Our Lady asked for prayer, sacrifice, and penance for the healing of the Church.
Our Lady Maria, Rosa Mytica requests several devotions during her visits to Pierina Gilli. In the spirit of her charism, we make an effort to carry out her message and honor her requests.
1. Each 13th day of the month must be dedicated to special acts of devotion to Mary, with preparation of prayer and mortification during the 12 preceding days.
2. First Sunday after Easter: Anniversary of the coming of Rosa Mystica to Fontenelle, where she blessed the water manifesting God's mercy.
3. The 13th of July each year will be celebrated in honor of Mary "Rosa Mystica" especially in institutes and in the congregations of concecrated life.
4. The 13th of October of the first year and then the second Sunday of the month each year thereafter will be sanctified with Holy Communion of Reparation, preceded by confession. Under this title, Holy Communions of Reperation, prayer groups or congregations can be formed.
5. Each year on December 8th, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, at midday the Hour of Grace will be practiced, awaiting particular graces of conversion and sanctification, promised for that hour. It shall be practiced in one's own church, worshiping the most Blessed Sacrament if possible; otherwise privately or in groups of prayer.
6. Go to the blessed spring, in procession, with pentitential prayers and bring the sick. Those in need of spiritual help for themselves and for their loved ones shall go there in a pilgrimage.
7. The three words signified by the three roses, prayer, sacrifice, and penance, remain fundamental characteristics of the devotion of Mary Rosa Mystica. We are to pray with perserverance and not seek to avoid sufferings. We are to do this on behalf of consecrated souls, and in particular for the conversion of consecrated souls who are unfaithful to their vocation; for the sactification of souls; and for an increase in the number of religious and priestly vocations. This purpose for the devotion was first suggested by Mary primarily for religious institutes, while remaining a proposal open to everyone.
8. Also characteristic of all these messages is the purpose of reparation for offenses against the sacrament of the Eucharist, against the name of God and of Jesus, against the privaleges of Mary, against the Church and the Pope, against the innocence of the young ones and of simple souls, against the sacredness of human life and the sancity of the family.
Naturally presupposed in all of these devotional practices is the obeservance of the Commandments, the practice of Christian virtues and first of all charity towards our neighbor.
Citation:
Galbiati, Mons. Enrico Rodolfo. Mary, the Rosa Mystica . Edited by Association of Rosa Mystica - Fontanelle >> Montichiari. Montichiari (Bs), Italia : Tipolitografia Pennati, 2007.