26TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Psalter: Week 1 / (White)
Our Lady of the Rosary / Memorial of Blessed Virgin Mary
Ps 69:33-35, 36-37
The Lord listens to the poor.
1st Reading: Bar 4:5-12, 27-29
Take courage, my people, you who preserve the memory of Israel. You have been sold to the nations but not for your destruction; because you had aroused the anger of God, you were delivered to your enemies. For you displeased your Creator in sacrificing to demons and not to God. You have forgotten the Eternal God, the one who nourished you. You have filled Jerusalem with sadness, she who brought you up. For she saw the anger of God fall on you and she said, ”Listen, you neighboring cities of Zion, God has sent me a great sorrow. I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Eternal one brought on them. I had nurtured them in joy; with tears and sadness I saw them leave. Let no one rejoice on seeing me a widow and abandoned by all. Because of the sins of my children I am now alone, because they have turned away from the law of God.
Take courage, my children, cry out to God, for he who sent you into exile will remember you. Thus, as you distanced yourself from God, return to him and seek him ten times more earnestly. For he who caused these evils to fall on you will bring you salvation and eternal joy.
Gospel: Lk 10:17-24
The seventy-two disciples returned full of joy. They said, ”Lord, even the demons obeyed us when we called on your name.” Then Jesus replied, ”I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. You see, I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the Enemy, so that nothing will harm you. Nevertheless, don‘t rejoice because the evil spirits submit to you; rejoice, rather, that your names are written in heaven.”
At that time, Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit, and said, ”I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and made them known to little ones. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. I have been given all things by my Father, so that no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said to them privately, ”Fortunate are you to see what you see, for I tell you, that many prophets and kings would have liked to see what you see, but did not see it; and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”
REFLECTION:
On this day of our Blessed Mother, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, let us reflect on what our great men of the church said about the rosary.
”The Rosary is my favorite prayer, a marvelous prayer.”
~ St. John Paul II
”If you desire peace in your hearts, your homes and your country, assemble every evening to pray the Rosary.”
~ Pope Pius IX
”This simple and profound prayer, the Rosary, teaches us to make Christ the principle and end, not only of Marian devotions, but of our entire life.”
~ Bl. Paul VI
”The Rosary is an excellent means of professing our faith”
~ Pope Leo XIII
”If you do not want refusal, entrust to Mary‘s care everything that you want to offer to God.”
~ St. Bernard
”Say the entire Rosary well every day; in the hour of death you will bless the moment you chose so holy a resolution.”
~ St Louis de Monfort
”Stop putting flowers at the feet of the Blessed Virgin Mother if you are not prepared to live in public life as real daughters and sons of Mary.”
~ Pope Pius XII
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