The Mysteries of the Rosary

From the Preface

Dom Marmion insisted that everyone should determine for himself the practices of piety best suited to express his confidence in the Mother of Jesus and his reverence and love for her, adding that it is not necessary for anyone to overburden himself with such practices, but that it is important to remain faithful to those which he has selected. In his own case, in addition to his self-oblation each morning after Mass and the recitation of the Angelus, he was devoted most especially to the Rosary.
"There," he wrote, "we praise Mary ever united to her Son; we repeat lovingly and unceasingly the greeting addressed to her by the heavenly messenger of the Incarnation; we contemplate Christ in the whole cycle of His mysteries in order to unite ourselves to Him; we congratulate the Virgin Mary on her intimate association with these mysteries, and we give thanks to the Blessed Trinity in the 'Gloria' for all the privileges of the Mother of Jesus."(See the beautiful conference on "The Mother of the Incarnate Word" in Dom Marmion's "Christ is the Life of the Soul.")
"If ever I come to the end of a day without having said the Rosary," he often declared, "I confess that I feel disappointed. There are some people who say: 'The Rosary is a good thing for women and children.' Granted. But what does our Lord say?—and here his voice would take on the tones of deep earnestness—: 'Unless you become as little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.'—and for my part, I want to go there!..."
Among the many beautiful pages devoted by Dom Marmion to the mysteries of Christ we have selected the following for the sole purpose of helping devoted souls to recite the Rosary better.

Dom Raymond Thibaut, O.S.B. Maredsous Abbey, Belgium