Readings
I - Gal. 3: 7-14
II - Lk. 11: 15-26
OUR LADY OF ROSARY
Today the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Rosary. The feast was instituted by Pope Pius V in 1953 as a thanksgiving for the victory of the Christians over the Turks in the battle of Lepanto. The Rosary is precisely a contemplative prayer. Pope Paul the VI had described it saying, “As a Gospel prayer, centered on the mystery of the redemptive incarnation, The Rosary is a prayer with a clearly Christological orientation”. Mother Mary, during her apparitions at Lourdes to Bernadette and in Fatima to Lucia, Jacinta and Francesco has exhorted to pray the Rosary. Pope John Paul II in his apostolic letter on the Rosary, ‘Rosarium Virginis Mariae’ says that Mother Mary is active on the soul that ponders or contemplates Jesus through the eyes of Mary in praying the Rosary. In praying the Rosary we are united to Christ her Divine Son.
In today’s Gospel passage Jesus says, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters”. If we wish to be united with God and with one another, all we have to do is to pray the Rosary. Rosary is a popular family devotion. We are in the month of October, a month dedicated to the Rosary. Set apart and spend some time as family every day, to pray the Rosary because “a family that prays together, stays together”. May the Blessed Virgin Mary bless us and our families as we recite the Holy Rosary with love and devotion.
