The Holy Rosary

What is the Holy  Rosary?
The rosary is a med­i­ta­tion on the life of Jesus Christ. The rosary is the great­est weapon against evil. Dur­ing the Appari­tion at Fati­ma in 1917, our Lady request­ed that we pray the Rosary dai­ly. The rosary will change your life.

The word Rosary means “Crown of Ros­es.” Our Lady “has revealed to sev­eral peo­ple that each time they say a Hail Mary they are giv­ing her a beau­ti­ful rose and that each com­plete Rosary makes her a crown of ros­es.… The rose is the queen of flow­ers, and so  the Rosary is the rose of all devo­tions and it is there­fore the most impor­tant one.” (The Secret Of The Rosary, St. Louis De Mont­fort, Sev­enth Rose, p. 26). To learn more about the rosary, read the book: “The Secret of the Rosary” by St. Louis de Mont­fort avail­able at Tan Books and many catholic stores.

“There is no prob­lem, I tell you, no mat­ter how dif­fi­cult it is, that we can­not solve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.”
Sis­ter Lucia (One of the Seers of Fati­ma, 1917).

“The Holy Rosary is a gift come down from heav­en;  a great present that God gives to His most faith­ful ser­vants. God is the Author of the prayers of which it is com­posed and
of the mys­ter­ies it con­tains.”
St. Louis de Mont­fort

“There is no sur­er means of call­ing down God’s bless­ings upon the fam­i­ly … than the dai­ly recita­tion of the rosary.”
Pope Pius XII

“Among all the devo­tions approved by the Church, none  has been favored by so many mir­a­cles as the devo­tion of the Most Holy Rosary.”
Pope Pius IX

“The Rosary is the weapon.”
Blessed Padre Pio

“The prayers of the Rosary(15 decades)and “The Beads”(5 decades)are, after the Sacred Litur­gy of the Eucharist what unites us the most to God through the rich­ness of the prayers which com­pose it, all com­ing from Heav­en, dic­tat­ed by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spir­it.”
~ Sis­ter Lucia (Vision­ary of Fati­ma) to Moth­er Maria Jose Mar­tins

“Pray the Rosary every­day, in order to obtain peace for the world ….”
Our Lady of Fati­ma (1917)

“Even the Pope does not fail to recite the Rosary every­day before he goes to sleep. Through the Rosary the faith­ful receive abun­dant grace, as though from the very hands of the Moth­er of the Redeemer.”~ Pope John Paul II

“Dear broth­ers and sis­ters, recite the rosary every day. I earnest­ly urge pas­tors to pray the rosary and to teach peo­ple in their Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ties how to pray it.”
Pope John Paul II

101 Inspi­ra­tional Sto­ries of the Rosary by Sis­ter Patri­cia Proc­tor, OSC (ISBN: 0972844708) is a col­lec­tion of true sto­ries of graces expe­ri­enced by every­day peo­ple with the pow­er of the holy rosary. You will read this book over and over again and if you have nev­er said the rosary before, you will def­i­nite­ly start doing so. For those who pray the rosary, it will inspire you to pray more devout­ly. It will also bring great joy into your life.  It sells at Amazon.com for about  ten dol­lars ($10.00). You might be able to buy it cheap­er at one of the Catholic stores (will include link to some of the Catholic stores lat­er).

Who Should  Pray the Rosary?
Every­one should say the rosary. The rosary is a gift from GOD to all human­i­ty.  Catholics, protes­tants, non-Chris­t­ian, athe­ist, young, old, all peo­ple should say the rosary.

Why Pray the Rosary?
If we say the rosary while med­i­tat­ing on the mys­ter­ies, we will not only bring about world peace but peace in our lives and in our fam­i­lies.

The Extraordinary Benefits of the Rosary:Seven Great Blessings
In The Secret of the Rosary (p.65), St. Louis De Montfort states: “The Rosary recited with meditation on the mysteries brings about the following marvelous results:

1. It grad­u­al­ly gives us per­fect knowl­edge of Jesus Christ

2. it puri­fies our souls, wash­ing away sin;

3. it gives us vic­to­ry over all our ene­mies;

4. it makes it easy for us to prac­tice virtue;

5. it sets us on fire with love of Our Blessed Lord;

6. it enrich­es us with graces and mer­its;

7. it sup­plies us with what is need­ed to pay all our debts to God and to our fel­low men, and final­ly, it obtains all kinds of graces for us from Almighty God.”

“When you say your Rosary the Angels rejoice, the Blessed Trin­i­ty delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am hap­pi­er than you can pos­si­bly imag­ine ….”

~Our Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche

 

The Fif­teen Promis­es to Chris­tians who pray the Rosary
(Giv­en to Blessed St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche)

1. Who­ev­er shall faith­ful­ly serve me by the recita­tion of the Rosary, shall receive sig­nal graces.

2. I promise my spe­cial pro­tec­tion and the great­est graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a pow­er­ful armor against hell; it will destroy vice, decrease sin and defeat here­sies.

4. It will cause virtue and good works to flour­ish; it will obtain for souls the abun­dant mer­cy of God; it will with­draw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its van­i­ties, and will lift them to the desire of eter­nal things. O that souls would sanc­ti­fy them­selves by this means.

5. The soul which rec­om­mends itself to me by the recita­tion of the Rosary, shall not per­ish.

6. Who­ev­er shall recite the Rosary devout­ly, apply­ing him­self to the con­sid­er­a­tion of its sacred Mys­ter­ies, shall nev­er be con­quered by mis­for­tune. God will not chas­tise him in His jus­tice, he shall not per­ish by an unpro­vid­ed death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become wor­thy of eter­nal life.

7. Who­ev­er shall have a true devo­tion for the Rosary shall not die with­out the Sacra­ments of the Church.

8. Those who are faith­ful to the recita­tion of the Rosary shall have, dur­ing their life and at their death, the light of God and the plen­i­tude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall par­tic­i­pate in the mer­its of the Saints in Par­adise.

9. I shall deliv­er from Pur­ga­to­ry those who have been devot­ed to the Rosary.

10. The faith­ful chil­dren of the Rosary shall mer­it a high degree of glo­ry in Heav­en.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recita­tion of the Rosary.

12. All those who prop­a­gate the Holy Rosary shall be aid­ed by me in their neces­si­ties.

13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advo­cates of the Rosary shall have for inter­ces­sors the entire celes­tial court dur­ing their life and at the hour of death.

14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons, and broth­ers of my only Son, Jesus Christ.

15. Devo­tion of my Rosary is a great sign of pre­des­ti­na­tion.