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No Exercise More Fruitful Than Rosary, Says St. Augustine
28th ROSE - Salutary effects
St. Augustine says quite emphatically that there is no spiritual exercise more fruitful or more useful to our salvation than continually turning our thoughts to the sufferings of Our Saviour. Blessed Albert the Great who had Saint Thomas Aquinas as his disciple learned in a revelation that by simply thinking of or meditating on the passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a christian gains more merit than if he had fasted on bread and water every Friday for a whole year or had beaten himself with his discipline once a week until the blood flowed or had recited the book of psalms everyday. If this is so then how great must be the merit that we can gain by the Holy Rosary which commemorate the whole life and passion of Our Saviour. One day Our Lady revealed to blessed Alan that after the Holy Sacrifice of the mass which is the most important as well as the living memorial …More