Rays of light emit from her hands piercing your body, healing you and filling you with graces. This is your inheritance which was poured out from the heart of Jesus on the Cross, when the centurion pierced His Heart with the spear, into the only pure vessel ready to receive such graces at that time, Your Mother.
Now as you pray the Rosary , or even just recite one Hail Mary, you receive your portion of these graces. If you do not recognize the Rosary, can you expect to be recognized by My Son?
How much can you expect? Why do you hide My Rosary? Why has sophisticated man cast aside these tokens of My love? Those who remain true to My Rosary will not be touched by the fires. Gather these treasures, My children, for the time will come that you will not find them on the counters of your stores.
The fifteen stated promises range from protection from misfortune to meriting a high degree of glory in heaven. But we can also choose to divide it up, saying just a decade or two at a time at different points throughout the day: on the way to work, in between errands, in between meetings, while folding laundry or doing dishes. Many holy men and women and even popes have prayed the rosary this way and have found it manageable and fruitful for their busy lives.
Second, we can pray it anywhere! The rosary is like a portable chapel we can keep in our pocket and pull out anytime, anyplace. Whether we have a sudden, urgent situation to present to God in prayer or we just want to fill some of our day with thoughts of God, all we need to do is pull out our beads and turn to the Lord in this prayer. Indeed, the rosary is always accessible. We might pray it in a church, in our room, in our office.
Or we might pray it in the car, on the exercise machine, in the grocery store line, or while cutting the grass or going for a walk. Bringing our hearts into the rhythm of the rosary is something we can do intermittently throughout the day. Third, we can pray the rosary in different ways , customizing it to fit the needs of the moment. At still other times, we might focus on the holy name of Jesus at the center of each Hail Mary, speaking his name tenderly with love as the pulse of our rosary.
Do you have two and-a-half minutes in your day that you can give to God? If I need a quick pause in my busy life—just a two-and-a-half-minute break—I can pull out my beads and pray a decade in order to regroup with the Lord and be nourished spiritually. I can do that easily, pausing for a moment in between emails, in the car, in my office, in between meetings, in between errands.
In just two and-a-half minutes, I can offer a special gift to God—one decade of the rosary—for that particular intention. I might not always be able to completely unplug mentally from the concerns of the day. I might be exhausted, too tired to pray well. I might be distracted and unable to reach the heights of contemplation. But still, the words themselves are biblical and holy. Offering God a decade or two in the midst of my daily life gives him something beautiful, even if I give it without my full, relaxed, undivided attention.
But the rosary can take us deeper—a lot deeper. It draws out the deepest desires in our souls, desires for God and God alone. The rhythm of the repetitious prayers can have a profound spiritual effect. In the same way, the repeated prayers in the rosary help us get more in touch with the deepest desires in our souls for God. We as human persons are made with infinite desires that only God can fulfill. As St. How might this happen in the rosary? We can gather all our desires into that one word, his beautiful, holy name.
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