About the Novena
We will be meditating on the fifteen promises given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche by Our Lady – fifteen promises to those who pray the most holy Rosary.
The Rosary is such a powerful weapon because it incorporates prayers from the Bible (the Our Father, the Hail Mary), vocal prayer, meditative prayer, and contemplative prayer. The Rosary can incorporate the sense of sight by looking at a crucifix or an image of Mary, our sense of touch by holding a Rosary, and our sense hearing by hearing these beautiful prayers.
Jesus, through His Mother, promises us heaven if we pray the Rosary. What a great promise! Oftentimes people make promises and they break them. Jesus always keeps His promise, as does His Mother Mary. She promises us fifteen beautiful things if we pray the Rosary.
Day 1
Our Lady’s Promises
PROMISE 1:
Whosoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
PROMISE 2:
I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
[Reflect on these promises and pray a Rosary]
Day 2
Our Lady’s Promises
PROMISE 3:
The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin and defeat heresies.
PROMISE 4:
It will cause good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for Eternal Things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
[Reflect on these promises and pray a Rosary]
Day 3
Our Lady’s Promises
PROMISE 5:
The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
PROMISE 6:
Whosoever 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 perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of Eternal Life.
[Reflect on these promises and pray a Rosary]
Day 4
Our Lady’s Promises
PROMISE 7:
Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
PROMISE 8:
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.
[Reflect on these promises and pray a Rosary]
Day 5
Our Lady’s Promises
PROMISE 9:
I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
[Reflect on this promise and pray a Rosary]
Day 6
Our Lady’s Promises
PROMISE 10:
The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of Glory in Heaven.
[Reflect on this promise and pray a Rosary]
Day 7
Our Lady’s Promises
PROMISE 11:
You shall obtain all you ask of me by recitation of the Rosary.
[Reflect on this promise and pray a Rosary]
Day 8
Our Lady’s Promises
PROMISE 12:
All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
PROMISE 13:
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.
[Reflect on these promises and pray a Rosary]
Day 9
Our Lady’s Promises
PROMISE 14:
All who recite the Rosary are my Sons, and brothers of my Only Son Jesus Christ.
PROMISE 15:
Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
[Reflect on these promises and pray a Rosary]
