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He who fights even the smallest distractions faithfully when he says even the very smallest prayer he will also be faithful in great things. We can be absolutely certain of this because the Holy Spirit has told us so.
asked the Holy Spirit to help you pray well,
I advise you to divide up your Rosary into three parts and to say each group of mysteries (five decades) at a different time of day. This is much better than saying the whole fifteen decades all at once.
If you cannot find the time to say a third part of the Rosary all at one time, say it gradually, a decade here and there. I am sure you can manage this; so that, in spite of your work and all the calls upon your time, you will have said the whole Rosary before going to bed.
“We ought always to pray and not to faint.”40
“As thou hast believed, so be it done to thee.”
Do this to imitate Our Lord more perfectly in His agony in the garden: “Being in an agony, He prayed the longer,”
Only he will receive, will find and will enter who perseveres in asking, seeking and knocking.
We must keep on asking until the very moment of death,
quite often the more precious the grace, the longer He takes to grant it.
Most of all you should ask for Divine Wisdom which is an infinite Treasure: “(Wisdom) is an infinite treasure”55 and there can be no possible doubt that you will receive it sooner or later—as long as you do not stop asking for it and do not lose courage in the middle of your journey.
take care that your crown is not stolen by somebody who has been more faithful than you in saying the Holy Rosary.
These crowns are not for timid souls who are afraid of the world’s taunts and threats, neither are they for the lazy and indolent who only say their Rosary carelessly, or hastily, just for the sake of getting it over with. The same applies to people who say it intermittently, as the spirit moves them.
“When thou comest to the service of God . . . prepare thy soul for temptation.”
“Be thou faithful until death: and I will give thee the crown of life.”63
they must be entirely free from affection for venial sin, because if affection for sin is left the guilt is left too, and
since the guilt is there, the punishment cannot be lifted;
to recognize Thee as the first cause and the last end of all things.
At the 1st Decade “. . .” Jesus incarnate; At the 2nd Decade “. . .” Jesus sanctifying; At the 3rd Decade “. . .” Jesus born in poverty; At the 4th Decade “. . .” Jesus sacrificed; At the 5th Decade “. . .” Jesus, Saint among Saints; At the 6th Decade “. . .” Jesus in His agony; At the 7th Decade “. . .” Jesus scourged; At the 8th Decade “. . .” Jesus crowned with thorns; At the 9th Decade “. . .” Jesus carrying
His Cross; At the 10th Decade “. . .” Jesus crucified; At the 11th Decade “. . .” Jesus risen from the dead; At the 12th Decade “. . .” Jesus ascending to Heaven; At the 13th. Decade “. . .” Jesus filling Thee with the Holy Spirit; At the 14th Decade “. . .” Jesus raising Thee up; At the 15th Decade “. . .” Jesus crowning Thee.” At the end of the first five mysteries, we say: “Grace of the Joyful Mysteries come down into our souls and make them really holy”; At the end of the second: “Grace of the Sorrowful Mysteries, come down into our souls and make them truly patient”; And at the end of the
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“The Holy Angels in Heaven salute the most Blessed Virgin with the Hail Mary—not audibly, but with their angelic intelligences. For they are fully aware that through it reparation was made for the fallen Angels’ sin, God was made man and the world was renewed” (Blessed Alan).
For the Angelic Salutation is the source of all good for God’s children.
Pope Paul VI warned us of this when he said, “The smoke of Satan has entered the Church.”
Have any of the Free World’s great powers in this century been able to stem the advance of Communism—the direst foe of God in all history?
Austria, Brazil, Chile and Portugal all saved themselves from the peril of Communism—by the recitation of the Rosary. (Rea...
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For all the vast paraphernalia of power politics are but a shadow compared with the infinite power of the Rosary before God, provided it is fervently used and propagated.
