Q
- Pope Francis said to the priests and religious of Naples on Saturday,
March 21: "A priest, a monk, or a nun who does not love the Blessed
Virgin, who does not pray the Holy Virgin—who does not pray the
Rosary—if that person does not want the Mother, the Mother will not give
him her Son." Can you explain this further?
R - It
reminds me of the dialogue written by Bernanos in the Diary of a Country
Priest. The old priest wants to share with his young colleague his
mission of facilitating the work of grace in people’s hearts. “Do you
pray to the Virgin Mary? Not mechanically, without thinking about it… Do
you want to believe that in our old world crushed by sin, evil, and
violence, there is a pure source, so clear and pure that it could not
even see its own reflection, made for the sheer joy of the Father?”
... Even
in the most depraved executioner, there is still a small immaculate and
Marian fragment. It is our job to discover it, to bring it out of the
mud, to the surface. The Rosary helps us view the world with the
confidence of a God who inspired the faith of Mary. "Hail, full of
grace, the Lord is with you ..."
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