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The Rosary often has the reputation of being an archaic devotion for the elderly or religious. However, many popes have urged us to pray it. Recently, Pope Francis recommended the novena to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots, along with the recitation of the Rosary. These repeated invitations are a good thing and are beneficial for our spiritual life. Nevertheless, they find little echo with priests, who are supposed to pass them on to their parishioners.
This is why, as a layperson, I decided to do something about it, and wrote Generation Rosaire (Rosary Generation, Editions du Parvis), a how-to-pray-it booklet that describes the scene of each mystery, gives the fruit of that mystery to meditate on, and resolutions to take so that the prayer, instead of being a passive activity, may drive us to concrete action.
But why pick up a rosary or go back to praying it? Because in all her apparitions, the Blessed Virgin Mary has asked us to do so. Because it puts the Gospel back in our mind. And because it is an engine of synergetic focus for the heart, mind and body.
People turn to esotericism, divination arts, personal development, or energetic medicine for channels of harmony between the self, others and the Hereafter.
The truth is that our life hangs by a thread and all our hair is counted. The Rosary is the lifeline that Mary tosses to us so we can climb up to Jesus and our Father while she intercedes for us poor sinners, and asks the Holy Spirit to bring us his gifts, his charisms, his fruits and his virtues.