The potential harvest of the prayer of the Rosary knows no limit
The Prayer, Preaching, and Promotion of the Rosary
Friar Louie-Marie Arino-Durand, o.p., and op.org feature
Friar Louie-Marie Arino-Durand, o.p., former Promoter General of the Rosary, wrote that our Dominican prayer of the Rosary ‘can be compared to a diamond that sparkles in its many facets’. He added that even though a diamond is a very old stone, when light shines on the diamond we receive reflections from it. My predecessor, fr Louis-Marie, says that the Rosary, like a diamond, is offered to us as a gift to notice its truths and to proclaim those reflected truths. The potential harvest of the prayer of the Rosary knows no limit.
For over 800 years now, the men and women of the Order of Preachers have been praying, preaching, and promoting the Rosary in new and creative ways. There are many ways of praying in our Dominican tradition and the one of these is using the crucifix or cross, beads, and string or wire forming what we can hold in our hands to pray the Rosary. Let us consider the image of the diamond once again. For there to be reflections coming from the diamond there must be a source of light, and so it is with the Rosary as well. The Source of the light causing the Rosary to come alive is Jesus Christ…
