Devotion to Mary: the Holy Rosary, grace upon grace

The treasure of the Holy Rosary is rich in all grace. We know from the history of the Church and from the life of the Saints that the number of graces of all kinds linked to the Holy Rosary is incalculable. It would be enough just to think of the magnificent Marian shrines dedicated to the Madonna of the Rosary and to all the churches dedicated to the Madonna of the Rosary in the whole world to understand what immense treasure of thanks the Holy Rosary has brought and is capable of bringing to humanity in need of help from 'tall.

The Holy Rosary is the most concrete and comprehensive demonstration of the dogmatic doctrine on Mary Most Holy Mother of divine grace and universal Mediatrix of all graces. It is the sense of the faithful, animated by the Holy Spirit, which validly supports and confirms this truth of faith about Mary Most Holy Treasurer of Heaven and Dispenser of all grace for the salvation and sanctification of souls throughout the history of salvation.

This truth and this Marian doctrine cannot fail to be encouraging, already abundantly tested in the history of the Church and guaranteed by the experiences of the Saints who from Saint Dominic onwards personally verified the power and fruitfulness of the Holy Rosary in obtaining for the people of God grace upon grace.

For our time, then, add the direct testimony of the same divine Mother who appeared in Lourdes and Fatima to expressly recommend the prayer of the Holy Rosary, as a prayer for obtaining every grace and blessing. The extraordinary events of the apparitions of the Immaculate Conception in Lourdes and Fatima and its messages on the prayer of the Holy Rosary should be more than enough to convince anyone of the importance and preciousness of the Holy Rosary, who can truly obtain grace upon grace.

One day, at a public audience, a boy who had the Rosary crown around his neck appeared in front of Pope Pius X in the group of pilgrims. The Pope looked at him, stopped him and said to him: "Boy, please, with the Rosary ... anything!". The Rosary is a treasure chest full of graces and blessings for everything.

«The prayer most dear to Mary»
When Father Guardiano asked St. Pio of Pietrelcina one day why he recited so many Rosaries day and night, why he prayed, essentially, only and always with the Holy Rosary, Padre Pio replied: "If the Holy Virgin appeared in Lourdes and in Fatima has always warmly recommended the Rosary, don't you think there must be a special reason for this and that the prayer of the Rosary must have an exceptional importance particularly for us and for our times? ».

Likewise Sister Lucy, the visionary of Fatima, still alive, said one day clearly that "since the Blessed Virgin has given great efficacy to the Holy Rosary, there is no problem, neither material nor spiritual, national or international, that cannot be solved. with the Holy Rosary and with our sacrifices ». And again: «The decline of the world is undoubtedly the result of the decline of the spirit of prayer. It was in anticipation of this disorientation that Our Lady recommended the recitation of the Rosary with so much insistence ... If everyone recited the Rosary every day, Our Lady would obtain miracles ».

But even before St. Pio of Pietrelcina and Sister Lucy of Fatima, Blessed Bartolo Longo, the apostle of Our Lady of Pompeii, had written and proclaimed many times that the Rosary is "the most cherished prayer, the most favorite by the Saints, the most frequented by peoples, the most illustrated by God with stupendous wonders, supported by the greatest promises made by the Blessed Virgin ".

Now we can better understand why Saint Bernardetta, the seer of Lourdes, said: "Bernadette does nothing but pray, she can do nothing but scroll the beads of the Rosary ...". And who can count the Rosaries recited by the three shepherd children of Fatima? Little Francesco di Fatima, for example, occasionally disappeared and nobody knew where he was, because he left and hid in order to say Rosaries and Rosaries. Little Jacinta was no exception when she found herself alone, hospitalized, to undergo surgery. The two little Blesseds, at the age of twelve and ten, had really understood that the Rosaries are grace upon grace. And we, on the other hand, what have we understood if we make it so difficult to recite even a single crown of the Rosary a day? ... Do we not also want grace upon grace? ...