The Rosary My Treasure

Promises Made by the Blessed Virgin to St. Dominic and Blessed Alanus in Favor of Those Devoted to Her Rosary 1. To all those who shall recite my Rosary devoutly, I promise my special protection and very great graces. 2. Those who shall persevere in the recitation of my Rosary will receive some signal grace. 3. The Rosary will be a very powerful armor against hell; it will destroy vice, deliver from sin and dispel heresy. 4. The Rosary will make virtue and good works flourish, and will obtain for souls the most abundant Divine mercies; it will substitute in hearts love of God for love of the world, and elevate them to desire heavenly and eternal goods. Oh, that souls would sanctify them .. selves by this means! 5. Those who trust themselves to me through the Rosary will not perish. 6. Those who shall recite my Rosary piously, considering its mysteries, will not be over .. whelmed by misfortune, nor die a bad death. 7. Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the consolations of the Church or without grace. 8. Those who shall recite my Rosary will find during their life and at their death the light of God, the fulness of His grace and will share in the merits of the blessed. 9. I will deliver very promptly from purgatory the souls devoted to my Rosary. 10. The true children of my Rosary will enjoy great glory in heaven. 11. What you shall ask through my Rosary you shall obtain. 12. Those who propagate my Rosary will obtain through me aid in all their necessities. 13. I have obtained from my Son that all the members of the Rosary Confraternity shall have for their intercessors in life and death the saints of heaven. 14. Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are all my beloved children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ. 15. Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of predestination. "This is the most precious treasure of the Vatican," once exclaimed the saintly Pius IX, showing to a band of pilgrims his beloved rosary. It is likewise your treasure, Christian soul. You possess nothing more beautiful, nothing more excellent: nothing more beautiful, for the Rosary is the model and ideal of prayers, at once a prayer of praise, of thanksgiving and of petition; nothing more excellent, for the Blessed Virgin herself gave us this devotion, the practice of which has converted hundreds of thousands of heretics and millions of sinners, and has strengthened faith and love in the hearts of countless Christians. The Rosary is the barometer, as it were, of Christianity. Wherever the Rosary devotion is cherished, the Catholic Faith is still in its vigor and reigns in the hearts and lives of Christians. On the other hand, wherever the Rosary is neglected or contemptuously cast aside, there the Catholic Faith has dropped to the freezing point, there pride and false education guide the heart. One who prays the Rosary cannot forget the mysteries of Redemption, for the Rosary prayers are not only a rule of faith, but they contain a summary of Catholic doctrine as well, and embrace all that a Christian should believe, hope for, love and practice. The Rosary is a perfect catechism. It teaches Christian truths exactly and completely, and illustrates them beautifully. Truly, we may say that the Rosary contains an infallible means for obtaining heaven.