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Facing cancer with Mary : reflections, prayers and spiritual practices
Catherine Stewart was not feeling well, but she never dreamed that she was suffering from stage 3 colon cancer. With her life suddenly turned upside down, she turned to Mary and the mysteries of the Rosary for solace and strength. Mary became her cherished companion through the devastating months of treatment. Now in recovery, Catherine shares her story so that we too can make Mary our travel companion through the devastating events of our own lives.
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Propagating the Rosary in the Early Qing—A Case Study of del Rosario’s Comprehensive Manuscript
Studies on the Rosary in the late Ming and early Qing usually focus on works written by Jesuits and mostly stem from an artistic aspect. This article, however, shifts the focus to The True Peace of Humankind, a manuscript written by the Dominican missionary Arcadio del Rosario in the seventeenth century, the first comprehensive book on the Rosary in Chinese. It first summarizes the early-stage propagation of the Rosary in China by the Jesuits and then examines the structure and content of The True Peace of Humankind. It is noteworthy that the manuscript repeatedly uses an analogy with flowers to highlight Mary’s intercession. Dating back to the Catholic tradition in Europe, the propagation of the Rosary through analogy with flowers resembles the propagation of reciting Buddhist prayers in Chinese society. This article applies contextual studies to explore two main questions: how is del Rosario’s manuscript different from the previous texts on the Rosary written by the Jesuits? What is the significance of the manuscript in the context of the Chinese Rites Controversy?
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Experiences and Perceived Effects of Rosary Praying
The aim of this study is to explore experiences and perceived effects of the Rosary on issues around health and well-being, as well as on spirituality and religiosity. A qualitative study was conducted interviewing ten Roman Catholic German adults who regularly practiced the Rosary prayer. As a result of using a tangible prayer cord and from the rhythmic repetition of prayers, the participants described experiencing stability, peace and a contemplative connection with the Divine, with Mary as a guide and mediator before God. Praying the Rosary was described as helpful in coping with critical life events and in fostering an attitude of acceptance, humbleness and devotion.
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Praying by Number: The Confraternity of the Rosary and the English Catholic Community, c.1580-1700
The image of the rosary recurs as a constant and familiar sign throughout the sources of Reformation English Catholicism. It rarely elicits comment other than to mark it as an example of a remnant of late medieval devotion, which survived and continued to be practised by the recusant community. This article argues that such impressions of quiescence and continuity are deceptive. The devotion was revised and amended by the Jesuits in the light of Counter-Reformation initiatives and teaching and specifically adapted to meet the particular conditions they encountered on the English mission. Newly refigured, the rosary was encoded and promoted among English Catholics within the context of the Confraternity of the Rosary. In this way, the Jesuits redeveloped the rosary both as a simple and effective didactic instrument which they used to bring Counter-Reformation doctrine and practice into the heart of the English Catholic community, and as a symbol of Catholic loyalty to encourage Catholic separation and recusancy.
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Tracing the Origins of the Rosary: German Vernacular Texts
From its origins in the twelfth century, the rosary grew to become the most popular extraliturgical prayer of the Catholic church. Why this text—of all the medieval experiments in religious exercises—succeeded so dramatically has to do with the form of the text itself and with developments in popular religious piety. Like other medieval texts, the rosary was “written” collectively, that is, by accretion, experimentation, and revision, as users adapted it to evolving spiritual and practical ends. The most significant development in this process was the addition of “mysteries” (i.e., meditations on the life of Christ) to the prayer, which profoundly changed its character and created a new religious exercise uniquely suited to the needs of the lay faithful. Ultimately, the devotion shaped, and was shaped by, the demands of the laity for new, more individual and private forms of religious observance.
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Works on Our Lady
This is a devout thesis, ‘in sensu composito', and is well worth reading and acting upon. Briefly, the author believes that he has hit upon a great truth in St John's gospel which hardly anyone seems to have adverted to, viz., that on Calvary the Beloved Disciple was entrusted to the care and guardianship of Mary not merely as the representative of the human race but as a priest: it was because he was a priest that he could adequately an” properly be chosen to represent all mankind at the foot of the cross. There is much more to say for this thesis than might appear at first glance. The author has marshalled many persuasive reasons and presented them forcefully. His style is rather alarming, with capitals and thick typ and broken sentences strewn all over the pages, and one fears he would defend it as ‘the psychology of the printed word’ (he does go so far as ‘ speak of the ‘psychology of our Lord on the cross’) but one soon gets use to this, and it has its advantages.
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Introduction
The coincidence of the famine of 1570 and the plague of 1576 with a sharp economic inflation that peaked in 1581 left the citizens of Post-Tridentine Milan feeling uneasy and prepared to engage with the mysteries of life after death in much the same way that many in the post-9/11 world were compelled to reengage with concepts of spirituality.² The notion that God had sent the plague of 1576 as punishment for the city’s wantonness and worldliness and that he would stay it as a reward for appropriate demonstrations of spirituality had become strongly entrenched in the Milanese psyche by
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Invoking the Mulier Fortis
For inhabitants of Post-Tridentine Italy, no instrument associated with the Blessed Virgin possessed more spiritual force than the Rosary. Also commonly known as thecoronaor garland, the Rosary was the primary means of accessing the intercessory power of Mary as Mulier Fortis, the virtuous woman who crushed the head of the proverbial serpent.¹ Praying the Rosary while meditating upon its fifteen mysteries allowed the devoted communicant to realize the miraculous potential of the Virgin’s influence and demonstrate its use in overcoming the ills of the world, and the activity was encouraged through the publication of Rosary books that described
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