Traditional vs New Rosary (VIDEO)
Blessed Alan de La Roche was a Dominican friar and priest who lived
during the 15th Century. He was an eminent theologian and was famous for
his sermons. Blessed Alan was chosen by the our dearest Lord and the
Blessed Mother to promote once again the prayerful recitation of the
Most Holy Rosary after many if not most of the faithful had neglected to
pray it for more than a century. It was most appropriate that a
spiritual son of St. Dominic should be chosen for such a great work.
Blessed Alan began his holy mission in 1460 after a special warning from
Our Lord, Who wished to spur him on to preach the Holy Rosary. The Son
of God and Son of Mary literally spoke to Blessed Alan from the Sacred
Host during the Sacrifice of the Mass. Our Lord asked His chosen priest:
How can you crucify Me again so soon? Blessed Alan responded: What did
You say, Lord? Jesus answered: You crucified Me once before by your sins
and I would willingly be crucified again rather than have My Father
offended by the sins you used to commit. You are crucifying Me again now
because you have all the learning and understanding that you need to
preach My Mother's Rosary, and you are not doing so. This terrible
reproach of our Lord aimed at Blessed Alan, caused the Dominican Friar
to resolve solemnly to preach the Rosary unceasingly for the rest of his
earthly life. Blessed Alan did not seek to change the Rosary. He did
not add novelties to the prayer or increase the number of mysteries, nor
did he seek to subtract prayers or shorten existing ones. He simply
reintroduced the Holy Rosary to a people that had forgotten this very
powerful prayer. But the liturgical revolution that radically changed
the Holy Mass of the Latin Rite would become a revolution against simple
piety that would eventually infect the Rosary. We were told by
liturgical reformers that the Old Mass was lacking…that it needed to be
updated and reformed…that it didn’t meet the needs of modern man. We are
now told that the Traditional form of the Rosary was not as
Christological…not as Christ-centered as it ought to be…that it required
new mysteries that would enlighten and illuminate those stuck in the
Middle Ages. And so, we are led to believe that the Holy Rosary, given
by our Blessed Mother to St. Dominic was somehow defective and needed to
be reformed and updated. What we need is not novelties but rather a man
like Blessed Alan to preach the traditional form of the Rosary.