Rosary
Power of the Rosary
The rosary has been featured in the writings of Roman Catholic figures from saints to popes and continues to be mentioned in reported Marian apparitions, with a number of promises attributed to the power of the rosary.
As early as the fifteenth century, legend alleged that through Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan de Rupe the Blessed Virgin Mary made fifteen specific promises to Christians who pray using the rosary.[1] The fifteen rosary promises range from protection from misfortune to meriting a high degree of glory in heaven.[2] In support of this statement Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York provided his imprimatur to this effect.[3]
In the 18th century, the French priest Louis de Montfort elaborated on the importance of the rosary and its power in his widely read book the Secret of the Rosary.[4] He emphasized the power of the rosary and provided specific instructions on how it should be prayed, e.g. with attention, devotion and modesty (reverence), with reflective pauses [5] between the beads and smaller pauses between phrases of the prayers.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Dominican Fathers on the Rosary http://www.rosary-center.org/nconobl.htm
- ↑ Holyrosary.org http://www.theholyrosary.org/power.html
- ↑ Rosary promises http://www.catholic.org/clife/mary/promises.php
- ↑ Saint Louis de Montfort http://www.themontfortacademy.org/Pages/BioStLouisdeMontfort1.html
- ↑ De Montfort, St. Louis-Marie. Secret of the Rosary, Forty-Fourth Rose (paragraph 127)
- ↑ Writings of Saint Louis de Montfort http://www.montfort.org.uk/Writings/MontWork.html
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
- Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: A Consideration of the Rosary by J. Neville Ward (Doubleday, 1973); revised as Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: Meditations on the Rosary (Seabury Classics, 2005) - an ecumenical Methodist minister's book on the Rosary. ISBN 978-0829424737
- God Alone: The Collected Writings of St. Louis Marie De Montfort, by Saint Louis de Montfort, Montfort Publications, 1995 ISBN 978-0910984553
- Rosary of Our Lady of Sorrows, Friar Servants of Mary, Chicago, Illinois, 1990.
- "Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages" by Anne Winston-Allen (1997, Pennsylvania State University Press) - the most current source in English on the history and development of the Rosary in its earliest years. ISBN 0-2710-1631-0
- The Lourdes Pilgrim, by Oliver Todd, Matthew James Publishing, 2003, p. 41. ISBN 978-1557254948
External links
All links retrieved June 11, 2009
- Lewis Rosary Making Instruction"Rosary" from the Catholic Encyclopedia
- The Holy Rosary
- How to recite the Holy Rosary Printer-friendly PDF document (includes prayers, bead use, mysteries)
- Handy PDF Downloadable Rosary Pamphlets The Traditional 15 Mysteries.
- Rosary Prayer Guide: How to Pray the Rosary
- Guide to Making a Knot Rosary
- Perpetual Web Rosary A continuing and interactive online rosary
- Pope Pius XII Rosary encyclical Ingruentium Malorum on the Vatican website
- Pope John Paul II Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariaeon the Vatican website
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