This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

I've been asked recently how to explain to others the way we do this rosary and how it fits Mary's original intent.

In 1208, Mary gave St. Dominic the rosary, but not exactly the way most people think of it.

Father Garagou Lagrange, one of the greatest Dominican theologians, explained

Dominic's method, which he received from Our Lady. At the end of the 12th century, southern

France was ravaged by the Abidemcyan 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 Aborigines,

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, and then we pray one decade of the rosary, and we do this five times.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallow it be your name.

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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