I Was a Dancer - Jacques D'Amboise [204]
“ ‘Child,’ responded the Blessed Virgin, ‘thou hast invoked me by various titles and has always obtained favors from me. Now, since thou hast called me by that title so pleasing to me, “Queen of the Holy Rosary,” I can no longer refuse the favor thou dost petition; for this name is most precious and dear to me. Make three Novenas, and thou shalt obtain all.’
“Once more the Queen of the Holy Rosary appeared to her and said, ‘Whoever desires to obtain favors from me should make three Novenas of the prayers of the Rosary, and three Novenas in thanksgiving.’
“This miracle of the Rosary made a very deep impression on Pope Leo XIII, and greatly contributed to the fact that in so many circular letters he urged all Christians to love the Rosary and say it fervently.”—The Rosary, My Treasure, Benedictine Convent, Clyde, Mo.
The Novena consists of five decades of the Rosary each day for twenty-seven days in petition; then immediately five decades each day for twenty-seven days in thanksgiving, whether or not the request has been granted.
The meditations vary from day to day. On the first day meditate on the Joyful Mysteries; on the second day, the Sorrowful Mysteries; on the third day, the Glorious Mysteries; on the fourth day, meditate again on the Joyful Mysteries; and so on throughout the fifty-four days.
A laborious Novena, but a Novena of Love. You who are sincere will not find it too difficult, if you really wish to obtain your request.
Should you not obtain the favor you seek, be assured that the Rosary Queen, who knows what each one stands most in need of, has heard your prayer. You will not have prayed in vain. No prayer ever went unheard. And Our Blessed Lady has never been known to fail.
Look upon each Hail Mary as a rare and beautiful rose which you lay at Mary’s feet.
These spiritual roses, bound in a wreath with Spiritual Communions, will be a most pleasing and acceptable gift to her, and will bring down upon you special graces.
If you would reach the innermost recesses of her heart, lavishly bedeck your wreath with spiritual diamonds—holy communions. Then her joy will be unbounded, and she will open wide the channel of her choicest graces to you.
NOTE: In obedience to the decree of Pope Urban VIII and of other Supreme Pontiffs, the author begs to state that, in regard to what is herein narrated, no higher authority is claimed than that which is due to all authentic human testimony.
PROMISES
Made by the Blessed Virgin to St. Dominic and Blessed Alanus.
To all those who will recite my Rosary devoutly, I promise my special protection and very great graces.
Those who will persevere in the recitation of my Rosary shall receive some signal grace.
The Rosary shall be a very powerful armor against hell; it shall destroy vice, deliver from sin, and shall dispel heresy.
The Rosary shall make virtue and good works flourish, and shall obtain for souls the most abundant divine mercies; it shall substitute in hearts love of God for love of the world, elevate them to desire heavenly and eternal goods. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means!
Those who trust themselves to me through the Rosary, shall not perish.
Those who will recite my Rosary piously, considering its Mysteries, shall not be overwhelmed by misfortune nor die a bad death. The sinner shall be converted; the just shall grow in grace and become worthy of eternal life.
Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the consolations of the Church, or without grace.
Those who will recite my Rosary shall find during their life and at their death the light of God, the fulness of His grace, and shall share in the merits of the blessed.
I will deliver very promptly from purgatory the souls devoted to my Rosary.
The true children of my Rosary shall enjoy great glory in heaven.
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