This is the movement of the Holy Family, meeting people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary. Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

As we've been out here on the East Coast, living the movement with wonderful people here,

a lot of people ask why we pray the Rosary the way we do. And that's what we'll dedicate this meditation to. So let's begin in the name of the Father and the

son and the Holy Spirit, Amen, and let's call to mind all those that we 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 12.08, 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 Albigemseine Arisee, 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 Abigensians, 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 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

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