A Brilliant Cloud of Spirituality Rising from Each Dwelling and Each Coronary heart
(Letter of Don Dolindo to E.C., a religious little one of his)
I’m writing to you within the mild of the Holy Rosary, the prayer that brings us so near Our Lord and is at the moment the item of a feast day on the Church’s liturgical calendar. One wonders how it’s potential {that a} prayer could be the item of a feast day. The article of a feast is often a divine thriller, the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a saint. With this prayer, nevertheless, the Blessed Virgin Mary comes to fulfill Christians in the identical means she meets them at Lourdes, Fátima, Tre Fontane, and every other place the place she appeared. She comes with all of the riches of the mysteries of the life, Ardour, dying, and Resurrection of Our Lord.
Will we not honor the wheat that’s used for the Sacrament of the Eucharist? The Rosary is a granary of graces.
Will we not honor the grapes used for the Sacrament of the Eucharist? The Rosary is the winery that produces the fruits of Jesus and Mary. It has been and nonetheless is the winery of God and the fullness of life for us.
The Blessed Virgin Mary wished the beads to be referred to as a rosary—that’s, a rosebush. Roses bloom within the gentle climate, however they continue to be in bloom all yr spherical. The identical is true of the Rosary for Christian individuals. This prayer is sort of a rosebush and, from it, we will supply God a recent rose every single day—a lot as incense was provided to God on an altar of gold in historic instances.
The Rosary shouldn’t be solely an instrument for counting every Hail Mary, Our Father, and Glory Be; it’s a heavenly garland of treasured pearls, and each a part of it affords a treasure of indulgences and assurance of mercy by the deserves of Jesus and Mary.
Praying the Rosary is just like the rolling of the images of a film, a reminder of the nice mysteries of our redemption, exhibiting them over and over. The soul is like the large display on which we see the film, and on this imaginative and prescient, the soul can stay attentive to God and His Church.
Who can recall effectively the mysteries of our redemption with out the Rosary? The key of our inside life is within the recalling of the mysteries. They’re important if we wish to be good Christians and bear the marks of Christ.
Amid the disharmony of our chaotic lives, the Rosary is the instrument—the harp or the psaltery with its ten strings for every group of harmonies. With the Rosary, we increase a steady music of affection from Earth. Within the extreme materialism of our lives, it’s a brilliant cloud of spirituality, rising from each house and each coronary heart.
Doesn’t the harpist play music written by a grasp? Does he not go over it many times, together with his fingers on the strings, making the candy sounds written from the center and produced by the contact of his fingers?
Nicely then, so can we. We recite the Rosary by going over the strings of affection flowering from the lives of Jesus and Mary that we recall within the mysteries. On the beads of the Rosary, we sing these canticles of affection that redeemed us.
As a military has its marching songs, protecting time for the troopers, so does the Rosary lovingly preserve time for the Church Militant. It’s just like the clashing of the trumpets that accompanied the siege of Jericho, which shook its partitions to the inspiration. The Turkish fleets couldn’t resist the ability of that sound of religion; they have been put to flight. And in a scenario that was even worse, the communist military couldn’t supply resistance to it.
O Most Holy Rosary, the incense kindled by the Blessed Virgin Mary, you’re the perfume combined by her with the artwork of a grasp, as a result of the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Superb Mysteries increase a aromatic cloud of prayer. O Most Holy Rosary, could your flowers bloom on the desolate flower beds of unbelievers, and let easy and vigorous religion come to bloom once more.
—Don Dolindo Ruotolo Feast of the Holy Rosary 1948
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This text is tailored from a chapter in Meditations on the Holy Rosary by Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo which is accessible from Sophia Institute Press.
Artwork for this submit: Cowl and featured picture used with permission.