14: How The Rosary Will Transform Your Life

Um, and just the amazing effects and benefits and graces that you can see in your life when you start praying the rosary every single day. And I want to talk about this, uh, prayer and devotion specifically, because there's a lot of different devotions to choose from in the Catholic faith.

And that's a beautiful thing, but But the rosary has been, I'll say like one of the most longstanding devotions and probably one that, uh, Mary in her apparitions, uh, the different saints have all spoken out in a very fervent way, a very convicting way. And it can't be for no reason, right? It can't be that saints time and time again, talk about the power of the rosary and urging us to pray the rosary.

It can't be that Mary and all of her apparitions, especially, you know, in Fatima, her most well known apparitions, where she urges her children, us, to pray the rosary faithfully and devoutly every single day. And truthfully, I feel like it's a prayer that a lot of people have a hard time with, which is another reason why I want to talk about it, because I think that You're probably not alone if you struggle to pray the rosary. And if that's you don't feel bad.

I was there once as well and still am there from time to time. Um, but I think it's a prayer that a lot of people have trouble with, uh, either because of the repetition or because of the link, they struggle to find time or really to know why is it such a big deal? Like, why are we supposed to pray the rosary every single day? And so I hope that this episode today really. Draws out some of that, uh, conviction in you.

Draws out some desire for you to come to know Jesus's life more fully and love Jesus's life and love, uh, meditating on his life through the eyes of his mother, through the rosary. So I grew up cradle Catholic, but not, not very practicing until my later high school years, college years. So the rosary wasn't something that I grew up praying and it wasn't something that my family necessarily had as a practice within our family.

Um, I kind of grew up thinking it was just something that grandmas did and come to think of it. I feel like I remember my grandma talking about it, but, um, I mostly just remember her talking about her love for Mary and the importance that Mary plays in our life. Um, either way, I associated the rosary as kind of like an ancient Catholic tradition. Not really something that was necessary or something that I necessarily really needed to adopt in my life.

And then my mom went through her own reversion, uh, back to the faith, praise God. My sophomore slash junior year of college, sorry, not college of high school. Times for her. She, it all really stemmed from, uh, Mary and Mary working in her life and she wanted to pray the rosary more. And she started incorporating that practice into our family's life. I will say it wasn't widely celebrated or received by the family at first. Okay. But bless her heart.

She had us all sit down and pray the rosary every single Sunday after mass. And so that was when I was really introduced truly to what it was like to pray the rosary, um, and pray the rosary as a family. And uh, At this point, I'm starting to grow in my faith as well. So I know that it's important in a sense. Like I know it's a quote unquote, good thing to do to pray the rosary. And I've always loved Mary and I loved Mary very much.

So I was like, okay, I'm not going to put up too much of a fight, but I didn't really, Love it. I didn't really engage in it that much. I remember thinking it was boring and long and I kind of couldn't wait to get over with, you know, just kind of get through the Hail Mary's recite them quickly and kind of, kind of just check it off and be like, okay, we did a good thing and just be done with it. And it wasn't really until college, my, Junior year that I started to pray the rosary more often.

And it all really started with Trey, my husband now, who was my boyfriend at the time, he learned to make rosaries at a summer camp. He was working at, you can hear the full story of how our baby was born. Business, west Coast Catholic started another episode, but that's kind of where it all stems from. He learned how to make these corded rosaries. And then for a birthday of mine, he wanted to gift me a handmade rosary.

And so he wanted me to pick out the beads and kind of design what it looked like. And then he wanted to handcraft. And so we went to Michael's. We picked out some beautiful beads. And the beauty of this rosary, the intentionality of this rosary, the way that I knew that it was made and crafted for me. Um. just had a power over it, right? And this is where I've come to learn the power of beauty.

Beauty is a transcendental, which means that it kind of elevates our soul to heaven and allows us to see something divine beyond what is just in front of us. So just the beauty of this rosary. Drew me to it. And at first it was just holding it. At first it wasn't like, I was like, oh, let's pray the rosary all the time. At first I was just holding it, so I would just put it in my pocket, I'd put it in my purse, I'd sleep with it under my pillow. Um, I had it in my backpack on the way to class.

I just had it with me often, and I just felt a sense of peace and protection, even by just holding it. And I even just felt a. A greater desire for my faith, for the things of the faith, even just by holding it, by being physically near the rosary. And at some point I realized, okay, I have my rosary with me at all times. I should probably. Pray it myself. I should probably actually include this in my prayer routine. And so I started praying it a little more, more often, maybe twice a week.

I remember there was a group of Catholic students that would get together every, I think it was like Thursday morning. We called it a, uh, Gosh, what was it called? A power hour or a prayer hour or something like that. It wasn't an hour. It was like, you know, 20 minutes we would walk on campus super early in the morning, like six or six 30 am to pray the rosary before anybody was out on campus to pray for the conversion of our campus. Um, yeah, I was pretty nuts back then.

Not really sure how I got out of bed so early to do that. But The Lord gives us the grace and the times that we need it for whatever it is that his mission is for us at that time. So I was praying it at least once a week and then every once in a while, Trey would invite me to pray with him after a Sunday mass or something like that. So maybe once, twice a week, um, you know, Just sparingly here and there.

And then I think, uh, COVID hit and when COVID hit, I realized, you know, wow, like we don't have the sacraments anymore. The churches were closed. We couldn't go to mass or adoration or confession and the rosary. in a different way than just like mental prayer or journaling was, was kind of like this routine, uh, meditative prayer that almost resembled the mass in a way, right?

Like because of its structure, because of its monotonousness and routine of it, which we'll get to The depth beyond that, because there's so much more beyond that. But even just that as a starting point during COVID, I felt so much more drawn to pray the rosary because I was missing that routine way of worshiping and practicing my faith in the mass. And so. My friends and I would go on rosary walks and at this point we would do it several times a week. We were so bored at home.

We had nothing to do. We couldn't go to mass and we were just, you know, trying to get out of the house, move our bodies and throw a rosary in there at the same time. So I started praying it more often during COVID. And the fruits that I began to see in my life, they're almost instant, you guys, and I always explain it like it's math. Like, it just works, right? Like, every single time, the outcome in a math equation is supposed to be the same, and the same goes for the rosary.

Those graces and fruits I began to see in my life, Pretty soon after just starting to pray it one more time, two more times a week, three more times a week. Like I said, it even started from when I just had the rosary physically in my presence, in my hand, in my purse, under my pillow. And the largest overarching one that I would say is peace. And that's something that I think we can hear and kind of dismiss and be like, Oh, you felt peace. That's great. That's a nice feeling.

We are all deeply yearning for peace. Our world is so deeply yearning for peace and especially our young generation. I know I've said it before, but we're struggling with depression, anxiety, worry, and stress more than any other generation. I feel like, and we need peace. It's not just a light, happy go lucky thing that, you know, is nice to have. It's a need. We need peace in our hearts and in our souls. Um, we need rest. In like the depths of our soul. And I found that through the rosary.

Like I said, I started praying it a lot more often during COVID, which was a weird time for all of us. A little bit of an unrestful time for all of us. And in the midst of worries and fears that I had of what was going to happen or what was life going to look like? I was moving to a new state to get a new job. I was in the middle of engagement. I didn't know what was going to happen with our wedding in the midst of all that worry and unrest. I found peace.

And I started going to the rosary so much more often, literally to draw peace from the source of Jesus through his mother. Another fruit that I got from praying the rosary that I experience all the time now, the more that I pray the rosary, the more I feel this. And that is a deeper desire for the things of the faith and kind of like, um, I call it like a spiritual sweetness sometimes. Like I'm sure you've experienced this before where like mass becomes.

Kind of old or like a drag, or sometimes you have to like force yourself to go because you're like, Oh my gosh, like, I don't know. I don't get anything out of her. It's boring. If that's where you're at, like, that's okay. I encourage you to press on because there's something so beautiful there for you.

Or maybe you feel like a similar way about the teachings of the faith and you're like, I just don't understand, nor really have a desire to live the way the church teaches me to, or to have a deeper understanding as to why we're taught to live the way that we should, or, you know, why we believe certain things. Like if you have basically what I'm trying to say, if you have a, an apathy or a distaste, or even like a, some sort of resistance to the things of the faith, or they're just.

Boring to you sometimes the rosary changes that. And it changed that for me. It gave me a spiritual sweetness and an easiness and a desire for the things of the faith. All of a sudden I started appreciating mass more. I started to see the beauty more of what was happening.

The supernatural reality of, uh, a simple bread and wine becoming the Jesus's body and blood given up for us, the supernatural reality of Being joined to earth and Mary's in the angels and saints, intercessions is communion of saints intercession for our life, for our holiness, for our sanctity. I started to desire daily prayer.

I started to actually desire time in silence and meditation with the Lord and to kind of like retreat from the everyday and retreat from the noise of the world to be in solitude, to In prayer with Jesus, the, the rosary gave me these desires, you guys. And of course it just deepened my relationship with Mary and Jesus. Like I said, I've always loved Mary, but praying the rosary frequently gave me this deeper sense of belonging to her.

Okay. Like when Jesus says on the cross, John, behold, your mother, mother, behold, your son. I felt that to my core. The more I prayed the rosary, I felt her motherhood in my life. I felt an embrace, maybe not like a physical hug from a person, but I felt this like spiritual embrace of her protection and her presence in my life. I was never alone anymore. And I'm saying this like totally honestly, like if I ever felt alone, I knew like.

My mom is with me like my heavenly mother is just with me, whether she's just enjoying this time of silence with me or cooking with me or on a walk with me or sitting next to me in the pew as I pray to Jesus, she's always with me and protecting me and interceding for me and the rosary just gave me that deeper sense of belonging to Mary as my mother. And I want that for you. I want you to seek that.

I know that a relationship with Mary is something that a lot of us seek and sometimes struggle with, you know, for different reasons, but I want you to feel that motherhood in your life. And so the rosary is one of those avenues where you can draw closer to Mary. And through loving Mary more, I was drawn even closer to Jesus.

And this is something I don't necessarily feel like I have a tangible explanation as to how or why other than that's just Mary's mission is to bring you to her son is to help you love her son and know her son.

I wouldn't really address Jesus. Be like, Hey Jesus, here's my heart. It would always be like, God, please provide in this way. Please hear my prayer. And then Mary was the one that I would be like very vulnerable and open and just everyday casual conversation with. And through praying the rosary and getting even closer with Mary, I just naturally desired to speak directly to Jesus and to bring everything to Jesus and almost supplement that with Mary's intercessions and her prayer for me.

And then I think another grace that I have felt, uh, throughout my entire journey of praying the rosary, but more so the past few years, probably the past year or two is increased confidence in God's plan for my life and increased confidence in God himself. This is something we all struggle with. You guys wanting to know what the future holds, wanting to know what God has in store for us.

Why things happen in our life, why he allows suffering or, you know, when is he going to bring about this thing that I've been praying for, for forever? We can all relate to that in one way or another. And praying the rosary has given me a blind trust, a deep sense of confidence and faith in who God is. What does that mean and who God is in his goodness, in his fatherhood, in the fact that I am so loved and so important to him that he has a plan for me. He never abandons.

He doesn't, he doesn't forget about me and I'm never overlooked by him. And I don't know why, again, I don't know why praying the rosary has given me this grace, but it has, and I've seen it because the past few years of our life have been a lot of. Big transitions, you know, into getting married and moving states twice. Uh, our whole story of how we moved from Nebraska to Colorado was wild and totally led by the Lord and literally happened in the span of four weeks.

Can you imagine moving states, selling house, buying a house? We were in the middle of, you know, holiday season for our business. We had seek that we were going to, it was like the most crazy time. And. Praying the rosary gave me the peace and confidence to know, yes, this is the voice of the Lord. This is what he's calling us to continue to trust, continue to follow his call, continue to say yes.

We felt that even more so in the past few months with Trey quitting his job and coming full time West Coast Catholic with me, um, and making that leap maybe a little bit earlier than we thought we were going to be ready for. Praying the rosary, seeking Mary's intercession in all things has given me that confidence and that peace that God is God and I am his child and thank God I am not God.

Thank God I don't have the power that I sometimes think I would like to have over my life, my life, or even have the foresight to know everything that's happening in the future. We think we want those things, but in our humanity, we actually can't. Handle those things.

And so it, it makes me realize the beauty of God being God and the beauty of me being a child that depends in a child that goes to him with open hands, just, just giving the Lord everything that's on my heart through his mother and just receiving comfort and grace and trust in him. And I think one of the most remarkable things about the rosary is the protection that we can gain from it.

The rosary is commonly, referred to as a weapon, like a spiritual weapon against evil, against Satan, against sin. So what does this mean? A weapon, like what is this like protection that it gives us? So according to the catechism of the Catholic church, the rosary, can destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

As well as provide protection from demons, literally put demons to flight and protect you from any attacks of the evil one, as well as just granting a special protection over those who pray the rosary faithfully and devoutly. There's many testimonies of this and I'll try and share some that just come to mind off the top of my head.

But the one that I just heard recently that really was the reason that I wanted to record this podcast on the rosary, what convicted me of this topic and resharing my love for the rosary and the power of the rosary was Matt Fradd's Pines of Aquinas podcast episode, the interview that he did with Gabby Castillo. It was about Gabby's life and his ministry, his love for the rosary in the blessed Virgin Mary and the power that she holds, um, in the power that the rosary holds in our life.

And he was just sharing like his testimony and his story. And it was wild to hear. I highly recommend you go listen to it, but basically what really grabbed my attention was his, His experience of being attacked by demons, you know, there was one time where he was in his room and he heard this high pitched shrill voice, um, speaking to him. And I don't remember what he was saying, but he knew it was the devil.

Um, and then another night where he was, Physically being attacked by a demon being choked in his bed. And he explains, it's not sleep paralysis. He didn't imagine it. It's not a dream. It was a physical. He was sitting upright in his bed and he was, you know, pinned down by a demon. By a demon. And he felt in his heart, like in his soul. Um, and he says that it's his guardian angel. You know, something that told him, pray to Mary, like, pray a hail Mary.

And he couldn't, he couldn't get the words out. I mean, he was being choked and he like. Physically couldn't speak the words. And so he, he felt that voice, like, just say like in your head, like say the Hail Mary in your head. And so he started saying it and he started saying Hail Mary.

And as soon as he started saying, as soon as he started saying the words, Hail Mary, he felt the grip on his neck, loosening, and he was able to muster out the words, you know, choking like Hail Mary, he was able to say the words, Hail Mary out loud in just a whisper. And the second he said that he felt the everything release and this demon like fly across the room and he was saved.

That's obviously a crazy example, but an example of how Mary has a special protection over her children and asking for her intercession and invoking her gives you that protection.

But in a more practical everyday example, we see and hear stories about the rosary protecting people from sin, which can get just as harmful as, you know, an attack from a demon in a sense where sin leads us straight to hell and praying the rosary more often has provided graces to turn away from sin to have a stronger, aversion to sin, to not even desire it in a stronger will over temptation and to be able to overcome temptation and not even, you know, be tempted to sin.

So just right off the bat, if you are struggling with some sort of moral sin that you just feel like you're enslaved to, or has a hold on you and you haven't tried praying the rosary every day, Do that, do that, and I promise you that you will see graces come through and healing come through in that area of your life. There is a special, a special protection that comes through praying the rosary.

And you also receive protection in your earthly life as well as at your death at the moment of your death. Think of the words we actually say when we pray a rosary, right? We say, holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. I know that when we say a Hail Mary, sometimes we just rush through it and we don't actually even listen to the words that we are praying. We're literally asking Mary to pray for us now and at the moment of our death.

And every time we say a Hail Mary, we are begging Mary to do that. So praying a rosary is just continuously begging Mary to pray for us now and at the hour of our death at the hour of our death. And those prayers are all going, we are going to see the fruition of all those prayers of Mary interceding for us at the hour of our death, which is so important at the time of our judgment.

You see, guys, Mary plays such a special role in God's plan for salvation if you've ever heard of the Proto Evangelium, you know where I'm, I'm going with this and it's basically the, the Proto Evangelium is called the first gospel and it's that message in Genesis where it's. This sort of like first announcement of the Messiah of the Redeemer and how there will be enmity between a woman and the serpent, not just man in the serpent, right?

Not just humanity and the serpent, which we interpret to be the devil, but a woman in the serpent, but how she will claim victory over him through her son. And this is said right after Adam and Eve's sin. And so what theologians say is that Mary is the New Eve. She is this woman that has spoken about in the proto evangelism that will bring victory over Satan, salvation to the world through her son Jesus, because whereas.

Eve disobeyed God and didn't trust God and turned away from him and chose herself. And brought sin into the world, Mary gave her life for God said yes to him was blameless and brought Jesus into the world and brought salvation and redeemed us from sin through her son. And so from the beginning, we see that God has given Mary a special grace to protect her children from the evil one, which is why you often see Mary depicted as her crushing the head of a serpent, uh, crushing Satan ultimately.

so now that we've talked a little bit about the power of the rosary, the graces, the benefits that it can bring into your life and your spiritual life. Let's talk about how to pray a good rosary. This is a prayer that can so often just be rushed through and recited kind of mindlessly to get through it. But there's so much more beneath the surface of the Hail Marys. It's not just reciting the Hail Marys. It's truly meditating on Jesus's life, kind of through the lens of Mary.

If you notice, the mysteries are Moments in Jesus's life that we get straight from scripture. And as we meditate on each one of these mysteries throughout the rosary, we're, we're meditating on Jesus's life. We're filling our mind and our hearts with thoughts of Christ in his life. And so really the aim of the rosary is to fall in love with Christ. It's to fall in love with his mother and the role that she plays in our life to bring us to him.

I was watching a video about the rosary by Father Mark Mary on Ascension. And he said something that stuck with me that I thought was really a beautiful way to talk about the rosary. And he said, it's about relationship, not recitation. Like the rosary Aims for us to grow in relationship more than it aims for us to just recite a prayer that we're supposed to pray.

And that's where I think actually leaning into the mysteries really helps cultivate this love for the Rosary and this love for Jesus and Mary, because we're not just solely praying Hail Marys, but we're actually engaging in a deeper, more contemplative prayer Bye. Thinking about Jesus's life and the fruits that can come from inviting him into our life.

So a tip, if you struggle with praying the rosary intentionally and you feel like you just kind of zoom through it or just kind of want to get it over with, or even if it's not even a prayer that you have in your daily practice of prayer, I would recommend that you start praying with the different mysteries, like before you even dive into praying the Rosary, Pray through the ascension of Jesus or the resurrection of Jesus or the descent of the Holy Spirit.

Find these verses in scripture, these passages in scripture and meditate with them and pray with them and ask the Lord to reveal like, what he wants to speak to you through these passages. And once you really get to know the gospels that we're pulling these from, or, you know, just these pieces of scripture that reveal Jesus's life, then you can bring that into your prayer of the Rosary. Cause you actually know what you're meditating and it's not just a title. You're not just saying, okay.

Now we're praying with the next, you know, glorious mystery, the third glorious mystery. We're actually pulling from the descent of the Holy Spirit. And what did that mean for the disciples and how did that change their life? And how, you know, am I invited to receive the Holy Spirit into my heart? How can he change my life and send me out to evangelize and to bring people to Christ, right? It brings a lot more depth to your rosary.

Once you actually know More about the mysteries and pray with the mysteries. You can also just pray for the desire to desire the rosary and to pray for the desire to pray period. It's okay if you don't desire to pray the rosary. It's okay if you don't desire prayer. It's very human and normal. And we need the help of God to go to prayer and to desire that time of silence and solitude, especially because our day to day life doesn't necessarily encourage that.

I feel like it doesn't encourage silence. We're inundated with messages and screens and just, you know, The million things that we have on our to do list that it's not supernatural for us to want to continually sit down and pray in silence every single day or to take 15, 20 minutes out of our day to pray a rosary. So pray for that desire every single day and earnestly beg for it and ask the Lord, Lord, I desire to pray the rosary. Give me the desire.

Mother Mary. Please intercede for me, soften my heart, open my heart and help me to desire to pray the rosary and to pray with you and to pray for your intercession. And if it does feel dry and slow and boring, when you do pray the rosary, that's okay. Keep pressing on. There is so much fruit and merit to praying when you don't feel like it. And I can't remember who gave me this analogy, but a few.

Few years ago, many years ago, maybe like five or six years ago, somebody gave me this analogy of a master and his dog and how we want to be like dogs in a sense. So I have a dog, he's a golden retriever. His name is Bodhi. He's adorable and he loves me and always wants to be with me whether I pet him or not, whether I give him love or not. He's content by my side. He's content spending time with me.

He could be laying at my feet and I could be giving him pets and love and rubbing his belly or scratching his ears. And he would be so overjoyed that he was getting all that love. But if I wasn't doing that, he would still be by my feet and he would still be so content to be near me and to be just with me. And so in a similar way, we want to be like dogs and our master God, right?

We want to go to him when we get praise and when we don't, when we feel all those good and happy feelings and prayer.

And even when we don't feel anything in prayer, even when we don't feel like we're getting anything out of prayer, we want to remind ourselves to go to Christ and be content in his presence regardless, and to continue to pursue him and persevere Despite any feelings of dryness and actually those times when we go to him in prayer and when we actually take the time to pray and to be with him and to pray the rosary, even when it doesn't feel good or fun or entertaining or, peaceful or whatever it

is that you're looking for. Those times of prayer actually have a lot of merit. I would even say more merit than the times when it does feel good. When we do have a natural desire to pray, because it's more of a sacrifice. It's more of a stretching of ourselves to seek God and to seek rosary when we don't feel like it, when it's not convenient, when it's not easy for us. So what is the thing that got me to pray the rosary every single day? I will tell you, it was the 15 promises of the rosary.

So the rosary was given to St. Dominic by Mary herself in an apparition. And with that, she gave him the 15 promises of the rosary. I don't know why I had never come across these. I came across these maybe two, maybe three years ago. And when I read them, I was like, wow. Why aren't people teaching this every single day?

Why aren't people teaching this in Sunday school or in Catholic school or in Sunday homilies, these promises blew me away so much that literally that day I picked up my rosary and I prayed it and I prayed it every single day for months without fail, just because it convicted me so much of just like. If I pray the rosary every day, I get access to these graces and these promises. They were that, that amazing you guys.

And I'll just like read some of them just to kind of show you the beauty of these. I won't read all of them, but I encourage you to go look at them. Um, I have a freebie on our West coast Catholic website. If you go to westcoastcatholic. co hit the more tab freebies, there's a freebie that's called 15 promises of the rosary. It's a packet that teaches you how to pray the rosary and outlines the 15 promises.

So I'll just read out a couple of my favorite promises that really touched my heart and convicted me to pray the rosary every day. So number one says, whosoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary shall receive signal graces. A signal grace is a simple sign to an answered prayer or to point you to God's will. Kind of like those God moments that we feel, you start to see those more often. Basically, you start to see God's work in your life more clearly.

Promise number five, the soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the rosary shall not perish. What does this mean? This basically saying that the person that prays the rosary Faithfully shall be saved from hell. I don't know about you guys, but I read this one and I was like, sign me up. I'm gonna pray the rosary every day. Number six, whosoever shall recite the rosary devoutly applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune.

God will not chastise him in his justice. He shall not perish by an unprovided death. If he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life. What this is saying is that anybody who regularly praise the rosary. Mary will be promised a death free of mortal sin on their soul. That's a big deal. You guys. Another one that I was like, wow, okay, that's great.

Number seven, whosoever shall have a true devotion for the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the church. Mary is promising you access to the sacraments at the moment of your death. We're talking confession, anointing of the sick, receiving Jesus in the Eucharist. This is huge. Like. I want this for me at the moment of my death. So another huge check. Okay. Praying the rosary every day to get access to this.

Number nine, I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the rosary. Number 10, the faithful children of the rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven number 11, you shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the rosary. Your prayers shall be answered you guys by recitation of the rosary. 15. Devotion to my rosary is a great sign of predestination. This means that those who devoutly pray the rosary are likely on the path to heaven.

And that's no surprise because Mary is such a sure and quick and efficient way to Jesus. So now you see why, when I came across the 15 promises of the rosary, I was just totally like overcome with emotion and Gratitude for this prayer and desire to pray in conviction of its power, because I want those things and I want those things for you. And the Lord wants those things for you.

The Lord wants you to be close to him, to be in heaven with him, to be free of sin, to have graces and zeal for your faith and for him and his mother. And that's what happens when you pray the rosary, you come to know Jesus more. You come to love him more. You come to hate Satan, to hate sin, to, to have power over temptation. You're more aware of the Holy Spirit and able to receive him in your life.

You have inner peace that is just lasting and overcoming of all anxiety and worry and depression. Your eyes are opened to what God wants to do in your life and you just desire God's will in your life more than your own and you trust God and his plan for your life and so much more. You guys so much more and whatever it is that you bring to Mary, whatever petition is on your heart, Whatever you are desperately begging for in your life, the rosary shall be an avenue to answer those prayers.

Now that doesn't mean God gives us everything we ask for on demand, right? But no prayer that is brought to Jesus through Mary is too big, is too bad, right? No sin is too horrible to be freed from. No. Ask or petition is too impossible for God and sister Lucia, she was one of the visionaries in Fatima. And in these operations in Fatima, Mary talked about the rosary often and urged everybody to pray the rosary. And she's, um, one of the visionaries from there.

She has this quote that I want to read off that just drives this point home, that nothing asked through the prayer of the rosary is impossible for God or will be turned away from God. And she says, the most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the rosary to such an extent that there is no problem.

No matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual in the personal life of each one of us, of our families that cannot be solved by the rosary. There is no problem. I tell you, no matter how difficult it is that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.

If you have something guys in your heart that you have been yearning for, is there, if there is a healing that you are searching for, if there is a cross in your life, a problem in your family or in your relationship that you just find impossible, bring that to Mary through the rosary and allow her to intercede for you to her son in that specific problem.

I promise you, you will see the graces and you will see and experience the fruit of peace and confidence in God and how he will take care of that in a view through the prayer of the rosary. If you want to learn more about the rosary, read the secret of the rosary by St. Louis de Bonfort. Uh, I'll I truthfully going to be honest with you haven't read it, but it's next on my list and I have not heard anything but good and amazing things about this book.

So this podcast right here is my kick in the butt to read it. I hope it's your kick in the butt to read it because even though I love the Rosary so much and know its power, I want to learn even more. I want to be convicted even more. I know Mary's plan for life. us. I know God's plan for Mary is so pivotal in salvation. She wants nothing more than to see us in heaven and we need her help. We need all the help we can get. So this is next on my book list. I hope it's next on your book list.

The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort. Um, And if you are looking for a beautiful rosary to help you in prayer, to motivate you to pray, you know where to find them. Westcoastcatholic. co. They hands down, why do I say they? We, we hands down have the most stunning rosaries. I say that with all confidence, you guys, I've never seen more, more beautiful rosaries than ours. And I am proud to say that they're all designed by me for you.

So intentionally thought of each different design has a different, um, theme or devotion that might speak so directly to one person or another. So sweetly to you. So specifically to you, just like that first rosary design that Trey made for me, spoke so directly to me. I hope that you find a rosary that will motivate you and draw you closer to Mary and her son. Again, you find those at westcoastcatholic. co. I promise you, you won't regret it.

Another amazing thing about our rosaries is that they are so durable. Uh, we've gone through many different types of cord and the core that we have landed on officially, uh, the past few years is unbreakable. Okay. That's a huge problem for people is their rosaries breaking all the time. And I remember when we were testing these courts, Trey would literally grab the cord and try and pull as hard as he could to test how hard you had to pull to break it. And we never broke it.

So West Coast Catholic has the most durable rosaries as well. Uh, when it comes to beauty and we do have a guarantee that if your rosary does break for some reason, or if you have one with an old cord that broke, reach out to us on customer service. We will replace it at no cost. Totally on us. All right, you guys enough about that. Uh, so good to chat with you today.

I love these Wednesday hangouts with you and I'm so excited for your journey with the rosary and what it will do in your life, how it will change your life. I hope that this message was encouraging to you and I hope that you draw closer to Mary more than ever before. Let's close in a prayer and ask for her intercession as you begin your journey, praying the rosary. Every single day in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Mary, I asked that you give a special protection to all those who are listening and those who will seek you out through the rosary more.

And I pray that you just give us a greater desire to seek you out in this prayer and to seek the Lord out, um, through the rosary, through you, through meditating on his life, through this wonderful and beautiful prayer. Amen. Name of the father, son, and the Holy spirit. Amen. We'll see you next Wednesday, guys.