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Prophetizo Rosarii

Evangelium Secundum Joannem

21:11-12

11 Ascendit Simon Petrus et traxit rete in terram, plenum magnis piscibus centum quinquaginta tribus. Et cum tanti essent, non est scissum rete. 12 Dicit eis Jesus: Venite, prandete. Et nemo audebat discumbentium interrogare eum: Tu quis es? scientes, quia Dominus est.

(11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fishes, one hundred and fifty-three. And although there were so many, the net was not broken. 12 Jesus saith to them: Come, and dine. And none of them who were at meat, durst ask him: Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.)

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Our Lord, Iesu Christi, had promised Peter to make him a fisher of men and in fulfilling this, Our Lord led the apostles to draw in 153 fishes. It is no coincidence that the Holy Spirit inspired St. John to write this account foreshadowing the weapon that Our Lady was to give to us through St. Dominic, a weapon initially summoned to conquer the Albigensian heresy.

What was the Apostle St. John thinking when he wrote this chapter under the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit? The rosary had not been instituted by this time, and perhaps St. John was illumined and instructed of the future institution of the rosary, or perhaps this writing is more an act of obedience on St. John’s behalf guided by the Holy Spirit. And without a doubt, St. John could have chosen to write about another miracle, just as he states at the end of his book in chapter 21. Why does St. John stress that there were 153 fishes caught by means of a net? Our Lord didn't instruct the apostles to count the fishes, yet, St. John does state right after giving the total number of fishes that the net did not break. We could then safely and faithfully conclude that St. John’s main motivation for giving us the total number of fishes was to stress the miraculous strength of this net. This net withstood the weight, push, and drag of 153 fishes, and it did not break. Ultimately, these fishes were dragged to the shore where Our Lord, Iesu Christi, was waiting for the apostles. Surely, St. John could have not known the scope and prefigurement that this miracle signifies unless it was mystically revealed to him, for the rosary was given at a much later time to St. Dominic. 

A fishing net is a tool made up of rope tied and in a specific pattern, labor and skill are required to make a net. Similarly, the rosary is a tool made up of some type of rope or string and tied in a specific pattern. Both tools are made out of rope or some type of string. The net is used for a purely material purpose, and the rosary is used for a more transcendent and religious purpose. It would be pointless for the apostle St. John to specify that there were exactly 153 fishes caught, other than it was the intended purpose of the Holy Spirit and His holy will to foreshadow the rosary by this miraculous account. The rosary consists of a total of 153 Ave Marias which consists of the 10 Ave Marias for every one of the 15 decades,  you also have to count the first three Ave Marias done in the beginning prayed for the receiving and growing of the three theological virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity. 

In more recent times Our Lady has stressed the importance of praying the rosary and wearing the brown scapular in her apparitions in Fatima, Our Lady also reiterated in her apparitions in Garabandal-Spain and in her apparitions in Akita-Japan.

Let us do as Our Lady is instructing us: do penance, to pray the rosary daily, wear our brown scapular and kiss it daily, and spread these powerful devotions. The rosary is the weapon for these times of chastisement, we may then, as the apostle St. John, be part of a miracle which scope we could not conceive or foreshadow unless revealed to us. The rosary comparable to this miraculous net is a seemingly unattractive tool with a power and force that is incomprehensible to us. 

Our Lady is now at the shore with Our Lord instructing us to cast the net, let us pray the holy rosary devoutly.

Ad maiore Dei gloria