Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Kibeho. Prayer of the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin Mary had asked Marie Claire to recite this rosary alone at least twice a week, especially on Tuesdays and Fridays. On Tuesday, because it is day when she appeared to her, and on Friday, because it is the day when all Christians are invited to meditate in a special way the passion of our Lord. Thereafter, the Blessed Virgin Mary asked her, on several occasions, to recite this Rosary aloud so that those who listen can also learn it.
The Rosary of Sorrows at Kibeho
It was on 3rd March 1982 that this Rosary was introduced at Kibeho, during the apparition when the Virgin Mary promised Marie-Claire Mukangango that she would teach her. The Virgin Mary taught this prayer to her children after repeatedly asking them (in the apparitions to Alphonsine and Nathalie) to accept the pain and to be converted without delay. The Rosary of the Sorrows was a reminder to help their hearts to feel the thirst to change and to be constantly converted. As Marie Claire explained it, the purpose of this Rosary is to help us to meditate on the passion of Jesus and the great Sorrows of his mother. When it is recited properly, it has the power to produce in the hearts the force to fear and run away from sin because it is sin which put Jesus Christ on the cross. Those who meditated on it properly found that they already had a force in themselves to act in a way which bore witness to their inner conversion. They found in themselves the thirst to meditate every day on the mysteries of the cross of Jesus, the liberator of all, and to join him in his suffering and that of his mother. To emphasise the importance of this Rosary, the Blessed Virgin Mary personally taught Marie Claire how to recite it. The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary