Confidence in the Rosary!

Let us continue, as families, to pray the daily rosary no matter what obstacles are in the way. Through the intercession of the rosary, Our Lord most assuredly listens to our pleas. What better advocate can we have than our beloved Mother who knows what is closest to our hearts!

Confidence in the Rosary!

Article from The Catholic Hearth Magazine

Consoling revelations made to St. Dominic and Blessed Alanus by Our Blessed Lady regarding the fruitfulness of devotion to the holy Rosary, gave assurance of special protection and very great graces to all who should devoutly recite the Rosary. Mary likewise promised: “Whatever you ask through my Rosary, you shall obtain.”   

Can we wonder then that the graces, the spiritual and temporal favors that the clients of Mary have obtained through the Rosary are well-nigh countless? Truly, Mary never fails to prove herself faithful to her promises and is quick to hear those who, recalling the joyful, the sorrowful and the glorious events of her own blessed life, address to her their heartfelt petitions, imploring from her graces, consolation and aid in their necessities.  

Among the remarkable favors obtained through recourse to the Rosary, a missionary relates the following: When a fire broke out on the big ocean steamer “Morro Castle,” which caused its destruction and the death of over a hundred passengers, some being burnt and others drowned, there was amongst the survivors a lady who ascribed her safety to the Rosary. Some years previously she had visited Rome, where, at an audience, the Holy Father had presented her with a rosary and she had resolved always to carry it with her.  

When the fire signal was given on that fatal night she hurried to the deck grasping her rosary. Wild confusion reigned; some passengers were weeping, others cursing, others praying. Some people, maddened by the terrible heat, plunged into the sea and were drowned; others were overcome by the smoke and were burned.   

The good lady, too, was nearly desperate. With the rosary in her hand she walked to and fro, weeping and praying, not knowing whether it would be better to jump into the sea and be drowned or to remain on the boat and be burned. In the confusion someone ran against her with such violence that she was pushed into the water.   

She tried to swim but only used her left hand, whilst with the right one she held the rosary above the water and continued to pray. Just when her strength was almost gone a little boat came up and someone took hold of her outstretched hand with the rosary, and drew her in… She was saved!  

Another instance, the wonderful cure of a person whose life was despaired of, is recounted by a nurse, who was both the particular friend and the devoted nurse of the patient. While visiting a monastery with a group of friends, the nurse came upon a booklet explaining the “Rosary Novena,” and being attracted to it, purchased it despite the raillery of her companions that she was becoming too pious.   

Upon returning to her home, she learned that a classmate and very dear friend was critically ill. Seven doctors had been called in consultation and had agreed that medical science could do nothing for her. The nurse immediately volunteered her services as night nurse, nor did she cease praying for her dearly loved patient.   

Being an experienced nurse, she realized that no human aid could keep her patient alive. Night after night she sat at the bed while the blessed candle lighted for the dying burned low. Again and again the chaplain was called to recite the prayers for the dying.   

Each morning when she reported off duty, she expected never again to see the patient alive. But day followed day, and the tiny spark of life flickered on. People began to talk of the case as a miracle.   

On two successive nights cardiac stimulants failed to revive the patient, and all hope seemed lost. The novena prayers were continued, and despite all signs, the nurse’s faith did not waver.   

At last on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, the victory was won. The patient was better. She knew those about her. From that time on she continued to improve, until her health was restored. Faith and science had fought side by side for her recovery. Science declared she could not live. Faith persevered, and triumphed.  

An extraordinary escape from sudden death in an auto wreck is likewise attributed to the intervention of the Queen of the Holy Rosary. Relating this marvelous favor, the lady in question says:  “My car was almost a total wreck and no one can understand how I escaped being killed. I received a few bad bruises, but that was all. My work is writing insurance, and I cover a very large territory. Nearly always I am driving alone. I have had the habit for some time of praying the Rosary as I drive along the lonely roads. Sometimes I say as many as ten to thirty Rosaries a day. I had just finished the third Rosary and had wrapped the beads around my hand, when my car was wrecked. I owe my life to God, to His dear Mother, and my rosary.”  

The Catholic papers recently carried a report of how a party of refugees from Burma, India, made a discovery en route that all of them were Catholics and agreed to recite the Rosary together during their perilous journey.   

Having arrived at Mawalaik on the Chindwin River, they were held up for nearly a week, and it seemed they would get no farther. But, confiding in Our Lady, they began to storm heaven with their prayers and almost immediately their difficulties seemed to disappear. That same evening they were able to board a launch and proceed up the river to Sittang, and from thence successfully reached the end of their journey. Each evening the Rosary was recited in common and the soldiers found it a great source of strength and courage.  

This experience is paralleled by the daily recitation of the Rosary by Catholics, non-Catholics and a former avowed atheist, who after the battle of Java were reported missing. The Japanese invaded the area and came in such great numbers and with equipment so superior to that of the small Allied forces, that despite heroic efforts, the latter could not stand their ground.   

Among a group of thirty fugitives who escaped, there were five Catholics. The rest of the group consisted of Protestants, unbelievers and avowed atheists. Early in their march over rugged mountains, under a blazing tropical sun, suffering untold hardships, eating but odd meals of native corn and rice, sleeping under the stars with myriads of mosquitoes to harass them, fighting unknown diseases, but keeping bravely on until they arrived in safety in Australia, these soldiers began to invoke the help of the Blessed Virgin through the recitation of her Rosary.   

At first the five Catholics alone began the recitation of a daily Rosary. Very soon, to their surprise, a professedly casual Protestant asked to join them, and he remained with them after some of the others had organized a Sunday service of their own.   

After three weeks every man was devoting some time to prayer, and in the fifth week, a formerly staunch atheist began kneeling with the others to say the Rosary; the latter died on the trek, uttering Catholic prayers. The Protestant then took Instructions in the Catholic Faith. All attribute their final rescue to the intercession of Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary.  

In conclusion we cite the devotion of Garcia Moreno, the late President of Ecuador, to the Rosary.   

An incident is told of his having invited some Irish laborers to manage certain large sawmills that he had erected. He had occasion to visit the mills and inspect the work, and he asked the men to dine with him. During the course of the dinner he questioned the men on their religious observances and asked them to sing some hymns in honor of the Blessed Virgin. Then he proposed that all kneel down together and say her Rosary. Thus did this noble man proclaim his own devotion to Mary and incite others to greater fervor.   

When he had been laid low by the hand of an assassin, there were found on his breast a relic of the true Cross, the Scapular of the Passion and of the Sacred Heart, and about his neck, his rosary. 

If you have troubles, say the Rosary. If, amid your noisy and boisterous family, you are suffering loneliness, say the Rosary. Do you have fears and worries? Say the Rosary. Are your rosaries dry and distracted?…Keep saying it.

Truly, who knows better than Our Lady, Our Mother, our humanness, our failings, how small we are, how distracted we are. She will help. Persevere. Don’t give up. ~Leane VanderPutten

At the age of twenty, the Rosary and the Consecration to Our Lady (St. Louis de Montfort style) was what set my feet on solid ground in a world that spun around me with all sorts of “answers” to life’s problems. And I wanted answers….

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