Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Esther, Our Lady of Fatima, Coming to the Rescue



Taken from the book, The Five First Saturdays (AMAIC, Sydney, 1994), pp. 68-73:



The Sixth Apparition: 13th of October


Torrential rain fell upon the 70,000 or more pilgrims who braved their way to the Cova da Iria on the 13th of October, to witness the promised miracle. But despite the fact that the rain had continued to fall, Lucia told the crowd: "You must close your umbrellas". The people obeyed and, in pelting rain, they prayed the Rosary. It was to be the day, also, when the Lady from Heaven would reveal Her identity to the three chil¬dren. Lucia had been careful never to name the heavenly Visitor, but always referred to Her as "the Lady", or "the beautiful Lady". Before the Lady arrived at the Cova da Iria that day, however, the children would be put through a testing time. For once, She did not come at the customary hour of noon. Nothing happened then: just more rain and cold and a crowd becoming restless. But for this, Her October apparition, Our Lady would be coming, not just for Portugal, but "that all the world may believe". Portuguese time was two hours ahead of solar time. So it was not until two o'clock, or solar noon, that Lucia raised her hands and cried: "She is coming!" Lucia opened the conversation, asking the Lady: "Madam, who are you, what do you want of me?” Our Lady replied: "I want to tell you to have a chapel built here in My honour. I am the Queen of the Holy Rosary. Continue praying the Rosary daily. The war is coming to an end and the soldiers will return to their homes soon”. Our Lady. Queen of the_Holv Rosary In Her apparitions leading up to Fatima, the Blessed Virgin Mary had chosen to appear in various guises, identifying Herself differently according to the circumstances. At Rue du Bac, She was Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal; at La Salette, Our Lady of Sorrows; at Lourdes, "I am the Immaculate Conception": at Pontmain, She was Our Lady of Hope. It was most fitting then that at Fatima, the apogĂ©e of Her visitations, the Blessed Virgin should come as Queen of the Holy Rosary. If the abun¬dant Rosary images in the Book of Esther were a clue to Her identification, much more would the situation of 1917 in Russia indicate that the Woman must enter this conflict in Her most powerful guise of Our Lady of the Rosary. The impending Communist takeover of Russia, with all its ramifications for the world, required a counter offensive from Heaven that would match its gravity. Our Lady of the Rosary was the perfect Agent for such an assignment; for always throughout history, at a time of great crisis and impending doom for Christendom, God's faithful had looked to the Mother of God under that title, to rescue them. Like Queen Esther, Our Lady of the Rosary is a Queen who wins great victories when the chips are down; when all seems lost for the cause of right. - Was it not Our Lady of the Rosary who, in response to the public praying of the Rosary recited at the urgent request of Pope St. Pius V, saved Christendom, so terribly threatened by the Turkish fleet, by bestowing Her glorious victory upon the Christian fleet at Lepanto on the 7th of October, 1571? - Was it not to Our Lady of the Rosary that was due the miraculous delivery of the city of Vienna, besieged by the Ottoman Turks in 1683? - More recently, did it not happen in Austria once again that the fervent appeal of a population praying the Rosary in a continuous crusade of prayer, obtained on the 13th of May, 1955, the retreat of the Soviet occupying forces from Austrian soil? Pope John Paul II’s Rosary If the recitation of the Rosary, and devotion to Our Lady invoked as Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, have been the cause of so many astoni¬shing miracles in the temporal or physical order, how many other marvels, even more prodigious, are not to be ascribed to this devotion in the order of Grace? Is it not told for instance, that St. Dominic converted 100,000 Albigensian heretics by leading them to a knowledge and love of the Mysteries of the holy Rosary? Many Saints have also testified that God, through the Rosary and the Scapular, will one day save the world. Considered in the context of the Esther story, there is something very significant in the fact that Our Lady of Fatima deliberately withheld Her true identity until this crucial moment - just before She performed Her great Miracle. For, when finally Queen Esther chose to reveal her nationality to the king, it too was at a crucial moment, and it helped Esther to turn the tide. From a comparison of the two scenarios, we can only conclude that the Queen of the Rosary will similarly snatch victory at a point in history when all seems lost. The Great Solar Miracle After the Lady had identified who She was, Lucia again asked Her if She would cure the sick, and convert the sinners who had been recommen¬ded to her. Our Lady replied: "I will cure or convert some of them. Others I will not. They must repent and beg pardon for their sins". Then, with a look of grief and in a suppliant tone of voice, She added: "Men must not offend God any more for He is already very much offended". And opening Her hands Our Lady, as She was rising to go away, projected beams of light onto the sun. Lucia cried: "Look at the sun!" And suddenly, as the crowd looked upwards, the clouds opened and exposed the blue sky with the sun at its zenith. But this sun did not dazzle. The people could look directly at it. It was like a shining silver plate. Then the sun trembled. It made some abrupt movements. It began to spin like a wheel of fire. Great shafts of coloured light flared out from its centre in all directions, colouring in a most fantastic manner the clouds, trees, rocks, earth, and even the clothes and faces of the people gathered there, in alternating splashes of red, yellow, green, blue and violet - the full spectrum of rainbow colours. After about five minutes the sun stopped revolving in this fashion. A moment later, it resumed a second time its incredible motion, throwing out its light and colour like a huge display of fireworks. And once more, after a few minutes, the sun stopped its prodigious dance. After a short stop and for the third time, it resumed its spinning and fantastic colours. The crowd gazed spellbound. Then came the awful climax. The sun seemed to be falling from the sky. Zig-zagging from side to side, it plunged down towards the crowd below, sending out a heat increasingly intense, and causing the spectators to believe that this was indeed the end of the world. People stood wild-eyed, or sank to their knees in the mud, as the sun rushed towards them. A desperate cry went up from the crowd, begging God, or the Blessed Virgin Mary, for mercy, asking pardon for sins. The sun halted, stopping short in its precipitous fall, and then climbed back to its place in the sky, where it regained its normal brilliance. Then the dazed people, who had just experienced the wonder of the age - or what Cardinal Laraona would later call "the greatest Divine intervention since the time of our Lord" ("SOUL", Sep-Oct, 1990, p.6) - found that another miracle had occurred. This apocalyptic scene, full of majesty and terror, had ended with a delicate gift, which showed the motherly tenderness of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for Her children. Their sodden clothes were dry and comfortable, without a trace of mud and rain. But there was another aspect to Our Lady’s Miracle that only the three children witnessed. Corresponding to the three distinct movements of the sun, separated by the moments of pause, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco saw three distinct tableaux representing, successively, the Joyful, the Sorrowful and the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. In the first tableau they saw the three members of the Holy Family; with Our Lady of the Rosary, to the right of the sun and more brilliant than the sun, wearing a white dress and a blue mantle. To the left, dressed in red, was St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus blessing the world. Next, Our Divine Lord appeared as a grown man, lovingly blessing the world. To the left was Our Lady of Sorrows, clad in purple. Finally, Our Lady of Sorrows was replaced by Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the Scapular in Her hand. The Miracle of the sun at Fatima, therefore, was absolutely a Rosary miracle. It seemed even to move to the pulse and rhythm of a Rosary being recited. Its approximately fifteen minutes' duration might have also been intended to represent one of the conditions of the Five First Saturday devotion: fifteen minutes meditation on the Mysteries of the Rosary, while keeping Our Lady company. Full of Scriptural Imagery All in one, the great Miracle of the 13th of October, 1917, incor¬porated some of the most spectacular elements of renowned Old Testament miracles. Fr. Smolenski (Op cit., 11-12) has compared Noah's time for instance, when it rained for forty days and nights, with Fatima on that day, when everything was drenched with rain. The dove with the branch indica¬ted that the storm had subsided; Our Lady's presence over the holm-oak tree was Heaven's peace. The Ark landed on solid earth: Fatima was dry because of the miracle. God re-established the covenant of peace by means of Noah; Our Lady asked that Consecration be made to Her Immaculate Heart. The rainbow became the sign of peace: the whole area of the Fatima miracle reflected all the colours of the rainbow during the sun's dance. "As Noah's sons inherited the covenant of peace, brought to mind by the presence of the rainbow, so Mary, Image of the Church as the servant of God, would have her children be the bearers of her peace to a re-energized and re-evangelized creation". Other comparisons with Old Testament miracles appear in "Soul" magazine (Sep-Oct, 1990, p.6). For instance, the sun's leaving the entire area dry at the Cova da Iria reminds one of the dry path through the Red Sea. Or there is Joshua's own solar miracle when, at his command, the sun gave its light two hours after sunset. Again, reminiscent of the sun's fall, was Elijah's calling down of fire from the sky as a challenge to the pagan priests. (Elijah is already linked to the Carmelites and the Scapular due to his association with Mount Carmel and his miraculous mantle). Finally, we could add to these the miraculous alteration affected on the sundial, as caused by Isaiah for the benefit of king Hezekiah. Pope Pius XII, instituting the feast of 'The Queenship of Mary' with his encyclical "Ad Caeli Reginam" in 1954, likened Our Lady to the rainbow in the Genesis account of Noah and in Ecclesiasticus: "Is She not a rainbow in the clouds, reaching towards God, a promise of peace? (Cf. Genesis 9:13). 'Look upon the rainbow, and bless Him that made it; it is very beautiful in its brightness. It encompasses the heaven about with the circle of its glory, the hands of the Most High have displayed it' (Ecclesiasticus 43:11-12)". But undoubtedly, more than anything else it is the stupendous character of the Miracle of the Sun - coupled with the fact that it had been predicted to the very hour, months in advance - that sets Fatima apart from all the Old Testament manifestations of God, and even from the preceding Marian apparitions. Pope Paul VI referred to it simply as 'Signum Magnum', 'The Great Sign'. ….



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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Miracle of the Sun - Fatima 1917


The Miracle of the Sun occurred October 13, 1917 in Fatima, Portugal. It occurred during the last Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. This miracle was witnessed by between 70,00 and 100, 000 people. Many there that day confessed, they thought it was the end of the World. Others were convinced the whole world would repent and convert. Bob and Penny Lord gave us a good account of the "Miracle of the Sun," in their book "The Many Faces of Mary." We post a short article from their book here.

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The Miracle of the Sun by Bob and Penny Lord

Our Lady of Fatima said, “Yes, in October I will perform a Miracle.” Then Our Lady disappeared. There is a beautiful eyewitness account written by a priest, some 15 years after this day. He had been to the Cova da Iria on the 13th of September, 1917. His name is Monsignor John Quaresma. “AT MIDDAY, THERE WAS COMPLETE SILENCE. ONE ONLY HEARD THE MURMUR OF PRAYERS. SUDDENLY THERE WERE SOUNDS OF JUBILATION AND VOICES PRAISING THE BLESSED VIRGIN. ARMS WERE RAISED POINTING TO SOMETHING IN THE SKY. ‘LOOK, DON’T YOU SEE? ‘YES, ;YES, I DO...’ I TOO RAISED MY EYES AND SCRUTINIZED IT IN CASE I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH WHAT THE OTHERS, MORE FORTUNATE THAN I, HAD ALREADY CLAIMED TO HAVE SEEN...WITH GREAT ASTONISHMENT I SAW, CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY, A LUMINOUS GLOBE, WHICH MOVED FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST, GLIDING SLOWLY AND MAJESTICALLY THROUGH SPACE. MY FRIEND, (A PRIEST), ALSO LOOKED AND HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO ENJOY THE SAME UNEXPECTED AND DELIGHTFUL VISION. SUDDENLY THE GLOBE, WITH ITS EXTRAORDINARY LIGHT, DISAPPEARED. ‘WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE GLOBE?’ I ASKED MY FRIEND, WHO SEEMED ENTHUSIASTIC AT WHAT HE HAD SEEN. ‘THAT IT WAS OUR LADY’, HE REPLIED WITHOUT HESITATION.” October 12 was a night filled with rage. We can picture in our mind’s eye, the powers of Heaven and hell, battling violently for possession of the earth and its inhabitants. Satan had his way with the weather. He created a vicious storm over the entire continent of Europe. He didn’t want to take chances that anyone would come to Fatima on that fateful day. God, for His part, filled His children with such a burning desire to witness the promised Miracle, that nothing could stop them. They were willing to die for the privilege of whatever the Mother Of God had in store for them. There were reports that the villages in the surrounding area, indeed as far as a hundred miles away, were deserted. All the inhabitants had left to go to the little Cova da Iria in Fatima. The roads, which Lucifer had turned to mud, were filled with peasants, some walking, others trying to ride bicycles, a favored few with horses, automobiles and motorcycles. Torrents of rain pelleted the pilgrims. Everyone who came had to sleep out in the open, because there were no facilities in this little farming village. They tried as best they could to protect themselves from the satanic attack of weather. They were committed. Their eyes looked straight ahead to their final destination. Their mouths uttered silent prayers of the Rosary, their Rosary Beads slowly cascading from their soaked fingers. The estimate is that anywhere between 70,000 and 100,000 people came to Fatima that day. There was a great contrast in attitude between the Pilgrims to the shrine and the local people of Aljustrel, in particular Lucia’s mother, who didn’t share the faith of the thousands that Our Lady would keep her promise. She wasn’t even that sure that the Lady had ever come. She was sure that she and her family, Lucia in particular, and her niece and nephew, Jacinta and Francisco, would all be killed when the Miracle did not take place. However, something told her to be with her child, so she went to the Cova da Iria that day, confident that it would be her last. Considering the enormous amount of humanity at the cramped, little area of the Cova, the behavior was outstanding. For the most part, there was peace and tranquility about everyone who came. They didn’t speak to each other very much. They mostly prayed. These were the serious pilgrims. They had a reason to be there. They had struggled and sacrificed to come. They were not about to let anything interfere with their goal. In addition, there were indeed the non-believers, the doubting Thomases; we are certain that deep down in their souls, they desperately wanted to believe. They just had to be shown. Why not? Aren’t we all that way? Don’t we all need the sign and symbol? There were newspaper reporters from all over Portugal. They were here to see the children fall flat on their faces. They wanted to be able to write about the hoax of Fatima firsthand. They believed that would be the greatest news story of all. What they were given was a much greater story, one that would continue to be told for the next 70 years, and then some. With all of the above, it becomes increasingly clear why this was such an important day, and why the battle raged between the powers of light and darkness to have their way. This was an opportunity for great conversion. It was also a tool for Lucifer to cause Our Lady and the Church to suffer a crushing defeat. Because of this, Satan used every trick he had at his disposal. Rumor has it that there was not one demon left in hell that cold, rainy October day. They were all in Fatima, trying to turn the tide, and create disaster. Rumor also has it that every guardian Angel in Heaven was working a double shift that day, with St. Michael in charge, moving at lightning speed from place to place, and person to person, to foil every attempt of his deadly enemy, Satan, to ruin the day. Lucifer’s wicked weapon of weather continued on, pounding the entire assemblage with great torrents of rain, right up to the last minute. There is also a story of a man believed to be a priest, who had stationed himself near the place of the Apparitions the night before. When the children arrived at the appointed time, the man kept looking at his watch. He asked Lucia what time Our Lady would come. She answered “At Midday.” He replied, “It’s past noon now. Our Lady would not tell an untruth.” He then tried to push the children out of the place, telling them to go home, that the charade was over. At that instant, Lucia pointed to the east, and exclaimed: “LOOK, SHE’S COMING NOW!” The man disappeared, and was never seen again. Everybody went down on their knees. The now familiar flash of lightning streaked through the sky. The little cloud moved slowly towards the holmoak tree. She was here. The Lady spoke first to Lucia, telling her to continue saying the Rosary every day for the end of the war, and to have a chapel built in this place. But she was really here this time for the people. This was her greatest opportunity. At a given point, Our Lady raised her hand in the direction of the sun. The brilliant light emanating from her hand shot up into the sky. As if the clouds were the curtains of a great stage, they parted, revealing the brilliant sun. Lucia shouted “LOOK AT THE SUN” It turned from a blinding gold to a dull silver. It began to dance in the sky. It twirled uncertainly on its axis. Then it began to descend on the people. It grew bigger and bigger as it came down on them. Streaks of varied colors shot out like sparks from a wheel, covering the people, causing changes of color on their faces and clothes. Reds, yellows, blues, greens hurled down onto the little Cova. “IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD” “FORGIVE ME MY SINS”. There were reports of open confessions, shouted at the top of the lungs of the sinners. They thought the Lord was taking His final vengeance on them. And then it stopped. A command was given from Heaven; the sun moved slowly back, up into the sky. It returned to its proper place in the atmosphere, and at once turned from dull to brilliant. The pilgrims could not look directly into it again. A great hush took place on earth. The 70,000 were stunned. They had been saved, but they weren’t quite certain about it yet. Then they began to look around them. Their clothes, soaking wet moments before, were completely dry. The mud which had caked on them, was gone. They were clean. Then from various parts of the assemblage, voices rang out, “I CAN WALK!!” “I CAN SEE!” The blind opened their eyes; the lame threw down their crutches. Others went down on their knees in tears of reconciliation. Mass miracles, cures and conversions took place in a period of minutes. The children didn’t actually take part in this miracle. They were being given special gifts from Our Lady. They saw St. Joseph with the Child Jesus, Our Lady of the Dolors, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel with the Scapular hanging from her hands, and Our Dear Lord Jesus blessing the people at the Cova da Iria. The children were saved. Our Lady, as usual, had kept her promise, and more. The number of conversions due to this miracle, called THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN’, is beyond comprehension. Lucia looked around her, noticing for the first time all that was happening at the Cova. She could hear the sobs of joy, the shouts of thanksgiving from those cured of illnesses and deformities. She turned quickly towards Our Lady, who was beginning to fade away. Their eyes met that one last time. A sweet smile broke out on the face of the Lady. Lucia began to cry. Without saying a word, just by looking at Lucia, Mary told her it was not over for them. In that final exchange of glances, their bond was sealed. They would see each other again. Then she left. The little cloud slowly moved back toward its final destination. Lucia watched every movement of the cloud, hoping Mary would come back again, though she knew she would not. A single tear ran down her face. Then she smiled. She knew. The finale of this great series of Heavenly apparitions by the Queen of Heaven, under the title of the Queen of the Rosary, catapulted into motion, a movement which, though slow in beginning, has emcompassed the entire world. The message of the children of Fatima, the pleas of Our Lady, and the promises of Fatima have been repeated to and embraced by everyone she has touched. A new generation of believers, people like us who were not born when Our Lady gave us this gift, have become completely enthralled by the power of Jesus and the love of Mary, as revealed to us at Fatima.

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Pray the Rosary Daily for World Peace

The Fatima Message


Fatima is a call from the Mother of God for a renewed fidelity to penance and prayer, which basically is the message of the Gospel. Too, it brings out the desire of Our Lord that His Mother be better known, loved and venerated through devotion to her Immaculate Heart.

THE REQUESTS OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY OF FATIMA

  1. THE DAILY ROSARY FOR PEACE:
    "Pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace in the world . . . for she alone can save it." (Our Lady, July 13, 1917)
    "God has placed peace in her hands, and it is from the Immaculate Heart that men must ask it." (Jacinta, shortly before her death)
    "When you pray the Rosary, say after each mystery: 'O Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who have most need of your mercy.' "(June 13, 1917)
      (Every Rosary increases Mary's power to crush the head of the Serpent and to destroy his evil power in the world.)
  2. DEVOTION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY:
    "Jesus wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. I promise salvation to those who embrace it."(June 13, 1917)
    1. FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTIONS,which include:
        • reception of Holy Communion, and Confession (within 8 days before or after)
        • pray five decades of the Rosary
        • spend 15 minutes in meditation on the mysteries of the Rosary.
        (All the above to be offered up in reparation for sins and ingratitude against the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady.)
    2. OFFERING IN REPARATION THE SACRIFICES, TRIALS AND CROSSES OF LIFE, especially those sacrifices involved in keeping God's Commandments, and in fulfilling the duties of one's state in life - offering them through the Immaculate Heart of Mary in reparation to the Divine Majesty so offended by sin, and for the conversion of sinners.
      "Sacrifice yourselves for sinners and say often whenever you make a sacrifice: 'O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.' " (Our Lady, July 13, 1917)
      "Pray much and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to hell because there is no one to make sacrifices for them." (Our Lady, August 19, 1917)
    3. CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY. Any formula may be used which expresses a sincere confiding of oneself without reserve.

The Fatima Message:


Devotion of the Five First Saturdays
Why Five Saturdays?
Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Fatima-A True Perspective
Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
To Jesus through Mary
The Rosary (with Meditations)
Mary's Call to Prayer and Penance
Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Fatima Prayers
Hymns
Rosary Confraternity
Taken from: http://www.rosary-center.org/fatima.htm

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Our Lady of the Rosary, October 7th

 Our Lady's 15 Promises

for Praying the Rosary


Besides the Indulgences attached to the Rosary, Our Lady revealed to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche additional benefits for those who devoutly pray the Rosary. Our Lady's promise is shown in darker blue text. Additional explanation on and doctrinal connections to each promise is shown following in the smaller normal text font and color. Note that the Rosary is the prayer (non-Liturgical) with the most published Magisterial / Papal documents expounding on its excellence. Vatican II's summary on Our Lady is contained in Lumen Gentium chapter VIII.
1.Whosoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.Signal Graces are those special and unique Graces to help sanctify us in our state in life. See the remaining promises for an explanation for which these will consist. St. Louis de Montfort states emphatically that the best and fastest way to union with Our Lord is via Our Lady [True Devotion to Mary, chapter four].
2.I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.Our Lady is our Advocate and the channel of all God's Grace to us. Our Lady is simply highlighting that She will watch especially over us who pray the Rosary. (see Lumen Gentium chapter VIII - Our Lady #62) [a great more detail is available on this topic in True Devotion to Mary, chapter four, by St. Louis de Montfort]
3.The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin and defeat heresies.This promise, along with the next, is simply the reminder on how fervent prayer will help us all grow in holiness by avoiding sin, especially a prayer with the excellence of the Rosary. An increase in holiness necessarily requires a reduction in sin, vice, and doctrinal errors (heresies). If only the Modernists could be convinced to pray the Rosary! (see Lumen Gentium chapter V - The Call to Holiness #42) St. Louis de Montfort states "Since Mary alone crushed all heresies, as we are told by the Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit (Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary)..." [True Devotion to Mary #167]
4.It will cause good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for Eternal Things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.This promise, along with the previous, is the positive part, that being to live in virtue. Becoming holy is not only avoiding sin, but also growing in virtue. (see Lumen Gentium chapter V - The Call to Holiness #42)
5.The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.Since Our Lady is our Mother and Advocate, She always assists those who call on Her implicitly by praying the Rosary. The Church reminds us of this in the Memorare prayer, "... never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession, was left unaided ..."
6.Whosoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of Eternal Life.This promise highlights the magnitude of Graces that the Rosary brings to whomever prays it. One will draw down God's Mercy rather than His Justice and will have a final chance to repent (see promise #7). One will not be conquered by misfortune means that Our Lady will obtain for the person sufficient Graces to handle said misfortune (i.e. carry the Crosses allowed by God) without falling into despair. As Sacred Scripture tells us, "For my yoke is sweet and my burden light." (Matthew 11:30)
7.Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.This promise highlights the benefits of obtaining the most possible Graces at the hour of death via the Sacraments of Confession, Eucharist, and Extreme Unction (Anointing of the Sick). Being properly disposed while receiving these Sacraments near death ensures one's salvation (although perhaps with a detour through Purgatory) since a final repentance is possible.
8.Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the Light of God and the plenitude of His Graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the Merits of the Saints in Paradise.Our Lady highlights the great quantity of Graces obtain through praying the Rosary, which assist us during life and at the moment of death. The merits of the Saints are the gift of God's rewards to those persons who responded to His Grace that they obtained during life, and so Our Lady indicates that She will provide a share of that to us at death. With this promise and #7 above, Our Lady is providing the means for the person to have a very holy death.
9.I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.Should one require Purgatorial cleansing after death, Our Lady will make a special effort to obtain our release from Purgatory through Her intercession as Advocate.
10.The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of Glory in Heaven.This promise is a logical consequence of promises #3 and #4 since anyone who truly lives a holier life on earth will obtain a higher place in Heaven. The closer one is to God while living on earth, the close that person is to Him also in Heaven. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states "Spiritual progress tends toward ever more union with Christ." (Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 2014)
11.You shall obtain all you ask of me by recitation of the Rosary.This promise emphasizes Our Lady's role as our Advocate and Mediatrix of all Graces. Of course, all requests are subject to God's Most Perfect Will. God will always grant our request if it is beneficial for our soul, and Our Lady will only intercede for us when our request is good for our salvation. (see Lumen Gentium chapter VIII - Our Lady #62)
12.All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.If one promotes the praying of the Rosary, Our Lady emphasizes Her Maternal care for us by obtaining many Graces (i.e. spiritual necessities) and also material necessities (neither excess nor luxury), all subject to the Will of God of course.
13.I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.Since Our Lady is our Advocate, She brings us additional assistance during our life and at our death from all the saints in Heaven (the Communion of Saints). See paragraphs 954 through 959 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
14.All who recite the Rosary are my Sons, and brothers of my Only Son Jesus Christ.Since the Rosary is a most excellent prayer focused on Jesus and His Life and activities in salvation history, it brings us closer to Our Lord and Our Lady. Doctrinally, Our Lady is our Mother and Jesus is our Eldest Brother, besides being our God. (see Lumen Gentium chapter VIII - Our Lady #62)
15.Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.Predestination in this context means that, by the sign which is present to a person from the action of devoutly praying the Rosary, God has pre-ordained your salvation. Absolute certainty of salvation can only be truly known if God reveals it to a person because, although we are given sufficient Grace during life, our salvation depends upon our response to said Grace. (See Summa Theologica, Question 23 for a detailed theological explanation). Said another way, if God has guaranteed a person's salvation but has not revealed it to Him, God would want that person to pray the Rosary because of all the benefits and Graces obtained. Therefore the person gets a hint by devotion to the Rosary. This is not to say that praying the Rosary guarantees salvation - by no means. In looking at promises #3 and #4 above, praying the Rosary helps one to live a holy life, which is itself a great sign that a soul is on the road to salvation. (See also paragraphs 381, 488, 600, 2782 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.) In fact, St. Louis de Montfort says even more strongly that "an infallible and unmistakable sign by which we can distinguish a heretic, a man of false doctrine, an enemy of God, from one of God's true friends is that the hardened sinner and heretic show nothing but contempt and indifference to Our Lady..." [True Devotion to Mary, #30]
Reminder: these promises mean that, by faithfully and devoutly praying the Rosary, Our Lady will obtain for us the necessary Graces to obtain said promises. It is still up to each individual soul to respond to those Graces in order to obtain salvation.

Taken from: http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/prayer/15promise.htm