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Having therefore been thus justified and made the friends and domestics of God, advancing from virtue to virtue, they are renewed, as the Apostle says, day by day; that is , by mortifying the members of their own flesh, and by presenting them as instruments of justice unto sanctification, they, through the observance of the commandments of God and of the Church, faith co-operating with good works, increase in that justice which they have received through the grace of Christ, and are still further justified, as it is written; He that is just, let him be justified still; and again, Be not afraid to be justified even to death, and also,
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Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. And this increase of justification holy Church begs, when she prays, "Give unto us, O Lord, increase of faith, hope and charity."
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Mary is our model of faith, hope and charity. the Blessed Virgin Mary, full of grace, is the perfect model of Christian faith, hope and charity in God's created creatures.

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...newspaper beads ...
This weekend I had a little old lady in her 80's. She made rosaries in Germany during WW ll when there was precious little to make rosaries with - so, she made her rosaries out of little balls of rolled up newspaper with a little spittle, flour and water. When the newspaper balls were dry/hard, she sometimes painted them with "what ever I had" but frequently she had nothing to paint them with at all. 
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She said she used threads from burlap bags or flour sacks to thread her rosaries. She carved her own crucifixes from bone or made them from sticks, wood etc. Her grand-daughter who came to visit her said they all had several of these little newspaper ball rosaries, and cherished them so. 
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THIS was a succinct reminder to me that it is praying the rosary, living the rosary that is important ... shared by Nurse Jaye

... the rosaries we wear ...
Thank YOU.  I am making a rosary for my daughter, who is now in the Royal Court of the Southern California Renaissance Faire, playing a Catholic historical character, and I really was glad to find the period crucifix. The rosaries we wear and cherish as part of our Renaissance garb is a statement of our personal Christianity to the rest of the quite secular faire situation.  I look forward to receiving it.  Susan Abernethy (CA)

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