In this Vocation Letter, our fictional novice Sister Mary Rosaria shares a reflection very appropriate to this month of the Rosary (and to her name!). Read more Vocation Letters here.
Ave + Maria
Dear Mom,
Prayerful greetings during this month of the Most Holy Rosary! Thank you for the lovely feast day card you sent me for Our Lady of the Rosary. Our celebration of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary this past Saturday was especially glorious—it is such a special day for our community, since we are devoted to praying the Perpetual Rosary as Mary’s Guard of Honor, and for me in particular, since it is my patronal feast as “Sister Mary Rosaria.”
I loved the angels surrounding Our Lady on your card, Mom. As we celebrated the feast of the Archangels and then of the Guardian Angels during the days of our special novena leading up to the feast Our Lady of the Rosary, I was reflecting more on a little passage from our Perpetual Rosary Custom Book dating back to the 1880’s. After speaking of our devotion to our Guardian Angels, it says:
Finally, we sometimes think with emotion and gratitude of those privileged angels in Heaven, who are more especially occupied in the service of their celestial Queen, and who ascend and descend towards our humble monasteries, bearing the sheaves of our perpetual “Aves” to the throne of Mary.
Isn’t that a beautiful image? How many Aves do we pray each day, kneeling before our statue of Our Lady, adoring Jesus in Eucharistic Adoration, pondering His mysteries through the eyes and heart of Our Lady as we intercede for all the needs of the world! I love to think of those sheaves of Aves rising up before the thrones of Jesus and Mary, and of how the holy angels surround us with their love and care as we join them in serving God.
Thank you again, Mom! Please give my love and prayers to everyone at home!
In Our Lady,
Sister Mary Rosaria, O.P.
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