How can we recognize members of an adp-vv Group of Prayer?
First of all, they are amiable and spiritual people! But secondly, they should be wearing the green Rosary bracelet (ten green beads and a cross with the green V). We advise that they wear this as often as possible; as St. Francis of Assisi said, "whoever dies wearing the habit will be more blessed,” and this bracelet is a kind of “habit” for laypeople which indicates their participation in our charism and their willingness to belong, in a visible, outward way, to Mary and her adp-vv Marian prayer groups. Finally, the bracelet provokes curiosity, thus providing an occasion – “in season” or “out of season,” as the Apostle says (cf. 2 Tim 4:2) – to speak about Mary who leads us, through the meditations of the Rosary group, to Jesus and His Sacraments, especially Holy Confession and Holy Communion: which, in turn, bring us (if we are sincere) to eternal life!
The green rosary bracelet, a distinctive personal symbol of belonging to the adp-vv groups of prayer, is received immediately after signing the enrollment form, at the beginning of the six months of experience with the prayer group. (This time period is dedicated to discerning with certainty whether one is specifically being called, as a layperson, to become an official member of the groups of prayer; it lasts for six months on the basis of the Message of Our Lady of Fatima, who invited the shepherd children to come here (in Prayer and in the Sacrifice) for 6 consecutive months, and I will tell you who I am, and what I want from you (Fatima, 5-13-1917).
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