Be Our Guest / Paul Kachinski

This Lent, pray the rosary daily for peace in the world, reader urges

“The whole of man’s history has been the story of fierce combat with the powers of evil, so our Lord tells us, from the very dawn of history and continuing into the future, until the end of time. … This dramatic situation of the whole world, which is in the power of the evil one, makes man’s life a battle” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, #409).

Indeed, the whole world seems to be at war everywhere; not only in Ukraine and Russia, but war against the pre-born, the elderly and everyone sincerely trying to live the Christian life. And we see an uncompromising war against marriage and the family.

Imagine what would happen if every Catholic in the world would pray a rosary every day. The rosary has saved the day throughout history, the “Battle of Lepanto” being a prime example. In October of 1573, Europe was saved from the invasion of the mighty Turkish (Muslim) fleet by the praying of the rosary by Catholics across the continent.

The rosary is the great weapon of conversion as testified to by Our Blessed Mother at Fatima. Furthermore, St. Padre Pio often said, “Mary’s rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today!”

Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme of Maiduguri, Nigeria, a few years ago reported that while he was praying before the Blessed Sacrament and asking Our Lord how to combat the terrorist attacks upon the people of his diocese, Jesus appeared to him, and Jesus had a sword in his hand.

When Jesus handed the sword to the bishop, the sword turned into a rosary.

Sister Lucia, one of the Fatima seers, in a letter to a priest in 1937, wrote, “The Most Holy Virgin, in these last times in which we live, has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, temporal or especially spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world or of the religious communities, or even of the life of people and nations that cannot be solved by the rosary.

“There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it,” she wrote, “that we cannot resolve by prayer of the holy rosary. With the holy rosary, we will save ourselves. We will sanctify ourselves. We will console Our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls.”

Lent is right around the corner. Think about offering a sacrifice of praise instead of just “giving up” something material. Think of offering a sacrifice of praise by praying the rosary daily. It is a positive act of obedience to the Mother of God.

Our Lady of Fatima asked us all to pray the rosary daily, and to what end? She gave us a “Peace Plan” from heaven to avoid evils and bring peace to the world. 

She said, “Tell everybody that God gives grace through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask graces from her, and that the heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

“Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her.”
 

(Paul Kachinski is a member of Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood.) †