We did not grow up praying the daily rosary. We didn’t even adopt the devotion of the daily rosary as a family until we became right-ordered and I handed over the reins so my husband could take his proper place as the head of our family. It was a fruit of our Total Consecration (led by my husband). Since then, we have not turned back.
➕Is the Rosary a profitable method of prayer?
Yes; for by bringing before the eyes of the spirit the fundamental mysteries of Christianity it supplies us with the strongest motives to love God, to hate sin, to subdue the passions, to contemn the world and its vanity, and to strive after Christian perfection, in order that we may gain those happy mansions which Jesus prepares for us.
The Rosary, besides, brings before us living examples – Jesus and Mary – whom we must follow; and encourages us to good works by pointing to the all-powerful grace procured for us by Jesus, and the all-prevailing intercession of the gracious Mother of God.
Let us not be ashamed to carry the beads with us, for otherwise we might be ashamed of being Catholics; let us say the Rosary often – every evening – as was the custom with Catholics in former times, and we shall find that, as in St. Dominic’s day it was a wholesome check to error, so too In our times it will be, if said aright, a powerful weapon against heresy and unbelief, and will increase faith, piety, and virtue.
➕How should we say the Rosary?
1. Properly; as has been above described, and slowly, with a distinct pronunciation of the prayers and mysteries.
2. Devoutly, not only with the lips, but also with the heart.
More particularly we ought to meditate upon the mysteries that come before us;
at the joyful mysteries we should think of the infinite love of God to men and on His humiliation for us, thanking Him, and promising our love to Him in return;
at the sorrowful mysteries we should have compassion on the Saviour suffering for us, should from the heart detest the sins which were the cause of His sufferings, and make the most earnest resolutions for the future;
at the glorious mysteries we should remember the glory which awaits us also if we follow Jesus and Mary.➕
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