Story:Under this title Mary appeared on Montichiari in Northern Italy in 1947. She appeared there six more times. During the seventh apparition, miraculous healings occurred. Maria Rosa Mystica has appeared eight more times in other locations.
Symbols: white cloths, three roses on her breast (one white, one gold, and one red)
Offerings: white, red, and gold roses, white, red, and gold candles, prayers
Holy Places:
Montichiari in Northern Italy
Rosa Mystica House of Prayer in Edmeston, New York, USA
Prayers:
Rosa Mystica, Immaculate Virgin, Mother of Grace, in honor of your Divine Son, we prostrate ourselves at your feet to implore God’s mercy. We beg for help and grace, not relying on any merit of ours, but on the Kindness of your motherly heart, and confident that you will grant our urgent requests. Hail Mary …
To be prayed on the twelve days before her feast
Mystical Rose, be thou blessed, Mother of Divine Grace. Thou hast given to the whole of mankind thy divine Son, Jesus Christ, the Author of Grace. Mystical Rose, be thou ever blessed! Thy Divine Son, when dying upon the cross, obtained grace for us and thou didst co-operate with Him in this, when the sword pierced Thy soul.
Mystical Rose, be thou ever blessed! Thou were chosen by the Heavenly Father to be the mistress of His treasures, stewardess and distributor of all His graces.
Mystical Rose, our mother! Turn loving eyes upon the millions of human kind. We beg thee, we implore thee, we beseech thee, let all obtain the grace of God through holy Baptism, the sacrament of Reconciliation and all the other sacraments.
Mystical Rose, Mother of Divine Grace, let us all attain to the house of the Heavenly Father, for we are all Thy children and the children of God. Look upon my soul, which through sin is so poor and unworthy.
Mystical Rose, thou givest to whom thou willest. Thou givest when and as much as thou willest. I trust in thee; I open my heart to thee. Let thy light irradiate my soul. Make Thy motherly love cause my indifferent heart to glow. Fill me with Thy joy, Thy humility and Thy peace! Mystical Rose, thou acceptest that thou art a mother with a special care for all those children who most require thy help. And so I seek thy help in all my bodily and spiritual needs. Very particularly I beg thee for the following grace …
Mystical Rose, thou art the mother of Jesus Christ and the mother of Divine Grace, Thou art the Mother of Mercy and the Mother of Life. Thou art our kind mother and our hope. Enclose me in Thy Immaculate Heart and hear my prayer. Amen.Mystical Rose, pray to Jesus for us! (Three times)
Salve Regina … Hail Holy Queen …
1. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary and she conceived by the Holy Spirit. Hail Mary …
2. Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to Thy Word. Hail Mary …
3. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us. Hail Mary …
Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray. Pour forth, we beseech thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to whom the incarnation of Thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may by His passion and cross be brought to His glorious resurrection, through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen
hi! i’m willow, a death witch who’s been practicing magic for about as long as i can remember, with active participation for ten years and the claiming of the name witch for three-ish years. i can never remember dates accurately, but suffice to say magic has been imbued in my life since day one.
i wanted to give y’all an introduction to what i practice as a folk witch/christian descendant. i’m not claiming to be a christian witch or christopagan, but i’m trying to illustrate the folk christianity my family handed down to me.
in particular, i received this tradition from both sides of grandparents. my paternal grandfather came from the hills of west virginia, while my maternal grandparents came from ohio, and all of their families were deep in appalachia. my grandfather was more of a loose christian, while my maternal grandparents were heavily spiritual and involved in their own syncretic magic (although they’d never call it that.)
what is syncretic folk religion?
syncreticism refers to the blending of multiple practices. my grandmother (who i’ll be talking about most) was catholic in name, but believed in spirits, ghosts, spooks, and magic. think of your family superstitions – that’s your own form of magic, in my experience.
folk religion refers to the practices of small groups which form their own culture and religion in the name of other religions. my grandmother may have been called a christian, but she had to live in harmony with the desperation of urban poverty in the great depression as a child, and had to make her own way through the world without the help of anyone else. her religion naturally grew from that. she was not adherent to any form of christianity but her own.
why are you not a christian?
simply, i don’t follow christianity – i follow a folk version of christianity. i can go further in depth about my relationship to Christ and the other christian figures, but suffice to say for now i am not a christian.
what do you do as part of this practice?
a lot of what i consider to be magic in this tradition is the practice of life. for example, have you ever spit on a broom that hit you? that’s supposed to protect you from going to prison. have you twisted an apple stem until it broke, telling you who you’ll marry some day? have you taken food to your neighbors when they’re in need, fed your loved ones after loss, or visited graves and tended to the ones that aren’t connected to you by family but lived and died in the same place? these are all folk superstitions and practices that have survived from my converted ancestors.
here is a list of ways my catholic/christian ancestors have steeped me in magic:
superstition. appalachian folk magic has a lot of superstitions, like beating a rock with a wet rag to bring rain or the aforementioned spitting on the broom.
guidance. my family has always turned to spirits, and in some cases angels, for help.
folk healing. this is a big part of why i am studying herbalism – from tobacco on bee stings to whiskey for toothaches, doctors were too expensive so we found our own remedies, and i am reclaiming that knowledge.
bible inspired magic. from ezekiel 16:5 healing wounds to the lord’s prayer healing alcoholism, a built-in religious framework provides me with guidance when i need it and help when i seek it.
relationship mores. there are a set of norms that go along with folk christianity about how you treat others. this ties heavily into death, relating to how you express condolences (casseroles and baked goods, sitting with the deceased, comforting loved ones), how you treat the dead (my uncle carried my grandfather’s body to the transport for the morgue, you can ease the passage of the dead with your eulogy by tying up unfinished matters), and how you relate to those who have passed (sitting on the grave, speaking to them through prayer).
spiritual knowledge. even if i don’t follow the bible’s teaching or believe in Christ, i get the robust text of the bible to base my practice in.
this is just my experience with folk christianity! i hope it’s illuminating!
(in descending order of rank in the angelic hierarchy)
Seraphim (singular ‘seraph’) are described as having six wings; two used to cover their face, two used to cover their feet, and two to fly. They also have a strong association with fire and may therefore be depicted as being on fire.
Cherubim (singular ‘cherub’) have four faces: one of a man, one of an ox, one of a lion, and one of an eagle. They have four conjoined wings, each of which are covered in hundreds of eyes. They have the body of a lion and the feet of an ox, and human hands.
Ophanim (singular ‘ophan’), also known as Thrones, are two adjacent blue-green wheel-within-a-wheels with hundreds of eyes covering their rims. They are also on fire. Ophanim often house the souls of Cherubim, and are therefore usually seen accompanying them.
Dominions, also known as Hashmallim (singular ‘hashmal’) or Lordships, are the only angels described as appearing as beautiful humans with a single pair of wings.
Virtues, then Authorities, come after Dominions, but neither are described in any detail.
Principalities, also known as Rulers, are described as wearing a crown and carrying a scepter of light. Not much description of their physical form is given, however.
Archangels have been frequently depicted as winged humans, but Biblical reactions to their appearances suggest that their real appearance is much more terrifying.
Angels, the lowest and largest class of angel, are described as having immensely varied forms, and so may come in all shapes and sizes,
It’s also worth remembering that most angels, in their true forms, are immensely large, and in some cases it would take several year’s journey on foot to travel from the top to the bottom of one. Also, most angels are quite luminous, and some are outright Lovecraftian in that gazing upon them may lead to blindness or insanity.
Rose petals have been used for centuries to create beautiful, fragrant beads for rosaries and necklaces. Only the most fragrant varieties of roses are used for these beads. The traditional cooking …
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