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WHY THE ROSARY?

A FEW GOOD REASONS

For world peace

"Say the Rosary every day, to obtain peace for the world."
-Our
Lady of Fatima, 1917.

In his
encyclical Mense Maio ("In the Month of May"),
P
ope Paul VI urged Christians to pray to Our Lady Queen
of
Peace for world peace. He laid special emphasis on
the Rosary
, " the prayer so dear to Our Lady and so highly
recommended
by the Supreme Pontiffs."

A means for preserving the home

"There is no surer means of calling down God's blessings
upon the
family ... than the daily recitation of the Rosary."
-P
ope Pius XII.

"If families will
but listen to my message and give Our
Lady ten
minutes of their twenty-four hours by reciting
the daily Family Rosary
, I assure them that their homes
will
become, by God's grace, peaceful , prayerful places little
heaven
s, which God the Author of home life has intended
they
should be! " -Father Peyton .

For courage in the hardships of life

" . .. a powerful means of renewing our courage will
undoubtedly be
found in the Holy Rosary . . . "
-Pop
e Leo XIll.

As a ready and easy means of preserving the Faith

" ...
We have elsewhere brought it to the attention of the
devout Christian that
not least among the advantages of
the Ro
sary is the ready means it puts in his hands to nurture
his
faith, and to keep him from ignorance of his
religion
and the danger of error." -Pope Leo XIII

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