I have heard people denigrate the Most Holy Rosary by stating that it is a bland repetition of prayers; implying by such statements that the Rosary is a waste of time. This objection to the Rosary is not new, and reveals that the objector does not understand the Rosary. Rev. Raymond P. Lawrence addressed such an objection in 1929 in…
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St. Bernadette and Childlike Trust
“In the evening when you go to sleep, hold your beads, doze off reciting them, do like those babies who go to sleep mumbling, ‘Mamma! Mamma!'” St. Bernadette Soubirous (b. 1844- d. 1879) The advice, in the above quote, from St. Bernadette might sound silly to sophisticated ears, but so be it. The little saint of Lourdes was simply stating a…
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Fr. Hugh Thwaites and the Rosary
The English priest, Fr. Hugh Thwaites, died in 2012 at the age of ninety-five. The headline of his obituary summarizes what Fr. Thwaites had come to believe after seeing the Church in decline following the Second Vatican Council, it reads: “Priest who said the future of the Church rested on the family rosary dies aged 95” I am going to…
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Catechesis on the Holy Rosary by Pope Leo XIII
The following is an extended excerpt from Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical on the Holy Rosary, Octobri Mense: “4. But since the salvation of our race was accomplished by the mystery of the Cross, and since the Church, dispenser of that salvation after the triumph of Christ, was founded upon earth and instituted, Providence established a new order for a new people.…
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The Fatima Messages Explained
On this First Saturday of the month it is worth watching a video information session by the Franciscan Mariologist, Fr. Peter Fehlner, on the meaning of the messages of Our Lady of Fatima. The link is here. May you have a beautiful day! •SCF More information on Fr. Fehlner: link
