This whole concept is very mysterious to me. I can’t see why reciting these words over and over should have such a powerful effect, but they do. Why? Why? Why should Our Lady respond so strongly to this, rather than to the words of spontaneous prayer? Clearly she does, but I don’t understand why. Do we know why or do we just accept it as fact?
I will say that when I join other members of my congregation in reciting the Rosary after weekday mass, I have never felt such a sense of reverence, awe, and plain spiritual gratitude.
“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.”
I have that quote printed out and hanging where I can see it when I am working. And as Padre Pio said “the Rosary is THE WEAPON”.