Vorlage:1954 Rezensionen Der Rosenkranz Unserer Lieben Frau

• [1954-046] [Englisch] Daniel Durken: Rezension zu: Guardini, The rosary of our Lady, in: Worship, 29, 1954, 9, S. 556 f. [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=ptorM9j8JQ4C:
  • S. 556 f.: „Born of the liturgy, the Rosary partakes of the beauty of its parent, and so another book about „Mary´s Psalter“ is always welmore so when the author is as distinguished as the present one. Monsignor Guardini aptly calls the Rosary a "prayer of lingering." "The Rosary is not a road, but a place, and it has no goal but a depth." It is an abiding in the world of Mary, whose essence is Christ. In this way, the Rosary is basically a prayer of Christ. We see the figure and life of Jesus through Mary's loving eyes and our own vision is wondrously sharpened and enhanced. In answering the well worn objection that the repetitious element of the Rosary leads to an exteriorization of prayer, the author points out that repetition is an element of all life: the heart beat and breath of every living thing, the rising and setting of the sun, the spring and fall of every year. Always remaining practical, the Monsignor does not hesitate to warn us that "he who prays his Rosary frequently runs the danger of dwelling always on the same pictures and thus his ideas become impoverished." To lessen this danger it us to have recourse to an idea hinted at in the present volume and more fully developed in the same author's earlier work Das Jahr des Herrn. From each Sunday and major feast of the liturgical year the author extracted five mysteries dealing with the feast that can well be made the subject of five decade-meditations. Thus does the Rosary remain not only the ideal preparation for the liturgy but also an easy means of studying the liturgy and prolonging its message into our day. For modern man to fully appreciate the Rosary, he must subdue his restless spirit and take his time. Excellent advice is this, that one should not attempt too much of the Rosary at one time. It is difficult for anyone's attention and devotion to keep apace of a twelve-minute ramble through the Glorious Mysteries' liturgical cycle of Easter, Pentecost, and beyond. Better one or two decades said rightly. Throughout the book, the author has kept his promise of treating a simple thing in a simple manner. The meditations on the mysteries are short but solid. In penetrating the depths of each mystery we are shown that they contain the basic laws of Christian rebirth, growth, and maturity. A little volume like this is certain to add new meaning and vitality to our October Rosary devotions.“