"Until October 2002, the Rosary was the only major Catholic institution to escape renovation. The Mass was changed to accommodate Vatican II's new ecumenical religion, we now have a "new theology," a "new evangelization," a new catechism, a new Code of Canon Law, Religious Orders liberalized their Rules and Constitutions, seminaries "loosened up," church interiors were gutted, the Breviary was revolutionized, Pope John Paul II changed the traditional Way of the Cross in 1991, adding a fifteenth Station.

Now the Rosary will never be the same. The insatiable lust for change and novelty,... increasingly takes the form of an in-the-flesh manifestation of one of Modernism's chief precepts.

St. Pius X warned, 'First of all they (modernists) lay down the general principle that in a living religion everything is subject to change, and must change, and in this way they pass to what may be said to be, among the chief of their doctrines, that of evolution. To the laws of evolution everything is subject - dogma, Church, worship, the Books we revere as sacred, even faith itself.' " 

Here Saint Pius X refers not only to the falsehood of Darwinian/biological evolution, but also to the belief that in a "living religion" everything must always be in a state of movement and flux. This shows that the religion is alive!

Today, the modernist notion that "everything must change" is called the continuous aggiornamento of the Council. The Holy Rosary, once thought beyond the reach of man's tinkering, has now fallen victim..." along with the rest.

This is one of the many reasons that my family and I will adhere to the 15-decade Rosary of Saint Dominic, and not adopt the new 20-decade novelty.Our Blessed Mother at Fatima taught the children to pray the Rosary as is, and to pray it with maturity, reverence and attention. I will teach my children to do the same.

Dear Holy Father, we are happy that you wish to revitalize the Holy Rosary. But by downplaying Fatima, and by needlessly subjecting the Rosary to the continuous aggiornamento, you tear our hearts again.

--quotes are  excerpts from John Vennari, Nov 2002 Catholic Family News.

The Fifteen Promises of Mary to Christians Who Recite the Rosary

I. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary, shall receive signal graces.

II. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the rosary. 

III. The rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies. 

IV. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the heart of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things.  Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means. 

V. The soul which recommend itself to me by the recitation of the rosary, shall not perish. 

VI. Whoever shall recite the rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. 

VII. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church. 

VIII. Those who are faithful to recite the rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise. 

IX. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the rosary. 

X. The faithful children of the rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.

XI. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the rosary. 

XII. All those who propagate the holy rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities. 

XIII. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the rosary

shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death. 

XIV. All who recite the rosary are my son, and brothers of my only son Jesus Christ. 

XV. Devotion of my rosary is a great sign of predestination. 

(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan) Imprimatur: Patrick J. Hayes DD Archbishop of New York) 

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