Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Thank you for joining us from more than 110 countries around the world.

Many of our new listeners ask, why do we pray the rosary the way we do?

Mary gave St. Dominic the rosary, but not exactly the way most people think of it.

Father Garagoul Lagrange, a great Dominican theologian of the 20th century, explained Dominic's method of the Rosary. He relates that at the end of the 12th century, southern

France was ravaged by the Albigensian heresy, a heresy which denied the

infinite goodness and power of God by admitting a principle of evil which was often victorious.

It was at that moment that our blessed lady made known to St. Dominic a kind of preaching till then unknown,

which she said would be one of the most powerful weapons against future heirs

and in future difficulties.

Under her inspiration, St. Dominic went into the villages of the Albaegensians, gathered the people,

and preached to them the truths of salvation.

As Mary had taught him to do,

he distinguished the different kinds of mysteries,

and after each short instruction,

he had ten Hail Mary's recited.

And what the word of the preacher was unable to do,

the sweet prayer of the Hail Mary did for hearts.

As Mary promised, it proved to be a most fruitful form of

preaching. So we pray the Rosary in a new way that's actually a really old way introduced by St.

Dominic. A short teaching from the Word of God followed by meditating or thinking about this instruction while we pray the decade and we do this five times.

Our Father who art in heaven, hollow would be your name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us and laid us not into

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