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1 3, 33(36)| 1999), 1: AAS 91 (1999), 1155.~
2 Int, 3 | prompted by the forthcoming 120th anniversary of the aforementioned
3 2, 19 | was based on the number 150, the number of the Psalms
4 Int, 1(2) | 1974), 42: AAS 66 (1974), 153.~
5 1, 12(14)| February 1974), 47: AAS (1974), 156.~
6 3, 33(37)| 201, Vatican City, 2002, 165.~
7 Con, 43 | From the Vatican, on the 16th day of October in the year
8 Int, 2(3) | Cf. Acta Leonis XIII, 3 (1884), 280-289. ~
9 1, 15(18)| Rosario, 27th ed., Pompei, 1916, 27.~
10 Int, 3 | Ecumenical Council on October 11, 1962, the “great grace” disposed
11 Int, 8(13) | Santuario di Pompei, Pompei, 1990, 59.~
12 1, 16 | mediation of Christ himself (cf. 1Jn 2:1) and the working of
13 1, 13 | pray without ceasing (cf.1Thes 5:17)”.16 The Rosary, in
14 3, 33(37)| orientamenti (17 December 2001), 201, Vatican City, 2002, 165.~
15 2, 24 | 24. The cycles of meditation
16 2, 25 | 25. In my testimony of 1978
17 3, 27(34)| of the Catholic Church, 2616.~
18 1, 16(24)| Ibid., 2675.~
19 1, 16(23)| of the Catholic Church, 2679.~
20 2, 18(27)| 2001), 20: AAS 93 (2001), 279.~
21 1, 15(18)| del Santissimo Rosario, 27th ed., Pompei, 1916, 27.~
22 Int, 2(3) | Acta Leonis XIII, 3 (1884), 280-289. ~
23 2, 23(29)| 2001), 28: AAS 93 (2001), 284.~
24 Int, 3(6) | AAS 93 (2001), 285.~
25 Int, 5(9) | No. 32: AAS 93 (2001), 288.~
26 Con, 41(39)| No. 34: AAS 93 (2001), 290.
27 3, 30 | 30. In order to supply a Biblical
28 3, 36 | 36. The traditional aid used
29 3, 37 | 37.At present, in different
30 Con, 39 | 39. What has been said so far
31 Con, 40 | 40. The grave challenges confronting
32 Con, 41 | 41. As a prayer for peace,
33 Con, 43 | 43. Dear brothers and sisters!
34 2, 20 | leap for joy” (cf. Lk 1:44). Gladness also fills the
35 Int, 1(1) | Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 45.~
36 2, 20 | understand” his words (Lk 2:50).~To meditate upon the “
37 1, 11 | her heart” (Lk 2:19; cf. 2:51). The memories of Jesus,
38 2, 24(30)| No. 515.~
39 Int, 3(7) | 28 September 1960): AAS 52 (1960), 814-816.~
40 2, 25 | he will sustain you” (Ps 55:23). To pray the Rosary
41 1, 14(17)| the Church Lumen Gentium, 58.~
42 Int, 8(13) | di Pompei, Pompei, 1990, 59.~
43 1, 15(20)| Ibid., 60.~
44 Int, 2(4) | September 1961): AAS 53 (1961), 641-647.~
45 Int, 2(4) | 1961): AAS 53 (1961), 641-647.~
46 Int, 2(5) | Giovanni Paolo II, I (1978): 75-76.~
47 Int, 8 | Christ before being buried in 79 A.D. during an eruption
48 Int, 3(7) | September 1960): AAS 52 (1960), 814-816.~
49 Int, 3(7) | 1960): AAS 52 (1960), 814-816.~
50 3, 33(36)| Artists (4 April 1999), 1: AAS 91 (1999), 1155.~
51 1, 15(21)| October 1978): AAS 70 (1978), 927.~
52 2, 25(33)| Haereses, III, 18, 1: PG 7, 932.~
53 Int, 8 | before being buried in 79 A.D. during an eruption of Mount
54 Con, 43 | shipwreck, we will never abandon you. You will be our comfort
55 3, 32 | that we can say with him: “Abba, Father” (Rom 8:15; Gal
56 2, 20 | relationships are challenged by the absolute demands of the Kingdom.
57 Con, 39 | has been said so far makes abundantly clear the richness of this
58 Con, 39 | Our Lady of the Rosary was acclaimed as the one whose intercession
59 Int, 2 | Kalwaria. The Rosary has accompanied me in moments of joy and
60 2, 21 | assumed at Cana in some way accompanies Christ throughout his ministry.
61 1, 15 | conduct of the disciple in accordance with the “mind” of Christ: “
62 3, 31 | increasingly difficult to achieve. Just as moments of silence
63 Con, 42 | Youth Days! – is capable of achieving quite remarkable results.
64 3, 33 | in jubilant amazement we acknowledge the greatest miracle of
65 Int, 2(3) | Cf. Acta Leonis XIII, 3 (1884), 280-
66 3, 32 | both his and the Father's. Acting as a kind of foundation
67 1, 13 | the Church, is a saving action par excellence, the Rosary
68 | actually
69 Con, 42 | At times parents suffer acute disappointment at the failure
70 3, 38 | might call for suitable adaptations. What is really important
71 3, 35 | the Rosary can be better adapted to different spiritual traditions
72 2, 19 | Gospel”, it is fitting to add, following reflection on
73 3, 36 | symbolism which can give added depth to contemplation. ~
74 1, 15(21)| Cf. First Radio Address Urbi et Orbi (17 October
75 3, 26 | the repeated Hail Mary is addressed directly to Mary, it is
76 2, 21 | maternal counsel which Mary addresses to the Church of every age: “
77 Int, 2 | See of Peter, I frankly admitted: “The Rosary is my favourite
78 Con, 42 | prayer” with the family, is admittedly not the solution to every
79 1, 12 | formulas, in violation of the admonition of Christ: 'In praying do
80 Con, 42 | the lives of children and adolescents, and parents can become
81 Con, 42 | will once more surprise adults by the way they make this
82 Con, 42 | maturity. In a society of advanced technology, of mass communications
83 Int, 6 | in a clear commitment to advancing peace, especially in the
84 1, 17 | which pastors should use to advantage. In this way too Our Lady
85 2, 25(33)| Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, Adversus Haereses, III, 18, 1: PG
86 2, 20 | dedicated to his Father's affairs proclaims the radical nature
87 3, 26 | of all the stirrings of affection. If we needed evidence for
88 2, 25 | about man. This is the great affirmation of the Second Vatican Council
89 Int, 2 | weapon against the evils afflicting society. Among the more
90 1, 10 | day of Pentecost, a gaze afire with the outpouring of the
91 Int, 3 | 120th anniversary of the aforementioned Encyclical of Leo XIII,
92 Con, 41 | together. The Holy Rosary, by age-old tradition, has shown itself
93 2, 20 | consecration and the ecstasy of the aged Simeon; it also records
94 Con, 43 | deacons, and to you, pastoral agents in your different ministries:
95 2, 21 | experience with him the agony of the Passion, so as to
96 2, 20 | fiat with which she readily agrees to the will of God.~Exultation
97 Con, 42 | appropriate symbolic and practical aids to understanding and appreciation.
98 3, 28 | these approaches are methods aimed at attaining a high level
99 1, 16 | heart of her Son. She is “all-powerful by grace”, to use the bold
100 2, 25 | each of us is called, if we allow ourselves to be healed and
101 3, 30 | recalling information but of allowing God to speak. In certain
102 Con, 40 | ceaselessly” (Lk 18:1), the Rosary allows us to hope that, even today,
103 | almost
104 | although
105 1, 15 | indeed her “pre-eminent and altogether singular member”,19 is at
106 3, 33 | and pleasure: in jubilant amazement we acknowledge the greatest
107 3, 28 | regarded as some kind of amulet or magic object, thereby
108 3, 38 | certain spiritual “colour”, by analogy with the way in which the
109 Int, 8 | background of the ruins of the ancient city, which scarcely heard
110 1, 9 | life, experiencing ever anew the love of the Father and
111 2, 22 | experiences a moment of great anguish before the will of the Father,
112 Int, 2 | through the Rosary: Magnificat anima mea Dominum! I wish to lift
113 2, 20 | Saviour of the world, is announced by the song of the angels
114 2, 19 | Jordan, Christ is the one who announces the coming of the Kingdom,
115 2, 25 | difficult to go deeper into this anthropological significance of the Rosary,
116 1, 10 | his hidden feelings and anticipating his decisions, as at Cana (
117 2, 23 | the Angels and Saints, the anticipation and the supreme realization
118 2, 25 | Redeemer all the problems, anxieties, labours and endeavours
119 2, 21 | sacrifice.~In these mysteries, apart from the miracle at Cana,
120 Int, 2 | promulgated the Encyclical Supremi Apostolatus Officio,3 a document of
121 3, 27 | relational reality.~This becomes apparent in the Liturgy. Sacraments
122 Int, 7 | received from the Church, the apparitions of Lourdes and of Fatima;11
123 3, 29 | icons and the many devotions appealing to the senses, as well as
124 2, 23 | of those to whom Christ appeared – the Apostles, Mary Magdalene
125 1, 9 | Paul's words can then be applied to us: “Beholding the glory
126 3, 28 | Much in vogue among these approaches are methods aimed at attaining
127 3, 30 | celebrations, this word can be appropriately illustrated by a brief commentary.~
128 2, 19 | the seal of the Church's approval. The selection was determined
129 3, 33(36)| II, Letter to Artists (4 April 1999), 1: AAS 91 (1999),
130 Int, 6 | for commitment and prayer arises in relation to another critical
131 2, 24 | out afresh in Mary, in her arms and in her heart, the “blessed
132 | around
133 3, 33(36)| John Paul II, Letter to Artists (4 April 1999), 1: AAS 91 (
134 Int, 8 | centuries later from its ashes as a witness to the lights
135 2, 19 | prejudice to any essential aspect of the prayer's traditional
136 Con, 43 | of salvation against the assaults of Hell, safe port in our
137 3, 35(38)| continent, et quod promittunt assequamur”. Missale Romanum 1960,
138 1, 13 | makes present is profoundly assimilated and shapes our existence.~
139 Con, 40 | Eph 2:14). Anyone who assimilates the mystery of Christ –
140 3 | The Rosary, a way of assimilating the mystery~
141 3, 26 | of a method designed to assist in their assimilation. It
142 2, 23 | to that same glory in the Assumption, enjoying beforehand, by
143 2, 21 | the Father commands the astonished Apostles to “listen to him” (
144 Con, 41 | reproduces something of the atmosphere of the household of Nazareth:
145 Int, 6 | began with the terrifying attacks of 11 September 2001, a
146 3, 26 | closely to Christ until we attain true holiness.~
147 3, 28 | approaches are methods aimed at attaining a high level of spiritual
148 3, 36 | him, in the Holy Spirit, attains to the Father.~As a counting
149 3, 28 | contemplative tradition, are attracted by those forms of prayer.
150 3, 35 | benefit from an abundance of authentic spiritual riches and find
151 Int, 7(11) | discern and recognize the authenticity and value of private revelations
152 Int, 8 | Grignion de Montfort, the author of an excellent work on
153 Int, 7 | lives of Christians and the authoritative recognition they have received
154 Int, 2 | background of the words Ave Maria the principal events
155 1, 14 | when she joined them in awaiting the Holy Spirit and supported
156 2, 24 | what is essential and they awaken in the soul a thirst for
157 3, 37 | who are praying a humble awareness of their own insufficiency.
158 | away
159 3, 35(38)| Missale Romanum 1960, in festo B.M. Virginis a Rosario.~
160 2, 25 | Twenty-five years later, thinking back over the difficulties which
161 2, 24 | heartfelt prayer for all the baptized: “May Christ dwell in your
162 Con, 42 | prejudice to the Rosary's basic structure, there is nothing
163 Con, 40 | even today, the difficult “battle” for peace can be won. Far
164 Con, 40 | and the firm intention of bearing witness in every situation
165 3, 35(38)| haec mysteria sacratissimo beatae Mariae Virginis Rosario
166 Con, 40 | to bear witness to his “Beatitudes” in daily life? And how
167 | became
168 | becoming
169 | beforehand
170 Int, 1 | of the freshness of its beginnings and feels drawn by the Spirit
171 1, 9 | then be applied to us: “Beholding the glory of the Lord, we
172 2, 19 | Psalms in the Psalter.~I believe, however, that to bring
173 2, 21 | Transfiguration, traditionally believed to have taken place on Mount
174 1, 13 | himself. These events not only belong to “yesterday”; they are
175 1, 10 | look of sorrow, especially beneath the Cross, where her vision
176 3, 35 | that the People of God may benefit from an abundance of authentic
177 1, 16 | the lines sung by Saint Bernard: “Lady, thou art so great
178 | beside
179 | beyond
180 1, 13 | history of salvation. The Bible is an account of saving
181 Int, 7(11) | public revelation, which is binding on the whole Church. It
182 Con, 40 | situation to “love, which binds everything together in perfect
183 Con, 43 | to you, my dear Brother Bishops, priests and deacons, and
184 Int, 1 | harvest of holiness. It blends easily into the spiritual
185 Int, 6 | the world fresh scenes of bloodshed and violence, to rediscover
186 1, 16 | all-powerful by grace”, to use the bold expression, which needs
187 3, 33 | If we recall how, in the Book of Genesis, God “saw all
188 3, 26 | the Rosary as a dry and boring exercise. It is quite another
189 3, 32 | he rests in the Father's bosom (cf. Jn 1:18) he is continually
190 1, 15 | grafts the believer like a branch onto the vine which is Christ (
191 2, 21 | food under the signs of bread and wine, and testifies “
192 3, 27 | for Christ to become the breath, the soul and the “all”
193 3, 27 | linked to the rhythm of breathing; while this practice favours
194 2, 21 | The Gospels make only the briefest reference to her occasional
195 3, 31 | Rosary it is fitting to pause briefly after listening to the word
196 Con, 40 | give reason to hope for a brighter future.~The Rosary is by
197 2, 25 | the rhythm of human life”, bringing it into harmony with the “
198 3, 28 | is situated within this broad gamut of religious phenomena,
199 2, 19 | individuals and communities, could broaden it to include the mysteries
200 Int, 6 | within the context of a broader pastoral ministry to the
201 Int, 6 | the two of us one, and broke down the dividing wall of
202 Con, 43 | particularly to you, my dear Brother Bishops, priests and deacons,
203 Int, 8 | result, he felt called to build a Church dedicated to Our
204 Con, 43 | image in the splendid Shrine built for her by Blessed Bartolo
205 2, 25 | up our lives. “Cast your burden on the Lord and he will
206 Int, 8 | proclamation of Christ before being buried in 79 A.D. during an eruption
207 3, 37 | the motherhood of Mary, to burst forth in praise of the Blessed
208 1, 15 | to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human
209 2, 18 | 11:27). In the region of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus responded
210 2, 25 | following him on the way to Calvary, they learn the meaning
211 Int, 8 | recently had the joy of canonizing. As a true apostle of the
212 Int, 3(7) | event: cf. Letter to the Cardinal Vicar (28 September 1960):
213 2, 25 | each mystery of the Rosary, carefully meditated, sheds light on
214 3, 32 | upon the mystery, even when carried out in solitude, an ecclesial
215 2, 21 | the mission which he is to carry out. Another mystery of
216 1, 17 | can present a significant catechetical opportunity which pastors
217 1, 16(25)| spiritual commitment of all Catholics in combating social ills.
218 Int, 6 | the Rosary without feeling caught up in a clear commitment
219 2, 20 | enter into the ultimate causes and the deepest meaning
220 1, 13 | this varied panorama of “ceaseless” prayer. If the Liturgy,
221 Con, 40 | Christ's invitation to “pray ceaselessly” (Lk 18:1), the Rosary allows
222 1, 13 | they must pray without ceasing (cf.1Thes 5:17)”.16 The
223 Int, 6 | the family, the primary cell of society, increasingly
224 1, 16 | the Holy Mother of God, centering it on the person of Christ
225 Int, 4 | some who think that the centrality of the Liturgy, rightly
226 3, 35 | after experimental use in centres and shrines particularly
227 Con, 40 | strength to face them with the certainty of God's help and the firm
228 2, 20 | human relationships are challenged by the absolute demands
229 1, 9 | of the Lord, we are being changed into his likeness, from
230 2, 21 | Jn 2:1- 12), when Christ changes water into wine and opens
231 1, 14 | signs” worked by Jesus – the changing of water into wine at the
232 3, 28 | but it is distinguished by characteristics of its own which correspond
233 Int, 8 | Bartolo Longo had a special charism. His path to holiness rested
234 Con, 40 | because of the fruits of charity which it produces. When
235 3, 35 | formulas will be widely circulated, after due pastoral discernment
236 Int, 5(10) | Ibid., 33: loc. cit., 289.~
237 3, 28 | In its favour one could cite the experience of countless
238 Int, 8 | the lights and shadows of classical civilization. By his whole
239 3, 33 | Christ by the addition of a clause referring to the mystery
240 2, 20 | mysteries, while preserving this climate of joy, already point to
241 1, 10 | an even greater spiritual closeness. No one has ever devoted
242 3, 36 | Crucifix, which both opens and closes the unfolding sequence of
243 3 | The opening and closing~
244 1, 10 | wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger” (
245 3, 38 | week a certain spiritual “colour”, by analogy with the way
246 3, 38 | way in which the Liturgy colours the different seasons of
247 1, 16(25)| commitment of all Catholics in combating social ills. It is solemnly
248 1, 17 | recitation of the Rosary combines all the elements needed
249 1, 16(26)| Divina Commedia, Paradiso XXXIII, 13-15.~
250 3, 30 | appropriately illustrated by a brief commentary.~
251 1, 13 | are called to prayer in common, must also go to their own
252 Con, 41 | one another in the eye, to communicate, to show solidarity, to
253 3, 27 | makes use of a method. God communicates himself to us respecting
254 Con, 42 | advanced technology, of mass communications and globalization, everything
255 3, 28 | are positive and at times compatible with Christian experience,
256 3, 26 | to be conformed ever more completely to Christ, the true programme
257 3, 27 | whole person in all his complex psychological, physical
258 1, 16(25)| Queen of the Holy Rosary was composed by Blessed Bartolo Longo
259 3, 29 | imaginative elements (the compositio loci), judged to be of great
260 3, 35(38)| concede, quaesumus, ut haec mysteria
261 1, 10 | the Annunciation, when she conceived him by the power of the
262 3, 28 | high level of spiritual concentration by using techniques of a
263 Con, 42 | life of Christ, from his conception to his death, and then to
264 3, 31 | period of time on the mystery concerned, before moving into vocal
265 1, 13(15)| Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium, 10.~
266 3, 35 | if an effort were made to conclude each mystery with a prayer
267 Con, 43 | touching words with which he concluded his well-known Supplication
268 3, 29 | divinity.~This need for concreteness finds further expression
269 1, 15 | will increasingly shape the conduct of the disciple in accordance
270 2, 18 | Jesus responded to Peter's confession of faith by indicating the
271 Int, 3 | Particular Churches. I am confident that the proposal will find
272 Con, 43 | and to you, young people: confidently take up the Rosary once
273 1, 15 | role in the process of our configuration to Christ: “Our entire perfection
274 3, 27 | non-liturgical prayer. This is confirmed by the fact that, in the
275 Con, 43 | this year, as a means of confirming the direction outlined in
276 Con, 40 | 40. The grave challenges confronting the world at the start of
277 2, 22 | all the temptations and confronts all the sins of humanity,
278 3, 33(37)| recently praised by the Congregation for Divine Worship and for
279 2, 20 | expresses the joy of the Child's consecration and the ecstasy of the aged
280 Int, 4 | evident from a number of considerations. First, the urgent need
281 3, 26 | mystery. If this repetition is considered superficially, there could
282 2, 18 | of a true, faithful and consistent knowledge of that mystery”.27~
283 Con, 43 | of Sinners, O Sovereign Consoler of the Afflicted. May you
284 Int, 3 | but rather to complete and consolidate pastoral programmes of the
285 2, 18 | succession of Hail Marys constitutes the warp on which is woven
286 2, 24 | Gabriel and Saint Elizabeth contained in the Hail Mary, we find
287 3, 35(38)| recolentes, et imitemur quod continent, et quod promittunt assequamur”.
288 Int, 7 | Fatima;11 these shrines continue to be visited by great numbers
289 Con, 41 | and prayer for families, continuing to use the Rosary.~In my
290 Int, 3 | 3. Therefore, in continuity with my reflection in the
291 2, 20 | Christ will be a “sign of contradiction” for Israel and that a sword
292 Int, 2(4) | the Rosary Il religioso convegno (29 September 1961): AAS
293 3, 36 | note is the way the beads converge upon the Crucifix, which
294 1, 15 | too, by holding familiar converse with Jesus and the Blessed
295 1, 16 | Beginning with Mary's unique cooperation with the working of the
296 3, 28 | characteristics of its own which correspond to specifically Christian
297 3, 29 | methodology, moreover, which corresponds to the inner logic of the
298 2, 22 | Garden of Eden. And the cost of this faithfulness to
299 Con, 43 | this traditional prayer.~I count on you, consecrated men
300 Int, 4 | First, the urgent need to counter a certain crisis of the
301 Int, 6 | will be an effective aid to countering the devastating effects
302 2, 23 | only impel them to bear courageous witness to that “good news”
303 Con, 41 | another and to see their covenant of love renewed in the Spirit
304 3, 33 | which God, at the dawn of creation, looked upon the work of
305 Con, 42 | positive, impassioned and creative – as shown by the World
306 3, 37 | with the recitation of the Creed, as if to make the profession
307 Int, 6 | arises in relation to another critical contemporary issue: the
308 2, 23 | resurrection of the dead. Crowned in glory – as she appears
309 3, 36 | beads converge upon the Crucifix, which both opens and closes
310 Con, 40 | weighed down by grief or crushed by despair? Finally, how
311 Int, 1 | more to proclaim, and even cry out, before the world that
312 1, 13 | account of saving events culminating in Christ himself. These
313 2, 22 | realizing that here is found the culmination of the revelation of God'
314 Con, 42 | become hurried, and the cultural distance between generations
315 3, 37 | Rosary. In some places, it is customary to begin with the opening
316 3, 37 | undertaken. These and similar customs, to the extent that they
317 3, 28 | mysteria lucis to the overall cycle of mysteries and of the
318 2, 24 | 24. The cycles of meditation proposed by
319 Con, 40 | need to act as a “Simon of Cyrene” for our brothers and sisters
320 Con, 42 | quite anxious about the dangers their children face. At
321 1, 16 | people. The supreme poet Dante expresses it marvellously
322 2, 23 | believer to pass beyond the darkness of the Passion in order
323 Int, 7 | disciple, all the sons and daughters of the Church: “Woman, behold
324 Con, 43 | Brother Bishops, priests and deacons, and to you, pastoral agents
325 2, 23 | the resurrection of the dead. Crowned in glory – as she
326 3, 34 | Trinity at the end of each decade, far from being a perfunctory
327 3, 33(37)| Principi e orientamenti (17 December 2001), 201, Vatican City,
328 1, 10 | feelings and anticipating his decisions, as at Cana (cf. Jn 2:5).
329 2, 19 | definitive revelation of God. Declared the beloved Son of the Father
330 2, 21 | the voice of the Father declares him the beloved Son (cf.
331 Int, 1 | God to “set out into the deep” (duc in altum!) in order
332 Con, 40 | experiencing the desire to welcome, defend and promote life, and to
333 2, 19 | person of Christ as the definitive revelation of God. Declared
334 1, 9 | grasp the divine splendour definitively revealed in the Risen Lord,
335 1, 9 | into his likeness, from one degree of glory to another; for
336 1, 9 | the love of the Father and delighting in the joy of the Holy Spirit.
337 Con, 39 | seemed under threat, its deliverance was attributed to the power
338 3, 28 | now experiencing a renewed demand for meditation, which at
339 1, 15 | the face of Christ, this demanding ideal of being conformed
340 3, 30 | passage, long or short, depending on the circumstances. No
341 3, 30 | giving rise to the ennui derived from the simple recollection
342 3, 33 | Mother of God, Theotókos, derives the forcefulness of the
343 Con, 43 | easy and yet so rich truly deserves to be rediscovered by the
344 3, 26 | Rosary by means of a method designed to assist in their assimilation.
345 Int, 1 | prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest
346 Con, 40 | and those governing the destinies of nations, can give reason
347 Int, 4 | context can risk being wrongly devalued, and therefore no longer
348 Int, 6 | effective aid to countering the devastating effects of this crisis typical
349 1, 15 | other's company, tend to develop similar habits, so too,
350 Con, 41 | therefore ask those who devote themselves to the pastoral
351 1, 13 | also true of every other devout approach to those events:
352 3, 26 | find it in the touching dialogue between Christ and Peter
353 3, 26 | to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). And
354 2, 25 | thinking back over the difficulties which have also been part
355 3, 27 | bring into play all the dimensions of the person. The same
356 1, 15 | in no way obscures or diminishes the unique mediation of
357 3, 35 | custom. Without in any way diminishing the value of such invocations,
358 Con, 43 | means of confirming the direction outlined in my Apostolic
359 3, 33(37)| of the Sacraments in its Direttorio su pietà popolare e liturgia.
360 Con, 42 | times parents suffer acute disappointment at the failure of their
361 Int, 7(11) | task of the Magisterium to discern and recognize the authenticity
362 3, 35 | circulated, after due pastoral discernment and possibly after experimental
363 3, 33(37)| Divine Worship and for the Discipline of the Sacraments in its
364 1, 12 | riches of these mysteries are disclosed”.14 ~It is worth pausing
365 Int, 8 | all the many Saints who discovered in the Rosary a genuine
366 3, 31 | moving into vocal prayer. A discovery of the importance of silence
367 2, 25 | Council which I have so often discussed in my own teaching since
368 Int, 2 | Gentium, a chapter which discusses the wondrous presence of
369 Int, 6 | increasingly menaced by forces of disintegration on both the ideological
370 3, 38 | have abundant time at their disposal. Yet it is clear – and this
371 Int, 3 | 1962, the “great grace” disposed by the Spirit of God for
372 Con, 40 | effect on those who pray it, disposing them to receive and experience
373 3, 37 | recite it with the required dispositions.~If prayed in this way,
374 Con, 42 | hurried, and the cultural distance between generations is growing
375 Int, 4 | unecumenical because of its distinctly Marian character. Yet the
376 3, 28 | object, thereby radically distorting their meaning and function.~
377 Con, 42 | growing ever greater. The most diverse messages and the most unpredictable
378 Int, 6 | one, and broke down the dividing wall of hostility” (Eph
379 3, 29 | with the mystery of his divinity.~This need for concreteness
380 Int, 2 | Apostolatus Officio,3 a document of great worth, the first
381 3, 31 | One drawback of a society dominated by technology and the mass
382 1, 17 | used in particular by the Dominicans at a difficult time for
383 Int, 2 | Rosary: Magnificat anima mea Dominum! I wish to lift up my thanks
384 2, 19 | Christian spirituality as a true doorway to the depths of the Heart
385 3, 31 | contemplation and meditation. One drawback of a society dominated by
386 3, 33 | the Rosary. Pope Paul VI drew attention, in his Apostolic
387 Con, 42 | resist the seductions of the drug culture, the lure of an
388 3, 26 | temptation to see the Rosary as a dry and boring exercise. It
389 Int, 4 | honoured, the Son ... is duly known, loved and glorified”.8
390 2, 24 | the baptized: “May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith,
391 2, 24 | all the fullness of God dwells bodily” (Col 2:9). For this
392 Int, 7 | maternal concern to which the dying Redeemer entrusted, in the
393 3, 26 | enter into the psychological dynamic proper to love.~One thing
394 Con, 42 | training them from their earliest years to experience this
395 1, 11 | uninterruptedly throughout her earthly life.~Even now, amid the
396 1, 10 | 26-27). On the morning of Easter hers would be a gaze radiant
397 Con, 43 | and sisters! A prayer so easy and yet so rich truly deserves
398 Con, 43 | yours our final kiss as life ebbs away. And the last word
399 2, 21 | Baptism in the Jordan and echoed by John the Baptist is placed
400 Con, 41 | families, especially in economically developed societies, result
401 2, 20 | Child's consecration and the ecstasy of the aged Simeon; it also
402 Int, 4 | certainly not a hindrance to ecumenism!~
403 1, 15(18)| Santissimo Rosario, 27th ed., Pompei, 1916, 27.~
404 2, 22 | parents in the Garden of Eden. And the cost of this faithfulness
405 Int, 3 | yet fruitful spiritual and educational opportunity for personal
406 3, 35 | spiritual fruitfulness if an effort were made to conclude each
407 Int, 2 | scarcely two weeks after my election to the See of Peter, I frankly
408 3, 27 | prayer, it also in some way embodies the desire for Christ to
409 2, 20 | of humanity, in turn, is embraced by the fiat with which she
410 Int, 8 | Mount Vesuvius, only to emerge centuries later from its
411 2, 21 | Jn 8:12). Yet this truth emerges in a special way during
412 2, 23 | disciples on the road to Emmaus – but also the joy of Mary,
413 3, 33 | character, but that it actually emphasizes and increases it. The first
414 1, 12 | In praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles
415 1, 15 | friendship. We are thereby enabled to enter naturally into
416 1, 15 | the home of Nazareth. This enables her to train us and to mold
417 2, 22 | tempted to rebel. There Jesus encounters all the temptations and
418 Int, 8 | Rosary, and received great encouragement and support from Leo XIII,
419 Int, 5 | important reason for strongly encouraging the practice of the Rosary
420 Int, 3 | It is not my intention to encumber but rather to complete and
421 2, 25 | anxieties, labours and endeavours which go to make up our
422 3, 37 | legitimate. The Rosary is then ended with a prayer for the intentions
423 3, 27 | union with God, it normally engages the whole person in all
424 2, 23 | glory in the Assumption, enjoying beforehand, by a unique
425 2, 19 | give it fresh life and to enkindle renewed interest in the
426 3, 30 | without giving rise to the ennui derived from the simple
427 1, 13 | the Redeemer's life, it ensures that what he has done and
428 Int, 4 | Ecumenical Council, necessarily entails giving lesser importance
429 1, 11 | the Christian community enters into contact with the memories
430 Con, 42 | own and recite it with the enthusiasm typical of their age group.~
431 Int, 1 | the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said
432 1, 9 | Peter, James and John appear entranced by the beauty of the Redeemer,
433 Con, 39 | efficacy to this prayer, entrusting to the Rosary, to its choral
434 2, 24 | 2-3). The Letter to the Ephesians makes this heartfelt prayer
435 1, 15 | have made the basis of my episcopal motto: Totus Tuus.21 The
436 Int, 2(4) | of note is his Apostolic Epistle on the Rosary Il religioso
437 Int, 8 | buried in 79 A.D. during an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, only
438 Con, 40 | won. Far from offering an escape from the problems of the
439 3, 34 | giving proper emphasis to the essentially Trinitarian structure of
440 2, 19 | that has become generally established with the seal of the Church'
441 2, 20 | is, first and foremost, euangelion, “good news”, which has
442 Int, 2 | Vatican Council, the Rosary's evangelical character and its Christocentric
443 2, 24 | Christ, as narrated by the Evangelists, is resplendent with the
444 1, 17 | resource for every good evangelizer.~ ~
445 | everyone
446 | everywhere
447 3, 26 | affection. If we needed evidence for this from the Gospel,
448 Int, 4 | timeliness of this proposal is evident from a number of considerations.
449 2, 19 | mystery of Christ is most evidently a mystery of light: “While
450 Int, 2 | spiritual weapon against the evils afflicting society. Among
451 3, 36 | of the prayer, the beads evoke the unending path of contemplation
452 | except
453 Con, 41 | contemplation are not mutually exclusive; they complement one another.
454 3, 29 | Loyola in the Spiritual Exercises, make use of visual and
455 3, 29 | neither replace the Gospel nor exhaust its content. The Rosary,
456 2, 24 | Holy Rosary are by no means exhaustive, but they do bring to mind
457 Int, 7 | voice heard, in order to exhort the People of God to this
458 3, 29 | draw the mind to a more expansive reflection on the rest of
459 3, 35 | discernment and possibly after experimental use in centres and shrines
460 1, 15 | Grignion de Montfort, who explained in the following words Mary'
461 1, 12 | s own experience, is an exquisitely contemplative prayer. Without
462 2, 20 | agrees to the will of God.~Exultation is the keynote of the encounter
463 Con, 41 | look one another in the eye, to communicate, to show
464 3, 33 | our meditation, since it facilitates the process of assimilation
465 Con, 42 | acute disappointment at the failure of their children to resist
466 1, 10 | of the face of Christ as faithfully as Mary. The eyes of her
467 2, 22 | Eden. And the cost of this faithfulness to the Father's will is
468 Int, 7 | apparitions of Lourdes and of Fatima;11 these shrines continue
469 3, 27 | breathing; while this practice favours perseverance in the prayer,
470 2, 20 | Kingdom. Mary and Joseph, fearful and anxious, “did not understand”
471 3, 35(38)| Missale Romanum 1960, in festo B.M. Virginis a Rosario.~
472 2, 20 | turn, is embraced by the fiat with which she readily agrees
473 Int, 8 | by the practice of the “Fifteen Saturdays”, Bartolo Longo
474 3, 36 | who is also our Father. A “filial” chain which puts us in
475 Con, 41 | the family Rosary means filling daily life with very different
476 Int, 5 | Rosary belongs among the finest and most praiseworthy traditions
477 3, 26 | this project with words of fire: “For me to live is Christ
478 3, 37 | that the Church has seen fit to grant indulgences to
479 2, 21 | that the following can be fittingly singled out: (1) his Baptism
480 1, 11 | Mary lived with her eyes fixed on Christ, treasuring his
481 3, 38 | always had a special Marian flavour, the second weekly meditation
482 Int, 5 | contrary, has witnessed the flowering of a new call for spirituality,
483 1, 13 | from which all its power flows”,15 it is also necessary
484 1, 16 | thee, would have his desire fly without wings”.26 When in
485 2, 22 | the Way of the Cross, has focused on the individual moments
486 3, 31 | word of God, while the mind focuses on the content of a particular
487 1, 9 | this is the task of every follower of Christ and therefore
488 1, 15 | conformed to Jesus Christ, it follows that among all devotions
489 1, 13 | Church is directed and the font from which all its power
490 2, 21 | offers his body and blood as food under the signs of bread
491 2, 22 | of Jesus, to stand at the foot of the Cross beside Mary,
492 Con, 40 | one possibly follow in the footsteps of Christ the Revealer,
493 3, 33 | public recitation. It gives forceful expression to our faith
494 3, 33 | Theotókos, derives the forcefulness of the appeal we make to
495 Int, 6 | increasingly menaced by forces of disintegration on both
496 2, 20 | Christianity is, first and foremost, euangelion, “good news”,
497 2, 20 | Incarnation and on the obscure foreshadowing of the mystery of the saving
498 3, 34 | the experience of Tabor, a foretaste of the contemplation yet
499 Con, 41 | to show solidarity, to forgive one another and to see their
500 3, 26 | heart, rich in mercy and in forgiveness, but also a human heart,
501 2, 21 | conversion (cf. Mk 1:15) and forgives the sins of all who draw