WEDNESDAY 7TH, October
MEDITATION OF THE DAY
MAGNIFICAT com,
Father Raymond P Lawrence
Graces of the Holy Rosary
Monsignor Hugh Benson, in one of his early novels, (1906-09),
gave us a beautiful explanation of the rosary. An old nun is trying to make the
devotion clear to a young Protestant girl. The enquirer asks:
"How can prayers said over and over again like that be any
good?"
Mistress Margaret was silent for a moment.
"I saw young Mrs Martin last week," she said, "with
her little girl in her lap. She had her arms around her mother's neck, and was
being rocked to and fro; and every time she rocked she said 'Oh, mother'."
"But, then," said lsabel, after a moment's silence,
"she was only a child." "Except ye become as little children-m
quoted Mistress Margaret softly-"you see, my lsabel, we are nothing more
than children with God and his Blessed Mother. To say, 'Hail Mary, Hail Mary,' is
the best way of telling her how much we love her. And, then, this string of
beads is like our Lady's girdle, and her children love to finger it, and
whisper to her. And then we say our Our Fathers too; and all the while we are
talking, she is showing us pictures of her dear Child, and we look at all the
great things he did for us, one by one; and then we turn the page and begin
again."
Those who have profited most from the rosary are the ones who
have thus understood it. With hearts full of love they have rested close by the
side of our heavenly Mother; and, whispering words of endearment to her, they
have gazed the while at those wonderful pictures which the changing mysteries
recall, seeing always something new and beautiful. And when they have come to
the end of the picture-book, with the insatiable interest of a child, they have
gone back to the beginning and turned every page over again.
FATHER RAYMOND' P. LAWRENCE
(+ 1968) was a priest of the
Diocese of
Syracuse, NY, and was the author
of the book The Journey Home.
Prayer for the Evening
Come,
let us praise the
Lord our God
on this feast of the Blessed
Virgin Mary!
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Some Visitors
 | Robert Hugh BensonRobert Hugh Benson, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, became a Roman Catholic priest, a novelist, and a prominent writer of apologetics. He published Confessions of a Convert and Lourdesserially in Notre Dame's magazine, The Ave Maria, before he brought them out as books. He visited Notre Dame in April of 1914, seven months before he died at the age of forty-three. |
Science fiction
·
A Mirror of
Shalott, Benziger Brothers, 1907.
·
Lord of the
World, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908 [1st Pub. 1907].
·
The Dawn of All, B.
Herder, 1911.[6]
Historical fiction
·
By What
Authority?, Isbister, 1904.
·
Come Rack! Come
Rope!, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913 [1st Pub. 1912].
·
Oddsfish!, Dodd,
Mead & Co., 1914.
·
The King's
Achievement, Burns Oates & Washbourne, Lrd., 1905.
·
The Queen's
Tragedy, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1907.
·
The History of
Richard Raynal, Solitary, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.,
1912.
·
Initiation, Dodd,
Mead & Co., 1914.[7]
Contemporary
Fiction
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