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WA) Marian Centre PO Box 60 HILLARYS 6025 Marian Centre (WA) Marian Centre PO Box 60 HILLARYS 6025 Phone: 9402 2480 NEWSLETTER 9447 9819 9402 0349 NO: 90 DECEMBER 2002 The Year of the Rosary ON THE HOLY ROSARY. ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE. (RVM) On the 24th anniversary of his election as Pope, the Holy Father, John Paul II, has issued a letter on the Rosary. He has declared this 25th year of his pontificate as THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY. Last year, in his letter introducing the new millennium, he called us all to strive for holiness by “contemplating the face of Christ.” He now gives us a practical means to set out on this path. “With the rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depth of his love.” (RVM #1) He tells us how important the rosary has been in his own life. “From my youthful years this prayer has held an important place in my spiritual life… The rosary has accompanied me in moments of joy and in moments of difficulty.” (RVM #2). Objections to the Rosary. The Pope takes up some of the objections to the rosary prevalent today. He mentions those who stress the centrality of the Liturgy in Vatican II implying less importance to the rosary. He also speaks of those who see the rosary as not ecumenical enough. I confess to being swayed by this mentality for a number of years and stopped saying the rosary. This opinion also suits our slothfulness well, as it means we have to find less time for prayer. It was while doing a theological course in Rome that I had the privilege of concelebrating Mass with Pope John Paul in his private chapel, after which he gave the 40 missionary priests present an audience. He had a gift for each one: a pair of rosary beads. This made me re-think my neglect of the rosary. Now he has answered those objections: 1. He quotes Pope Paul V1 to say that far from being in conflict with the liturgy, the rosary sustains the liturgy, “enabling people to participate fully and interiorly in it and to reap its fruits in their daily lives” (#4) 2. The rosary, properly understood and prayed is truly ecumenical. It is “a devotion directed to the Christological centre of the Christian faith, in such a way that when the Mother is honoured the Son is duly known, loved and glorified”. “If properly revitalized, it is an aid to ecumenism” (RVM #4) Hints To Say The Rosary Better The Holy Father gives us several suggestions as to how to say the rosary more devoutly. 1. Announce each mystery, perhaps using a suitable icon to portray it. This can help “concentrate the mind on the particular mystery”. (RSV #29) 2. Read a scripture passage, immediately after the announcement of the mystery. The passage can be long or short, according to circumstances. “No other words can ever match the efficacy of the inspired word. As we listen, we are certain that this is the inspired word of God spoken for today and spoken for me.” (RSV #30) 3. In public recitation the word of scripture may be followed by a brief commentary. (RVM #30) 4. Silence. “It is fitting to pause and focus one‟s attention for a suitable time on the mystery, before moving on to vocal prayer”. (RSV #30) 5. Give due emphasis to the name of Jesus. “The centre of gravity in the Hail Mary is the name of Jesus. Sometimes, in hurried recitation this… can be overlooked. Yet it is precisely the emphasis given to the name of Jesus and to his mystery that is the sign of a meaningful and fruitful recitation of the Rosary”. (RVM #33) 6. Addition of a short phrase after the name of Jesus. When I was a Redemptorist novice, many years ago, we had the custom of inserting a phrase within the Hail Mary. For example, in the first Glorious mystery, “ …thy womb, Jesus, who rose from the dead”; third Glorious mystery, “…Jesus, who sent the Holy Spirit.” Pope John Paul praises and recommends this method in his letter, particularly in public recitation. “It is at once a profession of faith and an aid in concentrating our meditation.” (RSV #33) 7. A concluding short prayer after the Glory be. Here the Pope is quite revolutionary. “Such a final prayer could take a legitimate variety of forms.”(#35). He calls for experimentation and a wide circulation of the new prayers “so that the People of God may benefit from an abundance of authentic spiritual riches.” (#35) As a guideline for these new prayers he suggests “to conclude each mystery with a prayer for the fruits specific to that particular mystery.” (# 35) Following the Pope‟s suggestion a prayer for the 3rd Glorious mystery could be “Jesus, pour out your Holy Spirit on us today, enrich us with His gifts so that we can give witness to you in our world today”. What I have written up to now is only a small sampling of the riches of the letter on the Rosary. I hope it will inspire you all to want to read it in full for yourselves. In a few weeks it will be available in pamphlet form at Catholic bookstores; the Record in Perth has begun to publish it in installments in the Marian section of the paper, or you can download it immediately from the Internet from Mother Angelica‟s site: www.ewtn.com. Fr. Hugh Thomas CSsR. Our thanks to Father Hugh for writing our opening letter in the midst of his busy schedule. In conversation, Father mentioned the traditional “giants” of Marian devotion in the Church‟s history were St Bernard, St Louis de Montfort, St Alphonsus Ligouri, St Maximillian Kolbe and now, in our own time, John Paul II. At the Marian Retreat in Perth in October, Father recommended that we renew our consecration to Our Lady, by saying upon rising each morning and throughout the day “I am all yours, my Queen, my Mother, and all that I have is yours” THE MYSTERIES OF LIGHT In proposing a Year of the Rosary, Pope John Paul II also offered the Christian community five new Mysteries, to be called the Mysteries of Light, which come from the public teaching life of Jesus. He observed that the current form of the rosary, formalized in 1569, had a big gap between the end of the Joyful Mysteries and the Sorrowful Mysteries. The new mysteries emphasized the Christological and scriptural nature of the rosary without reducing its Marian nature, and each is a revelation of the Kingdom now present in the very person of Jesus. 1. Christ’s Baptism in the Jordan This event, extraordinary in itself, saw the revelation of the Blessed Trinity. As Christ descended into the waters to take on the burden of our sin, the voice of the Father declared Him the beloved Son and the Spirit descended on Him to invest Him with the mission He was to carry out. 2. Christ’s Self-revelation at the Marriage at Cana Here Jesus changed water into wine thanks to the intervention of Mary, the first among believers. This mystery presents Mary as teacher with her instruction to all of us „Do whatever He tells you‟. The mystery also shows that He will turn our water into wine our negativity into love, our sorrow into joy, our sin into salvation. 3. Christ’s Proclamation of the Kingdom of God and His Call to Conversion This encompasses all of Jesus‟ teaching about the mystery of God and the mystery of man. He forgives the sins of all who draw near to him in humble trust in that ministry of mercy which He continues to exercise until the end of the world, particularly through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. 4. The Transfiguration This ultimate mystery of light which showed Peter, James and John who Jesus really was, strengthened them for what was to come, and foreshadowed the transfiguration of their lives and ours both in this life and the next if we allow the Spirit to dwell in us. During the Transfiguration the Father again was heard and this time, in a sense, echoed the words of Mary at Cana when He told the Apostles “Listen to Him” 5. The Institution of the Eucharist When Jesus first appeared on earth He was laid in a manger, a feeding trough, as a symbol that He was the food with which God nourishes creation. This symbol became reality in the Eucharist that is now known as the source and summit of the spiritual life of the Church. It is also the permanently present sacramental expression of the Paschal Mystery – the saving power of Jesus‟ death and resurrection brought about for us and in us. The new order of saying the Rosary To accommodate the new mysteries, the Pope suggested a new order for saying the Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries on Monday and Saturday, the Sorrowful on Tuesday and Friday, the Glorious on Wednesday and Sunday, and the Mysteries of Light on Thursday. From “The Record” October 31, 2002 Perth, WA HOLY FATHER CARRYING SUFFERINGS OF THE CHURCH At the Marian Movement of Priests Annual Retreat for Priests, at Collevalenza, Italy in June this year, Fr Gobbi said, “I would like to make comments about the Holy Father. The MMP is a non-juridical movement, but is of great spiritual importance and an asset to the Church. It is founded on three basic points:- Consecration to the Immaculate Heart.
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