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The Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary

(Holy Rosary Minor Seminary)

Theme:

Rosary: Imitating Mary’s Humble Service as Seminarians

By: Sem. Cordial

    

       Once again, we celebrate our Mother but in a different fashion for today, we celebrate

“Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary”.  Our theme is “Imitating Mary’s Humble Service as Seminarians”. What does this mean? Living does not mean that we are supposed to be served but we must serve for the theme again states Mary’s humble service. The theme does not completely say the kind of service that we are supposed to do but one thing is for sure, that we are giving every kind of service according to our strength. As Seminarians, we are supposed to give service not for the reward or the wealth we are given but we must do this for sacrifice. In the theme, we are called to imitate which means, everything that Mary did, we must also follow. To be pure is not impossible if we have faith in the Lord. Asking forgiveness cannot to a person is not scary if you have faith that the person and in the Lord that both of them will not get tired of forgiving you. Giving service is not lazy or tiring if you ask God enough strength needed in your task of instead asking a task equal to your strength. The reason that we should not be lazy in giving humble service to others is that we must have Joy. Joy also corresponds the order we should give service to:

J- Jesus

O- Others

Y- Yourself

        Giving service does not mean that we should always give complete sense to ourselves or self-service, but giving service needs us to be selfless. Now that we are done with the theme for the celebration, we can now move on to the event on why the theme actually exists. The event we are celebrating this October is the Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. It is said that the Rosary is the strongest weapon that can be used against the devil. It is also said by St. Faustina that the “Rosary is the most powerful weapon against the devil.” It is also said that Prayer is the greatest weapon that can be used against the devil. Both of these traits are related because if there is a Rosary, there is prayer (We know that we can also pray to God even without the Rosary) but the Rosary lets us remember the joy, the gloriousness, and the suffering of our Lord.

       Since people are so stubborn at these times, we only think of ourselves which is also referred to the previous part of this article but when we completely devote ourselves to God, we feel no pain, no laziness, and no stubbornness. Think about it, we are only doing things only for the pleasure of the flesh but Jesus gave service to us for our lives. Jesus Christ died for our sake. We are not going to die if we just give humble service to others, we can only give our lives if it is necessary that we may lay down our lives. “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” All of us are friends when we are celebrating this event. This even pertains to non-seminarians. All that I can say is love one another for love is a gift which you can use to change the world. Love is a gift. Love is GOD.

     Love comes from the Germanic word ‘lufu’; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit “lubhyati” which means  “desires” and also in “amare” (Latin) which means “pleasing”.

     Love is pleasing indeed if you really feel that your spiritual life needs it. Love is also a kind of sacrifice on which you need to somehow make a change or a statement. The very first statement of great love ever known is, well… US. We are the reasons that love exists. We are created by God and therefore God created and redeemed us in the name of love. Again, the 2^nd statement of great love is when God redeemed or set the Israelites free from Pharaoh. The 3^rd statement of great love is when Jesus, the Son of David, Son of the Almighty Father, redeemed us by our sins by letting Himself be crucified on the cross. This crucifying is also called as sacrifice. Jesus sacrificed Himself. And we also know that love leads to sacrifice. So, this event gives us the message that we are not only allowed to love each other in this event but we also need to give sacrifices like giving up your gadgets to just attend mass. And in the near future, sacrificing your life for the one you love.

Our Lady of The Most Holy Rosary, Pray for Us!