Mary's Catholics

We are in the last day of October, the month of the Holy Rosary. It is fitting to share to the world especially to the Catholics the reflections of the Popes about the Rosary.      The Rosary is well suited to the honor of God and the Blessed Virgin Mary and for warding off impending dangers.   - Pope Sixtus IV, 212th Pope      The Rosary is the scourge of the devil.  - Pope Adrian VI,  218th Pope      The Rosary was instituted to appease the anger of God and to implore the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. - Pope Gregory XIII, 226th Pope      Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world. - Blessed Pope Pius IX, 255th Pope      The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life.  It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings.  There is no more excellent way of ...

The Holy Rosary is composed principally and in substance of the "Our Father" and the "Hail Mary".  But what is the history of the Holy Rosary? In 1214, St. Dominic, a priest, was working hard for the conversion of the Albigensian heretics, but his efforts were hindered by the gravity of people's sins.  Feeling so depressed, he withdrew into a forest near Toulouse, France where he unceasingly prayed for three days and three nights.  He did nothing but weep and do harsh penances in order to appease God's anger.  His body was lacerated that he finally fell into a coma. The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him and said:   "Dear Dominic, do you know which weapon the Blessed Trinity wants to use to reform the world?"    St. Dominic answered:   "Oh my Lady, you know far better than I do because next to your son Jesus Christ, you have always been the chief instrument of our salvation."   Our Lady replied:   "I want you to know th...

My favorite prayer is the holy rosary.  I learned how to pray the rosary when I was ten years old.  I came to know the praying of the rosary at an early age. When I was five, I saw many rosaries at the altar of my mom's room, and whenever I go to church I always saw people praying the rosary.  At the age of ten, out of curiosity, I asked my mom to teach me how to pray the rosary. At first, I really don't know the story and the importance of the holy rosary.  I just love praying it.  My knowledge of the importance and history of the holy rosary came in 1993 when I bought a book entitled " The Secret of the Rosary " by St. Louis Marie de Montfort.  I read and reread the book.  The more I understand the secret of the rosary, the more I love praying it. Just as the fetus is connected to the mother through the umbilical cord, Catholics are connected to the Blessed Virgin Mary through the holy rosary. While the umbilical cord is only temporary, the ...