The ROSARY-LITTLE SUMMA THEOLOGICA!

THE MOST HOLY ROSARYSUMMARY OF THE GOSPELSTHE MOST IMPORTANTPRAYER FORM”, WHICH EXISTS.

The Rose represents The Blessed Virgin Mary, because it is a perfect flower — She is called “Rosa Mystica”.

The Blessed Vir­gin Mary is Moth­er of all Catholics — Moth­er of The Church, and She prays fer­vent­ly that every sin­gle per­son in the world comes into The Church, the Sacra­ment of Sal­va­tion, found­ed by Jesus Christ on St. Peter/Rock.  When those, who are doing God’s Will and are, thus, God’s Friends, call on God for help to con­vert oth­ers to His Church, they are heard.  Often, our Lord sends His Ambas­sadress, The Blessed Vir­gin Moth­er, to per­son­al­ly appear to His Friends, to instruct them and help them out.  The same hap­pened with St. Dominic, a Spaniard, who was try­ing to con­vert the Albi­gen­sian heretics in France dur­ing the ear­ly 1200’s.

First, let’s look at just what the Albi­gen­sians (a type of res­ur­rect­ing the ancient heresy of Manicheism) believed:  they believed that there were two gods:  a good god, who was spir­i­tu­al, and a bad god, who was mate­r­i­al.  So, any­thing, which had to do with mat­ter or mate­r­i­al things was bad, and any­thing, which pro­mot­ed the spir­it or spir­i­tu­al side of some­thing, was good.  This meant that the Albi­gen­sians con­sid­ered sex­u­al rela­tions as being bad, as they had to do with the flesh, and new human beings were cre­at­ed through these rela­tions.  Sui­cide, on the oth­er hand, was a “good” thing to them, because it brought about an end to a per­son­’s mate­r­i­al life.  Obvi­ous­ly, this hereti­cal asso­ci­a­tion would, at some point, have run out of mem­bers, due to this belief.  There were actu­al­ly laypeo­ple of all class­es, nuns, priests, Bish­ops, etc., who were Albi­gen­sian, so it was not a small mat­ter to try to con­vert them, yet St. Dominic did his best.  Final­ly, when the heretics would not con­vert even after he had per­formed mir­a­cles before them, St. Dominic began pray­ing very fer­vent­ly to The Blessed Virgin.