Saints and Popes Attest to the Power of the Rosary
(CNS photo/Bob Roller)
By Benjamin Takavarasha – Saints and popes through the ages have left us so many teachings on the power of the rosary, only a book-size project would do it reasonable justice. But here are some quotes:
- “The Rosary is the most beautiful and the richest in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God… and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.”– Pope St Pius X
- “One day a colleague of mine heard the devil say during an exorcism, ‘Every Hail Mary is like a blow on my head. If Christians knew how powerful the Rosary was, it would be my end.’” –Fr Gabriele Amorth, Vatican exorcist
- “When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.” –St Louis de Montfort
- “It would hardly be possible for me to put into words how much Our Lady thinks of the Holy Rosary and of how she vastly prefers it to all other devotions. Neither can I sufficiently express how highly she rewards those who work to preach the devotion, to establish it and spread it, nor on the other hand how firmly she punishes those who work against it.” –St Louis de Montfort
- “From it [the Rosary], the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve intact the stainless purity of the soul. Also in it, the old will again find repose, relief, and peace from their anxious cares. And to all those who suffer in any way, especially the dying, may it bring comfort and increase the hope of eternal happiness.”–Pope Pius XI
- “The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families… that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.” –Bl Sr Lucia, visionary of Fatima.
- “The Rosary is a long chain that links heaven and earth. One end of it is in our hands and the other end is in the hands of the Holy Virgin… The Rosary prayer rises like incense to the feet of the Almighty. Mary responds at once like beneficial dew, bringing new life to human hearts.” –St Teresa of Avila
And finally, to fittingly end with a quote from Pope St John Paul II who made such a fundamental addition to the Rosary:
- “The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. 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. With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer”. (Apostolic Letter “RosariumVirginisMariae”, 2002)
Our Lady of the Rosary, Pray for us
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