Jan 19, 2020 | Our Lady, Rosary, The Spiritual Life
“Mary’s role in the Church is inseparable from Her union with Christ and flows directly from it.. After Her Son’s Ascension, Mary ‘aided the beginnings of the Church by Her prayers’. In Her association with the Apostles and several women,...
Jan 18, 2020 | Our Lady, Prayer, Rosary, Scripture
“His Mother treasured all these things, pondering them in Her Heart.” (Luke 2:19) In Saint Matthew’s Gospel, the Lord tells us clearly – “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth.. but store up treasures in Heaven..”...
Jan 2, 2020 | Our Lady, Rosary
“In times of darkness, holding the Rosary is like holding your Blessed Mother’s hand. Pray the Rosary every day. Abandon yourself in the hands of Mary. She will take care of you.. love Our Lady and make Her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as often...
Oct 22, 2019 | Church, Our Lady, Rosary, The Spiritual Life
“But the most important reason for strongly encouraging the practice of the Rosary is that it represents a most effective means of fostering among the faithful that commitment to the contemplation of the Christian mystery .. it is more urgent than ever that our...
Oct 11, 2019 | Our Lady, Prayer, Rosary, The Spiritual Life
“The Rosary of the Virgin Mary.. 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....
Oct 3, 2019 | Prayer, Rosary
“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.” – ‘Rosarium...
Aug 3, 2019 | Our Lady, Rosary
“The Church has always attributed particular efficacy to this prayer, entrusting to the Rosary, to it’s choral recitation and to it’s constant practice, the most difficult problems. At times when Christianity itself seemed under threat, it’s...
Jun 5, 2019 | Fatima, Five First Saturdays, Our Lady, Rosary
The theme of reparation as a means of obtaining mercy for souls is common both to the Divine Mercy devotion and to the message of Our Lady of Fatima. In the Divine Mercy devotion, the Lord focusses explicitly on mercy, the greatest attribute of God, and offers us...
Apr 7, 2019 | Prayer, Rosary, The Spiritual Life
Anyone who has ever been in love will have experienced that moment when the heart feels the urge to say ‘I love you’ to the beloved – and to say it not only once, but over and over again. It is as though saying the words makes the love real; and the...
