Saturday, October 1, 2016

TODAY IS THE BEGINNING OF OCTOBER - THE M0NTH DEDICATED TO THE HOLY ROSARY

The month of October) is dedicated to the Holy Rosary. 

Until about the 15th century hundreds of mysteries were part of the Rosary devotion then the 15 mysteries that we know today were definitively fixed as “the Mysteries of the Rosary.” Pope John Paul II, in his encyclical, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, in 2002 added the five Luminous Mysteries.
Through the meditations of the complete Rosary one recalls and has impressed on his mind, the Popes tell us, “the chief mysteries of the Christian religion,” “the mysteries of our Redemption,” “the great mysteries of Jesus and His Mother united in joys, sorrows, and triumphs.” The twenty mysteries are divided into four equal groups, known as “The Joyful,” “The Sorrowful,” “The Glorious,” and “The Luminous Mysteries.” 
“Love to recite the Rosary, meditating on its Mysteries.  Little Therese said that each Hail Mary goes up toward Heaven like Incense whose smoking spirals are all alike although it is always new Incense which burns. LOVE always says the same things, yet never repeats itself.”

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