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The Secret of the Rosary

merits of Our Lord's obedience, of His sufferings and of His Precious Blood. The whole of the
heavenly court also receives an accidental joy from the Mass. Several doctors of the Church
 together with Saint Thomas Aquinas-tell us that, for the same reason, all the blessed in Heaven
rejoice in the communion of the faithful because the Blessed Sacrament is a memorial of the
passion and death of Jesus Christ, and that by means of it men share in its fruits and work out
their salvation.
Now, the Holy Rosary, recited together with meditation on the sacred mysteries is a sacrifice of
praise to God to thank Him for the great grace of our redemption. It is also a holy reminder of the
sufferings, death and glory of Jesus Christ. It is therefore true that the Rosary gives glory, gives
an accidental joy to Our Lord, to Our Lady and to all the blessed because they cannot desire
anything greater or more contributive to our eternal happiness than to see us engaged in a ·prac­
tice which is so glorious for Our Lord and so salutary for ourselves.
The Gospel teaches us that a sinner who is converted and who does penance gives joy to all the
angels. If the repentance and conversion of one sinner is enough to make the angels rejoice, how
great must be the happiness and jubilation of the whole heavenly court and what glory for Our
Blessed Lord
Himself to see us here on earth meditating devoutly and lovingly on His humiliations and torments
and on His cruel an ignominious death! Could anything possibly touch our
hearts more surely than this and be more calculated to inspire us to true and sincere repentance?
A Christian who does not meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary is very ungrateful to Our Lord and
shows how little he cares for all that our Divine Savior has suffered to save the
world. This attitude seems to show that he knows little or
nothing of the life of Jesus Christ, and that he has never taken the trouble to find out about Him
what He did and what He went through in order to save us.
A Christian of this kind ought to fear that having never known Jesus Christ or having put Him out
of his mind and heart, He will disown him at the Day of Judgment and will say reproachfully: "Amen
I say to you, I know you not."1
Let us, then, meditate on the life and sufferings of Our Lord by means of the Holy Rosary; let us
learn to know Him well

1Matt. 25:12

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