The Marvels of the Rosary

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Our year seems to be speeding away, as we change season, we can't help but think of the past memories of the summer, of time spent with loved ones and friends in the heat of the sun. Now with autumn we find ourselves planning ahead, making provision for the cold, for nights in and for sunny but cold afternoon walks with the crunch of leaves underfoot, picking onions and searching in drawers for jumpers and hats.

Our life of Faith also has times of change and preparation, our prayers develop and grow like the season of our Year, also what is going on in our lives has an effect in and to our prayer. As you know October is the Month set aside in honour of Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Rosary can help us focus in the busy day to day of life with Our Lady's help to see Christ in our lives, in the change and decay of life, in the growth and new beginnings of life and in the waiting and dormant parts of life. The Rosary with Mary’s help, love and aid can help us connect our lives and join them to her Son, who wants us to give him everything.

The Rosary is made up of two things: mental prayer and vocal prayer. In the Rosary, mental prayer is none other than meditation of the chief mysteries of the life, death and glory of Jesus Christ and of His Blessed Mother. Vocal prayer consists in saying twenty decades of the Hail Mary, each decade headed by an Our Father, while at the same time meditating on and contemplating the twenty principal virtues which Jesus and Mary practised in the twenty mysteries of the Holy Rosary. So why not spend some time with Jesus in school of Mary.

 (From Crawley Parish Newsletter)