Imitate, Contain, Obtain, Promise: Our Ultimate Rosary Destiny

Throughout our Catholic lives, we are called to pray the Rosary often, if not every day. Surely this prayer has a profound purpose for all of us, but what could that be? Anyone can check any box for any reason, and a most blessed prayer such as this deserves far more than that.
Could we be fulfilling a habit with few if any purposes in mind other than to just get it done?
For author Rich Agnello, this Why? and How?, as opposed to its What?, can be seen in the Rosary’s final prayer: That by meditating upon its mysteries, we may “imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise.” These words are repeated so very often in our prayer life, and because the Rosary is a longer prayer, we can easily lose sight of the value of these four words at its very end.
In fact, Imitate, Contain, Obtain, and Promise may well be the Rosary’s four most important words. But with busyness and noise suffocating us incessantly in this day and age, who among the laity has the spiritual time to embrace all this?
Imitate, Contain, Obtain, Promise: Our Ultimate Rosary Destiny strives to do just that. It is author Rich Agnello’s desire to raise the common Catholic to the level of their personal relationship with Jesus through the spiritual prism of Mary.
Agnello cautions that this work is a lay theology guide, and not a clerical and certainly not an academic textbook. Like many devout Catholics, the author is a talented, well-educated, career-focused layman actively involved in his parish. However, for all of the faithful to grasp the meaning of Imitate, Contain, Obtain, and Promise, long-winded paragraphs from a “publish or perish” university culture will definitely miss the point.
Instead, the book applies these four words to a practical yet ever faithful holiness mindset, using shorter, more direct verbiage that is easier to spiritually digest and apply in daily living. This is extremely important since all of these concepts could be mathematically dissected almost a thousand diverse ways.
It is not at all Rich Agnello’s intent nor his desire to attempt that in Imitate, Contain, Obtain, Promise: Our Ultimate Rosary Destiny, but to do this instead:
When we apply these four main words to these Mysteries and these biblical truths,

• Who are we becoming?
• What is our deposit of faith?
• Where are we going? and,
• What is the hope that is assured to us all?