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This ebook is distributed for free with no intention of profit. The translation is that of Mary Barbour, T.O.P., and scriptural citations (footnotes in the original edition) have been incorporated into the main body of the text. Scriptural citations correspond to the Douay-Rheims Version. The text is divided into Decades, mirroring the format found in the Montfort Fathers translation of 1987. THE FRONT COVER of the SORROWFUL AND IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY: This picture, somewhat mysterious in its origin, was discovered at the time of the 1918 armistice in the cellar of the boarding school where Berthe Petit, a humble Franciscan Tertiary, had been educated. After the troops had departed one of the Bernardine nuns in putting things in order had found a piece of cardboard on which was pasted a pornographic picture and she tore it off to consign it to flames. To her astonishment she found that it covered this beautiful representation of the Blessed Virgin! It seems to combine the art of both the Eastern and Western Rites. The facial features resemble those of the well known Pietá. Prayer before the picture has brought signal favors. THE SECRET OF THE ROSARY By St. Louis Mary De Montfort Translator Mary Barbour, T.O.P. Nihil Obstat: Gulielmus F. Hughes, S.T.L. Censor Librorum Inprimatur: Thomas Edmundus Molloy, S.T.D. Archiepiscopus-Episcopus Brooklyniensis Brooklyni, die XVI Julii 1954 The above Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur apply only to the printed edition of Barbour’s translation, and not to this electronic version. "One day through the Rosary and the Scapular I will save the world." - Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Dominic 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents ......................................................................... 3 Preface............................................................................................ 5 A White Rose ................................................................................ 7 A Red Rose.................................................................................... 9 A Mystical Rose Tree................................................................. 10 A Rosebud................................................................................... 12 FIRST DECADE.......................................................................... 14 First Rose ..................................................................................... 14 Second Rose ................................................................................ 14 Third Rose ................................................................................... 17 Fourth Rose................................................................................. 21 Fifth Rose..................................................................................... 24 Sixth Rose .................................................................................... 25 Seventh Rose............................................................................... 26 Eighth Rose ................................................................................. 28 Ninth Rose................................................................................... 31 Tenth Rose................................................................................... 32 SECOND DECADE.................................................................... 35 Eleventh Rose ............................................................................. 35 Twelfth Rose ............................................................................... 37 Thirteenth Rose .......................................................................... 44 Fourteenth Rose.......................................................................... 46 Fifteenth Rose ............................................................................. 48 Sixteenth Rose............................................................................. 50 Seventeenth Rose ....................................................................... 52 Eighteenth Rose.......................................................................... 55 Nineteenth Rose ......................................................................... 56 Twentieth Rose........................................................................... 59 THIRD DECADE........................................................................ 64 Twenty-first Rose ....................................................................... 64 Twenty-second Rose.................................................................. 67 Twenty-third Rose ..................................................................... 68 Twenty-fourth Rose................................................................... 71 Twenty-fifth Rose....................................................................... 73 3 Twenty-sixth Rose...................................................................... 77 Twenty-seventh Rose ................................................................ 79 Twenty-eighth Rose................................................................... 83 Twenty-ninth Rose..................................................................... 85 Thirtieth Rose ............................................................................. 88 FOURTH DECADE.................................................................... 91 Thirty-first Rose.......................................................................... 91 Thirty-second Rose .................................................................... 94 Thirty-third Rose........................................................................ 95 Thirty-fourth Rose...................................................................... 99 Thirty-fifth Rose ....................................................................... 101 Thirty-sixth Rose ...................................................................... 101 Thirty-seventh Rose................................................................. 102 Thirty-eighth Rose ................................................................... 104 Thirty-ninth Rose ..................................................................... 105 Fortieth Rose ............................................................................. 107 FIFTH DECADE....................................................................... 109 Forty-first Rose ......................................................................... 109 Forty-second Rose.................................................................... 111 Forty-third Rose ....................................................................... 113 Forty-fourth Rose ..................................................................... 115 Forty-fifth Rose......................................................................... 119 Forty-sixth Rose........................................................................ 120 Forty-seventh Rose .................................................................. 125 Forty-eighth Rose..................................................................... 131 Forty-ninth Rose....................................................................... 136 Fiftieth Rose .............................................................................. 138 How to Offer Each Decade ..................................................... 139 The Sorrowful Mysteries......................................................... 141 The Glorious Mysteries ........................................................... 142 Second Method......................................................................... 144 The Power, Value and Holiness of the Rosary .................... 146 The Salutation of the Rosary is Worthy of the Queen of Heaven....................................................................................... 148 Indulgences............................................................................... 151 Prayer for Our President and Government Officials.......... 154 4 Preface BIOGRAPHERS have already told us much about St. Louis De Montfort and the Rosary; now, with this first English edition of The Secret of the Rosary, we can listen to Montfort speaking for himself. Drawing upon his own experience as well as upon the experience of others,[1] he endeavors to bring home to the reader, "in a simple and straightforward manner," as he himself tells us, the authentic message of the Rosary; namely, that it is a veritable school of Christian life. He sees it as including essentially the meditation of the mysteries of the life, death and glory of Jesus and Mary, with a view not only to honoring but especially imitating their virtues as held up to our consideration in each mystery. For our Saint, the Rosary was not simply a method of prayer: it was his most effective tool and weapon in his apostolic work. Fittingly has the Church called him an "Extraordinary preacher of the Rosary." He preached it in season and out of season; established it in every parish where he gave a mission[2] and judged the fruits of the mission by the subsequent perseverance in its recitation. There was no limit to the power of the Rosary and to it he attributed much of his success with sinners. "Let me but place my rosary around a sinner's neck," he was wont to say, "and he will not escape me." A Dominican Tertiary himself, De Montfort represents the best in the Dominican Rosary tradition. Speaking of our Saint's contribution to the Rosary, Father R. Poupon, well known Dominican writer says, "Montfort's
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