PROMISES OF OUR LADY TO

THOSE WHO DEVOUTLY RECITE

HER ROSARY 1. To those who recite my Psalter, I prom-

ise my special protection.

2 The Rosary will be a powerful weapon

against the powers of hell.

3 It will root out vices, destroy sin, and

subjugate all the heresies.

4 He who calls on me through the Rosary,

shall not perish.

S. Those who propagate my Rosary shall

be helped by me in all their necessities.

6. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of

predestination.

7. Whoever recites the Rosary, devoutly

meditating on its holy Mysteries, will not be

cast down by troubles, nor perish by an unpro-

vided death; but if he is virtuous he shall in-

crease in grace, and become worthy of eternal

life.

8. Those who are truly devout in reciting

my Rosary shall. not die without the Sacra-

ments.

9. I will deliver from Purgatory, in the

space of a day, those devoted to my Rosary.

10. The true Children of the Rosary shall

enjoy a great joy in Heaven.

CONSECRATION TO OUR

LADY OF THE ROSARY Permit me, 0 Immaculate Virgin, Queen of

the holy Rosary, to choose you this day for my

Mother, my Patroness, my Asylum, my Ref-

uge, and my Protection. I wish to give you my

heart, my body, my soul, my entire being, and

after God, to love you above all things. Happy

he who consecrates to you his love. Are you

not, 0 Blessed Virgin, fairer than the Angels,

brighter than the stars, more brilliant than the

sun? Do you not surpass the lily in splendor?

Are you not a garden of delights; a perfumed

Flower, a fair Dove, the Beloved of Jesus, the

cherished Daughter, the Mother without spot,

the Spouse chosen among a thousand? Who

can then refuse you her heart? I give you

mine, because you are fair, enriched with eve-

ry grace, and filled with every perfection. I

give you my heart, 0 my Mother, because

gratitude urges me to it. 0 beloved Mother,

deign to permit me to ask you three things: (1)

A pure heart to love you, and to love Jesus; (2)

that I may die on a day consecrated to you,

and in pronouncing perfect acts of love; (3)

the grace to be among the privileged choir,

who in Heaven, at the foot of your throne, will

sing your praises forever.

OFFERING OF THE ROSARY 0 my God, we offer this Rosary in union

with the prayers and merits of Jesus Christ, His

holy Virgin Mother, and all the Angels and

Saints. We offer it each day to obtain all the

graces and blessings we stand in need of, for

the relief of the poor suffering souls in Purga-

tory, the conversion of sinners, and the perse-

verance of the just, the comfort of the afflict-

ed, the reconciliation of those who are at vari-

ance, and for those in their last agony. We

beseech Thee, 0 Heavenly Father, through the

merits of Jesus Christ, and His holy Virgin

Mother, to grant us the true spirit of our state,

and the grace of a happy death Amen

Dominican Mission Prayerbook

By Rev. M. J. Ripple, O.P.

Origin Since the Holy Rosary is composed, princi-

pally and in substance, of the Prayer of Christ

and the Angelic Salutation, that is, the Our

Father and the Hail Mary, it was without

doubt the first prayer and the first devotion of

the faithful and has been in use all through

the centuries, from the time of the apostles

and disciples down to the present.

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HOLY MASS

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CONFESSIONS

Sundays 6:40—6:55 am 9:15—9:55 am

Weekdays 7:40—7:55 am

and by appointment

HOLY ROSARY

Sundays: After 7:00 am Mass

and at 9:40 am

First Saturdays: after 7:00 am

Mass

MASS SCHEDULE

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on September 5th.

8:00 A.M. daily Mass

when the school year

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INTENTIONS:

I have Mass

intentions

until

November 1st

O R C M ANNUAL MEETING

Please note that the annual meeting of the ORCM will be held on Sunday,

September 24, 2017 All members should

attend. If you are not a member and would

like to be, see Fr. Rodriguez or

Mr. Rotunda for membership.

SAYING THE

ROSARY BEFORE OR AFTER MASS

Those who piously recite a third part of the Rosary (five dec-ades) in the presence of the Blessed Sacra-

ment publicly ex-posed or even re-

served in the taber-nacle, may gain: A

plenary indulgence, on condition of confession and Communion.

The Raccolta

But it was only in the year 1214 however,

that Holy Mother Church received the Rosary

in its present form and according to the meth-

od we use today. It was given to the Church by

Saint Dominic who had received it from the

Blessed Virgin as a powerful means of con-

verting the Albigensians and other sinners.

I will tell you the story of how he received

it, which is found in the very well-known book

"De Dignitate Psalterii" by Blessed Alan de la

Roche. Saint Dominic, seeing that the gravity

of people's sins was hindering the conversion

of the Albigensians, withdrew into a forest

near Toulouse where he prayed unceasingly

for three days and three nights. During this

time he did nothing but weep and do harsh

penances in order to appease the anger of

Almighty God. He used his discipline so much

that his body was lacerated, and finally he fell

into a coma.

At this point Our Lady appeared to him,

accompanied by three angels, and she said:

"Dear Dominic, do you know which weap-

on the Blessed Trinity wants to use to reform

the world?"

"Oh, my Lady," answered Saint Dominic,

"you know far better than I do because next to

your Son Jesus Christ you have always been

the chief instrument of our salvation."

Then Our Lady replied:

"I want you to know that, in this kind of

warfare, the battering ram has always been

the Angelic Psalter which is the foundation

stone of the New Testament. Therefore if you

want to reach these hardened souls and win

them over to God, preach my Psalter."

So he arose, comforted, and burning with

zeal for the conversion of the people in that

district he made straight for the Cathedral. At

once unseen angels rang the bells to gather

the people together and Saint Dominic began

to preach.

At the very beginning of his sermon an

appalling storm broke out, the earth shook,

the sun was darkened, and there was so much

thunder and lightning that all were very much

afraid. Even greater was their fear when look-

ing at a picture of Our Lady exposed in a prom-

inent place. They saw her raise her arms to

heaven three times to call down God's venge-

ance upon them if they failed to be converted,

to amend their lives, and seek the protection

of the Holy Mother of God.

God wished, by means of these supernat-

ural phenomena, to spread the new devotion

of the Holy Rosary and to make it more widely

known.

At last, at the prayer of Saint Dominic, the

storm came to an end, and he went on preach-

ing. So fervently and compellingly did he ex-

plain the importance and value of the Holy

Rosary that almost all the people of Toulouse

embraced. it and renounced their false beliefs.

In a very short time a great improvement was

seen in the town; people began leading Chris-

tian lives and gave up their former bad habits.

The Secret of the Rosary

By St. Louis De Montfort

Mary’s Immaculate Heart The devotion to the Immaculate Heart,

because of the extension of its formal object,

is but inadequately distinct from other Marian

venerations in that it includes them. Every

particular veneration looks to some excellency

of Mary which must of necessity be rooted in

her sanctity and love, and hence be included in

the devotion to her Heart. But because of its

completeness the devotion to the Immaculate

Heart is called the devotion among all Marian

devotions. In the perfection of Mary's mater-

nal Heart all her excellencies are present. To

honor her Heart is to honor her totally. In

honoring any particular phase of her life or any

particular aspect of her sanctity we honor it in

its very source, her perfect love. Her charity,

which we look to especially in this devotion,

underlies the perfection and merit of all her

acts and is the explanation of the mysteries of

her most holy life which make up all other

Marian devotions.

In brief, then, we call the devotion to the

Immaculate Heart the center of all Marian

devotions because from the excellencies we

see in the Heart of Mary proceeds whatever

excellency we venerate in any other devotion,

and conversely, through the perfection we

may venerate in other particular devotions, we

should ultimately come to the veneration of

Mary's Immaculate Heart.

In view of the comprehension and tran-

scendency of the devotion to the Immaculate

Heart it is fitting that the universal feast be

celebrated on the Octave Day of the Assump-

tion as the coronation and the complement of

all other Marian feasts.

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SUNDAY September 3

13TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

St. Pius X, PC

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7:00 am 10:00 am

Superior’s Intentions

Missa pro Populo

MONDAY September 4

Ferial Day, Votive Mass of the Holy

Trinity St. Rose of Viterbo, V.

W

7:00 am 7:00 pm

Bernhard Schmitt, R.I.P.

Requiem Mass, Rosary and St. Joseph’s Litany for the Poor Souls.

TUESDAY September 5

St. Laurence Justinian, BC

W

8:00 am

Special Intention

WEDNESDAY September 6

Ferial Day, Votive Mass of St. Joseph

W

8:00 am

Special Intention

THURSDAY September 7

Ferial Day, Votive Mass of the Apostles

R

8:00 am

Robert di Cecco, R.I.P.

FRIDAY September 8

Nativity of BMV

W

8:00 am

Priestly & Religious Vocations

SATURDAY September 9

St. Peter Claver, C St. Gorgonius, M

W

7:00 am

Snitta Heft

SUNDAY September 10

14th Sunday after Pentecost

G

7:00 am 10:00 am

Superior’s Intentions

Missa pro Populo

Devotions: Requiem Mass—Monday evening at 7:00 P.M. followed by the Holy Rosary and St. Joseph’s Litany

for the Poor Souls in Purgatory.

September 3 9:30 am. Fr. Bachtiger

September 10 NO MASS

September 17 5:00 pm Fr. Rodriguez

September 24 NO MASS

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We might well ask, is any other devo-

tion to be particularly associated with the

devotion to the Immaculate Heart? We an-

swer: the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary

is closely linked with the devotion to the

Immaculate Heart for several reasons.

Since the symbolism of the Heart is not

ordinarily suffcient in itself to bring to mind

all that the devotion to the Immaculate

Heart contains and implies, hence the Ro-

sary, as the handmaid of the devotion, in

reflecting and revealing through its myster-

ies the love of Mary’s Heart which vivified

her entire life, augments the comprehen-

sion of the symbolism. Pope Leo XIII in

speaking of the Rosary referred to it as that

“prayer . . . offered among all nations . . . to

her most pure Heart.”

Further, in the devotion to the Immacu-

late Heart we have as part of the devotion

and connatural to it, the following acts: a

reciprocation of love, imitation, invocation,

consecration, and reparation. Now the Ro-

sary is a most excellent means of exercising

these connatural acts, for it moves us to

love, in showing Mary's Heart as loving; to

imitation, in showing Mary's Heart as repre-

sentative of all her virtues and as the model

of virtue; to invocation, in showing her

Heart as maternal and powerful; to conse-

cration, in that it shows Mary's Heart as that

of our Queen; and to reparation, in showing

Mary's Heart as participating in our redemp-

tion.

Again, because of the scope of its mys-

teries and the theology. of the "Hail Mary,"

the Rosary is by nature an excellent and

most suitable means whereby we honor

Mary's Immaculate Heart. As the devotion

to the Immaculate Heart is the crown of

Marian devotions, correspondingly, of all

special prayers in honor of Mary, the Rosary

has "pride of place." The appropriateness of

this association is further brought out by the

formula of Consecration of Pope Pius XII in

addressing Mary as "Queen of the Most

Holy Rosary."

The excellency of the devotion to the

Immaculate Heart is readily seen from what

we have previously said of its relationship to

all other Marian devotions. We might fur-

ther point out that, as it is the complement

of all other particular venerations, it has a

correspondingly superior sanctifying value

in that we perfect ourselves completely, for

we imitate Mary not simply in one special

way, but in all her virtues and perfections.

We have repeatedly pointed out that

the formal object of our devotion is inclu-

sive of the total perfection of Mary. Because

of this extension of the formal object the

devotion has the power to excite the will to

more intense acts of veneration. These acts

in turn augment the habit from which they

proceed. Hence we say that the devotion to

the Immaculate Heart is superior to all oth-

ers because through the superior excellency

of its object it augments the intensity of our

acts of devotion, and because the intensity

of these acts increases the habit which pro-

duces them.

Further, since the first act of the devo-

tion is a spontaneous act of love corre-

sponding to the love of Mary, and since our

actions are more meritorious when they

proceed from charity wherein they are

more free, we see again the excellence of

this particular veneration.

Finally, the connatural acts which are

part of the devotion, especially that of con-

secration which we saw as the "greatest act

of veneration," give the devotion to the

Immaculate Heart an excellence superior to

that of any other particular veneration.

Mary’s Immaculate Heart – The Meaning of the

Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

By Rev. J.F. Murphy

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