"Pope Francis says the Holy Rosary sustains us in the battle against the evil one and his accomplices

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"Pope Francis says the Holy Rosary sustains us in the battle against the evil one and his accomplices

Francis encourages Catholics to pray the Holy Rosary saying that it’ ‘sustains us in the battle against the evil one and his accomplices.’ The Holy Father also reflected on the truth well known to Catholic who love Our Lady that she is continually with us; living with us the trials and challenges associated with the conflict between God and Satan.

 

Reflecting on the first reading from Revelations, which spoke of the vision of the “struggle between the woman and the dragon”, the Pope stated that the image of the woman represents the Church today which although glorious and triumphant, is “still in travail.”

 

“If in heaven she is already associated in some way with the glory of her Lord, in history she continually lives through the trials and challenges which the conflict between God and the evil one, the perennial enemy, brings,” the Pope said.

 

“And in the struggle which the disciples must confront – all of us, all the disciples of Jesus, we must face this struggle – Mary does not leave them alone: the Mother of Christ and of the Church is always with us. She walks with us always, she is with us.”

 

The Pope went on to say that Mary accompanies us in prayer, particularly in the prayer of the Rosary, which he said, “sustains us in the battle” against the “evil one and his accomplices.”

 

“The Mother’s humanity is ‘attracted’ by the Son in his own passage from death to life. Once and for all, Jesus entered into eternal life with all the humanity he had drawn from Mary; and she, the Mother, who followed him faithfully throughout her life, followed him with her heart, and entered with him into eternal life which we also call heaven, paradise, the Father’s house.”