This afternoon, at the end of the prayer of the Rosary in the Vatican gardens, Pope Leo XIV went to the faithful from the Lourdes cave stating that this prayer not only has a Marian dimension, but also a “Christological heart.”
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“The Holy Rosary has prayed together: a prayer that, as San John Paul II stressed, has a Marian character and a Christological heart, and that ‘condenses in itself the depth of the entire evangelical message,” said the pontiff this May 31 at the end of the month dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
He Speech of the Holy Father It was carried out after the traditional Marian procession from the Church of Santo Stefano Degli Abissini to the Grotto of the Virgin of Lourdes. The Prayer Meeting was chaired by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, General Vicar of His Holiness for the State of the Vatican City and Arciprest of the Basilica of San Pedro.
At the end of the encounter, Pope Leo XIV directed a few words that invited to meditate on the importance of the path of faith lived with Mary.
“It is a gesture of faith with which, in a simple and devout way, we met under the maternal mantle of Mary,” said Leo XIV when opening his speech, also highlighting that this vigil remembers key aspects of the current jubilee, such as “praise, road, hope and, above all, the faith thoughtful and manifested in community.”
When referring to the meditation of the joyful mysteries during the procession, the Pontiff indicated that the faithful “have entered and stopped, as on a pilgrimage, in many places of the life of Jesus: in the house of Nazareth contemplating the announcement, in that of Zacarías contemplating the visitation (…) in the temple of Jerusalem contemplating the presentation and then the finding of Jesus.”
He also stressed how the Rosary, repeated with faith, makes the Word of God resonate in the heart of the faithful: “They have accompanied them, in the ‘God save you, Mary’ repeated with faith, the words of the angel to the Mother of God: ‘Remove, full of grace: the Lord is with you’, and those of Isabel: ‘Blessed between women and blessed the fruit of your belly!”
The pontiff of American and Peruvian nationality encouraged everyone to live faith as a path after the steps of Jesus and by Mary: “Let’s look at our existence as a path behind the footsteps of Jesus, to go through it – as we have done it tonight – next to Mary.”
In that sense, he invited a life of daily praise and invited to ask the Lord to “know how to praise him every day ‘with life and with the tongue, with the heart and with his lips, with voice and behavior.”
Before imparting the apostolic blessing, Leo XIV especially thanked the Benedictine sisters of the Mater Ecclesiae monastery for “her hidden and constant prayer”, which, “he said,” “” He holds our community and our work. “
He concluded his speech asking that the joy of this moment Mariano lasts and grows: “That the joy of this moment remains and grows in us: in our personal and family life, in each environment, especially in the life of this family that here in the Vatican serves the universal church.”
Diego López Marina
I was born in 1991. I have a degree in Communication Sciences. Since 2015 I work as a digital journalist. I started my career in the newspaper El Comercio in Peru. In 2016, I began as editor in ACI Press and I perform as a web editor since 2018. From 2024, I write the Newsletter for Social Media. I specialize in Catholic news focused on the defense of life and family, international politics, technology, popular culture and the Vatican.