Today is the feast day of the Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary ... ... ... ... ... ...preach my Psalter. - our Lady to Saint Dominic Since the Rosary is composed principally and in substance of the prayer of Christ and the Angelic salutation, that is the Our Father and the Hail Mary, it was without doubt the first prayer and the principal devotion of the faithful and has been in use all through the centuries, from the time of the Apostles and disciples down to the present. It was only in the year 1241 however that the Church receive the Rosary in its present form and according to the method we use today. It was given to the Church by Saint Dominic who had received it from the Blessed Mother as a means of converting the Albigensians and other sinners. Saint Dominic seeing that the gravity of peoples sins was hindering the conversion of the Albigensians, withdrew into a forest near Toulouse, where he prayed continuously for three days and three nights. During this time he did nothing but weep and do harsh penances to appease the anger of God. He used his discipline so much that his body was lacerated and finally he fell into a coma. At this point, our Lady appeared to him, accompanied by three angels and said, Dear Dominic, do you know which weapon the Blessed Trinity wants to use to reform the world? Oh my Lady,... answered Dominic, ...You know far better than I do, because next to Your Son Jesus Christ, You have always been an instrument of our salvation. Then the Lady replied, I want you know that, in this kind of warfare, the principal weapon has always been the Angelic Psalter, which is the foundation-stone of the New Testament. Therefore, if you want to reach the hardened souls and win them over to God, preach my Psalter. So he arose, comforted, and burning with zeal for the conversion of the people in that district, he made straight for the cathedral. At once unseen angels rang the bells to gather the people together, and Saint Dominic began to preach. At the very beginning of his sermon, an apalling storm broke out, the earth shook, the sun darkened, and there was so much thunder and lightning that all were very much afraid. Even greater was their fear when looling at the picture of our Lady exposed in a prominent place, they saw Her raise Her hands to heaven three times to call down Gods vengeance upon them if they failed to be converted, to amend their lives, and seek the protection of the Holy Mother God. God wished by means of these supernatural phenomena, to spread the new devotion of the holy Rosary and to make it more widely known. At last at the prayer of Saint Dominic, the storm came to an end, and he went on preaching. So fervently and compellingly, did he explained the importance and value of the Rosary that almost all of the people of Toulouse embraced it and renounced their false beliefs. In a very short time, a great improvement was seen in the town; people began leading Christian lives and gave up their former bad habits. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, instructed by the Blessed Mother as well as by his own experiences, Saint Dominic preach the Rosary for the rest of his life. He preached it by his example as well as by his sermons, in cities, and in country places, to people of high station and low, before scholars and the uneducated, to Catholics and to the heretics. The Rosary which he said every day was his preparation for every sermon and his little tryst with our Lady immediately after preaching. One day, he had to preach at Notre Dame in Paris, and it happened to be the feast day of Saint John the Evangelist. He was in a little chapel behind the high altar prayerfully preparing his sermon by saying the Rosary, as he always did, when our Lady aappeared to him and said, Dominic, even though what you planned what to say is very good, I am bringing you a much better sermon. Saint Dominic took in his hands the book our Lady proffered, read the sermon carefully and when he had understood it and meditated on it, he gave thanks to Her. When the time came, he went up into the pulpit and in spite of the feast day, made no mention of Saint John the Evangelist, other than to say that he had been found worthy to be the guardian of the Queen of heaven. The congregation made up of theologians and other eminent people, who were used to hearing unusual and polished discourses; but Saint Dominic told them that it was not his desire to give them a learned dscourse, wise in his eyes of the world, but that he would speak in the simplicity of the Holy Spirit and with his forcefulness. So he began preaching the Rosary and explained the Hail Mary word by word as he would to a group of children, and used the very simple illustrations which were in the book given him by our Lady. One time, our Lord and our Lady appeared to Saint Dominic to urge him and inspire him to preach the Rosary more and more in order to wipe out sin and convert sinners and heretics. The Lord said to him, Dominic, I rejoice to see that you are not relying on your own wisdom and that rather than seek the empty praise of men, you are working with great humility for the salvation of the souls. But many priests want to preach thunderously against worst kinds of sin at the very outset, failing to realize that the sick person is given bitter medicine, he needs to be prepared by being put into the right frame of mind to really benefit by it. That is why, before doing anything else, priests should try to kindle a love of prayer in peoples hearts and especially a love of My Angelic Psalter. If only they would all start saying it and would really persevere, Gods in His mercy could hardly refuse to give them His grace. So I want you to preach My Rosary. From the time of Saint Dominic, the Holy Rosary has always been called the Psalter of Jesus and Mary. This is because it has the same number of Hail Marys as there as Psalms in Holy Bible. Since simple and uneducated people are not able to say the Psalms of David, the Rosary is held to be just as fruitful for them as Davids Psalter is for others. Our Lady has approved and confirmed this name of the Rosary; She has revealed to several people that each time they say Hail Mary they are giving Her a beautiful rose, and that each complete Rosary makes Her a crown of roses. So the complete Rosary is a large crown of roses and each chaplet of five decades is a little wreath of flowers of crown which we place on the heads of Jesus and Mary. The rose is the queen of all flowers, and so, the Rosary is the rose of devotions and the most important one. ... ... ... ... ... Pray for Holy Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, - that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:20:44 +0000
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