How does the Rosary affect your life?

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I know that Our Lady of Fatima asked us to pray the Rosary daily, and that --before that --Pope Leo XII wrote 11 Encyclicals on the Rosary.

What are your beliefs/experiences/fruits about the Rosary?
 
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It sounds like the Rosary helps you to remember, to hope, and to see the truth. That is what Our Lady does for me too through the Rosary. It’s no wonder that Our Lady of Fatima called herself “Our Lady of the Rosary”. She wants to help us so much through this prayer. I find that i need it like I need food. If I don’t pray the Rosary, I get empty and confused and without purpose, losing my perspective and joy. When I pray the Rosary I become more aware of the presence of Mary and Jesus. It is like a hug from them.
 
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Well i cant say it better then the first two!
However, The Rosary makes me feel loved; it gives me daily confidence on the battlefield. It enlightens and makes quite vivid the enormous, unending love Christ and Mary have for me. Im working on contemplative rosary by St Teresa and JPII. That helps me stY focused.
Life is good
I am blessed
 
I like how you say that the Rosary “makes quite vivid the enormous, unending love Christ and Mary have” for you.

That is so true. Jesus gave Mary to every single human person, uniquely, from the Cross (redemptoris mater, 23, 45)
 
15 Rosary Promises
  1. To all those who shall pray my Rosary devoutly, I promise my special protection and great graces.
  2. Those who shall persevere in the recitation of my Rosary will receive some special grace.
  3. The Rosary will be a very powerful armor against hell; it will destroy vice, deliver from sin and dispel heresy.
  4. The Rosary will make virtue and good works flourish, and will obtain for souls the most abundant divine mercies. It will draw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
  5. Those who trust themselves to me through the Rosary will not perish.
  6. Whoever recites my Rosary devoutly reflecting on the mysteries, shall never be overwhelmed by misfortune. He will not experience the anger of God nor will he perish by an unprovided death. The sinner will be converted; the just will persevere in grace and merit eternal life.
  7. Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
  8. Those who are faithful to recite my Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces and will share in the merits of the blessed.
  9. I will deliver promptly from purgatory souls devoted to my Rosary.
  10. True children of my Rosary will enjoy great glory in heaven.
  11. What you shall ask through my Rosary you shall obtain
  12. To those who propagate my Rosary I promise aid in all their necessities.
  13. I have obtained from my Son that all the members of the Rosary Confraternity shall have as their intercessors, in life and in death, the entire celestial court.
  14. Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are my beloved children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.
  15. Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of predestination.
    Pray the rosary daily with help from www.how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com
 
Thanks, hazcompat. I always especially love the parts about how those who pray the Rosary will not experience the anger of God, will never be overwhelmed by misfortunes, and will receive the most abundant divine mercies.

But all of the promises are wonderful, and make sense in light of all the Church teaches.
 
Thank you. I also like the parts about receiving whatever we ask through the Rosary (which is obviously referring to spiritual graces, not selfish stuff), and having Our Wonderful Lady’s special protection.
 
I have a very strong feeling of maternal care from Mary, and a strong feeling that when I go to daily Mass, frequent Confession, etc. it is Mary leading me there. I find myself telling Jesus when I enter a church: see, here I am: she brought me here!
I’ve tried for years to keep the First Friday and First Saturdays. I’ve succeeded a lot more with the First Fridays (Mass in reparation for sins against the Sacred Heart) and this Fatima anniversary year I’ve now succeeded in 6 First Saturdays in a row (Mass, Confession, Mediation, Rosary, etc). I think of it as a mini-retreat day. I really have a firm desire, now, to keep going with it.
 
That’s beautiful. Yes, she brings us there because we are little children, and she is our Mother!
 
“The Council intended to tell us this: Mary is so interwoven in the great mystery of the Church that she and the Church are inseparable, just as she and Christ are inseparable. Mary mirrors the Church, anticipates the Church in her person, and in all the turbulence that affects the suffering, struggling Church she always remains the Star of salvation. In her lies the true center in which we trust, even if its peripheries very often weigh on our soul… In Mary, the Immaculate, we find the essence of the Church without distortion. We ourselves must learn from her to become “ecclesial souls,” as the Fathers said, so that we too may be able, in accordance with St Paul’s words, to present ourselves “blameless” in the sight of the Lord, as he wanted us from the very beginning (cf. Col 1: 21; Eph 1: 4).”

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Pope Benedict XVI
 
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