“The Pope Speaks to Us”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Today, the first day of October, I would like to reflect on two aspects, which characterize this month in the Ecclesial Community: the prayer of the Rosary and the commitment to the Missions. This Saturday, 7 October, we will be celebrating the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, and it is as though Our Lady invites us every year to rediscover the beauty of this prayer, so simple and so profound.

Our beloved John Paul II was a great Apostle of the Rosary: we remember him on his knees, his rosary beads in his hands, immersed in the contemplation of Christ as he himself invited us to do in his Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae.

The Rosary is a contemplative and Christocentric prayer, inseparable from meditation on Holy Scripture. It is the prayer of the Christian who advances on his pilgrimage of faith, following Jesus and preceded by Mary.

Dear brothers and sisters, I would like to invite you during this month to recite the Rosary in the family, in the community and in parishes, for the Pope’s intentions, for the Church’s mission and for world peace.

Extract from Angelus Sunday October 1^st,2006, Osservatore Romano, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI

Fraternite Notre Dame

Ph: 1.773.261.0101
eMail: The News Room : Fraternite Notre Dame

Copyright © FND Novembre 2006