Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only €10,99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Excellence of the Rosary
    The Excellence of the Rosary
    The Excellence of the Rosary
    Ebook84 pages1 hour

    The Excellence of the Rosary

    By M. J. Frings

    5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A fascinating look at the history and significance of the Rosary, the popular Catholic devotion practised around the world for centuries.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAUK Classics
    Release dateJun 22, 2012
    ISBN9781782340461
    The Excellence of the Rosary

    Related to The Excellence of the Rosary

    Related ebooks

    General Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Scent Of Roses

      Apr 25, 2019

      The Scent Of Roses
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Protestant Look At Mary, Mother Of Fesus

      Apr 22, 2019

      She is known by dozens of names: The Blessed Virgin, Saint Mary, Madonna, Queen of Heaven, Mother of Mercy, Our Lady, Mother of Perpetual Help, Queen of Peace, Mother of God, plus numerous devotional titles as well. In the Bible she is simply known a

      4 min read

    • Article

      Covid Mary

      Sep 10, 2020

      Covid Mary
      3 min read

    • Article

      Illinois Bishop Decrees No Communion, Funeral Rites For Same-Sex Spouses

      Jun 23, 2017

      Bishop Thomas Paprocki is telling priests in his diocese not to offer sacraments to people in same-sex marriages. A Catholic LGBT group calls the decree "mean-spirited and unchristian in the extreme."

      3 min read

    • Article

      Mary DID YOU KNOW?

      Nov 18, 2019

      Mary DID YOU KNOW?
      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Jun 24, 2019

      I am truly saddened to read that your computer systems were hacked. I wanted to say thank you for your magazine. The best part, the peace in my day (every day) is when I sit down at night to read my Bible and the articles that you publish. It is my s

      9 min read

    • Article

      Prayer Is Poetry

      Jan 29, 2020

      Prayer is a narrative into which one must descend; if it is a poem, it is one where the words themselves become indistinguishable from the reader. The post Prayer Is Poetry appeared first on The Millions.

      14 min read

    • Article

      Rooted In God’s Love

      Feb 10, 2023

      Rooted In God’s Love
      5 min read

    • Article

      AGENTS OF Change

      Apr 13, 2020

      What on earth is a Reformational church? The Reformational church is God’s agent of constant change from glory to glory, conforming to the image of His Son. That’s why we are straightening and aligning the church to what Jesus intended in the first p

      4 min read

    • Article

      Radiance

      Dec 30, 2022

      Radiance
      7 min read

    • Article

      Can We Feel Safe When We Worship?

      Apr 29, 2019

      In the wake of this weekend’s shooting at a synagogue not far from her home, today’s contributor reflects on how understanding the nature and power of God as Love can bring peace and calm as we attend our places of worship.

      3 min read

    • Article

      The King’s Christmas Broadcast 2022

      Jan 3, 2023

      I am standing here in this exquisite Chapel of St George at Windsor Castle, so close to where my beloved mother, the late Queen, is laid to rest with my dear father. I am reminded of the deeply touching letters, cards and messages which so many of yo

      2 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Aug 19, 2019

      Thank you for your wonderfully illustrated Biblical series of articles that you regularly publish. I find that I can’t concentrate like I used to, and love the short, precise, and factual articles. I have learnt so much from reading them. I was fasci

      7 min read

    • Article

      I Err, Therefore I Am

      Apr 5, 2023

      KINDLY offering advice, a friend once expressed to me his view that the role of a priest or any minister in Holy Orders is to ensure the sacraments are celebrated with due solemnity, that sound doctrine is maintained and the scriptures expounded and

      4 min read

    • Article

      Forgive One Another

      Dec 18, 2024

      Forgive One Another
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Way Of Flowers

      Nov 22, 2022

      The Way Of Flowers
      4 min read

    • Article

      Proclaiming The GOOD NEWS Laying Everything Down For The Sake Of The Gospel

      Apr 22, 2019

      In Romans 1, we read the story of Paul the apostle giving a message to the church in Rome. After the resurrection, Paul tells the church that their faith is being proclaimed to the whole world; that Jesus, their Messiah, was raised from the dead and

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Excellence of the Rosary

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Excellence of the Rosary - M. J. Frings

      purchaser.

      I. THE NAME OF THIS DEVOTION

      I was exalted as a rose plant in Jericho. - Eccles. xxiv, 18.

      My dear brethren, when Pope Pius IX, on May 23, 1877, gave audience to a number of pious pilgrims he said to them: Have courage, my dear children! I exhort you to fight against the persecution of the Church and against anarchy, not with the sword, but with the rosary, with prayer and good example. This Pope, who with great wisdom and strong hand has guided for thirty-two years the bark of Peter, which in many violent storms had been rocked to and fro, he who well knew the great dangers of our times, regarded the rosary as a conquering weapon.

      What great confidence his successor, Pope Leo XIII, placed in the veneration and invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by means of the rosary! He exhorted all Christianity to pray the rosary daily during the month of October, in order to obtain assistance in these distressing times. In his brief on this occasion Leo XIII says: It has been a favorite and prevalent custom of Catholics, in times of need and danger, to take refuge in Mary, and to seek consolation from her motherly concern.

      Thus the firm reliance and confidence rightly placed by the Catholic Church in the mother of God is stanchly avowed.

      As a matter of fact, Mary, the immaculate Virgin, free from original sin, the chosen mother of God, is endowed with such power by her Son, as no other creature, man or angel, has ever received or can receive.

      The efficacy of this great devotion to the great Queen of Heaven had been demonstrated especially when false teachings, depravity, or other great enemies threatened disaster to Christians.

      History, early and recent, relates how public and private devotion to the mother of God was held in times of calamity and distress, and how these prayers were heard, and help was granted. Thus originated the exalted titles which Catholics give to the Blessed Virgin, such as Help of Christians, Refuge of Sinners, etc.

      To these titles was added another, when under date of December 10, 1883, Leo XIII directed that the title Queen of the Rosary be added to the Litany of the Blessed Virgin. In his brief the Holy Father expresses the desire that all the faithful practise daily the devotion of the rosary. If, therefore, the rosary is considered of such great power and efficacy by the head of the Church, the representative of Christ, it is befitting that we heed his words and pray often and devoutly by means of the rosary.

      If this prayer were better understood it would be prayed with more devotion, and greater benefit would come from it. In order, then, to spread a better knowledge, and to urge the devout recital of the rosary, let us contemplate this devotion in a course of instructive addresses. The name rosary may be the subject of to-day's discourse.

      The devotion of the rosary consists in the recital of a fixed number of Our Fathers and Hail Marys, combined with the meditation on certain mysteries from the lives of Jesus and Mary. The name rosary is significant. It is a symbol of Mary, also of the devotion to her. We will endeavor to make this clear.

      The realm of nature is the symbol of the realm of grace, as the realm of grace is a symbol of the realm of glory. It was God's intention to let His earthly creation be a reflection of the divine perfections, of the supernatural, of divinity, so that man might perceive the supernatural through created things, and thus more readily understand it. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made (Rom. i, 20).

      Our first parents obtained a clear conception of the supernatural through the natural things of this life. Nature was to them an open book, in which they could read the divine perfections. Through sin the understanding of man was dimmed and he failed in the interpretation of nature. Instead of being led to God through it, he allowed himself to become estranged, and from a master became the slave of nature.

      Then Christ came and redeemed the world from the slavery of sin and again granted to man the clear conception of the true God, as also the right understanding of nature. This is verified in the saints and we have a beautiful example in St. Francis of Assisi. About his interpretation and meditation of nature St. Bonaventure says: He considered all things created as original from God, and saw in each creature the Creator and Preserver.

      Everything in nature was to him a symbol of spiritual life. He took delight especially in flowers, because they reminded him of the flower from the root of Jesse, which refreshens and gladdens the whole world.

      See, my dear brethren, this is the correct, the Christian way of contemplating nature. The spiritual world is reflected in the visible.

      And Jesus being the King and Mary the Queen in the realm of grace and glory, nature contains symbols that refer to Jesus and Mary. All things of this creation: from the flowers of the valley to the brilliant stars that illumine the night, all things in nature are symbols of the glorious mother of God. Among many such symbols used in Holy Scripture we find Mary called the mystical rose. The Church therefore regards the rose as a symbol of Mary. Let us see in what the likeness consists.

      If on a summer's day we enter a garden, where various flowers through their form, color and sweet odor delight and refresh us, our eye is chiefly attracted by the rose. We are especially well pleased with it. The rose is the queen of flowers in form, color and fragrant odor, because of its beauty.

      Let us turn now our gaze to the spiritual garden, the Church of Christ. The various flowers there are the faithful, adorned with piety and virtue, and spreading the fragrance of saintliness with which God is pleased. In the Canticle of Canticles the Lamb of God is pictured as feeding among the lilies. A beautiful thought! It tells us how the Lamb of God, our divine Saviour, is fond of the flowers of God, the God-loving souls, as is the lamb of the lilies.

      And in this garden of God, the Holy Church, Mary is the rose, the pride of the garden, the queen of the flowers. The rose is therefore the most beautiful symbol of Mary, of all saints the queen, exalted above all saints in sublimity, beauty, gentleness and sweetness. Therefore, because Mary is

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1