Rosarium Virginis Mariae By Jo Briscoe
(Rosary of the Virgin Mary)
Within our worship in our Cathedral, we have a relatively new Group who pray the Rosary every Thursday morning at 11 o-clock in Our Lady’s Chapel. This is so special within our prayers that perhaps more of our Congregation might like to participate and receive all its known blessings.
St. Pius V noted in 1569 that “the Rosary or Psalter of the Blessed Virgin” is a “method of prayer” through which we “venerate Mary with the Angelic salutation repeated 150 times according to the number of David’s psalms, and before every set of ten Hail Mary’s we say the prayer of Our Lord with
Rosarium Virginis Mariae is an Apostolic
meditations that illustrate the entire life of the
Letter by Pope John Paul II, issued in 2002.
same Lord Jesus Christ”.
In this letter he quotes Saint Louis de Montfort (who was a poor, wandering
Pope Paul VI, in viewing the Holy Rosary as
preacher whom Pope Clement XI eventually
compendium of the Gospel message, states “The
appointed a missionary apostolic, from when
Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at
he spent the rest of his life preaching popular
heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its
missions in Poitiers and Brittany. He also
elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message
laid the foundation for a teaching order that
in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a
came to be called Brothers of St. Gabriel. He
compendium.”
left a considerable body of writing, all of it penned with an eye to pastoral ministry).
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