Some
Spiritual Aspects of the use of the Rosary
during
the Prayer of the Heart
1-
Mary's Fire, God's transformative Beam
Mary's
is
purity itself and it
is the absence of anything that is not God in Her that
precipitates this transformation.
She is fully moved by God, the Holy Spirit.
2-
Establishing Peace
What
is Peace? No obstacles or impurities or any created thing between us
and God.
Peace:
Jesus
is the king of Peace. He established in us and amongst us God's
Peace. He purified us, removing all what is not God in us. Peace is
the very nature of God. Anything that is not God in us is
"war"
fighting against God. Peace is to be "from God to God".
It
is being united to God.
It
is participating in the very Life of God, breathing from His
"oxygen", the Holy Spirit, the Divine Breath. The purer we
become, the greater is the Peace of God in us.
The
Holy Spirit is the author of this "pacifying" work of God
in us. He removes all
what
is not God from us, and He does it at all levels: the deepest and
most hidden one is the roots of our being, our spirit, or heart (the
supra-conscious
part in us, operating
above the level of our conscious rational thought).
During the Prayer of the Heart,
the Holy Spirit works in that important part of our being -
like water
that
works giving life to
the roots of a tree. This action is essential and is allowed to
happen when we practise the Prayer of the Heart. So God directs the
Beam of His Light and Love, the Holy Spirit, towards our heart and
purifies it, introducing a closer communion with him: this
creates the
Peace
between us and God.
3-
Apostolate, Mary's Apostolate
Reciting
the
Rosary, in the form
of Prayer
of the Heart is a central weapon of conquest
(Evangelisation)
and
the
most powerful one. It places us at the front of the "war"
of conquest deep
in the hearts of our brothers and sisters.
Saying
silently and quietly:
praying
the rosary is like: directing the beam of Mary's Fire on the needs or
obstacles of our brothers and sisters, until they are resolved (until
it dilutes).
St. Therese of the Child Jesus explains what happens when
we say it automatically and we don't think of a specific person.
(Please see this post commenting quotes from St Therese on intercessory prayer).
It
is in the forefront, helping to spread the
Peace of God, communion with Him and
therefore removing
all obstacles between our brothers and Jesus.
Mary Star of the New Evangelisation |
4-
The Deep Contemplative Way
When
we enter in the Prayer of the Heart while holding our Rosary and
saying silently the
prayers of
"Our Father" and "Hail Marys" and "Glory
be”, we are in fact entering deeper with Mary into
the very life of the Trinity, participating
in the
Trinity's Being and Life in
its operations and acts.
The
Trinity has two inner operations:
- The Father begets the Son,
- The Father and the Son love one another in one movement: the spiration of the Holy Spirit.
The
Trinity has outer operations:
- The Father sends the Son to each human being (so He grows in him) and
- The Father sends the Holy Spirit, His love, to each human being.
Practising
the Prayer of the Heart with Mary, in Mary, allows
- God's Being,
- The inner operations and
- The outer operation that happens in us and through us, here on earth.
Nobody
can
see
that action, even
though
it
is the most important action,
communication,
change, on earth, but it happens.
Practising the Prayer of the Heart with Mary is participating
in
the
transformation of ourselves and
the entire world through
us and in us.
This
way of praying
the Rosary is not an alternative to the usual
way of saying the Rosary (meditating Jesus' Mysteries: the
Joyful, Light, Sorrowful, and Glorious), it is a complementary way
just
as there
are two
parts in the Mass: the Liturgy of the Word - that would be the
meditation of the Rosary as it is commonly known, and the Liturgy of
the Body and Blood of Christ (the
explanation here of Prayer of the Heart).
Both are prayed
"with
Mary and in Mary". They
are like two “digestive” processes of the two aspects of the
Bread we receive in the Mass (Word and Body of Jesus). Which means:
when we we meditate on the daily readings before or fater the Mass,
doing Lectio Divina we take time to digest the Word of God given to
us during the Mass. When we practice the Prayer of the Heart, before
or after the Mass (at any time of the day) in fact we are taking time
to digest the grace of our last Communion.
5-
Mary
is Jesus'
Gift to each one of us
Only
Jesus is God. But Mary is "flesh of his flesh". Through
the
incarnation of the Jesus, Mary
is the archetype of Jesus' disciple (see Catechism of the Catholic Church numbers: 148-149,
165, 273, 411, 466-469, 484-506-511, 529, 721-726, 773, 829,
963-967-975, 1014, 1172, 2617-2619, 2673-2676, 2679, 2682). In
Mary we find the fullness of Jesus. Mary's way of knowing and Loving
Jesus is the most perfect gift
from God
to us giving
us access to her life in Jesus Christ.
In Baptism God gives us
Himself
and Faith. In giving us
Mary's Faith,
we receive both the
'New Wine' and the 'New Wineskin'. God doesn't give us only one
thing: i.e. the New Wine, or the New Seed. He gives us two things:
not
only the
New Wine (Himself, the Trinity, Jesus) but
also He
gives us the
capacity to receive him,
to
know him and to love him.
This capacity is embodied
in Jesus' principal
disciple,
Mary. Mary is personally given to us. This is why it was a
fundamental act when Jesus was giving himself on the Cross to us, to
give us the capacity to receive him, when
He said:
Behold!
Here is your mother
(John 19).
Holding
the Rosary in our hands is humbly confessing that we receive Mary in
our place, in our life, and that we understand who she is in God's
eyes.
When
we hold the Rosary, we confess the whole
totality
of our Faith and not just
part
of it. We hold the most secure understanding and practice of our
faith.
6-
Conquering Peace
Sometimes when we
pray the Prayer of the Heart when we don’t have the gentle peace or
the
feeling of the
divine grace poured in us, how should we pray? This is when we
should
hold our Rosary, saying it in
this contemplative way of Prayer of the
Heart. In doing
so, we are akin to directing the beam
of the Holy Spirit on the conflict in
our feelings of "war". We do
so until it subsides
and often toward the end of the hour, we find that Peace returns.
A battle was won. Did you see or watch any
details of this battle? No. It is Mary.
We don't need anything more than the presence of Mary..
We just do our part, as faithful soldiers. Mary
manages the rest.
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