In the book
"The Secret of the Rosary" by St. Louis De Montfort, St. Louis tells us
the following about the Holy Rosary on page 25:
"Sixth Rose"
"Mary's Psaltar"
"Ever since St. Dominic established the devotion to the Holy Rosary
up until the time when Blessed Alan de la Roche re-established it in 1460
it has always been called the Psalter of Jesus and Mary. This is
because it has the same number of Angelic Salutations as there are psalms
in the Book of the Psalms of David. Since simple and uneducated people
are not able to say the Psalms of David the Rosary is held to be just as
fruitful for them as David's Psalter is for others.
But the Rosary can be considered to be even more
valuable than the latter for three reasons:
1. Firstly, because the Angelic Psalter bears
a nobler fruit, that of the Word Incarnate, whereas David's Psalter only
prophesies His coming;
2. Secondly, just as the real thing is more
important than its prefiguration and as the body is more than its shadow,
in the same way the Psalter of Our Lady is greater than David's Psalter
which did no more than prefigure it;
3. And thirdly, because Our Lady's Psalter
[or the Rosary made up of the Our Father and Hail Mary] is the direct
work of the Holy Trinity and was not made through a human instrument.
Our Lady's Psalter or Rosary is divided
up into three parts of five decades each, for the following special
reason:
1. To Honor the three Persons of the Most
Blessed Trinity;
2. To Honor the life, death and glory of
Jesus Christ;
3. To imitate the Church Triumphant, to
help the members of the Church Militant and to lessen the pains of the
Church suffering;
4. To imitate the three groups into which
the Psalms are divided:
a.) The first being
for the purgative life,
b.) The second
for the illuminative life;
c.) and the third
for the unitive life:
5. And, finally, to give us Graces in abundance
during our lifetime, peace at death, and Glory in Eternity."
The above is the main reason for not adding the Luminois Mysteries of
John Paul II, to this site, and also to point out the fact that no Pope
since the Blessed Trinity gave us the Most Holy Rosary through the Blessed
Virgin Mary, has ever added or subtracted a thing to the Rosary.
Many Popes have written Encyclicals about the Rosary and have propagated
it but, have never added to it or subtracted from it.
The Blessed Mother added the prayer "O My
Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls
to Heaven, especially those who are most in need of Thy Mercy." She gave
us this prayer at Fatima, Portugal in 1917 through the three little children,
Lucy, Francisco and Jacinta when She appeared to them.
There are many web sites that one can go to for the "Luminous
Mysteries" if one really wants them, but this site will stay Traditional,
by propagating the Traditional Rosary given to us by the Blessed Trinity
through the Blessed Virgin Mary, our Most Holy and Blessed Mother.
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