Mary's joy and sorrow and glory

Bartolomé Esteban Murilla

Virgin and Child with a Rosary

Take the Holy Rosary, one of the most deeply rooted of Christian devotions. The Church encourages us to contemplate its mysteries. She wants to engrave upon our heart and our imagination, together with Mary's joy and sorrow and glory, the spellbinding example of Our Lord's life, in his thirty years of obscurity, his three years of preaching, his ignominious Passion and his glorious Resurrection.  

~~ St. Josemaria Escriva Friends of God, 299