The Rosary Hour
The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II
What Is the Rosary?
The Rosary, a prayer so simple and yet so rich
I wish to draw your attention to the Rosary. In the Church, in fact, October is the month dedicated to the Rosary.
The Rosary is my favorite prayer.It is a marvelous prayer!
Marvelous in its simplicity
and in its profundity.
In this prayer we repeat over and over again the words that were spoken to the Virgin Mary by the angel and by her kinswoman Elizabeth. The entire Church shares in these words. One might say that the Rosary is, in a certain sense, a comment-prayer on the last chapter of the Constitution Lumen Gentium of the Second Vatican Council, a chapter that treats of the miraculous presence of the Mother of God in the mystery of Christ and the Church. In fact, against the background of the words "Hail Mary," the principal episodes of the life of Jesus Christ pass before the eyes of the soul. Together they compose Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries, and put us in living communion with Jesus through -- we might say -- the He ... read full excerpt from The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II #3: The Rosary Hour: The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II ebook
