Please pray the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary EVERY DAY for peace, the ending of abortion, and for the intentions of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI.
Please pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Daily for the mercy of God upon us, the faithful, the Pope, all Bishops, all Priests, all religous, those who do not believe in God and who do not yet know Jesus, the Holy souls in purgatory, all in need, those who have left the Church, those who attack the Church, and those who seek the ruin of the kingdom. May Jesus have mercy on us.
Celebrate what is right with the Church today! The Eucharist is the feast of thanksgiving. It is the real presence of the body and blood, soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. Enjoy His presence in His Church!!!
Sixth Rose
Mary's Psalter
Ever since Saint Dominic established the devotion to the Holy Rosary up until the time when Blessed Alan de la Roche reestablished it in 1460 it has always been called the Psalter of Jesus and Mary. This is because it has the same number of Angelic Salutations as there are psalms in the Book of the Psalms of David. 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 David's Psalter is for others.
But the Rosary can be considered to be even more valuable than the latter for three reasons:
1.Firstly, because the Angelic Psalter bears a nobler fruit, that of the Word Incarnate, whereas David's Psalter only prophesies His coming;
2.Secondly, just as the real thing is more important than its prefiguration and the body is more than its shadow, in the same way the Psalter of Our Lady is greater than David's Psalter which did no more than prefigure it.
3.And thirdly, because Our Lady's Psalter (or the Rosary made up of the Our Father and Hail Mary) is the direct work of the Most Blessed Trinity and was not made through a human instrument.
Our Lady's Psalter or Rosary is divided up into three parts of five decades each, for the following special reasons:
1.To honor the three Persons of the Most Blessed Trinity;
2.To honor the life, death and glory of Jesus Christ;
3.To imitate the Church Triumphant, to help the members of the Church Militant and the lessen the pains of the Church Suffering;
4.To imitate the three groups into which the Psalms are divided: a) The first being for the purgative life, b) the second for the illuminative life, c) and the third for the unitive life;
5.And, finally, to give us graces in abundance during our lifetime, peace at death, and glory in eternity.
http://www.rosary-center.org/secret.htm
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