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Sixth Rose
 
speaking-but in this case you forfeit your participation in the prayers, good works and merits of
the Confraternity. More­ over, because you have not been faithful in things that are little and of
supererogation, almost without knowing it you may fall into the habit of neglecting big things such
as those duties which bind under pain of sin. For-"He that contemneth small things, shall fall by
little and little."1
1Ecclus. 19:1.

Sixth Rose

Mary's Psalter

EVER SINCE Saint Dominic established the devotion to the Holy Rosary up until the time when
Blessed Alan de la Roche
re-established it in 1460 it has always been called the Psalter of Jesus and Mary. This is because
it has the same number of Angelic Salutations as there are psalms in the Book of the Psalms of
David. Since simple and uneducated people are not able to say the Psalms of David the Rosary is
held to be just as fruitful for them as David's Psalter is for others.
But the Rosary can be considered to be even more valuable
than the latter for three reasons:
1. Firstly, because the Angelic Psalter bears a nobler fruit,
that of the Word Incarnate, whereas David's Psalter only prophesies His coming;
.2. Secondly, just as the real thing is more important than its
- prefiguration and as the body is more than its shadow,
in the same way the Psalter of Our Lady is greater than David's Psalter -which did no more than
prefigure it;
3. And thirdly, because Our Lady's Psalter (or the Rosary
made up of the Our Father and Hail Mary) is the direct work of the Most Blessed Trinity and was not
made through a human instrument. 
Our Lady's Psalter or Rosary is divided up into three parts of five decades each, for
the. following special reasons:
1.To honor the three" Persons of the Most Blessed Trinity;
2. To honor the life, death and glory of Jesus Christ;
3. To imitate the Church Triumphant, to help the members
of the Church Militant and to lessen the pains of the
Church Suffering;

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