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The Secret of the Rosary

sorry for their sins offer Me lip service only and their hearts are far from Me."
I have just said that to say the Rosary to advantage one must
be in a state of grace "or at least be fully determined to give
up mortal sin;" first of all, because, if it were true that God
only heard the prayers of those in a state of grace it would
follow that people in a state of mortal sin should not pray at all.
This is an erroneous teaching which has been condemned
by Holy Mother Church. because of course sinners need to pray far more than good people do. Were
this horrible doctrine true it would then be useless and futile to tell a sinner to say all, or
even part of his Rosary, because it would never help him.
Secondly, because if they join one of Our Lady's confraternities and recite the Rosary or some
other prayer, but with out having the slightest intention of giving up sin, they join the ranks of
her false devotees. These presumptuous and im-
 penitent devotees, hiding under her mantle, wearing the scapular and with rosary in hand, cry
out: "Blessed Virgin, good
Mother Hail, Mary! " And yet at the same time, by their sins, they are crucifying Our Lord Jesus
Christ and tearing His flesh anew. It is a great tragedy, but from the very ranks of
Our Lady's most holy Confraternities souls are falling into the fires of hell.
We earnestly beg everyone to say the Holy Rosary: the just
that they may persevere and grow in God's grace; the sinners
that they may rise from their sins. But God forbid that we should ever encourage a sinner to think
that Our Lady will protect him With Her mantle if he continues to love sin, for then it will only
turn into a mantle of damnation which will hide his sins from the public eye. The Rosary, which is
a cure for all our ills, would then be turned into deadly poison. "A corruption of what is best is
worst."
 The learned Cardinal Hugues says: "One should really be as pure as an angel to approach the
Blessed Virgin and to say the Angelic Salutation." One day Our Lady appeared to an immoral man
who used to always say his Rosary every day. She showed him a bowl of beautiful fruit, but the bowl
itself was covered with filth. The man was horrified to see this, and Our
Lady said: ''This is the way you are honoring me! You are
giving me beautiful roses in a filthy bowl. Do you think I can
accept presents of this kind?''

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