Sunday May 3rd. 2009
Wherever Our Lady has
appeared on this earth,
she always has a rosary in
her hands.
During the apparitions at
Lourdes, she invited
Bernadette to say the
rosary with her, and
similarly at Fatima with
the three children. There is
no doubt that this is
Mary’s favourite prayer
through which she gains
many graces for us.
Anyone who says the
rosary frequently increases
in their love for Our Lord,
for the mysteries of the
rosary bring us ever closer
to him through the events
of his life in which Mary
was also involved.
Let us pray the rosary this
month specially for an
increase of vocations to
the priesthood.
The following article by the
Irish bishop, Brendan Kelly,
explains the beauty of the
rosary.
The Rosary—Our Lady’s favourite prayer
'Mary kept all these things and pondered them'
To pray the Rosary is nothing other than to do what Mary did.
Luke tells us that Mary 'kept all these things and pondered them
in her heart' (2: 19). The 'things' in question here are all those
things she, his mother, experienced in living with Jesus: The
announcement of her being chosen by God to be the mother of the
Saviour, the birth at Bethlehem, the events of the Presentation and
later the 'Finding' in the Temple, and at the wedding in Cana.
Finally, there was the deepest pondering of all as she took her
stand silently, beside her Son on the cross, at Calvary, with him all through his slow agony and death.
First Christian and model for us all
Mary is our mother too. She is mother of the Church. She is first
Christian and model for all Christians. The great gift of the rosary as
a prayer is that it enables us to do as Mary did right through her life:
we ponder with her the events of the life of Jesus. In the Rosary we
call these events 'mysteries' because meditating on them is an >>>>
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen
