The unknown light in the sky prophesied at Fatima and other timeline coincidences involving WWII

WWII was prophesied at Fatima as something which would occur if the bishops
declined to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.   Men such as
the ones seen here had to endure a lot of terror en route to the combat zones,
all because of bishops too arrogant ... too high & mighty ... for Our Lady.

After this introduction is a timeline list of WWII events that coincided with signifi-
cant dates on the Roman Catholic calendar.  The events, being attached to the fury
of military combat, could not have been planned by a conspiratorial secret society.
Nor could they have transpired via subliminal suggestion.

Keep in mind that WWII was a pivotal prophecy of the Fatima revelations.  After
all, war is a punishment from God for humanity's sins.  Concerning this, Our Lady
said at Fatima, " When you see a night illuminated by an unknown light, know 
that this is the great sign given to you by God that He is about to punish the 
world for its crimes, by means of war,  famine, and persecution.

This illumination was seen on January 25, 1938.  Forty-six days later, after a time
span equal to a lenten season, and done after Hitler applied intimidation tactics up-
Prime Minister Kurt von Schuschnigy, Germany annexed Austria.  This act was re-
garded by Fatima's Sister Lucia to have been the start of WWII.  The light was seen 
throughout Europe, Bermuda, and part of Australia.  On that night, even radios in 
Maine USA were disrupted. See:

Peasants Kneel in Terror before Aurora over Europe
Some cry, "Is it war?"  Others Summon Fire Fighters as Northern Lights Flame
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MhFJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N4MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3887,2135913&dq=peasants+europe+aurora+lights&hl=en

Europe Afraid of Northern Lights
Peasants Pray as Borealis Dances in Sky
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MhFJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N4MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2527,2312812&dq=peasants+europe+aurora+lights&hl=en 

The timeline of WWII coincidences has nothing to do with numerology, being that 
numbers are for record-keeping purposes and measurement  . . .  not fortune telling.
Nor does the following have anything to do with soothsaying or anything done in a 
fortune teller's den.  

However, there is an irony here, in that these coincidences transpired during an era 
when people were still into 19th Century occultism, seances, and astrology.  It were 
as if God's serpents of destiny were eating the 20th Century's serpents of superstition.
(For those raised in the American public school system, the imagery refers to Moses'
staff turning into a serpent which devoured the serpents of the pharaoh's magicians.)

Keep in mind that soothsaying is the way that the world of sin glances into the fu-
ture.  Prophecy is God's gift, in navigating mankind to its intended destiny.  Where-
as soothsaying is a sin, derived from the laziness of not wanting to pray, fast, and
observe a discipline which gains clear communication avenues to God, prophesy-
ing is not.  In as much, the only thing in focus here is the unintended coincidences 
of major WWII events that occurred on pivotal feast days of the Catholic Church:

The bombing results of a Nazi V1 rocket in Pas de Calais France, shortly
before the Liberation of Parish which transpired on the feast day of a
canonized king of France, ever so coincidentally.

- August 25, 1944 was the day when Paris was Liberated.  August 25th was ever so
  coincidentally the feast day of King Louis IX.  The logical conclusion is that Paris
  was liberated at the intercession of the canonized king of the House of Capet.  Or
  else it was God making a statement about Divine Providence.

- The United States' Pacific involvement in WWII began on the day commemorating
   the beginning of the Virgin Mary's life and it ended on the day commemorating the
   end of Mary's life on earth.  The U.S. was first attacked on eve of the Solemnity of
   the Immaculate Conception . . . December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy.

   The U.S. then formally declared war on Japan on the actual Feast of the Immaculate
   Conception.  The Immaculate Conception was and is the official patron saint of the
   United States.  Thus, America entered the Pacific war on the feast day of its patron,
   done through a largely Protestant congress whose members NEITHER believed in
   the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception NOR in the Catholic Church.  In as much,
   there was no subliminal suggestivity here.  Therefore, the anti-theist scientivists of
   this world need to come up with more a convincing reason as to how this could have
   been nothing more than a mere coincidence ... Concerning the most horrendous war
   ever, ever so coincidentally prophesied at Fatima.

   The same war which was conditionally prophesied at Fatima formally ended on the
   14th of August, 1945, in as far as concerned combat hostilities and the exchanging
   of fire between Pacific enemies.  The 14th of August was the eve of the Feast of the
   Assumption; the day commemorating Mary being taken into Heaven glorified body
   and soul.

    Ironically, August 14 was also the anniversary of the death of Maximillian Kolbe,
    the Polish Franciscan who was a missionary in Japan and who was later killed in a
    Nazi concentration camp, by means of lethal ejection (carbolic acid, aka phenol.)
    St. Maximillian's Japanese mission was located in Nagasaki ... the second Japanese
    city to be bombed by nuclear fire power.
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-  As was previously mentioned, the great light in the night sky mentioned by Mary at
   Fatima occurred on the memorial of the Conversion of St Paul;  the 25th of January.
  That day commemorates the time when a flash of light blinded Saul of Taurus, throw-
   ing him off his horse and preventing him from executing any more Christians.

   In 1938, a great light was seen throughout the European night sky so much so that
   people were calling fire departments, in order to report a huge fire.  It would tech-
   nically be regarded as a low altitude red aurora, and it would be described in the
   presses as Europe first aurora since 1709, the year when the Great Northern War
   began its twenty-one year tour of combat, ironically enough. 

   Then, on September 20, 1941, yet another aurora visited the skyline of Bermuda.
   September 1941 ever so coincidentally began America's involvement in the Euro-
   pean war, via the Lend/Lease Agreement which was signed into law by FDR in
   March of 1941.  It consisted in sending tons of materiel and logistical equipment
   to England.  This resulted several US merchant and cargo ships being sunk off the
   Carolina coastline by Nazi U-Boats.  In September of 1941, the war came to Amer-
   ica, as much as did the second Fatima aurora come to Bermuda, an American island
   ruled by the British whom the Americans were supplying.  The U-boat combat was
   known as the Battle of the Atlantic.

   In as much, for Hitler to have won the war, he needed to have attacked America in
   far greater numbers than he did, in September of 1941.  After Dunkirk, Hitler could
   have let England alone, and saved its conquest for last.  He made a fatal strategic
   error in bombing London as obsessively as he did.  He made an even more fatal
   error in attacking Russia before securing England

   Hitler, if he were a competent world-conquest dictator, should have occupied the
   Azores and then taken over Bermuda, with the rest of the Caribbean to follow suit.
   Europe could have rested.  Well, Hitler was going to attack Gibraltar.  But, Franco
   made it known that he was going to keep Spain neutral throughout the war.  Hitler
   had to cancel the attack on Gibraltar which might have been followed by the occu-
   pation of the Azores and then the Caribbean.  The lesson is that you must first at-
   tack the supplier nations in a war.  This neglect of Hitler lost for him the war he
   personally started.  Of course, in the presence of sin, there is no wisdom, such as
   the wisdom to quickly win and end a war, as well as avoiding war.
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- October 4, 1940 was the feast day of Italian saint, Francis of Assisi.  October 4 was
   also the day when Mussolini and Hitler met as the Brenner pass, to make an alliance
   for further warfare.  The irony is that St. Francis is one of the church's patron saints
   of peace.  In fact, the day prior was when the Jews were ordered to move into the
   Warsaw ghetto.

- The Nazis succeeded in occupying Rome on September 15, 1943.  It was the Mem-
   orial of Our Lady of Sorrows.  It was a sorrowful day.

-  Italy surrendered to the allies on the eve of the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel.
   The same Italy later declared war on Nazi Germany on the anniversary of the Fatima
   Miracle of the Sun.  The idea of Italy declaring war on Germany, at the beginning of
   the war, was as unexpected as the sun's conduct on October 13, 1917.
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-  The U.S. 8th Army Air Force was designed with the philosophy that destroying the
    Nazi German military infrastructure behind enemy lines would quickly end the war.
    It was activated on the feast day of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the official philosopher
    of the Catholic Church who wrote on the Just War Theory and measured the moral
    implications of collateral damage in warfare.  It were as if he were the patron saint
    of the American air wings who quickly made use of the more reliable Norden Bomb
    Site, when targeting the Nazi military infrastructure from the sky.

    The collateral damage resulting from American daylight bombing raids, which some-
    times was massive and at other times was not, was due to technological limitations,
    except for the bombing of Hamm, shortly after Operation Market Garden failed.
    Even the bombing of Berlin concentrated on the administrative offices there.

   The three day attack on Hamm ended in one air raid that no longer targeted Hamm's
    marshaling yards.  Hamm, itself, became the target, being that it was largely a mili-
    tary staging town.  The whole town was almost a military base, in itself.

    None the less, the British air force was the one who bombed civilian targets, doing
    so at night.  It was an air force without a conscience, much like the Nazi's Luftwaffe.
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   The following short segment is a timeline and mapline of connected coincidences:

-  D-Day occurred on the feast day of St Norbert of Xanten; the bishop of Magdeburg;
   a Rhineland bishop.  The coincidence is that the Nazi's last stance west of the Rhine
   was in Xanthan.  Then, the allies finally crossed the Rhine, doing so on the feast of
   Saint Gabriel the Archangel.  Remember that the pre-Vatican II church calendar was
   in effect during the war.  Saint Gabriel's feast day was March 24 at the time.

   In review,  the allies invaded continental Europe on the feast day of St. Norbert of
   Xanten, and then secured the Rhine by going through St. Norbert home town, and
   then succeeded in crossing the Rhine on the feast day of St. Gabriel the Archangel.
   None the less, I don't know what the connection between St. Norbert and St. Gabriel
   would be.
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- The first atomic bomb ever used in warfare, thereby instantaneously transfiguring
   the terrain of Hiroshima, was dropped on the Feast of the Transfiguration, the 6th
   of August.

  The first time in history when an atomic bomb was detonated, in New Mexico, was
  on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, July 16, 1944.

- 48,498 Polish allied troops of the 2nd Polish Corps defeated the Nazi Germans in
   the Battle of Monte Cassino on the 24th birthday of former Solvay Chemical Com-
   pany employee, Karol Wojtyla.  At the time of the battle, he was a clandestine sem-
   inarian living at the residence of Kraków archbishop Adam Stefan Sapieha.  He
   would become the Successor of Saint Peter in 1978.  The day of victory was the
   18th of May, 1944.

- May 8, 1945 was Victory in Europe Day.  Well, May 8 is the anniversary of Saint
  Michael the Archangel's apparition at Monte Gargano.  It's also the anniversary of
  the victory ofthe  Christian Lombards over the still-pagan Neapolitans, in 663.

  Keep in mind that the Roman Empire fell two centuries prior.  Yet, Naples remained
  an adherent to a belief in gods thought to have been seated at Mount Vesuvius.  If not
  for that volcano, my Neapolitan ancestry would have become Christian much sooner
  than it did.   In as much, it should be somewhat striking that the same May 8th date
  marks the victory over the most horrendous terror that Western Europe has ever seen.

Concerning the January 25, 1938 Phenomenon

There are other coinciding events in history related to this, whatever it might mean.
For example, December 14, 1862, an Aurora Borealis was seen at Fredericksburg's
blood-soaked battlefield, exactly one night before a five day battle there ceased.
In reality, the battle ended the day prior.  The final two days were withdrawal days,
being that casualties mounted to 18,000 of the 184,000 troops who fought there.

Before 1938, Continental Europe hadn't seen an aurora since 1709, the year when
the 21 year-long Great Northern War started.  That war's cast of characters includ-
ed the Ottoman Empire, for a temporary duration.  America saw one much more
recently, in the most coincidental setting of warfare (1862).

For the record, solar storms were seen on Continental Europe between 1709 and 
1938, but not throughout the entire western sector thereof.  An example is the solar 
storm viewed in France and Switzerland, in 1903, on All Saints Day, of all things.

Concerning 1903, that was the year when Benito Mussolini ever so coincidentally
was expelled from Switzerland for suggesting a general labor strike there.  He was 
only 20 years at the time.  If Mussolini weren't expelled from Switzerland, he would 
never have become Italian head of state, bringing tragedy to the Italian people.  

As far as concerned France, 1903 was the preliminary year of the Morocco Crisis.
This high octane crisis would continue into the start of World War I.  In fact, it was
recognized as one of the 'long-term' causes of the Great War.

Again, we have at least another coincidence, concerning the light in the sky phe-
nomenon, as if it were God's Braille for a blind humanity.  At the same time, there 
were several other incidents of auroras which were not followed by any history-
changing event.  

In a similar fashion, not every aurora that appeared where is normally was followed
by any unique event..  So, what is to made of this?  What is to be said of the fact that 
the Virgin Mary spoke of a sign to humanity, appearing throughout one night sky?  
The general answer is that the God of Creation is still in control of creation. Some-
one needs to take it from there.  Of course, the ultimate concern of life is to fulfill
one's duty to conscience in daily life, in matter concerning natural law, etc.

There are no such things as coincidences when they come in multiplicity.  Divine Pro-
vidence can speak in the course of human events, proving that no man has the power
that he might think he possesses, no matter how strong be his political base, no matter
how broad be his crony network, and no matter how well-armed be his military.  Man's
true power is in prayer and sacrifice.  Everything is a result of prayer and sacrifice or
the absence thereof.

Human history has shown that political entities fall from power with the frequency of
autumn leaves.  This truth was witnessed very recently, beginning with present-day
Carthage, aka modern Tunisia.  It illustrates that everyone will eventually see the
light of God in one of two forms.  One form is that of an infatuating illumination,
and the other form is that of incendiary wrath.  After all, it's written, "I the Lord 
your God am a jealous God."

How does a naysayer, an atheist, and an anti-theist explain the multiple timeline of
coincidences attached to specific Catholic feast days and specific historic events
attached to WWII?  As was previously mentioned, it were as if they were messages
handwritten upon a Babylonian wall.  The coincidences can catch one's curiosity.

A V-1 Rocket site bombed by the 8th Army Air Force.

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Quick Note about the Virgin of the Globe Statue

There was an inquiry as to the meaning of the serpent under the Virgin Mary's feet
in Catholic statuary.   It simply means that Our Lady is holding the Devil at bay.  It
means that she protects her children from the demonic world.   However, when it
comes time for her son to have his church punished for its unrepentant sins, Mary
simply lifts her foot and lets the Devil have his way with humanity.   Then, after the
repentance of her children, namely the members of the church, she steps on the in-
fernal serpent's head once again, holding it at bay.  

The image of Mary crushing the serpent's head has one of its many origins traced to
the 1830 apparitions of Rue de Bac, in Paris, involving Vincentian novice Catherine
Labouré.   It refers to Genesis 3:15, the passage known as the Protoevangelium, aka
the First Gospel, which states: "I will put enmity between you and the woman;  be-
tween your offspring and hers.  You will strike for its heal and it will crush your 
head."   Therefore, Genesis 3:15 is the image of Mary crushing the head of the an-
cient serpent.   Incidentally, the pronoun in the Hebrew verse was neither the male
nor female form --- neither he nor she.  It was the neuter form.

One of the Rue de Bac apparitions consisted in Mary having three rings on each of
her fingers, while varying rays of light emitted from most of them.   She told Cather-
ine that each ray represented graces that she dispenses on those who ask for them.
She also said that the gems from which no ray came were symbolic of those graces
for which people stopped asking.

No one in the state mortal sin gets converted randomly.  Someone offer prayer or                                      make a sacrifice for that person ... maybe a lot of prayers and a lot sacrifices.  All                                  in all, if there i no prayer, then there is no grace.  If there is no grace, then there is                                  no glory.    

      

Now, Jesus said to Saint Gertrude the Great to not think that you can only ask for
small things.   He said that it is salutary to ask for great things.  Therefore, it is
noble to ask for cures to diseases declared incurable by high-priced medicine.
It's expected that you pray for the overthrow of those who gained power through injustices.
God and Our Lady needs the modern church to quit be a gathering of airheads
and pampered prisses.  There are intense outrages occurring on a mass scale.
Look and think:

1}Slave Labor, 2}Obscenely high medical costs which constitute theft, as in
the price of an aspirin at the hospital and the price that a physician charges by
looking at a patient's chart, as well as the price gouging done by Big Pharma.
3}Chemicals appearing in products that were never tested for safety and that
are medically known neurotoxins, asthma incitants, endocrine disruptors, etc.
The same chemicals then end up in water supplies, and ever so coincidentally, 
hermaphrodite aquatic life was discovered in modern man's water supllies.
4}Exorbitant military spending,  5}The legalized adultery which is called
Divorce & Remarriage, as if humans are expendable.  6}The disregard for
the Christian Sabbath.  7+}Other evils which are not going to continue
much longer without God performing the Divine Intervention that re-
peatedly comes to mankind in intervals of time.  History repeats itself
like a circular clock.  History is as round as the Earth and moon.

Praying for great things is commendable, because there are great consequences
in life.  Human life isn't the joke that the abortion-obsessed and slave labor pro-
fiteers make it out to be.  In fact ...  

It actually glorifies God when a person uses the mind God made for humanity,
and ask for answers to question which have perplexed people for centuries, in-
cluding question about faith, as well as the Bible.  Invfact, it offends God each
time a person states that we are just to believe what we are told to believe, and
that's the way it goes.  People who say this simply were too lazy learn the faith.
They were too self-centered to look beyond themselves to learn ... or to be pa-
tient enough for the answers and truths to come to him/her.  .

In order to enter Heaven, you need grace.  In order to receive grace, you need to
be merciful on earth in one way or another.  Plus, there comes a time in every
person's life, where being heroic is the task and not the option.  If a person isn't
merciful from time to time in life, as well as heroic in other occasions, then that
person will go to Hell.  The fact is that the merciless and anti-heroic are living
Hells to other people on earth, being that they only take take and take yet more,
as if to be a plague of locusts upon the land.

One person has to take all the women, and leave behind used merchandise for
the other guys.  Other one has to grab all the money.  Yet, another one has to be
in the spotlight, as if the only goal of humanity was to praise him/her.  Yet, an-
other one has to molest all the altar boys he can.  It's the world of narcissism,
greed, and predatory that prevails in this era.  In as much, there isn't time to
pray for small things.

In the end, a person goes to the place that resembles their way of being, concern-
ing the way the person is at the hour of death.  Heaven is only for the merciful.
Hell is for the money grabbers, those who set people against each other, the lust
ridden wolves, the manipulators, the ones who use violence to get their wants,
and the con artists you can hear on TV, hear on the radio, read in the press, and
read online.
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The Effects of the Rosary

The Rosary is extremely personal.  It's neither
robotic nor a matter of rattling beads.   In fact,
you never have to use beads.  This is because
there is a radar to use when praying the Rosary.

Yet, a set of Rosary beads can be an effective
sacramental.  Concerning this, the only reason
why a priest blesses anything is to remove the
effects of original sin from the object blessed,
be it a set of Rosary beads or a school bus.

The Rosary is a very personable devotion.  This is because Our Lady appropriates
her presence to the person praying the Rosary, provided that the person is engaged
in the heart of the Rosary prayer.  The heart of the Rosary is that of meditating on
the life, death, and glory of Christ which happens to involve the Virgin Mary.  Af-
ter all, she was there at his conception, at his birth, when he was found with the
doctors of temple, at his crucifixion, at his ascension into Heaven, and during the
Pentecost, as well as when he was being consecrated as an infant at the Temple.

These are simply events in the life of Jesus and/or Mary.  They are the milestones
in the mystery of salvation, done in time and space, on this earth.  In as much, the
Rosary consists in remembering, in pondering ... in realizing ... in believing ... in
contemplating on those events,   Rosary devotion creates close distance friendship
between Mary and the devotee.

 The Rosary is the act of doing two types of prayer simultaneously.  One type is
Vocal Prayer.  The other type is Meditative ... or Contemplative prayer.  Contem-
plative Prayer is when you hitch a rid on God's wings and soar in your spiritual
faculties.  This is why some people hate the Rosary.  They are too lazy to try to
do both types of prayer simultaneously.  Now, due to the effects of original sin,
dual prayer simultaneously takes some effort at the beginning.

The Rosary, at the beginning can be a workout.  However, due to the fact that Our
Lady, and not some non-existent cosmic force, is actively involved, a beginning
will usually get graces of illumination when initially praying the Rosary.  Howev-
er, eventually will come what is called the "Dry Period."  That is simply the time
span when God lets you create space for added grace within your soul.  This phrase
is equivalent to preparing a house for moving into it.  It's during that time when you
are a space capsule trying to connect to the lunar module, in order to get back home.

Sometimes the dry period has been very long for certain people, such as St. Theresa
of Avila.  The guaranteed trick to quickly ending the dry period is what is called
physical mortification.  In today's world, such mortifications are called workouts.
Yes, if you want to quickly end the spiritual dry spell go do one of the following:

1} lift weights, 2} run faster than a snail's pace, 3} do callisthenics, including those
grass drills we did in pre-football-camp training, 4} engage in vigorous ice skating,
5} gymnastic training.  Do the workouts where the phrase, "No Pain, No Gain" is
applicable.  You would be surprised  how sensitive with rapid cognisance you be-
come when combining physical exertion training with the Rosary or any Rosary-
like devotion.  The blood circulates well, and the body's contour chisels-out to
a measure of attractability which sometimes can lead to trouble, if you're not in
control of your senses and someone else is not in control of hers/his.

The mysteries of the Rosary are differentiated into Joyous, Sorrowful, Illumina-
tive, and Glorious. 
A person begins meditating on a mystery of salvation by praying an Our Father,
followed by Angelic Salutations, otherwise known as Hail Marys.  At the end
of each mystery meditation, one prays the following:

My Jesus, forgive us our sins and save us from the Fires of Hell.  Lead all souls
to Heaven, especially those most in need of your mercy.

If you are praying the vocal prayers of the Rosary at speed where your attention
are on the vocals, yet are not meditating on any mystery of the Rosary, you are
still praying, but you are not delving into the realm of Mary and the holy angels,
assimilating their characteristics, their cognition of things, and their attributes.

The Rosary shows that religion is the response to actual events which changed
lives.  It is NOT a societal concensus that evolved through the years.  The Re-
surrection of Christ is what made Catholicism, and not a ritualistic adaptation
to Roman culture.  This is especially the case in light of the fact that Catholi-
cism began in the Middle East ... not in Rom\e.  The papacy was in Antioch.
In fact, Saint Ignatius of Antioch first called the church of Christ the Catholic
Church in the Year 100.  He would be martyred in Rome in 117 AD.  Martyrs
were slowly conquering Rome.  Rome was not conquering the church.

There are twenty designated mysteries of the Rosary in all.  Before John Paul II,
there were fifteen.  He added the Illuminative Mysteries and they make for valid
meditations.  All in all, there are the Joyous Mysteries, the Illuminative ones, the
Sorrowful Mysteries, and the Glorious ones.

John Paul referred to the Rosary as the Gospels in Miniature, being that the Rosary
meditations involve the events read in the Gospels.  It commemorates the Gospels.

The Experience of the Rosary

When the presence of Mary descends toward your presence, you can sense caring
on her part.  In tormenting times, you can feel a sense of rescue.  All in all, her pre-
sence is allegorically likened to a heavily embodied stratosphere that comes to you,
and in the process, you fit into this stratosphere as if you were a lost jigsaw puzzle
piece, being fitted into a picture.

The effects of the Rosary includes the instantaneous ability to differentiate illusions
from reality ... the demonic from the angelic .. and mean-spiritedness from strength.
The Rosary quickly teaches how easy it is to be deceived when you don't have a
prayer life.

Friendliness is an essential aspect of Mary's presence.  Thus, it is a mistake to think
of Mary as an intimidating Wizard of Oz who says, "Who dares to approach me?"
Mary is exactly the opposite.  In fact, being in her presence gives one the feeling of
being with a long lost friend who returned to you.  In conclusion, Mary's presence is
the opposite of an 18th Century princess riding a carriage amongst the trappings of
pompous pageantry.  Mary doesn't need pageantry.  Her jewels are the graces of the
Holy Spirit that she mystically dispenses to her fellow humans.  She is the master
link in the final command that Christ will have ever given humanity:  that of loving
one another as he has loved us.  Mary is the master link in fulfilling the command-
ment to love-one-another.

You learn axioms through the Rosary, because praying it realigns your senses into the
correct perspective.  This lets you realize things instinctively.  For example, you learn
through the Rosary that strength comes through endurance, as opposed to huffing and
puffing oneself into a muscle-flexing hype.  You learn that strength consists in being
able to get things done gently, lest you end up being a destructive bull in a china shop.
Even in construction, there are stages where you have to be gentle with a structure,
lest it go tumbling down.  Through the Rosary, you learn that gentleness is power
and not weakness.

It helps you to perceive presences

This pertains to the spiritual presences of the persons commemorated in your Rosary
meditations.  This includes, the Angel Gabriel, Saint Elizabeth, John the Baptist, the
shepherds of Christmas, the angels on the shepherd's field, Simeon, the prophetess
Anna, Saint Peter, Saint John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene, the Roman soldier
who pierced the side of Christ, St Thomas, the two disciples whom Christ encoun-
tered on the Road to Emmaus, all of the disciples present at the disciples present at
Christ's Ascension, all of those present in the Cenacle one Pentecost Sunday, God
the Father individually, God the Son individually, God the Holy Spirit individually,
and the Holy Trinity as as inseparable unity.

The Rosary enables Mary to the untie the knots in your life and within you

Long ago, Mary stated to Alan of La Roche, "One day, through the Scapular and the
Rosary, I will save the world."  You can include this to mean Rosary-like devotions, as
well.  Such devotions include the Seven Sorrows and Joys of Saint Joseph, and devotion
to the Seven Sorrows of Mary.  This consists in meditating on the events which made the
spiritual world never the same again . . . and in reliving the experience of the Archangel
Gabriel, when he said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."

Included in Rosary-like devotions is the reliving the experience of Mary's aged cousin,
Elizabeth, saying in a state of surpise, "Blessed are you among all women and blessed 
is the fruit of your womb."  It consists in going through all of the phases in the mystery
of salvation, to the point of its fruition ... the joyous, illuminative, sorrowful, & glorious.
In the process, you become a Man of all Seasons ... a Woman of all Seasons ... a Young
Man of All Seasons ... a Young Lady of All Seasons ... whichever one applies to you.
The operative aspect of devotion to the Rosary devotion is universality.

The world is in dire need of people praying the Rosary and thereby bringing peace to
where peace is absent, especially peace in the hearts of those whose lies and injustices
cause so much suffering to others.

You possess the key to unlock Mary's ability to save the world.  The Rosary is Key #1.
Meanwhile, the Carmelite Scapular is Key #2.  The brown scapular is a devotional ex-
tension of the Cloak of Elijah.  Elijah is the one attributed with founding the Carmelite
Way, and even Carmelite religious order.

Elijah is the one who recognized the majesty of God in a gentle breeze, resulting in Elijah
hiding his face in his famous cloak.  Centuries later, Carmelite Therese of Lisieux would
state that sanctity comes in little things, as little as a gentle breeze.  In as much, when the
Catholic faithful recognizes the gentle breeze that was on Mount Carmel, in Israel, the
Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will have occurred.
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The Rosary of the Virgin Mary

The major objection that the arrogant have of the Rosary is that they assume
it to be a devotion for illiterate women and children, but not for lofty minds.

Well, the sacred scripture reads:  "Out of the mouths of babes come perfect
praise."  The Rosary can very much be a bringer of Wisdom - - - of Wisdom
radiated to you from Heaven.

Mary says, "And I present to you my son ..."

The Virgin Mary brings her realm to you.
You don't go to it, as if it's an impersonal
force field that you can reach with the help
of a cosmic map. The experience of being
in her realm is very personal.  In fact, the
Realm of the Virgin Mary is like a sapphire
dome room, where:

1} Sapphire is the symbolic color of Heaven
that exists in the depth of Mary's soul as much
as it exists throughout the expanse of angels &
saints.  2} Dome is symbolic of Mary's Queen-
ship over the angelic world and all of humanity.
3} Room is symbolic of the intimate rapport that
she has with her devotees.

Mary's sapphire dome room is symbolic of the state of purification achieved through

devotion to the Rosary.  This is because, when the state is achieved, you intensely

feel the sense of Mary's presence which is Heavenly.  In Jewish tradition, Heaven

is associated with the color blue, as in blue sky.

In the black Protestant world, blue is associated with circulation cut-off and the lack

of oxygen, thusly giving us a 1,4,5 music progression called the Blues.  In the Catho-

lic world, blue is oxygen, flight, and freedom to soar.  Blue is life-giving water and

the color one associates with Mary.  It's a beautiful color, not to be presented as ugly

by a Protestantism which tossed out mysticism and majesty.  The Virgin Mary is

majestic.  To state otherwise is a lie.

The interesting thing about finding yourself in Mary's Sapphire Dome Room is that

you will feel at home, as if you were always destined to be there.  It's there where

you will feel a casual rapport with her, in the midst of a beauty that fits you like a

perfect set of garments.  It's there where you will be fluent in understanding and

articulate in communication.  The surest way to gain entrance into the Realm of

Heaven's mysticism is, of course, via praying the Rosary or any Rosary-like de-

votion.   

Let it be repeated:  

If you want graces that are confided to no other people on Planet Earth, pray the

Rosary.   The Rosary is what can enlighten scholars, the illiterate, and children

simultaneously.  Very simply, the Rosary consists in meditating on the various

events in the lives of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph while praying the Our Father and

Hail Mary.  Thus, the Rosary consists in vocal prayer and meditative prayer si-

multaneously

If you despise the Rosary, you are simply too lazy to mingle vocal & meditative

prayer simultaneously.  Everyone who began the Rosary had trouble juxtapostion-

ing the two types of prayer.  This is due to the effect of Original Sin in us.  It's just

that some people had the patience and humility to persevere in the Rosary and over-

come the lack of spiritual gymnastics which comes with the effect of Original Sin.  

Ironically, some individuals who begin a devotion to the Rosary experience the

most mystical lights instantly.  But, it had nothing to do with them, except for a

thing.  They made their bodies sensitive via modern mortifications.  Modern morti-

fications are known as Work-outs, as in Weight Lifting, Spurt Training, Basketball,

vigorous ice skating, gymnastics, Self-defense training, long distance jogging, and

similar types of athletic training, as well as regimented dieting and/or fasting of any

variety.  It was graces bestowed upon them which resulted in them being so moved

that they returned to the Rosary, for more of the same.  If you did experience mysti-

cal intensity when you first started a devotion to the Rosary, know that it was Mary,

paying you an advance.

At this point, it is absolutely essential to understand one universal truth:  You can do

nothing without the grace of God.  Now, Catholics believe that Jesus of Nazareth is

God-made-man.  Thus, Catholics believe that, without Christ, a person can do no-

thing good.  Thus, if you bear fruit in prayer, its the grace of God making it happen.

One danger in having gotten consoling lights at the start of a Rosary devotion is the

spiritual dryness stage .... the arid stage ... a stage to which Saint Teresa of Avila was

so familiar.  When that stage comes ... and it is only temporary ... Faith alone suffices.

This means that, when you meditate on each mystery of the Rosary, and you are no

longer being moved as you were at the beginning of your devotion, simply think to

yourself, "This mystery really happened."

Whereas Jesus was born in the poverty of Bethlehem,
he is born in the poverty of your heart.  He doesn't mind.

The Rosary's Beginning

The present Rosary traces itself back to St. Dominic, in the early 13th Century,

during the days of Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, and Anthony of Padua.  In

fact, it's predecessor was the ancient prayer rope used by monks, in repetitively

reciting either the Jesus prayer or the Hail Mary.

Now, as far as goes today's Rosary of the Virgin Mary, this devotion started when

Dominic performed a three day Category 5 hurricane-style penance, done solely

for the conversion of the Albigensians.   He then allegedly went unconscious, in

the process.   According to Saint Louis of Montfort, when Mary appeared to Saint

Dominic, she said to the effect:  

"Dominic, you are trying to cultivate where no rain has been sent.   In this 

type of warfare, the effective weapon has always been my Angelic Psalter."  

The Angelic Psalter is the Hail Mary prayed a number of times in succession, and

an individual Hail Mary is known as the Angelic Salutation.  Mary once told Saint

Dominic that the Angelic Salutation is the cornerstone of the New Testament.   This

is logical, being that the New Testament's starting point was when the Archangel

Gabriel appeared to Mary and said, "Hail, full of grace.  The Lord is with you.  

You are blessed among women."   The New Testament then went to its next step

when, after a long journey, Mary entered the house of her cousin Elizabeth, only to

hear her cousin say, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of 

 your womb."

The Hail Mary commemorates the two initial events of the New Testament.  There-

fore, only an avowed liar filled with hatred toward Mary would have the audacity

to claim that the Rosary is a non-Biblical pagan devotion, as many have done in the

past several decades.  In fact, John Paul II called the Rosary "the Gospel in Mini-

ature."  Thus, the Rosary is very Biblical.   Moreover, a number of Successors of

Peter had only had good things to say about the Rosary, even to the point of advo-

cating it as a devotion.

The Rosary is the simultaneous mixture of verbal prayer and meditative prayer.  

The subjects of the Rosary meditation are the events surrounding the incarnation,

life, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glorification of Jesus, as well as the glor-

ification of his mother Mary. 

The Verbal Part of the Rosary

The Rosary is usually preceded by first praying the Apostle's Creed.  Now, this

prayer is actually a prayer of simple (non-ritual and non-possession-related) ex-

orcism, being that it's spoken during baptism.   Praying it deflates Satan's influence

on your senses, being that it renews the power of baptism over Satan and his seeth-

ing minions.

Next is the praying of one Our Father, followed by three Hail Mary's.   This occurs

before the meditative part of the Rosary.   Concerning the three Hail Mary's, it was

revealed to Saint Gertrude the Great, while she was mystically being shown a fleur

de lys, that:

1} Except for God the Father, no one has the power that Mary was given.

2} Except for God the Son, no one has as much wisdom as she does.

3} Except for the Holy Spirit, no one is as kind as Mary.

The guarantee Mary gave to Gertrude was that those who pray three Hail Mary's

daily, in honor of the privileges granted to her by the Trinity, would see Mary at

the hour of death in an extraordinary splendor that will fill the dying soul with

heavenly consolation.   Such a thing will prevent a soul from succumbing to de-

spair during its last hour on earth.

After the three Hail Mary's, one prays a Simple Doxology.  That's the Glory-be,

as in Glory be to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as it was in beginning, is 

now, and forever shall be, world without end.  Amen.

You can even pray the Trappist monk version as follows:  Glory be to the Fath-

er and to the Son and to the Spirit who dwells within.  The God who is, who

was, and who is to come.

You can even try this version:  Glory, praise, and thanksgiving be to the Fath-

er of Heaven, the Son of the Most High, and to the Spirit who dwells within. 

As it was before the beginning began, is now, and forever shall be; the Reign

of Endless Ages.  Amen. 

Next comes the original Rosary:

Traditionally, beads are used.  However, they are not essential.   When beads are

used, however, one Our Father and Ten Hail Marys are prayed while meditating

on each individual Rosary mystery brought into prayer.  There are five joyous mys-

teries, five illuminative ones, five sorrowful mysteries, and five glorious ones.  In

fact, Carmelites have six joyous, six sorrowful, and six glorious mysteries in their

Rosary.  These meditations are the essence of the Rosary.   Even if you forgo the

praying of the Angelic Psalter (the Hail Mary's), you will still be engaged in pray-

er.   However, the verbal part of the Rosary helps to sanctify and even cleanse your

outer senses.

If you only have time to pray one decade of the Rosary, then you did your best, and

will have grace radiated to you in one way or another.  That is to say, you don't have

to pray all five decades at once.   Moreover, the closer to God (in contemplation) a

person gets, the longer it will take the person to pray a decade of the Rosary.   It will

even get to the point where the contemplative person's praying of one decade of the

Rosary will take as long as a basic person praying three of them.   Whereas the aver-

age person takes 15 minutes to pray five decades, the contemplative person will take

45 to 60 minutes, in doing the same.  Sometimes 90 minutes, depending on the person.

Keep in mind that members of a certain religious persuasion claim that the Rosary is

a non-Biblical thing of Satan, even though the Our Father and the first half of the Hail

Mary are in the Bible.   Now, view the mysteries of the Rosary posted below.  The

vast majority of them are mentioned in the Bible.   The bottom line is that those who

claim that the Rosary is a non-biblical anti-Christ devotion of pagan idolatry are one

of the following things:

1} Filled with laziness,   2} Filled with envy toward Mary,  3} Carry an evil view

of women and don't believe that any woman could be holy,  4} Are in synchronicity

with Satan's feelings of despair and despondency, assuming that the Rosary causes

those feelings.  However, those who condemn the Rosary under the claim that it's a

non-biblical act of idolatry are easily provable liars.  The Hail Mary prayer is from

the Bible, as are 18 of the 20 mysteries of the Rosary.

People who want nothing to do with the Rosary are those who have trouble simul-

taneously being engaged in verbal and meditative prayer.  They usually say that their

minds wander.   Well, even in verbal prayer a human mind conceived in the state of

original sin wanders.   In  class, minds wander, too.   Does that mean no one should

ever be in class?   Does that mean that everyone should remain stupid?   Well, as you

continue the Rosary, if you continue it, praying it gets more streamlined. 

A detriment to devotion to the Rosary for some is mood.   If you pray the Rosary on-

ly when in the mood, you are missing out on seeing  a wide and then deep view with-

in you.  Our Lady or the angels will get you in the mood, shortly after you start the

Rosary.  What they do is open an ambiance, and you find yourself in a rhythm.

  

Those Events Really Happened

In the Rosary devotion, there is the dry stage.   It's at that point when you need to do

the following:  Whenever you have trouble meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary,

state in silence the following during each mystery:  "This really happened."   If that

is all you do for the meditative part of the Rosary, then you have prayed.  You were

there in attendance.  You recalled at least one mystery.  You believed that each event

really happened.  This includes the Annunciation, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection,

the Ascension, the Descent of the Holy Spirit, etc.   This is what St. Paul meant when

he said, "Faith alone suffices."   You need not have any colorful emotionality or ex-

quisite intellectuality when praying.   You only need the faith which believes that the

events remembered in the Rosary actually happened. 

The Events Combined is the Manifestation of the Love of God

The Secret of the Rosary is this:  If each event of the Rosary happened at the same

time, you would see the complete spectrum of the Love of God being unleashed in

all of its attributes.    In each mystery God is unveiling and actualizing Divine Love

in the world of time and space. 

At the end of each mystery, traditionally prayed is one Glory Be (one simple doxo-

logy.)   It is suspected that Louis of Montfort began that practice.   Well, at Fatima,

the Virgin Mary told us to pray the following after each decade of the Rosary:

          My Jesus, forgive us our sins and save us from the fire of Hell.  

     Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of your mercy.

In review, either go the contemplative route of praying Angelic Salutations at will,

while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, or use blessed beads and pray one

Our Father, ten Hail Mary's, and the Fatima Decade Prayer posted above, while

meditating on a mystery of the Rosary, every ten Hail Mary's.

Below is the list of the Mysteries of the Rosary.   After that comes brief mention of

Rosary-like Devotions:

 Joyous Mysteries

1} The Annunciation.  This was when the Archangel Gabriel informed Mary that

     she was to bear a son who would be called Son of the Most High and Son of

     God.  This means that the Annunciation marked the first time in history when

     the existence of the Holy Trinity was revealed to humanity.  She was disturbed

     at his appearance, because she was too humble to think that an angel would ap-

     pear to her with a message from on high.  In addition, when Gabriel said, "Hail,

     Full of Grace," he was saying, "Hail, woman free of sin."  He was affirming

     Mary's Immaculate state of soul.

     This is the mystery where you are most likely to perceive the Eternality of God. 

      In this eternality, you will see yourself.   This mystery of the Rosary is the corn-

      er stone of the New Testament.  It's where the Will of God throughout the ancient

      centuries unfolds in a three dimensional feature.   This is where eternity and the

      fullness of time intersect.

2} The Visitation.  This was when Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth.   As soon as

     Mary greeted Elizabeth, John the Baptist leaped in Elizabeth's womb.   This was

     because John was before the presence of Christ, and in the process thereof, the

     future prophet was immediately rendered into the state of sanctifying grace.  This

     proves the validity of infant baptism, in Biblical reference.   John and Elizabeth

     recognized whom Mary was carrying.

     This was when Mary spoke the Magnificat, stating that "From henceforth, all 

     generations will call be blessed, because he who is mighty has done great 

     things for me, and holy is his name."   This means that Marian devotion is

     certainly Biblical, even though the Bible is not the only thing involved in God's

     revelation to humanity.   Every generation after the Ascension of Christ had in-

     dividuals who honored Mary, calling her blessed.   When you pray the Rosary,

     therefore, you're fulfilling for the umpteenth thousandth time the Biblical pro-

     phecy that all generations will call Mary blessed.

3} The Nativity of Christ.  Whereas Jesus was born in the poverty of Bethlehem,

     he is born in the poverty of your heart.

4} The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple.  This was the time when Anna the

      Prophetess recognized the Messiah ... and when Simeon got to see the Messiah,

      as he was promised.   This was very moving and caused Mary to ponder the ex-

      periences of that day in her heart.   This shows that she was a reflective woman

      involved in what was transpiring around her.   She was no airhead, as the adher-

      ents to White Trash Protestantism claim her to be, in their Satanic hatred of her.

5} The Finding of Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem.  After Joseph and Mary

       spent three days searching for Jesus, they found that he was safe.  They simul-

       taneously found him amazing the doctors of the temple with his questions and

       answers and understanding.   This is generally understood to be a prophecy of

       Christ's Resurrection.   However, here's a mystery to ponder:  What did he do

       during those three days?   Someone answered by saying, Charity Work. 

In the Carmelite Tradition:

6} The Immaculate Conception.  This consists in Mary being created free of the

     State of Original Sin the first moment she was created, due to the foreseen mer-

     its of Christ.   At Lourdes, Mary called herself the Immaculate Conception.   She

     is this in essence, not just in name.

The Illuminative (or Luminous) Mysteries

The paradox of the Luminous Mysteries is that they transpired in earthy and ruddy

settings ... not in palatial, glittery, or lime-lighted ones.

1} The Baptism of Jesus.   It was the Visitation all over again.   John the Baptist re-

      cognized Jesus for who he was, as he approached John, in order to be baptized.

      In humility, John told Jesus that Jesus should have been the one baptizing John.

      Jesus simply told John to baptize him.   Upon Jesus' baptism, there occurred the

      vision of the Holy Spirit descending upon Christ in the form of a dove.

      Now, John's baptism was a ceremony that initiated penance.  It had a strength-

      ening effect, and it was the starting point for cleansing.   This is why, after Je-

      sus was baptized, he went immediately into the wilderness and fasted for forty

      days and nights.

2}  The Wedding Feast of Cana.  Recount it.  Put yourself there.   If you do, then

      you are praying.   This was the site of Christ's first known miracle.   It did in-

      volve wine.   Therefore, it's not a sin to drink wine, as a couple religions claim.  

      Rather, it's a mortal sin to overuse wine to the point of injuring your health.  It's

      interesting that Catholicism was presented by the world as a suffocating and op-

      pressive religion.  However, the God of Catholicism, for his first miracle, turned

      water into wine.   Why?

3}  The Proclamation of the Kingdom of Heaven.   This is the multiple event mys-

       tery, in that Jesus spent a number of occasions saying that the Kingdom of God

       is at hand.  It's here and now.   In fact, Saint John the Evangelist, one of the Sons

       of Thunder, once wrote,  "This is Eternal Life."   This meant that the spiritual

       lights and Divine Presence that the early Christians absorbed into their senses

       were the same ones they would encounter in the next life.   The Life of Devo-

       tion is the preview of the life to come.   Thus, the Kingdom of God actually is

       at hand, being that God is everywhere, involved in all things.

4}  The Transfiguration.   Jesus took three apostles with him into a private out-

       door mountain area and transfigured into crystalline luminosity.   Moses and

       Elijah then appeared next to the crystalline Christ and started conversing with

       him.  What did the three say to each other?

       It got to a point where Peter hid his face while in the midst of overwhelming

       presences and awe-provoking sights.  Jesus then leaned over, touched Peter

       and said, "Do not be afraid.  It's only me."   The great lesson is that, no mat-

       ter how hideous are your sins, do not be afraid of Jesus.  He will not hurt you.

       The problem is in him abandoning you, leaving you to the demons who WILL

       hurt you badly.  

       During Easter night, Jesus appeared in the Cenacle, and the first thing that he

       said was, "Do not be afraid.   It's only me."   This is a very important motto

       of the all-powerful King of Heaven who can crush humanity instantaneously

       and does not do so ... immediately after being offended, that is.  God is slow

       to anger.

5}  The Institution of the Eucharist.   Saint Anthony of Padua said that, at the

      Last Supper, when Jesus took bread in his hands and broke it, he was consent-

      ing to be broken in death.   This is eternal heroism.   This was the first Mass.

Note:  The Carmelite Tradition had no sixth Luminous mystery, being that this set

           of Rosary mysteries was instituted by John Paul II.   Thus, they are a new

           addition the Rosary.  None the less, this set is very effective for meditation. 

Sorrowful Mysteries

1} The Agony in the Garden.  This is when Jesus said that his soul was sorrow-

     ful to the point of death.   This is also when he said, "Watch with me for an

     hour."  As if he were a lighthouse in each tabernacle, he silently communicates

     to the person in front of the tabernacle, "Watch with me."  After having reached

     a critical stage of agony, Jesus was consoled by an angel; assumably the Arch-

     angel Gabriel.   Gabriel is known as the Teacher of the Nations and he doesn't

     reserve his consoling to Christ.   However, you first need to offer your suffering

     for the conversion of poor sinners, before expecting consolation.   Then, the suf-

     fering will have become worthwhile.

     Jesus told Faustina Kolwaska, secretary of the Divine Mercy revelations, that

     the greatest cause of his agony was the knowledge that there would be a multi-

     tude of lukewarm humanity who would be indifferent to his sufferings.   At that

     time, he was wondering why he was to suffer intensely, if mass sectors of hu-

     manity were to be indifferent to his sufferings.  Of course, his consolation was

     those people who would embrace a life of devotion.   None the less, while he

     was in his agony, torches, pharisees, and the temple guard were traveling in his

      direction.

2} The Scourging at the Pillar.  The Romans tried to beat the kingship out of

     Christ.   They only brought out the helpless child, instead ... the actual Child

     of God.  This was an athletic event, in enduring the scouring.   Thus, the lazy

     are inclined to refrain from meditating on it.  Meditating on this gives a per-

     son a sense of honor.

3} The Crowning of Thorns.    Mocking the fact that he was a king, showing sup-

      eriority over him in the mocking.   This kind of thing happens to Christ today.

4} The Carrying of the Cross.   The actual cross had to be constructed at the site.

     So, carrying all the pieces alone wasn't a probability.  Thus came the involve-

     ment of Simon, the visitor from Cyrene.   This is where Jesus tolerated the most

     gutless of cowards who boldly walked into the street, to kick him while he was

     down.  He was afflicted with burning wounds and cramping by the weight of the

     Cross, all the while loosing his grip.  The gutless cowardly chicken hawks types

     wound up and kicked a person already down on the street.

    Some people act so tough when beating on the defenseless.   Jesus tolerated their

    presences.   When he met his mom on the way to Calvary, incidentally, it was a

    heart shattering moment of a level of mystery to which the vain and frivolous are

    clueless.

5} The Crucifixion.   This one is as involved as the Nativity of Christ.  A lesson

     is that the beginning and end of a life are packed with the most involved things.

      Those dedicated to the Crucifixion see the honor in it.  They also extend com-

       passion toward Christ, in the grief he suffered.  The Crucifixion existed in the

       most intense zone in the spiritual world.  It consisted in sacrificing everything

       for others, while watching your own creation kill you.   It simultaneously con-

       sisted in knowing that the vain, frivolous, and greedy will not ever care about

       what you endured for them.  

       For the record, Jesus does like to be consoled in his suffering and death.  There-

       fore, if you are a pretend Christian who says that crucifixes are evil, then you are

       a person who never brought consolation to Christ. 

In the Carmelite tradition:

6} Christ's Descent from the Cross, into his Mother's Arms.   The Virgin Mary

     didn't care how much blood was on her dress.  This crucifixion was devastating

     to her.  She was the only mother God will ever elect to have, and she saw the cre-

     ator of humanity get killed by his own creation.  Christ was then laid on her lap. 

     She had time to reflect.   Joseph of Arimathea was present, serving the function

     of defender of Christ's honor.  He made sure that he would get a burial.  John the

     Evangelist,  one of the Sons of Thunder,  was there, mainly because his original

     teacher, John the Baptist, influenced him into standing his ground.  Mone the less,

     Jesus blood came from Mary.  She saw it everywhere. 

The Glorious Mysteries

1}   The Resurrection.   In this mystery, we are dealing with a re-beginning.  There-

        fore, like Christmas and the Crucifixion, its too involved to mention between

        the parenthesis of an article.

2}   The Ascension.  This is another instance where the Bible ends and mystical ex-

        perience begins.   Did you ever wonder what was it like for the long awaited

       Anointed One to take his throne in the Heaven, doing so for the first time as the

       God-man?  The God feature was there before.  Not the divine man feature.

       The interesting thing is that his last words before ascending into Heaven was

       not "I will be with you always.   Even till the End of the World."   Before he

        ascended into Heaven, Jesus told his apostles and disciples to not go out into

        the world until they were clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit.   Thus fol-

        lowed the nine days of prayer in the Cenacle.   That nine days of prayer is why

        the Catholic Church uses novenas.   Incidentally, 'disciple'  means student.

3}   The Descent of the Holy Spirit.  It started with a wind you couldn't ignore.

       Thus, the townspeople and pilgrims gathered.  Peter, being the first Vicar of

       Christ, spoke in the name of the entire church.  Conversions ensured.  Then

       came the jealousy of the Scribes and Pharisees.   Then came the killing of the

       early Christians.  Next came Saul of Taurus, to end this Christian sect.  Then

       came the light.

4}   The Assumption of the Virgin Mary.  Meditate on her beauty and on how

       the patriarchs and angels waited for her to arrive in Heaven.   Now, for those

       who deny that Mary was assumed into Heaven body and soul, know that Jesus

       Christ was bound to the commandment, "Honor your mother and your father."

       This means that, if Jesus did not take his own mother into Heaven, he would

        have been dishonoring her and sinning in the process.   Thus, the Virgin Mary

        was assumed into Heaven, body and soul.

       Jesus was NOT going to let the body from where he came turn into insignifi-

       cant insect bait and eventual dust.   He was NOT going to treat his immaculate

       masterpiece as a dime-a-dozen person.  In fact, did you ever wonder what the

       King of Heaven thinks of his own mom?  

5}    The Coronation of Mary.   This was the ceremony where she was made

         Mediatrix of all Graces ... NOT the mediatrix for the forgiveness of sin.  In

         fact, Mary explained her power as mediatrix to Catherine Laboure in 1830,

         at Rue de Bac, in a Parisian chapel.   It was necessary for a human to be the

         Mediatrix of all Graces, so that the Commandment of the New and Everlast-

         ing Covenant could be fulfilled.  It was spoken by Christ at the Last Supper,

         when he said, "Love one another as I have loved you."   Mary is the master

         link in this chain of love.  In as much, the entire beauty of Heaven also exists

         in Mary's soul.

        Everyone who enters Heaven gets a coronation, though not as Queen of Heav-

        en.   This means that the fifth glorious mystery is pertinent to everyone who is

        not going to spend eternity in Hell.   Mary was given her throne, as the Holy

        Trinity showered its attributes and power upon her.  The Eternal Father re-

        garded Mary as his "highly favored daughter."   The Son of God called her

        mom.  The Holy Spirit cast his shadow over her, making himself her mystic

        spouse, thereby making Mary his immaculate mirror image.  If you don't

        think that she is the Majestic Virgin Mary, think again.   In fact, take time

        to meditate on it, while praying the Angelic Psalter.  Your eternal destiny

        depends on it. 

In the Carmelite Tradition

6} The Protection of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.  Carmel means, Garden of the

Lord, and this spiritually refers to the flowering of holiness and even eternal glory.

Now, the Carmelites attribute the founding of their order to the ancient prophet

Elijah.  Thus, it is said to have gone from a devout Jewish order to a Catholic one

that professes the belief that the fulfillment of the promises given to Judea came

in the person of a humble and non-peacock-throne Messiah who was the Lion of

the Tribe of Judeavwhen it come to confronting demons and illness and even death.

Thus, it involves belief in a Messiah concerned with eternity rather than temporary

life on Earth.

A part of the Carmelite tradition is the wearing of the Carmelite scapular.  Such a

thing is an extention of the Cloak of Elijah ... of the miraculour cloak.  The protec-

tion of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel involves protection from demons and misfortunes

which have a permanent effect.  It's protection from whatever peril you may find

yourself, be it the malice of people who try to destroy through falsehoods to natur-

al disasters to invasion to instituted injustices such as a sweatshop/slave labor

economy, and other evils.  Her ability to protect equates her with a protective

wall, a quick-response emergency rescue department, a guard, etc.

Rosary-like Devotions

This would be 1} The Seven Sorrows of Mary,  and 2} The Seven Sorrows and

 Joys of Saint Joseph.  Simply mediate on the sorrows or joys, while praying the

Angelic Saluation, aka Hail Mary.

The Seven Sorrows of Mary:

1 - The Prophecy of Simeon, during the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple,

         when Simeon said that a sword of sorrow would pierce Mary's heart,

         and that Jesus would be a sign contradicted, and that Jesus would be the

         rise and fall of many in Israel.

2 - The Flight into Egypt, when Herod wanted the new king of the Jews dead.

3 - The Three Day Loss of a 12 Year Jesus in Jerusalem.

4 - Meeting Jesus on the Way to Calvary, while he was carrying his Cross.

5 - The Crucifixion.

6 - The Descent of Christ from the Cross, into Mary's Arms.

7 - The Burial of Jesus. 

Saint Joseph's Seven Sorrows and Joys:

1 - Finding Mary with child, thinking that another man was the father, and ...

         receiving in a dream news from Gabriel that Mary was carrying, by

         the power of the Holy Spirit, the one who will save his people from

         their sins.

2 - The Poverty in which Jesus was born, and ...

        the visit of the shepherds, along with the news of the angels singing

        Hosanna in the Highest in the fields of Bethlehem, after having told

        the shepherds that a king was born that night.

3 - The Circumcision, and ...

        hearing the name Jesus as the one officially given to the Christ Child.

4 - The prophecy of Simeon that a sword of sorrow would pierce Mary's

        soul, and ...

        the confirmation from the Prophetess Anna and Simeon in the Temple

        that this was the Messiah, proving that Joseph was not mistaken.

5 - The Flight into Egypt, and ...

        witnessing the idols there basically becoming extinct.

6 - The fear of Herod's successor, Archelaus, as Joseph returned to Israel

        with Jesus and Mary, as well as ...

      the joy of living in the company of Jesus and Mary, in Nazareth.

7 - The three day loss of Jesus in Jerusalem, and ...

        finding Jesus in the Temple on the third day of searching for him.

If you begin praying the Rosary, and you've never done so before, you will find

that Catholicism and the Faith of Peter are far more rich and involved than you

had previously assumed.   In fact, a devotion to the Rosary will lead to the exper-

ience of perceiving, without seeing anything, what can be symbolically referred

to as the Shimmer of Angels.   If you do proceed with a devotion to the Rosary,

the angels will regard you with more respect than would a restaurant's maître

d'hôtel toward the holder of a gold card.

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