{"id":224370,"date":"2025-10-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/?p=224370"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:48:21","slug":"octubre-mes-del-rosario-guia-rezar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/octubre-mes-del-rosario-guia-rezar\/","title":{"rendered":"October, month of the rosary"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the month of October we put special care in the recitation of the Holy Rosary. The October 7 <\/a> we celebrate Our Lady of the Rosary. This powerful weapon, as St. Josemar\u00eda called it, bears many fruits of conversion and peace. \"The Holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you will marvel at the result\" (The Way, 558).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contemplation of the mysteries of the life of Jesus, through the four parts of the Rosary, brings us closer to Our Lord and, through the intercession of Our Mother, to all those who need us. Always include in your petitions seminarians, diocesan priests and religious that they may be very holy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month, the Church invites us to take the Rosary beads and contemplate the mysteries of our faith with the best of guides: our Mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origins of the Rosary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The recitation of the holy Rosary took a long time to take shape as we know it today. It was not devised at a specific moment in time, but was\u00a0is the result of a long evolution<\/strong>. It all probably started in the\u00a0tenth century<\/strong>. In the year 910, Saint Benedict founded the\u00a0Cluniac Order<\/em>. She attached great importance to communal choral prayer. He wanted his abbeys to be a foretaste of the heavenly Jerusalem, where saints and angels are continually singing praises to God and interceding for all human beings (cf. Rev 5:9; 14:3; 15:3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is estimated that the origin of the Rosary goes back to the birth of the Hail Mary in the 9th century, as a prayer to honor Mary, the Mother of God, and that the Rosary originated in the order of St. Benedict and spread through the action of the Dominicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The devotion to the Holy Rosary has deep roots in the history of the Church. The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated every October 7, was instituted by Pope St. Pius V to commemorate the victory of the Christian fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. A victory directly attributed to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, invoked through the massive recitation of the Rosary throughout Christendom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Lourdes, Fatima and many other apparitions of Our Mother. The Virgin Mary has always urged us to pray the Rosary uninterruptedly: for the conversion of sinners, for the end of evil in the world, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But beyond its historical context, the Rosary is a school of prayer. It is not a simple repetition of Hail Marys, but a path of contemplation. At pray the Rosary<\/strong>We can walk with Mary through the most significant moments of Jesus' life: the joyful, luminous, sorrowful and glorious mysteries. As St. Josemar\u00eda would say, the Rosary is \"the prayer of the simple and the wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a constant dialogue, a \"coming and going\" of affections between a son and his mother, where we tell her our joys, sorrows and longings, while she takes us by the hand towards Jesus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guide for praying the Rosary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you don't know how to do it, you can follow these steps to pray the Rosary to Our Mother the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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