Father Behr writes:

Dear parishioners

Next weekend we celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption.  We have been given Mary as our loving mother.  This is not sentimentality, but a gift Jesus gave from the Cross to every Christian.  As Jesus was dying, looking tenderly at his mother Mary, he said to her ‘Behold your son’ then he said to the disciple he loved, representing every Christian, ‘Behold your mother’ and from that day Mary became the mother of all Christians. (John 19) We should not let a single day go by without asking her for her prayers and her powerful help.  She wants each and every one of her children to attain the happiness of Heaven. She does not want anyone to be lost.  The prayer of the holy Rosary is particularly powerful.

The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families… that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary. Sister Lucia

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