Lord, may your will be done – not my will, but your will be done. Uniting ourselves to Mary as we pray the Rosary is uniting ourselves to her Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, upon whom the salvation of the world rests. Opening our heart in prayer, therefore, is an invitation to God, who yearns to be with His children like any loving father yearns to be with those he loves, so that we may allow him to love us as he wishes to love us so that we may invite him to conform us to His will for our lives. But if we allow ourselves – if our hearts our open – the Lord can change and transform us so that one day we can speak with love about the One who is love. So, like John, we too are invited to take Mary into our own homes that we may learn more from her about – and more deeply about – Jesus, by meditating on key events of the life of Christ. It is here that Jesus instructs John the Apostle, “Son, behold your mother” … and he tells Mary, “behold your son” (Jn 19:25-27). Later she would be with Jesus at the foot of the cross at Calvary. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen would often remind us: Mary spent ten times more of Christ’s life with him, than the three years the Apostles – his closest disciples – did. Most certainly, as any good mother, she sang to him, played with him, read to him, prayed with him, and performed the duties that any loving mother would do with and for her child.
She cradled the Christ-child after birth. She bore the Son of God in her womb for nine months. Perhaps no one in history knows Jesus more closely than the Virgin Mary. Put simply, the Rosary is a prayerful meditation on the life of Jesus Christ through the eyes of his mother. It’s also one of the most commonly misunderstood, which is often the case for many of our Protestant brothers and sisters. The Rosary is one of the most beautiful prayers in the Catholic tradition.
To pray the Rosary is to hand over our burdens to the merciful hearts of Christ and His mother.” Saint Pope John Paul II the rosary: beautiful.
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