ROSARY
"Crown of Roses"
The rosary was given to Saint Dominic in an apparition by the Virgin Mary in the year 1214 in the church of Prouille. Pope Leo XIII, the Rosary Pope, instituted the catholic custom of daily rosary prayer during the month of October. He explained the importance of the rosary as the one road to God, from the father to the son, to his mother, and from her to him. The rosary was a vital means to participate in the life of Mary and to find the way to Christ. It will help to love Jesus more and serve as a protection from Satan.
The rosary is composed of twenty decades. Each decade is recited in honor of a mystery in our Lord's Life and that of his Blessed Mother. Each time you say a Hail Mary you are giving her a beautiful rose, the queen of all flowers. So the Rosary is the rose of all devotions. Each complete rosary makes her a crown of roses or garland of roses.
The Holy Rosary is considered a perfect prayer because within it lies the awesome story of our salvation and redemption. It is a form of vocal and mental prayer. When we pray the Rosary we invite her and she joins Her prayer with us. It is so inconceivable how other so-called christian religions would not give veneration and adoration to the person who made Jesus human and divine. Even the Quran, Muslim's bible, dedicated a whole chapter to one woman only - the VIRGIN MARY! Other religions don't believe in saints and yet they would wholeheartedly believe their (Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke & John) writings to the point of fanaticism, quoting word for word, from the BIBLE! What Mary asks, She always receives, Jesus can never say no whatever His Mother ask for. Remember the Wedding in Cana? Mother Mary kind of said to Jesus the party is out of drinks, so Jesus turned the jugs of water into wine. It can seem a repetitive prayer but instead it is like two sweethearts who many times say to one another the words "I love you..."
The Blessed Holy Father John Paul II on October 16, 2002 with the apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae on the Most Holy Rosary has added Five New Mysteries of the Rosary -- The
LUMINOUS MYSTERIES (Thursday):
1st - Baptism of Jesus
2nd - Wedding at Cana
3rd - Proclamation of the Kingdom
4th - The Transfiguration
5th - Institution of the Eucharist
JOYFUL MYSTERIES (Mondays & Saturdays)
1st - The Annunciation
2nd - The Visitation
3rd - The Nativity
4th - The Presentation of our Lord
5th - Finding the Child Jesus in the Temple
SORROWFUL MYSTERIES (Tuesdays & Fridays)
1st - The Agony in the Garden
2nd - Scourging at the Pillar
3rd - Crowning with Thorns
4th - Carrying of the Cross
5th - Crucifixion
GLORIOUS MYSTERIES (Wednesdays & Sundays)
1st - The Resurrection
2nd - The Ascension
3rd - Descent of the Holy Spirit
4th - The Assumption
5th - The Coronation
This statue of the Virgin Mary was unearthed from a construction site in Boston, MA this week. She was very well preserved.
THERE SHE IS... Amidst the devastation by Hurricane Sandy in Queens, NY is Mother Mary, Queen of the Universe, beautiful as ever!
POPE PIUS V helped standardize the rosary's 15 mysteries in 1569 as it is known today. He was elected pope in 1566. A member of the Dominican order, he held great devotion to the Blessed Mother and the rosary. He was one of the leaders of the Catholic counter-reformation and the one who excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1570 for the persecution of Catholics. When the Ottoman Turks threatened to cross the Mediterranean, Pius encouraged the people to pray the rosary so that they might be spared. He established the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary in 1571 to thank Our Lady for her help in defeating the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto.
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