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It's the Feast of Feast of the Holy Rosary, 2nd Class, with the color of White. In this episode: the meditation: "The Attitude of Those Invited to the Feast", today's news from the Church: "Ireland: Three Days in the Footsteps of St. Declan", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org

Sources Used Today:

• "The Attitude of Those Invited to the Feast" — From the Assumption to Advent
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "Ireland: Three Days in the Footsteps of St. Declan" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/ireland-three-days-footsteps-st-declan-61379
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

The Feast of the Most Holy Rosary on October 7 is famously connected with the Christian victory at Lepanto in 1571, when Pope Saint Pius V asked Catholics throughout Europe to pray the Rosary for the Christian fleet.

But that's only one chapter in a much larger story.

For centuries, Catholics have turned to the Rosary during moments when things seemed almost hopeless.

One of the strangest examples comes from nineteenth-century Italy and a man named Bartolo Longo.

Longo had grown up Catholic but drifted badly during his university years. He became involved in occultism and eventually described himself as having been ordained a satanic priest. His life became increasingly miserable until friends helped bring him back to the Catholic faith.

Even after his conversion, though, Longo was haunted by his past.

Then one day, while walking near Pompeii, he remembered words a priest had told him: "If you seek salvation, spread the Rosary."

So he did.

Longo spent the rest of his life promoting the Rosary, building the great Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary at Pompeii, helping orphans and the children of prisoners, and turning a place associated with ancient paganism into one of the world's great Marian pilgrimage sites.

The former occultist eventually became Blessed Bartolo Longo.

Then there is Fatima.

In 1917, Our Lady appeared to three shepherd children in Portugal and repeatedly asked them to pray the Rosary every day. At her final apparition on October 13, she identified herself as Our Lady of the Rosary.

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