Reath of Roses .

 We have entered the Marian month of October, which is dedicated to the Virgin Mary – Queen of the Holy Rosary. Autumn has already arrived. In nature, roses bloom, and in the church, roses bloom the most in October—white roses – joyful, red roses – sorrowful, golden roses – festive. We wind them into a wreath, which we call a rosary. It is our aid in spiritual life. The Rosary is a book that captures the lives of the Lord Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and our own lives in images. A child and an older woman, a poet and a president, can read it.

The Rosary is a strength in pain, a companion in sleepless nights, it will be our equipment for the coffin. The Blessed Virgin urgently calls in Fatima: “Pray the Rosary!” And Marian devotees from the ranks of the clergy and laity take this call of Mary very seriously. Pope Blessed John XXIII confirmed this when he said: “The priest after praying the breviary and the layman after Holy Mass should have the rosary in his hands and pray it devoutly.” It is also interesting that Blessed John XXIII sometimes prayed the breviary in the Vatican gardens, but the Holy Rosary always in the chapel and on his knees. This saint prayed the entire 15-decade rosary daily. In praying the Holy Rosary, the Blessed Virgin reminds us of the entire history of salvation. And so, with the joyful rosary, she wants to make the love of the heavenly Father present to us. She wants us to remember this love. Our heavenly Father sent us his Son. The Father accepts the redemptive work and sacrifice of the Son. The Virgin Mary presents this sacrifice with her Son to the heavenly Father to atone for the sins of the world and for our new failings. He always inclines us again and again to the Father’s justice, which leads from punishment to infinite mercy. And that is why we accompany this intercession of the Virgin Mary with a joyful greeting: Hail Mary! Then we have the painful rosary. With the painful rosary, we are to remember the sacrifice of our redemption. It is the bloody sacrifice of her Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. It is at the same time a reminder of our spiritual birth, when Mary herself gave birth to us under the cross of Christ. Here we are to realize what sin is and what its consequences are. Here is our landmark: either I belong to Christ or to the Evil One. We cannot rise from the painful rosary and continue to love sin and evil, which cost the Son of God death, namely death on the cross. 

And finally, we have the solemn rosary. We pray the solemn rosary with our gaze fixed on our ultimate goal – to connect with God in eternal life. Therefore, we pray to him with great hope that death was destroyed once and for all by Christ’s resurrection. Under this impression, we can confidently step into everyday life and bravely overcome its obstacles. Then we will not be afraid of death either. The resurrected Christ dwells in our heart, we are filled with the joy of Easter morning and we come to our Mother Mary with trust and love. Such, then, is the mystery of the Holy Rosary. So great is the gift of our Blessed Virgin and Mother of God, Mary. The rosary is not just a simple chain of pearls. The rosary is the chain that draws heaven to us and us to heaven. The rosary is a chain that always binds Satan more firmly and firmly, and always makes him more and more powerless towards us. It is the chain that gives us the power of the Holy Spirit – that spirit of truth and love that strengthened and strengthens the followers and martyrs of all times.

This is is what the holy rosary sincerely and fervently prays, it will certainly penetrate into the stunning mystery of our salvation, into God’s infinite love, which created us for itself, which redeemed us from the dominion of the devil and which sanctifies us for our eternal life in perfect bliss. And so let’s finally reject the opinions of some theologians who claim that the rosary is good just for old grandmothers. For the old woman, the rosary is an excellent decoration of trembling hands. For a young man, the rosary is a compass, so that he does not deviate either to the right or to the left, but always points directly towards God. For the young mother, the rosary will remain a source of strength to draw from the Mother of God the courage to walk firmly alongside her children. What about other young people? Without the rosary, they are like without a weapon against the odds! Young people need a rosary as they need bread. Yes, just as our bread is never eaten, so should the Holy Rosary never become commonplace. We urgently need the rosary for our spiritual life, such as air, water and bread.O. O. I will tell you three short stories about this need to pray the Holy Rosary: First from the story of the old wise priest Mons. Aloisa Pekárka, who remembers the time of his twelve-year imprisonment under the communist regime: “I made a rosary of bread in my cell. The balls of chewed bread hardened to the bone. When I was once beaten with a rubber baton during interrogation, I prayed dozens about whipping. Then I found out that the bread rosary in the bag was broken to dust. I sighed, So we were, Lord, scourged together. “And now story two: In the years 1980-81, former president Václav Havel and Prague archbishop Dominik Duka were imprisoned together in Bor. They talked about history, philosophy and religion. Havel expressed the wish that they pray the rosary. Before each tithe, the priest made a short meditation, then they recited alternately. The rhythm of prayer created a strong community.

Finally, story three: At school, we learned Ebenen’s poem The Wedding Shirt. The unfortunate girl went out into the stormy night with a strange guide. The wind whistled, the dogs howled, the owls hooted. The traveler encouraged haste and tore all her religious objects. He threw away the prayer books, and they were ten miles away by jumping. What do you have, my dear, behind your waist? I took the rosary with me. – Ha, that rosary from the rattle like a snake will wrap around you, narrow you down, take your breath away: throw it away because we are in a hurry! – The rosary caught, he threw it away, and they were a jump twenty miles away. That was progress! But where did it lead her? – To the cemetery! Let’s never throw away the rosary or the cross. Without religion, the world would be transformed into one great cemetery. Without the protection of the Virgin Mary, Queen of the Holy Rosary, it would be sad and cold – like where maternal love is lacking. And so let’s go back to praying the Holy Rosary. The return to the rosary is the return to the motherly heart of the Virgin Mary. And it is good for the little and the big on this heart. Let’s go back to praying the rosary, and the world will be more beautiful, because there will be more love, mercy and peace in it. Holy Mary, Queen of the Holy Rosary, pray for us!