Friendship

“Just as two friends, frequently in each other’s company, tend to develop similar habits, so too, by holding familiar converse with Jesus and the Blessed Virgin, by meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary and by living the same life in Holy Communion, we can become, to the extent of our lowliness, similar to them and can learn from these supreme models a life of humility, poverty, hiddenness, patience and perfection.” ~Blessed Bartolo Longo, as quoted in Rosarium Virginis Mariae (The Rosary of the Virgin Mary), of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, To the Bishops, Clergy nad Faithful of the Most Holy Rosary, October 16, 2002