I once told a youth director who was getting “heat” from his colleagues for having his parish youth group pray the rosary that that prayer is really Scripture study. What else could you call the each of the mysteries, the Hail Mary and the Lord’s Prayer? On the simplest level praying the rosary is not only a tool of spiritual education in the School of Mary, but also uniting oneself more and more closely to the Lord.
It is often said that if you want to end sin in your life, evil in the world, that is, to slice the head off evil, then pray the Rosary. I see more rosaries around the rear view mirror or around the neck but so rarely in those same hands fingering the beads of the Mysteries of the Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. In the rosary we trace the lines of salvation history and the beautiful mission of Jesus.
Pope, saints, good priests and religious and grandmothers recommend wholeheartedly our attachment to this divine gift of love.
The previous year’s post for this feast is here.
The infant church in prayer was gathered round
Th’apostles and the Mother of the Lord;
In faithfulness to Christ’s farewell command,
They prayed and waited, trusting in the Word.
With joy we think on incarnation’s grace;
With light we meditate upon Christ’s life;
With sorrow, all his passion keep in mind;
And in his glory, hope beyond all strife.
For Mary’s faithfulness we praise you, Lord,
who heard and trusted in your promise strong;
To you we sing, O Trinity most blessed,
In praise that through the ages echoes long.
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SURSUM CORDA