October: Tradition of the Rosary

For Marian devotees, the most important decades in life are the decades that make up a rosary. It only takes 15 minutes to say five of these, but the benefits, they say, extend well into the afterlife.

From the time of the apostles to the time at hand, the rosary has been a favorite devotion of the Catholic faithful. And while devotees pray it any day of the year, recitation of the rosary picks up every October, it being the officially designated month for the devotion.

To those who pray it, the Catholic Church has promised, “grace in this life and glory in the next.” Many of those who have since gained entrance to the Pearly Gates gratefully acknowledge the rosary’s role in their getting there. Devotees, on the other hand, who are still struggling along the straight and narrow find in the rosary a well of grace.

Faith in the rosary as deep as others explains why this devotion to our Mother is, indeed, the mother of all devotions.

Source from Sun*Star Weekend