Oct

7

Prayer to Mary, Mother of the Life Within

October 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

O Mary, Mother of the Life Within,
all life we entrust to you;
The life of every expectant mother
and the child within her womb:
The life of every human body,
the life of every human soul;
The life of every newborn child
and the life of all grown old.
You held the Lord to your own heart
and drew Him so close in.
So [...]

Oct

7

The Feast of the Holy Rosary

October 7, 2007 | 3 Comments

Adapted from The Liturgical Year Book V by: Abbot Gueranger, O.S.B.
“Such is Mary’s Rosary, a new and fruitful vine, which began to blossom at Gabriel’s salutation, and whose fragrant garlands form a link between earth and heaven.”    Abbot Gueranger
It is customary with men of the world to balance their accounts at the end of [...]

Oct

7

Our Lady of the Rosary

October 7, 2007 | 1 Comment

It was St. Dominic in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries who encouraged everyone to say the Rosary. St. Dominic was greatly saddened by the spread of a terrible heresy called Albigensianism. With the members of his new Order of Preachers, he was trying his best to destroy this dangerous heresy. He begged the [...]

Oct

7

The Fruit of Silence

October 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The fruit that silence brings is known to him who has experienced it. In the early stages of our Carthusian life we may find silence a burden; however, if we are faithful, there will gradually be born within us of our silence itself something, that will draw us on to still greater silence. ~ The [...]