Today's prayer: the devotion pleasing to the Madonna that everyone must do
Devotion to the Holy Rosary: powerful "weapon" of faith
As we know, a great merit of the devotion to the Rosary is that it was revealed by the Madonna to San Domenico as a means of reviving the Faith in the regions devastated by the Albigensian heresy.
Indeed, the widespread practice of the Rosary has revived faith. With this, the Rosary became, in times when there was truly faith in the world, one of the classic Catholic devotions. This led not only to the widespread creation of statues of the Madonna of the Rosary all over the world, but also the practice of praying the Rosary has become common among the faithful. Wearing the rosary hanging from life became an official component of the habits of many religious orders.
Among the thousand things we could say about the Rosary, I want to underline this primary link between the Rosary and the virtue of faith, and between the Rosary and the defeat of heretics. The Rosary has always been considered an extremely powerful weapon of the Faith. We know that the virtue of faith is the root of all virtues. Virtues are not true unless they derive from a living faith. Therefore, it makes no sense to cultivate other virtues if faith is neglected.
This devotion is particularly significant for those whose lives are marked by a continuous, legal and doctrinal struggle in favor of orthodoxy and who consider the victory of orthodoxy and counterrevolution in the world the ideal of our life. This is because it establishes the link between our lives and devotion to Our Lady, who clearly appears here as the one who crushed all heresies, as the liturgy says. To a large extent, she crushed them through the Rosary.
WHAT THE FAITHFUL OF THE ROSARY SAY
-The rosary is important because Christian prayer begins: meditate on the various events in the history of salvation and ask God how to apply them in your life.
It is important because the Madonna herself came from heaven and asked us to unite with her Son through this prayer every day.
It is important because God is eternal, does not change and initially comes to us through this woman, and continues to do so.
We become spiritually brothers of Christ, and she becomes our mother.
The basis for a Christian life and for salvation is humility, and this is where we begin, asking for her intercession and humbly asking her to intercede for us, the last of her children.
-The Rosary is our most powerful connection with our Blessed Mother. From the early days, people would use beads to track prayer. "Bead" comes from the old English "pray". But, as is commonly believed, the Rosary was given to St. Dominic by the Mother, and he was told to pray it in a certain way, and this is how we still pray the Rosary. It is important because it is powerful.
Pope Pius IX said this: "Give me an army that recites the Rosary and I will conquer the world". St. Dominic gives us this prophecy while receiving the Rosary: “One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, the Madonna will save the world. “Padre Pio says that the Rosary is the weapon of our times.
There are many other quotes that show the power of the Rosary, one could get lost in all of them. Its importance is that it is our second largest method of prayer, alongside Mass.
-The formulations of the rosary are not created by man rather divinely ordered and manifested. The same words are used for prayers and religious proclamations to receive answers to numerous supplications and needs.
Christians should invoke the words of the rosary in mysteries since they are also biblical quotes that explain the countless lives and works of Our Lord Jesus Christ while they were on earth and the divine expectations of Christians and Christianity.
The Rosary is like a meditative journey in a spiritual awakening, awareness and acceptance of who we are as Christians and Catholics without losing sight of religious obligations and doctrines.