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Twenty-Seventh Rose

Neri as well as many other great men whom I have not mentioned were deeply devoted to the Holy
Rosary.
Follow their example; your spiritual directors will be pleased
and if they are aware of the benefit that you can derive from this devotion, they will be the very
first to urge you to adopt it.

Twenty-Seventh Rose

Benefits

I SHOULD LIKE to give you even more reason for embracing this devotion which so many great souls
have practised; the Rosary recited with meditation on the mysteries brings about the following
marvelous results:
1. it gradually gives us a perfect knowledge of Jesus Christ;
2. it purifies our souls, washing away sin;
3. it gives us victory over all our enemies;
4. it makes it easy for us to practice virtue;
5. it sets us on fire with love of Our Blessed Lord;
6. it enriches us with graces and merits;
7. it supplies us with what is needed to pay all our debts to
God and to our fellow men, and finally, it obtains all kinds of graces for us from Almighty God.
The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the science of Christians and the science of salvation; Saint Paul
says that it surpasses
all human sciences in value and perfection.1This is true:
1. because of the dignity of its object, which is a God man
compared to Whom the whole universe is but a drop of dew
or a grain of sand;
2. because of its helpfulness to us; human sciences, on the other hand, but fill us with the smoke
and emptiness of pride;
3. and finally, because of its utter necessity: for no one can possibly be saved without the
knowledge of Jesus Christ and yet a man who knows absolutely nothing of any of the other sciences
will be saved as long as he is illumined by the science of Jesus Christ.

Blessed is the Rosary which gives us this science and knowledge of our Blessed Lord through our
meditations on His life, death, passion and glory.
1Cf, Philipp, 3:8.

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