Tuesday, October 27, 2020 –
Who remembers my brief history of the Rosary? You can go HERE and re-read day 200 if you need a refresher. Anyhoo, I talked a little about Saint Dominic and the Rosary. If you were paying really close attention, you would have seen the name Alan de la Roch. He was a 15th-century Dominican who was known for…wait for it…his promotion of the Rosary and his accounting of a vision he had of Our Lady giving the Rosary to Saint Dominic back in 1206.
Up until the 17th-century or so, Alan de la Roch’s vision / account was generally accepted by everyone. Then some Bollandists took issue with it because they couldn’t find mentions of the Rosary in Dominican writings prior to Roch’s account (or something like that).
Well, some of us still hold onto Roch’s vision! It definitely falls into the realm of “private revelation,” so Catholics are not bound by it, but it is considered a pious tradition. However, if you do want to know more about what Alan de la Roch had to say, look no further than the 15 promises of the Rosary he accounted as being given by our Blessed Mother to Saint Dominic.
Here, then, are the Fifteen Promises of the Rosary:
- Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces.
- I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
- The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
- It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the heart of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
- The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
- Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered and never overwhelmed by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death (unprepared for heaven). The sinner shall convert. The just shall grow in grace and become worthy of eternal life.
- Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
- Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have, during their life and at their death, the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
- I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
- The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.
- You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
- All those who propagate the holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
- I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
- All who recite the Rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only son Jesus Christ.
- Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
Queen of the Holy Rosary, pray for us!
