Father Benson on the Rosary

New Zealand Tablet, 30 September 1909, Page 1529

Father Benson on the Rosary

' You ask how prayers said over and over again like the Rosary,' says Father Benson, ' can be any good. I saw young Mrs. Martin last week with her little girl in her lap. She had her arms around her mother's neck, and was being rocked to and fro, and every time she rocked she said, " Oh, . mother !" True, she was only a child;" but ' ' Except ye become as little children ' ' — we are nothing more than children with God and His Blessed Mother. To say " Hail Mary, Hail Mary," is the best way of telling her how much we love her. And then this string of beads_ is like Our Lady's girdle, and her children love to finger it and whisper to her. And we say our Pater Nosters, too ; and all the while we are talking she is showing us pictures of her dear child, and we look at all the great things He did for us, one by one; and then we turn the page and begin again. 'How tender and simple it is! A great Mother whose girdle is of beads strung together which dangle into every Christian's hands; whose face bends down over every Christian's bed.'