Daily Retreat 10/07/06
2006 Oct 7 Sat: Our Lady of the Rosary M
Act 1:12-14/ Lk 1:46-47,48-49,50-51,52-53,54-55/Lk 1:26-38
From today’s readings: “All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus.... The Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name.... Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you!”
The Rosary
God, our Heavenly Father, gave us His Son, Jesus, to save us from sin.
Jesus, as He was dying on the Cross, gave us His Mother, Mary, to be our mother, too, in Christ’s family.
Mary, to keep us close to her Son, gave us the Rosary, a beautiful yet simple aid to prayer
focused on the joyful, luminous, sorrowful, and glorious mysteries of salvation.
Such an elementary explanation of the Rosary can be an ideal introduction to this devotion for children and adults who have never been taught about this way of praying. While it’s essential that we pray to God in our own words too, sometimes it’s difficult to express everything in our hearts, and so then we simply turn to prayers learned by heart: the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Glory Be, lovingly tied together in the Holy Rosary.
Act 1:12-14/ Lk 1:46-47,48-49,50-51,52-53,54-55/Lk 1:26-38
From today’s readings: “All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus.... The Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name.... Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you!”
The Rosary
God, our Heavenly Father, gave us His Son, Jesus, to save us from sin.
Jesus, as He was dying on the Cross, gave us His Mother, Mary, to be our mother, too, in Christ’s family.
Mary, to keep us close to her Son, gave us the Rosary, a beautiful yet simple aid to prayer
focused on the joyful, luminous, sorrowful, and glorious mysteries of salvation.
Such an elementary explanation of the Rosary can be an ideal introduction to this devotion for children and adults who have never been taught about this way of praying. While it’s essential that we pray to God in our own words too, sometimes it’s difficult to express everything in our hearts, and so then we simply turn to prayers learned by heart: the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Glory Be, lovingly tied together in the Holy Rosary.
posted by FrPitstick | 10/01/2006
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