Fifteen Promises of Mary to those who recite her Holy Rosary

Imparted to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive single graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. The Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.

6. Whoever 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.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenititude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.

9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.

12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. 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.

14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of my only Son Jesus Christ.

15. Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination

I saw this on www.dailycatholic.com and I wanted to share with you how much the rosary has helped me in the last couple of years (even when I have not prayed it as regularly as I should to even begin to receive these graces! When I first started discerning the religious life I had a rosary that my dad brought home from Medjugorje it was made from rose wood and I recieved it when I was a freshman in High School at some point I lost it and some time before I began to think about the religious life I found it again, and of course it was a few years old and it no longer had the scent of roses as it once had. But, after I visited the first community (The Benedictine Sisters of Jesus Crucified)it began to smell again of roses!

I thought this was amazing and that it meant that I should joint that community even though I had previously wanted an active community (the Benedictines are Monastic) but non-the-less I continued to communicate with these sisters and then went back to visit them a second time when their Mother General was visiting from the Motherhouse in France! My rosary still smelled when I was there! After I had moved to France I to where their noviciate is located. I spent five months there in France, after realizing that this was not where God was calling me I came home and visited two other communities one was the Intercessors of the Lamb (I took a ten-day discernment retreat there, I love that community but never felt a strong call there). Then, I visited the Sisters of the Lamb of God in Owensboro, KY. They are a nice older community but they are not as traditional as I am and I liked them but just did not, after going home and thinking about it, talking about it with my spiritual director, and praying about it, I just did not feel that that was the avenue that God wanted me to go down.

So after several months of searching for a job (I had left my previous job before going to France) and searching for a community that would accept people with disabilities I went to Chicago with the School Sisters of Christ the King (a beautiful community in Lincoln, NE) to the Institute on Religious Life national conference, which is where I met Sr. Mary Michael from the School Sisters of St. Francis. I was providence that she came up to me after her and a few other religious had given their vocation talk. I had just been told that my disability would probably be a problem with another community that I was really interested in and so at the time I was praying and crying out to God in confusion and hurt that I had been told no again. That was an answer to my prayer that Sr. Mary Michael approached me at the end!

My whole point in telling you about my story here is two-fold: first stay close to your heavenly mother she will guide you. Second, I wanted you to get to know me a little better and knowing the process I have been through in the last two years. I know that it will happen in God's time and not mine no matter how hard I try!

God Bless all who read this and who post their comments! Susie, TJ, Kim and others. God Bless.