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In the rosary, we meditate on the mysteries of Christ and His mother. The Virgin Mary shares in the joy of His coming and the suffering of His passion and death. She is present in the major moments of His life and was raised to join Him in glory at her passing. The rosary is a reflection on His life in Scripture, her life of absolute faithfulness, and our own lives imitating them in communion with His Bride, the Church.
This book is a collection of personal prayers for deeper meditation on the mysteries. Where The Scriptural Rosary follows the life of Christ in Scripture, The Personal Rosary meditates on our lives following Him. As we pray to “imitate what [these mysteries] contain”, we focus our meditation on how we can take up our crosses in daily sacrificial love for God and one another.
This devotional aid is the result of years of prayer and introspection and meant as a companion to The Scriptural Rosary. Where The Scriptural Rosary follows the life of Christ in Scripture, The Personal Rosary is a meditation on our lives following Him. It was always meant to be about us and our relationship with Him.
It isn’t enough that He forgives us—we are to forgive. It isn’t enough that He took up His cross—we must take up ours and follow Him. We are filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ (Col 1:24) as we, His mystical Body, carry on His mission to call all people to Himself through lives of sacrificial love.
Ultimately, we are emotional beings. We have different intellectual and physical abilities but we all react to our world emotionally… even those most incapacitated. Our basic emotions are joy, anger, sadness, and fear. God uses these emotions to interact with us and we can understand each other through them. Through prayer, we orient our emotions on the God Who made us and the joy He wants for us (John 15:10-11)
We are called to model virtue in our lives. Four virtues play a pivotal role and accordingly are called “cardinal”; all the others are grouped around them (CCC 1805). The four cardinal virtues are prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude (Wis 8:7). These four and all other virtues revolve around love. By charity, we love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves for love of God. Charity, the form of all the virtues, “binds everything together in perfect harmony” (CCC 1844 [Col 3:14]).
The Church teaches us four types of love: friendship (philia), family love (storge/empathy), passionate love eros), and unconditional love (agape). We can reflect on these through the Mysteries of the Rosary.
The original mysteries of the Rosary are simple to engage on a personal level. At the heart of each is the creed we profess. Each is a narrative story of powerful experiences of Christ. We will also experience them to some degree and we can relate to them fairly easily.
The Luminous Mysteries can be harder to relate and imitate… on the surface. We can’t generally change water to wine or shine like the Sun. Delving deeper, we find that the Luminous Mysteries remind us who Christ is. They powerfully illuminate His identity… and our own in communion with Him. They don’t tell a narrative story—they paint a picture.
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Patrick is rules-oriented and likes to see things work the way they are intended. His professional life has spanned both public and private sectors; military and civilian cultures; spiritual and temporal matters.
In all of them, one key focus is important: “remember who you serve.” He believes that most problems in this world would disappear if we would just keep our purpose foremost in our minds… our purpose is to serve. The challenge is to recognize who is served in every decision we make. Patrick is the author of the award-winning “The Personal Rosary” and co-author of international best-seller “Cracking the Rich Code, Vol 10.”
As a speaker, he shares deep reflections on life, love, faith, and leadership through the Rosary. Invite him to your diocese, parish, prayer group, family, and other gatherings of the faithful
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