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“Pray the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world" “ – Our Lady to the Children of Fatima.
October’s dedication is one that many Catholics are familiar with. A widely practiced devotion, the Rosary is especially celebrated throughout the Church during this month. There are Rosary processions, conferences, and special parish gatherings to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary and her efficacious prayer.
Although something similar to the Rosary had been prayed by the faithful since the earliest days of the Church, the Rosary as we know it did not come into being until the early 13th century. At that time a mendicant priest and gifted preacher who longed to find a way to overcome the Albegentian heresy and win back lost souls to Christ went into the forest to fast and fervently pray.
The priest was St. Dominic and in answer to his prayers, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him, giving him the Rosary, which she called her Psalter, 150 Hail Marys divided into 15 decades. Our Lady made it clear to St. Dominic that the Angelic Salutation (the Hail Mary) joined with meditations on the mysteries of the Faith would defeat the errors of the Albegentians and turn hearts back to the Truth.
This prophecy was fulfilled and St. Dominic is credited with bringing many thousands of heretics and wandering souls into the Catholic Church through the power of the Rosary. St. Dominic went on to found a worldwide religious family called the Order of Preachers, also known as The Dominicans, which has given the Church countless saints and is still vibrant today.
- covenantcatholic.org
