ST. AUGUSTINE ON SELF-TALK
How often do you catch yourself engaged in self-talk?
What is the motive of your self-absorption?
How often do you catch yourself engaged in self-talk?
What is the motive of your self-absorption?
St. Paul prophesied in 2 Peter 3:10 “But the day of the Lord will come as the thief of the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat: both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.”
The prophecy of Simeon; the flight into Egypt; the losing of the Holy Child at Jerusalem; the meeting with Jesus on His way to Calvary; standing at the foot of the Cross; our Lord being taken from the Cross; and the burial of Christ, ARE THE SEVEN SORROWS of the Blessed Mother, which figuratively represent the troubles that beset humanity.
St. Bernadette, the visionary of Our Lady of Lourdes had a life full of suffering. Doubts and derisions about authenticity of her vision comes first from her own family, and then from her own community, and then from the Church investigators.
The recitation of the Holy Rosary, when done simultaneously, becomes exponentially more powerful in preventing pandemics, dangers, accidents, natural disasters and untimely death.
One should pray the Holy Rosary with the “feeling of devotion and love of God in the heart.”
Responding to objections to the Rosary, Pope Paul VI made it clear that the rosary is an excellent introduction and a faithful echo of the liturgy, enabling people to participate fully and interiorly in it and to reap its fruits in their daily lives.