Lux Mundi: The Power of Rosary

Saturday, August 18, 2012

The Power of Rosary

The Rosary has long been a symbol of devotion Our Lady. It is one of the more perfect forms of prayer. It is easy to start saying the rosary and hard to stop once you say it for a while. But we don’t say the rosary just for the Hell of it. It has a purpose, to praise God. Because when we show respect and venerate Our Lady, God will smile upon that. He loves how the Mother of His Only Son is so respected and venerated.

I love saying the Rosary. For me it is not only a devotional prayer, but also a mental prayer. Praying the rosary is supposed to help you mediate on the life of Christ. As you go through each decade, saying the Hail Mary helps you to concentrate on what you are supposed to be thinking of. It is not just supposed to be repetitions of prayers; rather the repetitions help you to focus on your mediation. And this how the rosary is supposed to be said. Our Lords intention was it to help us understand his Son’s life.

Mary has stressed the importance of the Rosary in many of her appearances. She tells us of the power that the rosary has. It is one of the Devil’s worst nightmares. It is the perfect weapon against temptation. It also is a good way to ask God for prayers. Mary is always willing to petition God for our request. I believe the Our Lady does beg the Lord for us in all our petitions. But also I believe when a pray is not answered it’s a good thing! Even if the prayer is something urgent and your pray really hard, its not part of God’s while. Whenever my prayers aren’t answered the way I want them to be, I gain confidence that what is happening, even if it may be bad, it part of how God wants it to be.

AMDG

Peter Martin

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First of all we are all young people and proudly Catholic. We are a group of close friends in college and we are lively and practicing young men and women who have devoted our lives to the service of Christ and His Church in whatever way the Lord sees fit! That is partially the most exciting part of this group. We all went to high school together, and we met in our senior year. A string of circumstances brought us together to pray and discuss our faith. It was a truly incredible time! For now there are only a few of us working on this blog but we hope some others will join us as time goes on.

This Blog was my idea. I have been looking for a way to get involved in spreading the Gospel in a real and effective way for two years. I cannot stand being on the side lines. One day some inspiration came to me: A blog by Catholic youth for everyone. Since I can remember there has been a lack of an intense youthful presence in the Church. That is most certainly changing, and I want to be part of it! In my many experiences with catholic blogs, I have had to go to several places to read all the information and discussion I wanted, so my thought was to create a one stop blog, simple and easy, which has several “voices” with one directed sound. I don’t know if that makes sense. I want to have one direction with several different authors and perspectives but all young. I also don’t want the writing to be overly elevated nor obsessively analytical, which can sometimes scare people away. But we also can’t dumb down the faith; to do that would be an insult to the one true faith. That, for the most part was the idea! There are things similar, but none like what I was really hoping to do. One night I was blessed with this inspiration. But I have been frightened to take it on, that is one of my faults, misguided fear. The idea wouldn’t go away and I figured I needed to try but I couldn’t do it alone. There was only one group of people who could help me do this and so I enlisted the help of my friends; and here we are.

A little bit on our beliefs: We are most definitely and unapologetically Catholic. So, although this may be a cliche, if you need more information, google the phrase Nicene-Constantinople Creed. That should sufficiently point out our doctrinal backgrounds. One thing we do wish to express explicitly is our total reliance on the authentic authority of God, both in Heaven and on Earth. We commonly encounter that which is on Earth, although it is eternally united to that of the Lord! What we are saying is we submit ourselves to the judgment and guidance of the Holy Father and the Magisterium. That is of the utmost importance. Many Catholics today neglect authentic Revelation (i.e. Tradition) and authentic authority! But that is for another time!

We love Christ and His Church. We are not perfect, in fact we are sinners, and I particularly am quite the sinner! However we are striving for holiness and to live a saintly life so that we might in the next life be rewarded with entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

We hope you find your way to an informed faith through this blog. We don’t expect to reach millions but maybe a few will find us and be inspired, maybe someone will find us and through the grace of God find his way to authentic Catholicism. If but one finds this to have made a positive impact in his life, it shall all be worth it! But we will be careful; we don’t wish to have a negative effect on anyone!!!