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Eleventh Rose

but I cannot resist saying that the first few words "I believe in God" are marvelously effective as
a means of sanctifying our souls and of putting devils to rout, because these three words contain
the acts of the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity.
It was by saying I believe In God that the saints overcame
temptations, especially those against faith, hope or charity
whether they came during their lifetime or at their death. They were also the last words of St.
Peter, Martyr;2 a heretic had cleft his head in two by a cruel blow of his sword and St. Peter was
almost at his last gasp, but he somehow managed to trace these words in the sand with his finger
before he died.
The Holy Rosary contains many mysteries of Jesus and Mary and since faith is the only key which
opens up these mysteries for us we must begin the Rosary by saying the Creed very devoutly, and
the stronger our faith the more merit our Rosary will have.
This faith must be lively and informed by charity; in other
words, to recite properly the Rosary, it is necessary to be in
God's grace, or at least in quest of it. This faith must be strong and constant, that is, one must
not be looking for sensible
devotion and spiritual consolation in the recitation of the Rosary; nor should one give it up
because his mind is flooded with countless involuntary distractions or one experiences a strange
distaste in the soul and an almost continual and oppressive fatigue in the body Neither feeling,
nor consolation, nor sighs, nor transports, nor the continual attention of the imagination are
needed; faith and good intentions are quite enough. "Faith alone suffices."

Twelfth Rose

The Our Father

THE OUR FATHER or the Lord's prayer has great value all because 'of its Author Who is neither a
man nor an angel

1Saint Peter of Verona, O.P. 1206-1253. was a Dominican priest who fought heresy courageously
and zealously. He had the honor of receiving the habit from the hands of Saint Dominic himself.
He was appointed Inquisitor for Lombardy, and it was in discharging his duties that he gave his
life for the Faith.
1From the Pange Lingua.

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