NUESTRA SEÑORA DEL ROSARIO
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Just as this image of Jesus and Mary united together by the Rosary in loving embrace, so will the Rosary lead us to Jesus through Mary under the title of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. The Rosary will be for us a ladder to Heaven, uniting Heaven and earth.
Pope John Paul II declared 2003, the Year of the Rosary. In his Apostolic Letter "ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE", he introduced a new set of mysteries, the Luminous mysteries, which the faithful can now recite during Thursdays of the week. Here is the introduction to the apostolic letter.
The Rosary of the Virgin Mary, which gradually took form in the second millennium under the guidance of the Spirit of God, is a prayer loved by countless Saints and encouraged by the Magisterium. Simple yet profound, it still remains, at the dawn of this third millennium, a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness. It blends easily into the spiritual journey of the Christian life, which, after two thousand years, has lost none of the freshness of its beginnings and feels drawn by the Spirit of God to “set out into the deep” (duc in altum!) in order once more to proclaim, and even cry out, before the world that Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour, “the way, and the truth and the life” (Jn 14:6), “the goal of human history and the point on which the desires of history and civilization turn".
The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer. Read the rest of the letter here.
The Queen of the Most Holy Rosary teaching St. Dominic how to defeat heresy through the Holy Rosary. "when he was preaching to the Albigenses, St. Dominic at first obtained but scanty success: and that one day, complaining of this in pious prayer to our Blessed Lady, she deigned to reply to him, saying: 'Wonder not that you have obtained so little fruit by your labors, you have spent them on barren soil, not yet watered with the dew of Divine grace. When God willed to renew the face of the earth, He began by sending down on it the fertilizing rain of the Angelic Salutation. Therefore preach my Psalter composed of 150 Angelic Salutations and 15 Our Fathers, and you will obtain an abundant harvest.'"
PRAYER TO THE QUEEN OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY
1) MARY, your Holy Rosary is very important in my spiritual life. As a devotion of the Church it imprints a particular Catholic character upon my soul by constantly recalling to me the remembrance of Jesus and you. It expresses the three great phases in the work of our redemption—joy, sorrow, and glory. By saying the Rosary I desire to show my gratitude and love to Jesus and you, to praise God for the benefits of the Incarnation, to make reparation for the sins of the world, and to obtain grace and assistance for my soul and for all mankind.
According to your promises to your favorite children, the Rosary is a guarantee of your special protection and great graces, a happy death and eternal salvation. By the daily recitation of the Rosary may my own devotion to you grow more ardent, more earnest. Let no work prevent me from saying my beads. May my soul find rest, strength and refreshment in the joys, the sorrows, and the glories of my divine Lord, and you, His loving Mother. The fifteen mysteries form your crown. Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, may my Rosary lead me, crowned with an everlasting crown of glory, to your feet.
(2) MARY, through the prayer of the Rosary untold blessings have been showered down upon mankind throughout the ages. Through the Rosary today as in the past times of peril that have threatened civilization, you have again come to save mankind from the evils that overwhelm us.
But make your Rosary most salutary in bringing back homelife to its full splendor, by raising the family to a higher family circle where God is Father and you are Mother and we are all children of God. May the Rosary strengthen the unity of family life, so easily weakened by the modern way of living, and keep it from worldliness, and be a source of great blessing, the greatest of which is peace founded on love.
(3) MARY, in your apparitions you expressed a desire that we pray the Rosary. At Lourdes you appeared eighteen times and invited Bernadette to recite the Rosary with you. In each of the six apparitions at Fatima, you insisted on the recitation of the Rosary. You made your appearances with the Rosary in your hands and said, "I am the Lady of the Rosary, and I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. They must not continue to offend Our Lord who already is so deeply offended. They must say the Rosary."
You made known your Great Promise when you showed your Immaculate Heart to Lucy, the little shepherd girl of Fatima, and said, "I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months go to confession and receive Holy Communion, say the Rosary and spend a quarter of an hour in meditation on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the object of making reparation to me."
Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, you have been pleased to come to Lourdes and to Fatima to reveal to us the treasures of graces hidden in the recitation of the Rosary. Inspire our hearts with a sincere love of this devotion, in order that by meditating on the Mysteries of our Redemption that are recalled in it, we may gather its fruits and obtain blessings for soul and body, peace for the world, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, and the salvation of our souls.
PRAYER
O God, Whose only-begotten Son by His life, death and Resurrection obtained for us the rewards of eternal salvation, grant, we beg of You, that meditating upon these mysteries in the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may both imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. (Feast of the Most Holy Rosary, Oct. 7).
Just as this image of Jesus and Mary united together by the Rosary in loving embrace, so will the Rosary lead us to Jesus through Mary under the title of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. The Rosary will be for us a ladder to Heaven, uniting Heaven and earth. Pope John Paul II declared 2003, the Year of the Rosary. In his Apostolic Letter "ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE", he introduced a new set of mysteries, the Luminous mysteries, which the faithful can now recite during Thursdays of the week. Here is the introduction to the apostolic letter.
The Rosary of the Virgin Mary, which gradually took form in the second millennium under the guidance of the Spirit of God, is a prayer loved by countless Saints and encouraged by the Magisterium. Simple yet profound, it still remains, at the dawn of this third millennium, a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness. It blends easily into the spiritual journey of the Christian life, which, after two thousand years, has lost none of the freshness of its beginnings and feels drawn by the Spirit of God to “set out into the deep” (duc in altum!) in order once more to proclaim, and even cry out, before the world that Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour, “the way, and the truth and the life” (Jn 14:6), “the goal of human history and the point on which the desires of history and civilization turn".
The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer. Read the rest of the letter here.
The Queen of the Most Holy Rosary teaching St. Dominic how to defeat heresy through the Holy Rosary. "when he was preaching to the Albigenses, St. Dominic at first obtained but scanty success: and that one day, complaining of this in pious prayer to our Blessed Lady, she deigned to reply to him, saying: 'Wonder not that you have obtained so little fruit by your labors, you have spent them on barren soil, not yet watered with the dew of Divine grace. When God willed to renew the face of the earth, He began by sending down on it the fertilizing rain of the Angelic Salutation. Therefore preach my Psalter composed of 150 Angelic Salutations and 15 Our Fathers, and you will obtain an abundant harvest.'"PRAYER TO THE QUEEN OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY
1) MARY, your Holy Rosary is very important in my spiritual life. As a devotion of the Church it imprints a particular Catholic character upon my soul by constantly recalling to me the remembrance of Jesus and you. It expresses the three great phases in the work of our redemption—joy, sorrow, and glory. By saying the Rosary I desire to show my gratitude and love to Jesus and you, to praise God for the benefits of the Incarnation, to make reparation for the sins of the world, and to obtain grace and assistance for my soul and for all mankind.
According to your promises to your favorite children, the Rosary is a guarantee of your special protection and great graces, a happy death and eternal salvation. By the daily recitation of the Rosary may my own devotion to you grow more ardent, more earnest. Let no work prevent me from saying my beads. May my soul find rest, strength and refreshment in the joys, the sorrows, and the glories of my divine Lord, and you, His loving Mother. The fifteen mysteries form your crown. Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, may my Rosary lead me, crowned with an everlasting crown of glory, to your feet.
(2) MARY, through the prayer of the Rosary untold blessings have been showered down upon mankind throughout the ages. Through the Rosary today as in the past times of peril that have threatened civilization, you have again come to save mankind from the evils that overwhelm us.
But make your Rosary most salutary in bringing back homelife to its full splendor, by raising the family to a higher family circle where God is Father and you are Mother and we are all children of God. May the Rosary strengthen the unity of family life, so easily weakened by the modern way of living, and keep it from worldliness, and be a source of great blessing, the greatest of which is peace founded on love.
(3) MARY, in your apparitions you expressed a desire that we pray the Rosary. At Lourdes you appeared eighteen times and invited Bernadette to recite the Rosary with you. In each of the six apparitions at Fatima, you insisted on the recitation of the Rosary. You made your appearances with the Rosary in your hands and said, "I am the Lady of the Rosary, and I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. They must not continue to offend Our Lord who already is so deeply offended. They must say the Rosary."
You made known your Great Promise when you showed your Immaculate Heart to Lucy, the little shepherd girl of Fatima, and said, "I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months go to confession and receive Holy Communion, say the Rosary and spend a quarter of an hour in meditation on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the object of making reparation to me."
Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, you have been pleased to come to Lourdes and to Fatima to reveal to us the treasures of graces hidden in the recitation of the Rosary. Inspire our hearts with a sincere love of this devotion, in order that by meditating on the Mysteries of our Redemption that are recalled in it, we may gather its fruits and obtain blessings for soul and body, peace for the world, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, and the salvation of our souls.
PRAYER
O God, Whose only-begotten Son by His life, death and Resurrection obtained for us the rewards of eternal salvation, grant, we beg of You, that meditating upon these mysteries in the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may both imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. (Feast of the Most Holy Rosary, Oct. 7).
Other helpful readings:
The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis Marie de Montfort
Indulgences and the Fifteen Promises of the Rosary
St. Bernadette said:
"...Then I looked up and caught sight of the cave where I saw a lady wearing a lovely white dress with a bright belt. On top or each of her feet was a pale yellow rose, the same color as her rosary beads.
At this I rubbed my eyes, thinking I was seeing things, and I put my hands into the fold of my dress where my rosary was. I wanted to make the sign of the cross but for the life of me I couldn't manage it and my hand just fell down. Then the lady made the sign of the cross herself and at the second attempt I managed to do the same, though my hands were trembling. Then I began to say the rosary while the lady let her beads slip through her fingers, without moving her lips. When I stopped saying the Hail Mary, she immediately vanished."
St. Bernadette said:
"...Then I looked up and caught sight of the cave where I saw a lady wearing a lovely white dress with a bright belt. On top or each of her feet was a pale yellow rose, the same color as her rosary beads.
At this I rubbed my eyes, thinking I was seeing things, and I put my hands into the fold of my dress where my rosary was. I wanted to make the sign of the cross but for the life of me I couldn't manage it and my hand just fell down. Then the lady made the sign of the cross herself and at the second attempt I managed to do the same, though my hands were trembling. Then I began to say the rosary while the lady let her beads slip through her fingers, without moving her lips. When I stopped saying the Hail Mary, she immediately vanished."
2 Comments:
I re discovered the rosary last year, I find it a great comfort to pray this way.
I can pray it in italian too!
Every year in my town we have the feast of our lady of the rosary, everyone celebrates after the service and then they have fire works, it's pretty cool
That's so cool Carmel. I wish we had that kind of festivities here for Our Lady. Wow, you can pray it in Italian? I'm so impressed!
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