| There are people who give the Rosary a bad name, | | | | our proper end, eternal life; to know the one true God |
| they give this beautiful and wondrous devotion the pain | | | | and Jesus Christ. John 17:3 |
| and the stain of their own sin by praying it selfishly, | | | | Repent and Believe |
| desiring the opposite circumstances and/or outcomes | | | | Our happiness, lies in the knowledge of -----How things |
| that Jesus specifically speaks against; our own wills as | | | | work and how to work them, |
| opposed to the Will of the Father, which art in Heaven. | | | | For the good of self; the good of all mankind. -----For |
| Some people also, construe the Rosary, as a means | | | | the law of the mind is the law of belief. |
| of all kinds of evil and devious deeds that can be | | | | We are exhorted to repent and believe, for to |
| performed under the guise of overt and pious | | | | -----Believe, is the beginning of everything. |
| religiosity, pointing their wicked index fingers like The | | | | For The Scrupulous |
| Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz to we, | | | | Be not be afraid of the touch of the Holy Spirit, |
| who ask the question of the sincerity of motives. | | | | -----Believe in the power; the wisdom of the Gospels; |
| Have you noticed in the world today, and we can be | | | | The Good News, 'That while we were yet sinners, the |
| very sure that this happened before we came on the | | | | -----Father sent his only begotten Son, Jesus, that |
| scene and will continue to happen after we leave, that | | | | whoso- |
| people pray to God and turn around and kill their | | | | Ever believes in him, will have the power to become a |
| neighbors; or are in such a disgust that God became | | | | -----Son of God and have a share in everlasting life'. |
| Man in human flesh that they emphatically deny Him at | | | | The Dark Wall |
| the very same time denying their very own existence | | | | I was in the dark; a darkness thicker than -----the black |
| without knowing it and stating that they see, while all | | | | pitch of night, walking without |
| the time they are blind and will receive the promise of | | | | Hope or focus, walking without sense or sight. -----I |
| Our Lord Jesus that, they will die in their sins because | | | | heard my name called out to me in a voice |
| they have said that, they can see; may they enjoy the | | | | I did not recognize; yet, more familiar than my own. |
| view! | | | | -----I stopped, stood, looking towards the sound, and |
| Well then, how should we pray the Rosary? We | | | | The dark night, like a robe fell from around me. -----In |
| should pray this devotion according to St. Dominic, with | | | | the light I saw the wall that had kept me in, so |
| love and sincerity, offering our petitions and asking, not | | | | That I would not stumble or fall. It was not the 'how' |
| that our wills be done, but, God's will be done, in order | | | | -----or 'why', nor even that I should 'know', but the |
| that we pray the Rosary well, according to the mind | | | | peace, |
| and heart of love in the power of the Holy Spirit, which | | | | In the hope that it is by faith, it should be so. The Love |
| will bind us so that we not falter and be preserved to | | | | -----that conquers all is from within the searching heart. |