Hoci je pravdou, ze srdce a viera je dolezitejsie ako samotne vzdelanie, poznanie viery je dolezite.

Odhodlanie a citove vnimanie nasej viery nemusi vzdy stacit , intelektualna intergrita a jasna doktrina su dolezite.

 Demonstrovat poznanie katolickej doktriny a tradicie.

Summary of Points So Far:

1) Moderns claim that the tradition of Mary giving the Rosary to Dominic is an etiological myth.

Etiologia - hladanie povodu alebo priciny, skumanie za tymto cielom

2) It is true: praying Our Fathers and Hail Marys on beads predates Saint Dominic (in fact, the word “bead” comes from the word “bid” meaning “pray” or “ask”).

Modlitba "na zrnkach" Otce nas a zdravas predchadzalo skutocnost, ze Dominik  by prvym,ktory sa modlil ruzenec.

3) The key to this debate is realizing that the Holy Rosary is not merely praying on beads, but praying the 150 Hail Mary’s with the 15 corresponding mysteries.* It is this special combination of 150 Hail Mary’s with the 15 mysteries that constitutes the Rosary and it is this “combination” of vocal and mental prayer that Mary gave to St Dominic.

Klucom je ,ze modlitba ruzenca nie je iba odriekavanie 150 Zdravasov, ale je to vokalna modlitba spojena s mentalnou,kedy sa rozjimaju tajomstva oz zivota Pana Jezisa a Panny Marie.

Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical Octobri mense, teaches that the Rosary does in fact have its origin from the Immaculate Mary herself “by her command and counsel” to Saint Dominic. Pope Leo XIII teaches:

“That the Queen of Heaven herself has granted a great efficacy to this devotion is demonstrated by the fact that it was, by her command and counsel, instituted and propagated by the illustrious St. Dominic, in times particularly dangerous for the Catholic cause.”

Papez Lev XIII. vo svojej encyklike OCTOBRI MENSE uci, ze RUZENEC ma svoj povod v Nepo3kvrnenej Marii skrze jej prikaz a radu svatemu Dominikovi. 

Papez Lev XIII. vyvsetluje, ze povodny zaklad Svateho Ruzeneca zahrnoval RADOSTNE, BOLESTNE a SLAVNOSTNE TAJOMSTVA, ktore papez nazyva VELKE TAJOMSTVA Jezisa a Marie, ich radosti, ich bolesti a slava.

Pope Leo XIII also clarified that this original institution of the Holy Rosary by Mary included the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries, which he calls the “great mysteries of Jesus and Mary, their joys, sorrows, and triumphs.”

Vo svojej SUPREMI APOSTOLATUS OFFICIO papez Lev XIII. opat potvrdzuje NADPRIRODZENY POVOD svateho ruzenca svateho Dominika.

In his Supremi Apostolatus Officio, Pope Leo XIII again confirms the supernatural origin of the Holy Rosary of Saint Dominic:

Great in the integrity of his doctrine, in his example of virtue, and by his apostolic labors, he proceeded undauntedly to attack the enemies of the Catholic Church, not by force of arms, but trusting wholly to that devotion which he was the first to institute under the name of the Holy Rosary, which was disseminated through the length and breadth of the earth by him and his pupils. Guided, in fact, by divine inspiration and grace, he foresaw that this devotion, like a most powerful warlike weapon, would be the means of putting the enemy to flight, and of confounding their audacity and mad impiety. Such was indeed its result. Thanks to this new method of prayer—when adopted and properly carried out as instituted by the Holy Father St. Dominic—piety, faith, and union began to return, and the projects and devices of the heretics to fall to pieces.”

 

Tradicia neskor bola potvrdena zjavenim Neposkvrnenej Marie bl.Alanom de la Roche:

The tradition is further confirmed by the apparition of the Immaculate Mary to Blessed Alan de la Roche:

 My son, you know perfectly the ancient devotion of my Rosary, preached and diffused by your Patriarch and my Servant Dominic and by his spiritual sons, your religious brothers. This spiritual exercise is extremely agreeable to both my Son and to me, and most useful and holy for the faithful.  When my Servant Dominic started to preach my Rosary … the reform in the world reached such heights that it seemed that men were transformed into angelic spirits and that Angels had descended from Heaven to inhabit the earth. … No one was considered a true Christian unless he had my Rosary and prayed it. … The prestige of the holy Rosary was such that no devotion was or is more agreeable to me after the august Sacrifice of the Mass.”

 

The Miracle of the Sun Symbolizes the Mysteries of the Rosary

by Dr Taylor Marshall

The Miracle of the Sun in 1917 symbolized the 15 decades of the Rosary.

Immediately after the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Miracle of the Sun in 1917, Lucy, Jacinta, and Francisco witnessed three apparitions. Lucia described them this way:

After Our Lady had disappeared into the immense distance of the firmament, we beheld St. Joseph with the Child Jesus and Our Lady robed in white with a blue mantle, beside the sun. St. Joseph and the Child Jesus appeared to bless the world, for they traced the Sign of the Cross with their hands. When, a little later, this apparition disappeared, I saw Our Lord and Our Lady; it seemed to me that it was Our Lady of Sorrows. Our Lord appeared to bless the world in the same manner as St. Joseph had done. This apparition also vanished, and I saw Our Lady once more, this time resembling Our Lady of Mount Carmel.”

So then the three extra apparitions were as follows:

1. The Holy Family – Jesus Mary and Joseph
2. Our Lady of Sorrows
3. Our Lady of Mount Carmel

What is the significance of these visions and their order? It seems to me that the reveal the historic ordering of the life Mary. Even more notable is that they mirror the three traditional sets of mysteries for the Holy Rosary:

1. Joyful Mysteries (which include Joseph)
2. Sorrowful Mysteries (which depict the sufferings of Jesus and Mary)
3. Glorious Mysteries (which culminate in the Queenship of Mary)

So then, the visions and their order are not at all arbitrary – they follow the pattern of the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary.

I would only add that the depiction of Our Lady of Mount Carmel for the Queenship of Mary is not at all surprising since we on earth enroll as her visible subjects by wearing the Holy Scapular. Christ’s reign through Mary is thereby manifested on earth through the Holy Scapular.

We must recall that the order of these mysteries is the same for all of us. We begin in a domestic setting – a family. We then endure the sufferings of this life – we carry our cross with Christ. Lastly, we receive our heavenly reward – to reign with Christ and Mary in glory.

How Mary Gave the Rosary to St Dominic

by Dr Taylor Marshal

In the year 1214 Saint Dominic, the founder of the Order of Preachers, was in anguish because he was failing in his attempt to convert the Albigensian Cathar heretics. St. Dominic attributed this to the deepness and gravity of sinfulness of the heretics and the poor example of Catholics. He went alone in to the forest and wept and prayed continuously for three days to appease the anger of Almighty God. He flogged his body and scourged his flesh. From the fasting, pain, and exhaustion, he passed in to a coma.

Dominic experienced an apparition of Blessed Mother Mary while in the coma, which forever links Saint Dominic and the Rosary. The Immaculate Mary with three angels appeared and asked St. Dominic, “Dear Dominic, do you know which weapon the Blessed Trinity wants to use to reform the world?” Dominic’s response was Blessed Mary knew better than he because she is a part of our salvation.

Mary responded, “I want you to know that, in this kind of warfare, the battering ram has always been the Angelic Psalter* which is the foundation stone of the New Testament. Therefore if you want to reach these hardened souls and win them over to God, preach my Psalter.”

Shortly after this apparition he preached the Holy Rosary to the unconverted Albigenisan heretics. To modify the Paternoster (150 Our Father’s) and in compliance with the instruction in the apparition, the design of the Saint Dominic Rosary came in to being. He set apart fifteen mysteries of the rosary, grouped them in to three sets of five decades each.

The groupings were designated as Joyous Mysteries, Sorrowful Mysteries and Glorious Mysteries. This design helped the Albigensian heretics to better understand and to imitate the virtuous life of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Immaculate and Blessed Mary.

* The “Angelic Salutation” is the “Hail Mary” prayer and the Psalter is the 150 Psalms. Thus, she wanted 150 Hail Mary’s – which is what the Holy Rosary is – 15 decades of Hail Mary’s with 15 corresponding mysteries to contemplate.

Two recommended books on the sweet and Immaculate Mary: one by Saint Louis de Montfort, the other by Saint Alphonsus Liguori. You can’t go wrong with either…or both