Letters

Power of the Rosary

Gabrielle Gannon

Contents - Sep 2012 - Buy a copy now Editorial: 2012 Fighting Fund launched: support Christian values - Peter Westmore Sainthood: Cardinal Van Thuân: process to beatification 'very advanced' - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Film: 'For Greater Glory': an inspiring message for today's Christians - Babette Francis Survey confirms crisis of faith in Ireland - Michael Gilchrist Noted UK doctor slams BBC program's anti-Catholic bias - Robert Walley Interview: Egypt after Mubarak: 'Christians feel excluded' - Father Andrzej Halemba Letters: Archbishop Chaput: how to meet the challenges to religious freedom - Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM Time for women's "true genius" to reassert itself - Anne Lastman Australian Catholic Students Association Conference 2012 - Br Barry Coldrey The Church's mission priority: to search for its 'lost sheep' - Andrew Kania Letters: Media bias - Anne Lastman Letters: Achilles' heel - Fr John George Letters: Appreciation - Frank O'Connor Letters: Article of faith? - Jean-Leon Shanks Letters: Power of the Rosary - Gabrielle Gannon Letters: Old Testament - Fr Brian Harrison OS Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi (Editor) - Gerard O'Shea (reviewer) Books: THROUGH SHAKESPEARE'S EYES: Seeing the Catholic presence in the plays, Pearce - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer) Books: FATIMA FOR TODAY: The Urgent Marian Message of Hope, by Fr Andrew Apostoli CFR - Brother Barry Coldrey (reviewer) Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

There is no problem that cannot be solved by the Rosary. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said, "The power of the Rosary is beyond description". And Pope Leo XIII in three encyclicals identifying the great evils of his time emphasised the Rosary as a cure for them.

The same applies today, and to the extent that we unite in praying the Rosary we may be successful in overcoming these evils.

God sent His Mother to Fatima to tell us we ought recite the Rosary every day. If the Mother of God tells us, not just once but six times, that we must say the Rosary daily, how can we possibly disregard her request?

The daily Rosary can unite a family as never before given that prayer inspires courage, gives hope and revives the heart and spirit. For through it, one relies with confidence on the divine will.

St Padre Pio once said, "The Rosary is the weapon." For the secret of the Rosary is its power to pierce, move and convert the most hardened of hearts and to bring about conversion. Our Lady said to St Dominic, "One day through the Rosary and Scapular, I will save the world".

Supplies of Rosaries may be obtained from this writer for 30 cents each plus postage (tel: 0437 127 426).

GABRIELLE GANNON (MRS)
Prahran East, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 25 No 8 (September 2012), p. 16