“The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of this world, and open on the substance of the next. The power of the Rosary is beyond description.” (Fulton Sheen).
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It strikes me that there is always offered to us the gift of being nourished and renewed. It is not enough to say that I know about Mary and am able to recite over and over again the Hail Mary.
O my soul will you never be satisfied? Why is just a brief introduction never enough? I both hunger and thirst for more. I think for a moment of the Rosary, more than just repetition for without pondering and reflecting her [Mary’s] mysteries in order it is not truly alive and meaningful.
It is not enough to simply “be,” but how I was created by God created to be passionately alive. I am reminded of the movie Fahrenheit 451 at the end how the protagonist meets up with a group, a community. Not only do the people there memorize their favorite book they somehow become it. He is introduced to them by the name of the book that they have become. It is much greater than just memorizing and repeating by rote, they take on that personality. It becomes their life’s work.
Again this morning we are invited and led into going deeper – with Mary, with the Rosary. Chapter One, Section 2 is all about “Living in Faith”. Constitution 36 is titled “In union with Mary” – not for the sake of being able to say we know Mary very well, but rather with her and under the guidance of the Spirit “we enter into closer union with Jesus Christ”.
Or as Dorothy Day said “Christ is there with us”.
Sheen said: “The power of the Rosary is beyond description.”
The ends are always the same, but it is about the journey and how we arrive at those ends. Hopefully our journey is filled with intentionality and purpose, as well as being able to exhaust all means of arriving at that one end – union with Jesus Christ, union with the Beloved.