Why must Pilgrim Queen of the Family go on pilgrimage?
The Pledge to Mary is the
backbone of the Pilgrim Queen of the Family Apostolate. It sums up our nature, objectives and goals.
Therefore, the pledge to Mary are included in each of the shrines
and thus raise awareness of its importance. Our goal is
for each family member of the Catholic Family Network to
own, experience and disseminate it.
One of the characteristics of the families affiliated with the Pilgrim Queen of the
Family is their special love for the Virgin
Mary manifested through praying the Holy Rosary as a family.
The love of Mary, Mother of God, is
the hallmark of all Pilgrim Queen of the Family guardians.
Guardians and families affiliated to
the Network love the Blessed Virgin with a tender and
filial love, imitating her in her virtues, particularly charity, humility,
purity and obedience, entrusting to her their fervor and perseverance
in their sanctification efforts, as well as invoking
her maternal help.
Guardians and affiliated families live
this love for Mary, not as an expression of feelings,
but as an imitation of the virtues of the one
who knew how to say ´yes´ to God´s will and
was able to maintain that ´yes´ throughout her entire life.
This love of Mary should
bring all the Guardians and affiliated families to learn to
accept, welcome and seek the God’s will with joy in
one´s life and should be an incentive to lead to devote their strengths and talents to lead all
men to find in the fulfillment of God´s will the
way to human and Christian self-realization.
Guardians and affiliated families
in the network express their love and devotion to Mary
through the practice of acts of Marian devotion that help
them to conform themselves each day to the virtues and
to always go with confidence to the Mother of the
Church, entrusting to her all problems and needs, especially by
spreading devotion to the Holy Rosary.
By
praying the rosary, we demonstrate our love for our Blessed
Mother. She should be our mediator with God. Through the
recitation of the Rosary we contemplate the life of our
Lord Jesus Christ. To the extent that we contemplate, we
will love more.
“In the
spiritual journey of the Rosary, based on the constant contemplation
– in Mary´s company – of the face of Christ,
this demanding ideal of being conformed to him is pursued
through an association which could be described in terms of
friendship. We are thereby enabled to enter naturally into Christ´s
life and as it were to share his deepest feelings.”
(John Paul II, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, n. 15)
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