Queen
The Lady, appeared to Fatima on the 13th of October 1917, told to Lucia:
«I Am the Madonna of the Rosary».
"Madonna" means "Lady" and, we can also say: "Queen".
Mary, in this phrase, has hide amazing significances. For instance: She reigns if we recite the Rosary; she reigns through the meditation of historical facts of Jesus Christ's life, through the historical testimony; She reign in the concrete instants of the daily life of everyone...
Through every believer, she makes better the world.
«I Am the Madonna (that has venerated in the mysteries) of the Rosary». She has come to visit the world, so that the world knows which splendour the human nature has obtained in her. She has come to render actual what his Son said and did twenty centuries ago. Those events could not be repeated, because Jesus made each thing in those years well; the Queen of the Rosary brings back them to us with her words and her gestures.
The illustration, with words and images, of the evangelical historical facts, conjugated in all charming ways, can make alive the testimony on Jesus Christ, for the one who is very active and who can few reflect, also for the children.
The Rosary, with the historical mysteries, is the Truth on the universe, it is an alive Person in the world. It is truth reported with simplicity and historical precision, in small episodes. This makes us to live and it doesn't make to waste our time.
Other realities do us instead waste our time and don't help us much to live: the presumptuous science, that seems the only truth; the passions and the strong emotions that are exalted for deluding that life has a dignity without religion; the depths reasoning built by the men to avoid the comparison with the simple reality of Jesus Christ.
In this "complex society" everything can happen, everything can be said, but the Queen, through the Rosary, keeps us firm to the Rock that is the historical Christ, Son of God.
Do perhaps reality in Jerusalem was not "complex", when the Christ made his entry and he was proclaimed King, without the Romans hampered him?
Let's remember however that his Kingdom is not one of many of this world.
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How to pray the Rosary?
Particularly for a secular believer, taken by a lot of occupations, the Rosary can assume different forms: instead of ten Hail Mary we can recite three, five; we can them replace with invocations to Our Lady...
The prayer can be distributed along the day: during the voyage, when the job allows it, in the moments of break, in the difficult situations...
It is not well entirely to seek the silence and the concentration, because the Rosary is repetitive just so that it can be prayed to mind in the middle of the daily life traffic, in the noise, in the confusion, in the companies where it would not seem possible to pray, in the dangers. It doesn't is necessary to watch out for every word that we recite.
It is the possibility to reflect on the moment that one alive, illuminating it with the facts of Jesus Christ and with the historical apparitions of Mary.
The main point is to think about the content of the mystery, while we are praying, and to compare him with the circumstance that we are living.
To remember the mysteries (historical and supernatural facts) of the faith and to pray, while we are being absorbed in the activity, it is the simplest way to find ideas and to take decisions that make best the situation, the environment in which we live, the world.
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CONTEMPLATE
Always the Church has insisted that we pray with the Rosary. Which is new effectiveness promised to Fatima? It is that Mary invites us to cultivate the desire to know the historical facts of two thousand years ago and the testimonies. She invites to pick up them. These, through her Heart, become seeds of new reality and through them she reign.
Her Son reigns on the world, through the hearts of the people, if we recognize him like King whose historical work have been glorifies with the resurrection and the ascension.
In fact the Rosary is even reflection on the historical facts in which Jesus Christ manifested the power of God and in which Mary acquired his royalty and infinite merits. This is a vigorous prayer that makes us participate of the grace and of the truth of those events.
So that, however, the Rosary has recognized in all his vigor, the invitation must be picked in the apparitions of Fatima to make searches about the Gospels, that give back us them in their entire dignity of historical testimonies.
The events historically happened to Fatima invites us to rediscover the testimonies of the Martyrs, that is the possibility of reflect directly on the facts of two thousand years ago, as that the prayer of the Rosary becomes very more alive.
The historical testimonies allow our soul, that in the world makes everything through the body, to gain the fruits of what Jesus Christ made in his body for our eternal life.
They us allow to meet almost immediately Jesus Christ, without need to be particularly cultured, and to compare us with his words and his actions.
The testimonies are like water that renders fresh and vigorous the life of whom make this way to God, so that she becomes in turn a natural testimony for the world.
Christ operated in a situation where there was any rich, many resourceful, numerous poor. They were attached to the Law of Moses, but they didn't often interpret her well or they didn't observe her. From that a complex society resulted where the life was not sure. There the Teacher realized the wish of the Father, with the strength of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus' sentence «I have come so that they have life and they have it in abundance» means that Jesus gave to his disciples, that were for the most part young people, a great charge of life. We can rediscover it if we set the Gospel in the concrete places and times, because it doesn't notice at first sight.
Our Lady, as she has appeared to Fatima, is the "result" of the facts of twenty centuries ago. A so splendid result is just what the world needed today for "see again" the facts of the life of Jesus Christ.
Each detail of the apparitions is precious.
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PRAY
The Rosary is made of re-evocations of historical events, of time for meditate them and for dip us in they while we recite the Hail Mary.
When we pray, let's remember what those events have given to the world: the Church, the Our Father, the Sacraments, the truth, the charity, the promise of the eternal life, the protection of the Virgin Mary.
Particularly the prayer of Our Father, that seems so difficult, has been taught by Jesus to the disciples so that they had a true contact with the Trinity. If we remember the concrete historical situation in which the Teacher and Lord have taught her, and what power He had, we feel us in his company. He prays with us and we live, praying, a supernatural reality of which we don't need to understand every word.
That facts are sufficiently testified so that we always report us to them and we really understand what Jesus said: «Without me(, God but also man,) you cannot do anything» (John 15,5).
She, our Queen, is near to us in the decisions that we could assume praying.
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DECIDE
Here: it seems me that to our Rosary are missing just any moments in which take decisions, alone or in group, for ourselves or for the community; moments in which decide how put in practice the words of Jesus Christ and take light from his work, for «build our house on the rock»; moments for communicate experiences that are help to the others in the decisions; moments for communicate, of course by telephone or by internet, to other gotten together to pray, problems or decisions.
Therefore I propose a scheme that allows us finding new applications and comparisons always with the entire Gospel, participating so to the different historical situations of the life of Jesus.
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Updated on the 22nd of November 2007 |
