Author Topic: Happy Feast Day of the Most Holy Rosary! (Read 1474 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** October 07, 2011, 12:27:22 AM »

My entire frame thrills with an ineffable joy and my mind is lost quiet wonder whilst I behold "what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth" of the Most Holy Rosary of our Blessed Mother (cf. Eph. ch. iii., 18), which is the great little Summa of the great treasures of Sacred Scriptures, Dogmatic and Moral Theology, Sacred Liturgy, and all the entire depositum fidei of Holy Mother Church. It is so marvelous that I cannot but cry forth with St. Paul, "O depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God: how incomprehensible are His judgments, and His ways unsearchable!" (Rom. ch. xi., 33).

Greatly to be praised are the loving-kindness and charity wherewith our blessed Lord and Savior has ordered all things for our sakes, as it is written, “Great is our Lord and exceeding laudable, and of his greatness there is no end. Our Lord is sweet to all, and his commiserations are over all his works” (Ps. cxliv. 3, 9). For through the patronage and tutelage of Blessed Mary the Virgin, who has been appointed as supreme Arbitress over the celestial heights and over the round orb of the earth so that she may enrich them that love her and replenish their treasures (cf. Ecclus. ch. xxiv., 7, 10; cf. Prov. ch. viii., 21), has our adorable Creator and Redeemer vouchsafed us this great gift of the Holy Rosary.

Here are some reflections from the tome Daily Breviary Meditations: Meditations for Every Day on the Scriptural Lessons of the Roman Breviary, in accordance with the Encyclical "Divino Afflante," vol. 4, written by His Excellency the Most Rev. Joseph Angrisani, Bishop of Casale-Monferrato, and translated by Rev. Father Joseph A. McMullin of St. Charles Seminary at Philadelphia, PA (New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1954). Although they were written for Priests, layfolk can benefit from such reflection too.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2011, 12:30:44 AM »

Rev. Fr. Aquinas Byrnes in his book Hymns of the Dominican Missal and Breviary, (St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1943), gives us the text, translation and commentary upon the Hymns for this Feast Day as found in the Dominican Breviary. The commentary constitutes a great treatise upon the Holy Rosary.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2011, 12:33:48 AM »

In his work The Mother of The Savior and Our Interior Life (trans. ]Rev. Father Bernard J. Kelley; Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, Ltd., 1948), Rev. Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange shows us the value that the recitation of the Holy Rosary can have for our interior lives, which Our Lady of the Rosary herself at Fatima tried to teach us in the multitude of her maternal benignity.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2011, 12:36:19 AM »

In his work The Love of God and the Cross of Jesus, (trans. Sister Jeanne Marie, O. P. Vol. 2. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1951), Rev. Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange has very beautiful Rosary Meditations that epitomize his sublime doctrines of Ascetical and Mystical Theology.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2011, 12:39:23 AM »

Saint Alphonsus! Yes, he had something to say about the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Here is his Sermon for Rosary Sunday, taken from the 17th volume of "The Centenary Edition" of the complete works of St. Alphonsus de Liguori, translated by Rev. Father Eugene Grimm, and published in 1890 at New York, Cincinnati and Chicago by Benziger Brothers.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2011, 12:42:57 AM »

Sorry for all the posts, but there is so much about the Holy Rosary that can be said and written!

The Dominicans had in their Missal a Privileged Votive Mass of the Most Holy Rosary, the formulary of which constitutes a beautiful commentary upon the Holy Rosary. Here it is, taken from The Dominican Missal in Latin and English (Oxford: Blackfriars Publications, 1948).

Jonah · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2011, 10:24:10 AM »

Thank you Hobbledehoy for these extracts.

I have attached an extract from the The Liturgical Year (Dom Prosper Guéranger).