Yesterday I told you about a new Marian Apparition that was approved by Rome. The following is the list of general devotions to Our Lady, the Mystical Rose, whose feast day is this upcoming Saturday, July 13th!
1. Each 13th day of the month must be dedicated to special acts of devotion to Mary, with preparation of prayer and mortification during the 12 preceding days.
2. First Sunday after Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday!): we honor the Anniversary of the coming of Rosa Mystica to Fontenelle, where she blessed the water manifesting God’s mercy.
The springs are reputed to have miraculous curative powers, just like that of Lourdes.
3. The 13th of July each year will be celebrated in honor of Mary as the “Rosa Mystica.”
4. The 13th of October of the first year (I assume this is 2024? The “first year” of the aparition’s approval?) and then the second Sunday of the month each year thereafter will be sanctified with Holy Communion of Reparation, preceded by confession.
Under this title, Holy Communions of Reperation, prayer groups or congregations can be formed.
5. Each year on December 8th, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, at midday the Hour of Grace will be practiced, awaiting particular graces of conversion and sanctification, promised for that hour. It shall be practiced in one’s own church, worshiping the most Blessed Sacrament if possible; otherwise privately or in groups of prayer.
6. Go to the blessed spring, in procession, with pentitential prayers and bring the sick. Those in need of spiritual help for themselves and for their loved ones shall go there in a pilgrimage.
(Obviously this can’t be done if you live far from Italy. Perhaps in the future Rome will make allowances for this and it can be done at Marian shrines outside of Italy.)
7. The three words signified by the three roses, “Prayer, Sacrifice, and Penance,” remain fundamental characteristics of the devotion of Mary Rosa Mystica. We are to pray with perserverance and not seek to avoid sufferings. We are to do this on behalf of consecrated souls, and in particular for the conversion of consecrated souls who are unfaithful to their vocation; for the sactification of souls; and for an increase in the number of religious and priestly vocations. This purpose for the devotion was first suggested by Mary primarily for religious institutes, while remaining a proposal open to everyone.
8. Also characteristic of all these messages is the purpose of reparation for offenses against the sacrament of the Eucharist, against the name of God and of Jesus, against the privaleges of Mary, against the Church and the Pope, against the innocence of the young ones and of simple souls, against the sacredness of human life and the sancity of the family.
Naturally presupposed in all of these devotional practices is the obeservance of the Commandments, the practice of Christian virtues and first of all charity towards our neighbor.
Now we come to the daily observances of the devotion:
Everyday, make an effort to pray:
- the Rosary
- the Chaplet of Tears (This is also known as the Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary, but their version has additional prayers when said in community with others. But I will just say the standard Seven Sorrows Chaplet as it’s already a part of my membership in the Knights at the Foot of the Cross, an apostolate within the Militia of the Immaculata.)
- the Chaplet of St. Michael
- the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Thers is also this special version of the Rosary: A Meditated Holy Rosary, that is, “The Rosary of Three Roses”
I JUST LOVE HAVING NEW DEVOTIONS TO DO!
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