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7. Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
This is truly a wonderful promise. Last Rites is one of the seven sacraments.
When a person is sick or injured and in danger of dying they receive this sacrament.
It involves the certain prayers and anointing with holy oil by a priest.
Sometimes the recipient's health is regained. But even if they do not get well
they will experience an increase of grace and they will be strengthened against temptation.
The most important benefit of receiving this sacrament is that it prepares you
to enter into heaven by forgiving your sins and cleaning your soul which has been stained due to the effects of sin.
"Is any one among you sick? Let him bring in the presbyters
of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name
of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick man, and the Lord will
raise him up, and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him."
-James 5:14-15
By this promise, you can be confident and rest assured that you will receive this
very important and beneficial sacrament before you die.
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8. Those who are faithful to recite my Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces and will share in the merits of the blessed.
Nothing can be more reassuring than this promise that give the hope of spending a life and particularly at the moment of death, being showered with God's grace and receiving the prayers of the saints already in heaven.
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9. I will deliver promptly from purgatory souls devoted to my Rosary.
Purgatory is a place of cleansing. It is God's mudroom.
Here you will be cleansed of all the effects that sin has caused in your soul.
The most horrible thing about purgatory is the fact that you know God, but you cannot be with Him.
This longing is agonizing...
Yet it is very joyful because you know that you will eventually go to heaven, it's just a matter of time.
Here Mary promises that your time there will be brief.
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10. True children of my Rosary will enjoy great glory in heaven.
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11. What you shall ask through my Rosary you shall obtain.
Stressed? Worried? Anxious? Pray the Rosary every day.
If you persevere in this, ALL you ask, you will receive.
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12. To those who propagate my Rosary I promise aid in all their necessities.
You will be assisted in all your needs if you encourage others to pray the Rosary.
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Teach it to your family.
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13. I have obtained from my Son that all the members of the Rosary Confraternity shall have as their intercessors, in life and in death, the entire celestial court.
Because Mary is our Advocate, she assists us during our life and at our death.
The Celestial Court is better known as the Communion of Saints.
The Saints already in heaven pray for us on earth.
All the Saints will ask God to supply for your needs if you become a member of the Rosary Confraternity.
The Rosary Confraternity [new window will open] is a world-wide group whose members pray the fifteen decade Rosary at least once a week.
It is entrusted to the Dominican order, the order of priests founded by St. Dominic.
Since the Holy Father has recently added the five luminous mysteries, we encourage
members of the Confraternity to include that extra weekly Rosary.
However, we have as yet received no official statement regarding this matter.
Those who recite only the fifteen traditional mysteries will continue to share
in the benefits of the Confraternity until some official source declares the contrary.
"Whenever a person fulfills his obligation of reciting the
Rosary according to the rule of the Confraternity, he includes in his intentions
all its members, and they in turn render him the same service many times over."
-Pope Leo XIII
Each member includes deceased fellow members as well; and thus he knows that in
turn he will be included in the prayers of hundreds of thousands both now and hereafter.
This led the Cure of Ars to say:
"If anyone has the happiness of being in the
Confraternity of the Rosary, he has in all corners of the world brothers and
sisters who pray for him."
-Cure of Ars
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14. Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are my beloved children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.
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15. Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of predestination.
Predestination in this context means that, by the sign which is present to a
person from the action of devoutly praying the Rosary, God has pre-ordained your salvation.
Absolute certainty of salvation can only be truly known if God reveals it to a
person because, although we are given sufficient Grace during life, our salvation
depends upon our response to said Grace.
Said another way, if God has guaranteed a person's salvation but has not revealed
it to Him, God would want that person to pray the Rosary because of all the benefits
and Graces obtained.
Therefore the person gets a hint by devotion to the Rosary.
This is not to say that praying the Rosary guarantees salvation - by no means.
In looking at promises #3 and #4 above, praying the Rosary helps one to live a holy life...
which is itself a great sign that a soul is on the road to salvation.
"Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of
children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:
Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us in his
beloved son. In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according
to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will."
-Ephesians 1:5-6,11-12
