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Message from Cardinal Mauro Piacenza On the occasion of the memorial of our Lady of the Rosary   versione testuale


 
 
Dear Priests and Deacons,
 
The annual liturgical memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary gives rise to some thoughts that I would like to share with you.
 
There is evidence, not least from the recent World Youth Day in Madrid, that the Holy Rosary has "come back into fashion" with the faithful – the young and not so young, the the laity, and consecrated men and women.
 
One of the many gifts that Blessed John Paul II gave the Church was just this: to have replaced the Holy Rosary beads into the hands of everyone. With his own example, the Blessed Pope motivated and supported those who, even when ridiculed, had never abandoned this pious practice. He also gave the reasoning behind the Rosary, not just the spiritual and Marian reasons but also the Christological and ecclesiological aspects, as it is upon the mysteries of the Redemption, that this splendid prayer is founded.