Cor Mariae “Holy Rosary”
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20 phrases of saints and blessed that will make you love the Holy Rosary more
Phrases from those who grew in holiness with the prayer of the Rosary:
1. Saint Pius
“If you want peace to reign in your families and in your country, pray the Rosary every day with all your loved ones.”
2. Saint Francis de Sales
“Praying my Rosary is my sweetest occupation and a true joy, because I know that while I pray it I am speaking with the most kind and generous of mothers.”
3. San José de Calasanz
“Let everyone know that they are devoted to the Most Holy Rosary, which contains the life, passion and death of our Redeemer.”
4. Saint Louis Mary Grignion de Montfort
“The practice of the Holy Rosary is great, sublime and divine. Heaven has given it to us to convert the most hardened sinners and the most obstinate heretics.”
5. Saint Alphonsus Mary Liguori
"If we want to relieve the blessed souls in Purgatory, let us try to pray for them to the Blessed Virgin, applying the Holy Rosary for them in a special way, which will serve as a great relief to them."
6. Saint Anthony Mary Claret
“The best conquests of souls that I have achieved, I have achieved through the devout prayer of the Holy Rosary.”
7. Saint John Mary Vianney (Holy Curé of Ars)
“With this weapon I have taken many souls from the devil.”
8. Saint John Bosco
“All my educational work is based on the devotion of the Virgin and the prayer of the Rosary. “I would rather give up anything else than the Rosary.”
9. Saint Therese of the Child Jesus (Therese of Lisieux)
“With the Rosary you can achieve everything. According to a funny comparison, it is a long chain that unites Heaven and earth, one end of which is in our hands and the other in those of the Blessed Virgin. As long as the Rosary is prayed, God cannot abandon the world, because this prayer is very powerful on his Heart.”
10. Saint Paul VI
“The recitation of the Rosary requires a calm rhythm and a reflective calm that encourages those who pray to meditate on the mysteries of the life of the Lord, seen through the Heart of the One who was closest to the Lord.”
11. Saint Josemaría Escrivá
“I hope you know how and want to sow peace and joy throughout the world, with this admirable Marian devotion.”
12. Saint John XXIII
“The Rosary is a very excellent form of meditated prayer, composed as a mystical crown.”
13. Saint John Paul II
“The Rosary has accompanied me in moments of joy and in moments of tribulation. I have confided so many worries to him and in him I have always found comfort.”
14. Saint Teresa of Calcutta
“Cling to the Rosary as the leaves of the ivy cling to the tree; because without our Lady we cannot remain.”
15. Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
“Love the Virgin and make her loved. Always recite the Rosary!”
16. Saint John Berchmans
“Give me my weapons: the cross, the crown of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin and the rules of the Company. These are my three most loved items; with them I will die happy.”
17. San Miguel Febres (Holy Brother Michael)
“A Christian without the Rosary is a soldier without weapons.”
18. Blessed Álvaro del Portillo
“As you pray the Rosary, beseech the Queen of the World for the sanctity of the family.”
19. Blessed Bartolome Longo
“As two friends, who frequent each other, tend to also resemble each other in customs, so we, by conversing familiarly with Jesus and the Virgin, meditating on the Mysteries of the Rosary, and forming together the same life of communion, we can become, to the extent of our smallness, similar to them, and learn from these eminent examples to live humble, poor, hidden, patient and perfect.”
20. Santo Domingo de Guzmán
“You are seeing the fruit that I have achieved with the preaching of the Holy Rosary; Do the same, you and all those who love Mary, so as to attract all peoples to the full knowledge of the virtues.”