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The Secret of the Rosary

"My dear brethren in Jesus Christ, I am a Doctor of Theology and a Doctor of Canon as well as
Civil law, but I say to you, as your Bishop, that I take more pride in wearing Our Lady's Rosary than
in any of my episcopal regalia or academic robes."

Thirty-Ninth Rose

Parish Transformed

A DANISH PRIEST used to love to tell how the very same improvement that the Spanish Bishop
noticed in his diocese had occurred in his own parish He always told his story with great rejoicing
of soul because it gave such glory to Almighty God. He said:
"I had preached as compellingly as I could, touching on
many aspects of our Holy Faith, and using every argument
I could possibly think of to get the people to amend their way
of life. But in spite of all my efforts they went unconcernedly about their way as before; and it
was then that I decided to preach the Holy Rosary.
"I told my congregations how precious it is and I taught
them how to say it. I kept on preaching the Holy Rosary and
the devotion took root in the parish. Six months later. I was overjoyed to see that people had
really changed for the better. How true it is that this God given prayer has divine power­
the power to touch our hearts and to fill them with horror of sin and the love of virtue!"
One day Our Lady said to Blessed Alan: "Just as Almighty God chose the Angelic Salutation to bring
about the Incarnation of His Word and the Redemption of mankind, in the same way those who want
to bring about moral reforms and who want people reborn in Jesus Christ must honor me and greet me
with the same salutation. I am the channel by which God came to men, and so, next to my Son Jesus
Christ, it is through me that men must obtain grace and virtue."
I, who write this, have learned from my own experience that
the Rosary has the power to convert even the most hardened hearts. I have known people who have
gone to missions and who have heard sermons on the most terrifying subjects without being in the
least moved; and yet, after they had, on my
advice, started to say the Rosary every day they eventually

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