In our time, the Blessed Virgin gave a new effectiveness to the Rosary

Saint Louis de Montfort and Marthe Robin (France) emphasized the increasingly important role that the Mother of the Savior would play in the end times. They predicted that the reign of Christ the Lord would come through the same path that he took at his first coming: with and by Mary, and in the company of the angelic legions as in Bethlehem.

In those future times, the visible representatives of the invisible Angels will be what Louis de Montfort calls the great saints of the end times, in other words men and women fully penetrated by a Marian spirit, obedient to the motions of the Holy Spirit and strong as an army drawn up in battle (Sg 6:4). They will be the last crusaders, the last bearers of the cross of love.

According to Saint Faustina (1905-1938), these times when the angelic kingdom of Mary will be felt more and more, and where history will accelerate, should no longer be too far from us. Sister Lucia of Fatima seemed to share this conviction. In 1957, she confided to Father Fuentes: "The Most Blessed Virgin, in these end times in which we live, has given a new effectiveness to the recitation of the Rosary."

Brother Bernard-Marie, o.f.s.

Excerpt from the Bulletin de L'Oeuvre des Campagnes n. 205 – Jan- Mar. 2003.