Rediscover "LAETITIAE SANCTAE": ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII commending devotion to the Holy Rosary on the "Aniversário do falecimento de São Francisco Marto".
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O Jesus, living in Mary,
Come and live in Your servants,
In the spirit of Your holiness,
In the fullness of Your might,
In the truth of Your virtues,
In the perfection of Your ways,
In the communion of Your mysteries.
Subdue every hostile power
In Your spirit, for the glory of the Father. Amen.
~ Prayer by St. Louis Marie de Montfort
PRAYER FOR ETERNAL WISDOM ON THE MOST HOLY ROSARY
On the anniversary of St. Francisco Marto’s departure toward Heaven, let us pray one Hail Mary for the intercession of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary to watch over the most innocent of souls, waiting to know, love & serve God like St. Francisco1 of Fátima did.
St. Francisco, pray for us!
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Excerpts in post from LAETITIAE SANCTAE
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Chaplet Novena Reminder for Good Friday
As our headline notes, the following encyclical cites the “Rosary” as “remedy” for:
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distaste for a simple and labourious life"REMEDY: The Joyful Mysteries;
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repugnance to suffering of any kind"REMEDY: The Sorrowful Mysteries;
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the forgetfulness of the future life" (in Heaven)REMEDY: The Glorious Mysteries.2
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“LAETITIAE SANCTAE
COMMENDING DEVOTION TO THE ROSARY (
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LAETITIAE SANCTAEDE SUA SANTIDADE PAPA LEÃO XIII
by: Pope Leo XIII3
…Venerable Brethren, Greeting and Apostolic Benediction.
The sacred joy which it has been given to Us to feel in attaining the fiftieth anniversary of Our Episcopal Consecration has been deepened by the knowledge that it was shared by the people of the whole Catholic world, and that as a father in the midst of his children We have been consoled by the touching testimonies of their loyalty and love. We gratefully accept it and record it as a fresh proof of God's special providence, and one which is markedly full of bounty to Ourselves, and of blessing to the Church.
2. At the same time We love to offer Our thanks for this signal benefit to the august Mother of God, whose powerful intercession We feel to have been exercised in Our behalf.
For hers is the loving kindness which, during the length of years and the vicissitudes of life, has never failed Us, and which day by day seems to draw nearer to Us than ever,
filling Our soul with gladness, and strengthening Us with a confidence of which the surety is higher than the things of time.
It is as if the voice of the heavenly Queen made itself heard to Us,
at one moment graciously consoling Us in the midst of trials;
at another guiding Us by her counsel in directing the great work of the salvation of souls;
at another, urging Us to admonish the Christian people to advance in piety and in the practice of every virtue.”
continued…
On “The Rosary and Society
3. For We are convinced that
the Rosary, if devoutly used,is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.
No one will do Us the injustice to deny that in the discharge of the duties of the Supreme Apostolate We have laboured - as, God helping,
We shall ever continue to labour - to promote the civil prosperity of mankind.”
continued…
“Dislike of Poverty - The Joyful Mysteries4. There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society.
These are-first, the distaste for a simple and labourious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.”
Pope Leo XIII … continued…
“6. For evils such as these
let us seek a remedy in the Rosary, which consists in a fixed order of prayer combined with devout meditation on the life of Christ and His Blessed Mother.
Here, if
the joyful mysteriesbe but clearly brought home to the minds of the people, an object lesson of the chief virtues is placed before their eyes.Each one will thus be able to see for himself how easy, how abundant, how sweetly attractive are the lessons to be found therein for the leading of an honest life.
Let us take our stand in front of that earthly and divine home of holiness, the House of Nazareth.
How much we have to learn from the daily life which was led within its walls! What an all-perfect model of domestic society!”
continued…
Repugnance to Suffering - The Sorrowful Mysteries7. A second evil, one which is specially pernicious, and one which, owing to the increasing mischief which it works among souls, we can never sufficiently deplore, is to be found in repugnance to suffering and eagerness to escape whatever is hard or painful to endure.
The greater number are thus robbed of that peace and freedom of mind which remains the reward of those who do what is right undismayed by the perils or troubles to be met with in doing so.
Rather do they dream of a chimeric civilization in which all that is unpleasant shall be removed, and all that is pleasant shall be supplied.
By this passionate and unbridled desire of living a life of pleasure, the minds of men are weakened, and if they do not entirely succumb, they become demoralized and miserably cower and sink under the hardships of the battle of life.”
Pope Leo XIII … continued…
8. In such a contest example is everything, and
a powerful means of renewing our courage will undoubtedly be found in the Holy Rosary, if from our earliest years our minds have been trained to dwell upon the sorrowful mysteries of Our Lord's life, and to drink in their meaning by sweet and silent meditation.
In them we shall learn how Christ,
"the Author and Finisher of Our faith,"began"to do and teach,"in order that we might see written in His example all the lessons that He Himself had taught us for the bearing of our burden of labour and sorrow, and mark how the sufferings which were hardest to bear were those which He embraced with the greatest measure of generosity and good will.We behold Him overwhelmed with sadness, so that drops of blood ooze like sweat from His veins.
We see Him bound like a malefactor, subjected to the judgment of the unrighteous, laden with insults, covered with shame, assailed with false accusations, torn with scourges, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross, accounted unworthy to live, and condemned by the voice of the multitude as deserving of death.
Rediscover the Sorrowful Mysteries in 2023 w/ Fr. Chris Alar and Dr. Bob Schuchts:4
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Pope Leo XIII … on patience … continued…
9. Then, be it that the "earth is accursed" and brings forth "thistles and thorns,"-
be it that the soul is saddened with grief and the body with sickness;even so,there will be no evil which the envy of man or the rage of devils can invent, nor calamity which can fall upon the individual or the community, over which we shall not triumph by the patience of suffering.
For this reason it has been truly said that
"it belongs to the Christian to do and to endure great things,"for he who deserves to be called a Christian must not shrink from following in the footsteps of Christ.But by this patience, We do not mean that empty stoicism in the enduring of pain which was the ideal of some of the philosophers of old, but rather do We mean that patience which is learned from the example of Him, who
"having joy set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame" (Heb. xvi., 2).It is the patience which is obtained by the help of His grace; which shirks not a trial because it is painful, but which accepts it and esteems it as a gain, however hard it may be to undergo.
continued…
10. May such types of admirable constancy be more and more splendidly multiplied in our midst to the weal of society and to the glory and edification of the Church of God!
continued…
Forgetfulness of the Future - The Glorious Mysteries11. The third evil for which a remedy is needed is one which is chiefly characteristic of the times in which we live.
Men in former ages, although they loved the world, and loved it far too well, did not usually aggravate their sinful attachment to the things of earth by a contempt of the things of heaven.
continued…
But men of our day, albeit they have had the advantages of Christian instruction, pursue the false goods of this world in such wise that the thought of their true Fatherland of enduring happiness is not only set aside, but, to their shame be it said, banished and entirely erased from their memory, notwithstanding the warning of St. Paul,
"We have not here a lasting city, but we seek one which is to come" (Heb. xiii., 4).
continued…
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It is from this danger that they will be happily rescued, who, in the pious practice of the Rosary, are wont, by frequent and fervent prayer, to keep before their minds the glorious mysteries.
These mysteries are the means by which in the soul of a Christian a most clear light is shed upon the good things, hidden to sense, but visible to faith, "which God has prepared for those who love Him."
From them we learn that
death is not an annihilation which ends all things, but merely a migration and passage from life to life.By them we are taught that
the path to Heaven lies open to all men,and as we behold Christ ascending thither, we recall the sweet words of His promise, "I go to prepare a place for you."By them we are reminded that a time will come when "God will wipe away every tear from our eyes," and that "neither mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow, shall be any more," and that "We shall be always with the Lord," and "like to the Lord, for we shall see Him as He is," and
"drink of the torrent of His delight," as "fellow-citizens of the saints," in the blessed companionship of our glorious Queen and Mother.Dwelling upon such a prospect, our hearts are kindled with desire, and we exclaim,
in the words of a great saint, "How vile grows the earth when I look up to heaven!"Then, too, shall we feel the solace of the assurance "that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory" (2 Cor. iv., 17).
continued…
15.Here alone we discover the true relation between time and eternity, between our life on earth and our life in heaven; and it is thus alone that are formed strong and noble characters. When such characters can be counted in large numbers, the dignity and well-being of society are assured. All that is beautiful, good, and true will flourish in the measure of its conformity to Him who is of all beauty, goodness, and truth the first Principle and the Eternal Source.
continued….
17. It is, therefore,
to be desired that renewed zeal should be called forth in the founding, enlarging, and directing of these confraternities, and that not only by the sons of St. Dominic, to whom by virtue of their Order a leading part in this Apostolate belongs, but by all who are charged with the care of souls, and notable in those places in which the Confraternity has not yet been canonically established.
On preaching the Rosary… Pope LEO XIII continues….
“If they will make it the subject of their preaching, We cannot doubt that there will be large numbers of the faithful of Christ who will readily enrol themselves in the Confraternity, and who will earnestly endeavour to avail themselves of those spiritual advantages of which We have spoken, and in which consist the very meaning and motive of the Rosary.”
continued…
18. This then is the hope, which, amid the manifold evils which beset society, brightens, consoles, and supports Us.
May Mary, the Mother of God and of men, herself the authoress and teacher of the Rosary, procure for Us its happy fulfilment.“It will be your part, Venerable Brethren, to provide that by your efforts Our words and Our wishes may go forth on their mission of good for the prosperity of families and the peace of peoples.”
INFO:
Given at St. Peter's, Rome, this 8th day of September, in the year of Our Lord 1893, and the 16th of Our Pontificate.
LEO XIII
Copyright © Dicastero per la Comunicazione - Libreria Editrice Vaticana
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“It will be your part, Venerable Brethren, to provide that by your efforts Our words and Our wishes may go forth on their mission of good for the prosperity of families and the peace of peoples.”
In response to Pope Leo’s instructions, we invite you to consider sharing the message of the Holy Rosary with others this Lent:
OPTION (1): TEACH CHILDREN TO PRAY THE ROSARY [IN ENGLISH]
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FOOTNOTES
MORE INFO ON ST. FRANCISCO: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/saint-francisco-marto-23371
ORIGINAL TEXT SOURCE EXCERPTS FROM THE HOLY SEE: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_08091893_laetitiae-sanctae.html
Aubert, Roger-François-Marie. "Leo XIII". Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Feb. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-XIII. Accessed 3 April 2023.
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