The Rosary has a new efficacy in these times

The diocesan phase of the canonization process of Sister Lucia - one of the three children who saw and spoke to Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima - was officially closed on February 13, 2017. As we celebrate this year the 100^th anniversary of the apparitions, this announcement represents a great step in the process of her canonization, begun ten years ago. This is what Sister Lucia said of the Rosary:

 “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.”

“Since we all need to pray, God asks of us, as a kind of daily installment, a prayer which is within our reach: the Rosary, which can be recited either in common or in private, either in church in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament or at home, either with the rest of the family or alone, either when traveling or while walking quietly in the fields.”

Aleteia