Solitary Soul

  THE ROSARY – GETTING CLOSER TO JESUS THROUGH MARY Mario D’Couto             We just celebrated the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary about a week ago and in as much as praying the rosary can seem a bit challenging to some (if not to most people), it is a prayer that is most cherished by Our Blessed Mother. No doubt there are many beautiful prayers in honour of Our Lady like the Angelus, the Memorare, the Litany of Loretto and so on but nothing quite matches up to the holy rosary. The rosary is not a single prayer but rather a collection of prayers with special significance, recited in a precise framework to the accompaniment of meditation on the mysteries of the life of our divine Saviour.             Non – Catholics may be surprised at the appeal of the rosary for on the surface, it may seem repetitious, wearisome and replete with possible distractions for the averag...

  THE STRUGGLE Mario D’Couto "I do not do the good I want, but do the evil I do not want" (Romans 7:19)              It’s been quite some time since I have posted anything for a while as I have relocated to a new area and was therefore caught up with it. I must say that relocating to a new area has challenged and pushed me out of my comfort zone. And yet there’s no growth when we don’t push ourselves. Going through the experience of relocating made me think as to why is it that we as humans struggle when we want to do away with those things we may not want to see in us, when we would like to change for the better but yet struggle with. From a Christian standpoint, we can attribute it to our fallen nature. As human beings, endowed with free will, the sense of morality is present within that enables us to distinguish between right from wrong, truth from error and yet while we know it and are aware of it, we act pretty mu...