Holy Mass images...: MARY

Showing posts with label MARY_Rosary. Show all posts

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

FEAST DAY: October 7
ABOUT:
- also known as Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary
- the first prayer and the principal devotion of the faithful since the Rosary is composed of, principally and in substance, of the prayer of Christ and the Angelic Salutation, that is, the Our Father and the Hail Mary - has been in use all through the centuries, from the time of the apostles and disciples down to the present - it was only in the year 1214 that the Church received the Rosary in its present form and according to the method we use today. It was given to the Church by St. Dominic, who had received it from the Blessed Virgin as a means of converting the Albigensians and other sinners.
- The word Rosary means "Crown of Roses". Our Lady has revealed to several people that each time they say a Hail Mary they are giving her a beautiful rose and that each complete Rosary makes her a crown of roses. The rose is the queen of flowers, and so the Rosary is the rose of all devotions and it is therefore the most important one. The Holy Rosary is considered a perfect prayer because within it lies the awesome story of our salvation. With the Rosary in fact we meditate the mysteries of joy, of sorrow and the glory of Jesus and Mary. It's a simple prayer, humble so much like Mary.

QUOTES: sources: http://www.theholyrosary.org/ and http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/Saint.aspx?id=1161
- "Say the Rosary every day...
Pray, pray a lot and offer sacrifices for sinners...
I'm Our Lady of the Rosary.
Only I will be able to help you.
...In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph." - Our Lady at Fatima - “The rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christ-centered prayer. It has all the depth of the gospel messge in its entirety. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb.... It can be said that the rosary is, in some sense, a prayer-commentary on the final chapter of the Vatican II Constitution Lumen Gentium, a chapter that discusses the wondrous presence of the Mother of God in the mystery of Christ and the Church" - Pope John Paul II, apostolic letter The Rosary of the Virgin Mary

----------------------------------- NOVENA PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY source: https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/novena/ol_rosary.htm
My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for this special favor which I earnestly request in my Rosary Novena: (Mention your request).
I beg you to present my petition to your Divine Son. If you will pray for me, I cannot be refused. I know, dearest Mother, that you want me to seek God?s holy Will concerning my request. If what I ask for should not be granted, pray that I may receive that which will be of greater benefit to my soul.
I offer you this spiritual ?Bouquet of Roses? because I love you. I put all my confidence in you, since your prayers before God are most powerful. For the greater glory of God and for the sake of Jesus, your loving Son, hear and grant my prayer. Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation.
----------------------------------- MYSTERIES OF THE HOLY ROSARY source: https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/rosary/how_to.htm

The Joyful Mysteries (Mondays and Saturdays)

The Annunciation
The Visitation
The Nativity
The Presentation
The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

The Sorrowful Mysteries (Tuesdays and Fridays)

The Agony in the Garden
The Scourging at the Pillar
The Crowning with Thorns
The Carrying of the Cross
The Crucifixion

The Glorious Mysteries (Wednesdays and Sundays)

The Resurrection
The Ascension
The Descent of the Holy Spirit
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Luminous Mysteries (Thursdays)

The Baptism in the Jordan
The Wedding at Cana
Proclamation of the Kingdom
The Transfiguration
Institution of the Eucharist

----------------------------------- SALVE REGINA (Hail Holy Queen)source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salve_Regina

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiæ,

vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.

Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevæ,

Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes

in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos

misericordes oculos ad nos converte;

Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,

nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

-----------------------------------
HAIL HOLY QUEENsource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salve_Regina

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,

Hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope.

To thee do we cry,

Poor banished children of Eve;

To thee do we send forth our sighs,

Mourning and weeping in this vale of tears.

Turn then, most gracious advocate,

Thine eyes of mercy toward us;

And after this our exile,

Show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

O clement, O loving,

O sweet Virgin Mary.

----------------------------------- LINKS/ SOURCES: - "Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Novena Prayer" (source: EWTN):
   https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/novena/ol_rosary.htm - "How to Pray the Rosary" (source: EWTN):
   https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/rosary/how_to.htm
- "The Holy Rosary" (source:The Holy Rosary):
   http://www.theholyrosary.org/ - "History of the Rosary" (source: The Holy Rosary):
http://www.theholyrosary.org/rosaryhistory - "Our Lady of the Rosary" (source: Wikipedia):
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Rosary - "Our Lady of the Rosary" (source: American Catholic):
   http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/Saint.aspx?id=1161
- "Litany of Loreto" (source: Catholic Encyclopedia):
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09287a.htm
- "Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary" (source: Wikipedia):
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litany_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary
- "Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary" (source: EWTN):
   https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/Litanies/Loreto.htm

TESTiMONY: The Miracle that Happened in Hiroshima (a story about the Holy Rosary and a few Jesuit priests)

This year, 6 August 2015, is the 70th year anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. May the souls of all the victims rest in peace.

Below is a typewritten version of a photocopy given to me by my father a very long time ago. It is a testimony about the power of praying the Holy Rosary as written by Father Hubert Schiffer, SJ. The source of this testimony is unknown. However, I have found some links which are related to this story as below.

Here are some excerpts/messages from the Blessed Virgin Mary via Fr. Gobbi's blue book (Marian Movement of Priests) during our novena to Our Lady of Banneux (also known as "Our Lady of the Poor") last year. These readings were done by randomly cutting the book open:

--- "...offer each day the flowers of love and prayer to your heavenly Mother. I ask you to spread more and more the cenacles which I have requested of you so many times. ... The rosary which you recite has a very great power against evil and against numerous enticements of my Adversary. To the reign of Satan which is spreading; ...to evil which is instilling its venom in hearts; to the snares of the Evil One which have become subtle and dangerous; to the powerful force of Freemasonry which has succeeded in insinuating itself everywhere; to the cult of Satan which is spreading, respond with the prayer of the holy rosary. This is my prayer; it is your prayer. ... The hour of Calvary has arrived for the Church..." (#519)

--- "...Prostrate yourselves with me in an act of profound adoration before the eucharistic Jesus. His real presence among you in the Eucharist, kept with love in all tabernacles of the earth, is a light upon your path; ... it is a balm upon every wound; it is joy in all your sorrows; it is peace which calms every anxiety... Prostrate yourselves with me in prayer of adoration, of thanksgiving and of reparation, to obtain from the Father, from the Son and from the Holy Spirit that there may be a shortening of the time of the great tribulation in which you are now living, in order to enter into the new era which now awaits you. ..." (#463)

--- "... In so many ways have I spoken, but my words have not been harkened to. In many ways I have manifested myself, but my signs have not been given no credence. My interventions, even the most extraordinary, have been contested. O New Jerusalem, Church of Jesus, true Israel of God! ...But now, great tribulations will come upon you. You will be buffeted by the wind of a tempest and a hurricane; ...not a stone will remain upon a stone. O New Jerusalem, accept today my invitation to conversion and interior purification. And thus the new era of justice and holiness can shine forth upon you; your light will spread to all the nations of the earth. And my Son Jesus will establish in your midst the glorious reign of love and peace. ..." (#242)
--- "...Jesus is present in the sacrament of the Eucharist to help you build this unity of yours, to give you an example of how one must love, in total giving to all one's brothers. Come to me together...that I may bring you to Jesus in the sacrament of the Eucharist, awaiting you in his silent immolation, really present among you in all the tabernacles of the world. ..." (#259)

--- "...I want to spread everywhere...my urgent and heartfelt message, so that it may reach all my children. ...Be converted and return to your God. ..." (#298)

---------------------------------------------------

"Hiroshima!" by Father Hubert Schiffer, SJ

Early on August 6, 1945, a lone American B-29 super-fortress bomber circled in a vividly blue sky over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The unsuspecting inhabitants on the ground barely glanced at the plane. They were unaware of the deadly payload it was about to unleash on them, ushering in the atomic age with unimaginable death and destruction.

As a single bomb near the ground, a city died in an instant. Houses crumbled; people evaporated; an immense ball of fire shot skywards; and a terrible wave of super heated gas bulged out from ground zero, flattening buildings for miles.

Among the unsuspecting inhabitants of Hiroshima was Father Schiffer, a Jesuit missionary assisting the many Catholics of that city. On the morning of August 6, 1945, he had just finished mass and sat down at the breakfast table, when there was a bright flash of light. His first thought was that a fuel tanker had exploded in the harbor, as Hiroshima was a major port where the Japanese refueled their submarines.

Then, in the words of Father Schiffer:

"suddenly, a horrible explosion filled the air with one bursting thunder stroke. An invisible force lifted me from the chair, hurled me through the air, shook me, battered me, whirled me round and round like a leaf in a gust of autumn wind."

Next thing he remembered was that he opened his eyes and found himself on the ground. He looked around, and saw there was nothing left in any direction. The railroad stations and buildings in all directions were gone.

Yet, the only harm to him was a few slight cuts in the back of his neck from shards of glass. As far as he could tell, there was nothing else physically wrong with him. The small community of Jesuits to which Father Schiffer belonged lived in a house near the parish church, situated only eight blocks from the center of the blast. When Hiroshima was destroyed by the atomic bomb, all eight members of the small Jesuit community escaped unscathed, while every other person within radius of one and a half kilometers from ground zero died immediately.

The house where the Jesuits lived was still standing, while buildings in every direction from it were leveled. Father Hubert Schiffer was thirty years old when the atomic bomb exploded right over his head at Hiroshima. He not only survived but also lived a healthy life for another thirty-three years!

Even more astonishing is that the story was to be repeated a few days later at Nagasaki, the second Japanese city to be hit by an atomic bomb. In both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the survivors were Catholic religious. Most other buildings were leveled to the ground even at three times the distance, but in both cases their houses stood--even with some windows intact!

All other people--bar a handful of scattered mutilated survivors--even at thrice the distance from the distance of the Jesuits from the explosion were exposed to fierce radiation and died within days.

After the American conquest of Japan, U.S. army doctors explained to Father Schiffer that his body would soon begin to deteriorate because of the radiation. To the doctors' amazement, Father Schiffer's body showed no radiation or ill effects from the bomb.

All who were at this range from the epicenter should have received enough radiation to be dead within a matter of minutes.

Scientists examined the group of Hiroshima Jesuits 200 times during the next thirty years, and no ill effects were ever found.

The Jesuit say: "We believe that we survived because we were living the message of Fatima. We lived and prayed the Rosary daily in that house."

Father Schiffer feels that he received a protective shield from the Blessed Virgin, which protected him from all radiation and ill effects. Father Schiffer attributes this to his devotion to Our Lady and his daily Fatima rosary. He said: "In that house the Holy Rosary was recited together every day.".

Secular scientist are dumbfounded and incredulous at his explanation. They are sure there is some "real" explanation. However, over sixty years later the scientists still have not been able to explain it.

From a scientific standpoint, what happened to those Jesuits at Hiroshima still defies all the laws of physics.

Dr. Stephen Rinehart of the U.S. Department of Defense is widely recognized as an international expert in the field of atomic blasts. He said: "No way could a human have survived nor should anything have been left standing at one kilometer. At ten times the distance, about ten to fifteen kilometers, I saw the brick walls standing from an elementary school, and there were a few badly burned survivors. All died within fifteen years of some form of cancer."

For God, who made all matter and energy, it is simply a matter of willing and the laws that govern them are suspended. This is what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It also happened in ancient times to the loyal servants of God-- Sidrach, Misach and Abdenago. The story is told in the Book of Daniel:

"Sidrach, Misach and Abdenago were bound and cast into the furnace of burning fire.... The furnace was heated exceedingly.... The flame of the fire slew those men who cast them into the fire.... But Sidrach, Misach and Abdenago walked in the midst of the flame, praising God and blessing the Lord."

---------------------------------------------------

to learn more about this story, please visit:

- Hiroshima Bombing pictures and other details - http://www.shrineofsaintjude.net/home1345.html

- "Fr. Schiffer and seven other priests survived Hiroshima by praying the Rosary daily..." - http://www.tldm.org/news7/schiffer.htm

- "A Rosary Miracle at Hiroshima" - http://www.christian-miracles.com/arosarymiracle.htm

- about Father Hubert Schiffer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Schiffer

TESTiMONY: The Miracle that Happened in Hiroshima (a story about the Holy Rosary and a few Jesuit priests)

Today, 6 August 2015, is the 70th year anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. May the souls of all the victims rest in peace.

Below is a typewritten version of a photocopy given to me by my father a very long time ago. It is a testimony about the power of praying the Holy Rosary as written by Father Hubert Schiffer, SJ. The source of this testimony is unknown. However, I have found some links which are related to this story as below.

Here are some excerpts/messages from the Blessed Virgin Mary via Fr. Gobbi's blue book (Marian Movement of Priests) during our novena to Our Lady of Banneux (also known as "Our Lady of the Poor") last year. These readings were done by randomly cutting the book open:

--- "...offer each day the flowers of love and prayer to your heavenly Mother. I ask you to spread more and more the cenacles which I have requested of you so many times. ... The rosary which you recite has a very great power against evil and against numerous enticements of my Adversary. To the reign of Satan which is spreading; ...to evil which is instilling its venom in hearts; to the snares of the Evil One which have become subtle and dangerous; to the powerful force of Freemasonry which has succeeded in insinuating itself everywhere; to the cult of Satan which is spreading, respond with the prayer of the holy rosary. This is my prayer; it is your prayer. ... The hour of Calvary has arrived for the Church..." (#519)

--- "...Prostrate yourselves with me in an act of profound adoration before the eucharistic Jesus. His real presence among you in the Eucharist, kept with love in all tabernacles of the earth, is a light upon your path; ... it is a balm upon every wound; it is joy in all your sorrows; it is peace which calms every anxiety... Prostrate yourselves with me in prayer of adoration, of thanksgiving and of reparation, to obtain from the Father, from the Son and from the Holy Spirit that there may be a shortening of the time of the great tribulation in which you are now living, in order to enter into the new era which now awaits you. ..." (#463)

--- "... In so many ways have I spoken, but my words have not been harkened to. In many ways I have manifested myself, but my signs have not been given no credence. My interventions, even the most extraordinary, have been contested. O New Jerusalem, Church of Jesus, true Israel of God! ...But now, great tribulations will come upon you. You will be buffeted by the wind of a tempest and a hurricane; ...not a stone will remain upon a stone. O New Jerusalem, accept today my invitation to conversion and interior purification. And thus the new era of justice and holiness can shine forth upon you; your light will spread to all the nations of the earth. And my Son Jesus will establish in your midst the glorious reign of love and peace. ..." (#242)
--- "...Jesus is present in the sacrament of the Eucharist to help you build this unity of yours, to give you an example of how one must love, in total giving to all one's brothers. Come to me together...that I may bring you to Jesus in the sacrament of the Eucharist, awaiting you in his silent immolation, really present among you in all the tabernacles of the world. ..." (#259)

--- "...I want to spread everywhere...my urgent and heartfelt message, so that it may reach all my children. ...Be converted and return to your God. ..." (#298)

---------------------------------------------------

"Hiroshima!" by Father Hubert Schiffer, SJ

Then, in the words of Father Schiffer:

All who were at this range from the epicenter should have received enough radiation to be dead within a matter of minutes.

Scientists examined the group of Hiroshima Jesuits 200 times during the next thirty years, and no ill effects were ever found.

The Jesuit say: "We believe that we survived because we were living the message of Fatima. We lived and prayed the Rosary daily in that house."

From a scientific standpoint, what happened to those Jesuits at Hiroshima still defies all the laws of physics.

For God, who made all matter and energy, it is simply a matter of willing and the laws that govern them are suspended. This is what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It also happened in ancient times to the loyal servants of God-- Sidrach, Misach and Abdenago. The story is told in the Book of Daniel:

---------------------------------------------------

to learn more about this story, please visit:

- Hiroshima Bombing pictures and other details - http://www.shrineofsaintjude.net/home1345.html

- "Fr. Schiffer and seven other priests survived Hiroshima by praying the Rosary daily..." - http://www.tldm.org/news7/schiffer.htm

- "A Rosary Miracle at Hiroshima" - http://www.christian-miracles.com/arosarymiracle.htm

- about Father Hubert Schiffer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Schiffer

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

FEAST DAY: October 7

ABOUT:
- also known as Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary
- the first prayer and the principal devotion of the faithful since the Rosary is composed of, principally and in substance, of the prayer of Christ and the Angelic Salutation, that is, the Our Father and the Hail Mary
- has been in use all through the centuries, from the time of the apostles and disciples down to the present
- it was only in the year 1214 that the Church received the Rosary in its present form and according to the method we use today. It was given to the Church by St. Dominic, who had received it from the Blessed Virgin as a means of converting the Albigensians and other sinners.
- The word Rosary means "Crown of Roses". Our Lady has revealed to several people that each time they say a Hail Mary they are giving her a beautiful rose and that each complete Rosary makes her a crown of roses. The rose is the queen of flowers, and so the Rosary is the rose of all devotions and it is therefore the most important one. The Holy Rosary is considered a perfect prayer because within it lies the awesome story of our salvation. With the Rosary in fact we meditate the mysteries of joy, of sorrow and the glory of Jesus and Mary. It's a simple prayer, humble so much like Mary.

QUOTES:
sources: http://www.theholyrosary.org/ and http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/Saint.aspx?id=1161

- "Say the Rosary every day...
Pray, pray a lot and offer sacrifices for sinners...
I'm Our Lady of the Rosary.
Only I will be able to help you.
...In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph." - Our Lady at Fatima
- “The rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christ-centered prayer. It has all the depth of the gospel messge in its entirety. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb.... It can be said that the rosary is, in some sense, a prayer-commentary on the final chapter of the Vatican II Constitution Lumen Gentium, a chapter that discusses the wondrous presence of the Mother of God in the mystery of Christ and the Church" - Pope John Paul II, apostolic letter The Rosary of the Virgin Mary

-----------------------------------
NOVENA PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY
source: https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/novena/ol_rosary.htm

My dearest Mother Mary, behold me, your child, in prayer at your feet. Accept this Holy Rosary, which I offer you in accordance with your requests at Fatima, as a proof of my tender love for you, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in atonement for the offenses committed against your Immaculate Heart, and for this special favor which I earnestly request in my Rosary Novena: (Mention your request).

I beg you to present my petition to your Divine Son. If you will pray for me, I cannot be refused. I know, dearest Mother, that you want me to seek God?s holy Will concerning my request. If what I ask for should not be granted, pray that I may receive that which will be of greater benefit to my soul.

I offer you this spiritual ?Bouquet of Roses? because I love you. I put all my confidence in you, since your prayers before God are most powerful. For the greater glory of God and for the sake of Jesus, your loving Son, hear and grant my prayer. Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation.

-----------------------------------
MYSTERIES OF THE HOLY ROSARY
source: https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/rosary/how_to.htm

The Joyful Mysteries (Mondays and Saturdays)

The Annunciation
The Visitation
The Nativity
The Presentation
The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

The Sorrowful Mysteries (Tuesdays and Fridays)

The Agony in the Garden
The Scourging at the Pillar
The Crowning with Thorns
The Carrying of the Cross
The Crucifixion

The Glorious Mysteries (Wednesdays and Sundays)

The Resurrection
The Ascension
The Descent of the Holy Spirit
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Luminous Mysteries (Thursdays)

The Baptism in the Jordan
The Wedding at Cana
Proclamation of the Kingdom
The Transfiguration
Institution of the Eucharist

Pages

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

TESTiMONY: The Miracle that Happened in Hiroshima (a story about the Holy Rosary and a few Jesuit priests)

TESTiMONY: The Miracle that Happened in Hiroshima (a story about the Holy Rosary and a few Jesuit priests)

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary