First Saturday of July -- today!

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Hopefully, many – if not all on CAF – pray Our Mother Mary’s Rosary, daily, but certainly today on this First Saturday of July, I hope you will make time to pray the Rosary and keep our Mother company for 15 minutes meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.

Sister Lucia, the oldest of the three shepherd children of Fatima, was given the message of the Five First Saturdays:

Lucia was a postulant in the Convent of St. Dorothy in Pontevedra, Spain when she had the apparition of our Blessed Mother. She was standing over a cloud of light with the Child Jesus at her side. The Blessed Virgin put one hand on Lucia’s shoulder, while her other hand sustained her Immaculate Heart that was surrounded with thorns. The Child Jesus said: “Have compassion on the Heart of your Blessed Mother. It is surrounded with thorns that ungrateful men pierce each moment, and there is no one that is willing to offer an act of reparation to take the thorns away.”

Our Lady immediately said to Lucia: “Look, my daughter. My Heart is surrounded with thorns that ungrateful men pierce unceasingly with their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console me and announce that for all those, who for five consecutive first Saturdays, confess, receive Holy Communion, pray the Holy Rosary and keep me company me for 15 minutes by meditating on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary with the intention to do reparation, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with the graces needed for salvation.”

Some of us may not be able to receive the sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion today, but it seems to me all of us can, with some effort find time and a way to pray the Rosary and keep our Mother company as we mediate on the mysteries of her Life with Jesus, in a spirit of reparation. As we look around at the world today, do we not see how much reparation is needed?

During her prayer time, our Lord revealed to Lucia the reason for the Five Saturdays of Reparation:

“My daughter, the reason is simple; it concerns the 5 forms of offenses and blasphemies against the Immaculate Heart of Mary”:

1-Against her Immaculate Conception.
2- Against her virginity
3- Against her Divine Maternity, refusing at the same time to receive Mary as Mother of all humanity.
4- Against those that publicly instill and induce indifference, hate and scorn towards our Immaculate Mother in the hearts of children.
5- Against those that insult or directly offend her sacred images.

“This is why, my daughter, that before the offended and insulted Immaculate Heart, my mercy was moved to request this small reparation in recognition to Her, in order to grant forgiveness to souls who go through this disgrace of offending My Mother. But you, at least, try unceasingly, with your prayers and sacrifices, to move my mercy for these souls.”

 

[anon67074017]

Is this devotion a good way to defeat socialism?

 

[Catholic4ever98]

Thank you for posting this!

 

[MariaChristi]

Is this devotion a good way to defeat socialism?

Dear Joseph,

This devotion will bring many blessings to you and to others, because it can enable us all by God’s Grace to defeat “sin” in our lives.-- which is the root cause of all our trouble in the world today. The Rosary is so important:

The Weapon of the Rosary.

“Hail Mary Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee! No creature has ever said anything that was more pleasing.” Our Lady to Saint Mechtilde.

“Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.” Saint Louis de Montfort.

“Recite your rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence and with perseverance.” Saint Louis de Montfort.

“One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world.” Saint Dominic.

“The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.” Saint Francis de Sales.

“Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.” Blessed Pius IX.

“The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin.” Pope Pius XI

“The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life.” Pope Leo XIII.

“When people love and recite the Rosary they find it makes them better.” Saint Antony Mary Claret.

“Hold on tightly to the Rosary. Be very grateful to the Madonna because it was she who gave us Jesus.” Padre Pio.

“When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.” Saint Louis de Montfort.

“How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.” Pope John Paul II.

“The Rosary is the compendium of the entire Gospel.” Pope Pius XII.

“Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favoured by so many miracles than the Most Holy Rosary.” Pope Pius IX.

“Say the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world.” Our Lady of Fatima.

“There is no surer means of calling down God’s blessings upon the family than the daily recitation of the rosary.” Pope Pius XII

“No one can live continually in sin and continue to say the Rosary: either they’ll give up sin or they’ll give up t.he Rosary.” Bishop Hugh Doyle.

“The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.” Pope John XXII.

“The Rosary is a priceless treasure inspired by God.” St Louis de Montfort.

“The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you’ll be amazed at the results.” Saint Josemaria Escriva.

“The rosary is my weapon.” Padre Pio.

 

[MariaChristi]

Thank you for posting this!

Dear Catholic4ever,

Ah how good it is for all of us to “Behold our Mother” and to pray her Rosary! Thanks for your love of Mary and Jesus, and your reply.

 

[Catholic4ever98]

Dear Catholic4ever,

Ah how good it is for all of us to “Behold our Mother” and to pray her Rosary! Thanks for your love of Mary and Jesus, and your reply.

I like those quotes that you posted- I think I might print those off- I hope to start saying the Rosary more often and these will be nice to read alongside it.

May God bless you.

 

[MariaChristi]

I like those quotes that you posted- I think I might print those off- I hope to start saying the Rosary more often and these will be nice to read alongside it.

May God bless you.

Dear Catholic4ever,

I found that list of quotes in my search to be sure that St. Padre Pio had referred to the Rosary as a “weapon”, and was happy to see many other saints’ words praising the beauty and power of praying the Rosary! I also found this this:

…At Fatima our Lady gave a message… contained in these precise words heard by the three children during the apparitions from May to October 1917: “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them our Lord wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. Pray a lot and make sacrifices for sinners. Take note that many souls go to hell because there is no one who prays or makes sacrifices for them. Do you wish to offer yourselves to God, ready to accept all the sufferings He wishes to send you in reparation for the sins with which He is offended and to obtain the conversion of sinners? Say the Rosary every day. The most holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary listen to your petitions.”

This message of Fatima called for a reply on behalf of the whole church; a reply of prayer and sacrifice, animated also with a spirit of reparation for sins.

I think I can assert that in the half century which followed, no one in the Church has given a more complete reply than Padre Pio. The maternal anxiety of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the souls going to hell had profoundly and completely invaded the heart of Padre Pio, who made of his whole life a great sacrifice to our Lord to snatch souls away from eternal damnation…For more see HERE