Archbishop José Gomez
has urged us: “Rediscover the Rosary! It's the prayer of saints and the prayer
for you … simple enough for a child, so deep we enter the mysteries of the Son
of God.”
When we pray the
Rosary, we consider the great scenes from Jesus’ life as we repeat the words of
the Church’s basic prayers. In our hearts we enter the scenes, because surely
Jesus wants us to be there with him. In all those places — Nazareth, Bethlehem,
Egypt, Galilee, Mount Tabor, Jerusalem, Calvary — he loved you and me and acted
on that love. We belong there with him. The Rosary takes us there in our prayer
and our imagination.
In the Rosary we draw
close to Mary as our spiritual mother. She gently guides us in the ways of
Jesus’ life. She teaches us to live in our new and heavenly home. She teaches
us to do whatever Jesus tells us (see John 2:5).
Like any good mother,
she is educating us and forming our character. As we meditate on the Gospel
scenes, she shows us how to be kind like Jesus, brave like Jesus, patient like
Jesus, and forgiving like Jesus. She shows us how to be like God.
Living this way, in
Mary’s care, in the arms of the Mother of God, we know the protection of the
angels. We know the life of heaven even here on earth. We were made for this,
to be her offspring (Revelation 12:17), born anew as the brothers and sisters of
Jesus.