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The Rosary
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Prayer is the root and source and mother of ten thousand blessings.
Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
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Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.
V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created.
R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Fr. Guy Bedouelle, O.P., in his book ST. DOMINIC, THE GRACE AND THE WORD,
includes this important comment about a contemporary of St. Dominic:
“Blessed Romee of Livia, one of St. Dominic’s companions,
Prior of the Convent of Lyons, France in 1223, and later
Provincial of Provence, was said to have died, according to the
medieval chronicler Bernard Gui, holding tightly in his fingers
the little knotted cord on which he counted his AVES.
Historians regard this as one of the earliest texts describing
our present Rosary in its embryonic form.” (p. 254)
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