OUR LADY OF ROSARY

Ordinary Time: Week 26 Readings I - Acts 1: 12-14 II - Lk. 1: 26-8 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. The Gospel passage of the day is on the ‘Angelus’. Every day we pray the angelus three times contemplating the incarnation of the Son of God, we recite and remember at least fifty three times the greetings of the angel Gabriel to Mother Mary while praying the Rosary. Rosary is the compendium of the Gospel. While praying the rosary we contemplate Jesus himself honoring his blessed mother Mary. 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. As we are in the month of Rosary, let us devoutly pray every bead entrusting ourselves and all our intentions into the loving hand of our dear mother Mary who accompanies us in our life journey as she did the apostles in the first reading. May our Lady of Rosary help us, guide and support us in our every walk of life.