speak concretely to our own lives. When we pray about Christ being born in Bethlehem, we remember that we are children of God, reborn in God, and that this is our greatest dignity, to be a child of God in Christ and to become spiritually childlike.
Through praying the Rosary and through these meditations and short reflections on each mystery, my wish is that each person may choose the mystery that speaks most directly to their spiritual life, their difficulties, or their trials. I hope this prayer brings us into a deeper and closer relationship of love with Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, and a deeper love for the life of Christ, especially for what He did for us in His tremendous love, the Incarnation, the Redemption, and also the hope and longing for heaven.
Through the Rosary, may we always keep our eyes on what awaits us, eternal life, the life of eternal love in God and with God.
Jim Havens: Yes, what a blessing. What a blessing we have in everything that God has done and given to us. It is truly overwhelming when we begin to understand the reality before us, the gift of Our Lady, the gift of the Holy Rosary, the gift of the communion of saints, the Church triumphant, all of it, and the understanding of the sacramental life. To dive into this amazing inheritance that Jesus came, died, and rose to give us in His Catholic Church. Praise God.
Thank you so much, Bishop Athanasius Schneider. You are a great blessing to the Church and to the world. Thank you for all your good work. I ask everyone to pray for Bishop Athanasius Schneider as well. Again, get the book Salve Regina, a Rosary Crusade to Plead for Holy Popes. Bishop, can you close us out with a final blessing?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Dominus vobiscum, et cum, spiritu tuo. Et benedictio dei omnipotentis, Patris et Filii et spiritus Santi descendant, super vos et maneat semper. Amen
Jim Havens: Amen. Thank you again. You can get the book Salve Regina, a Rosary Crusade to Plead for Holy Popes, at sophiainstitute.com. God bless you all.