To “Pray it forward” by praying the rosary daily, dwelling on the life of Christ with the heart of Mary, and understanding the relevance of His life and example in today’s world, imitating his example, thereby helping others to know and follow Him.
“A world at prayer is a world at peace.” Fr. Patrick Peyton
"Love Our Lady and make her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as often as possible."
–Padre Pio
Mary, in her apparations, especially at Lourdes and Fatima has asked us to pray the rosary daily! How can we refuse our Blessed Mother?
Did you know that the rosary is the second greatest prayer in the world? What is the greatest prayer? The Mass!
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The Month of the Holy Family
The Holy Family models for us what family life should exemplify. It is a school of virtue for both parents and children. There we find God, and learn how to connect with God and with others. The family is where love is freely given without self-interest. It is where we learn to love, to pray and to practice the gift of charity.
Pope John Paul II tells us that “At the extraordinary school of the Holy Family we learn the essential realities of life and acquire a deeper understanding of what it means to follow Christ.” We are invited “to grow in love of the divine truth that radiates from Christ’s humanity” and safeguard “Christ who is present in every human person.”
Thoughts to reflect upon:
Does our family a model the Holy Family?
Do we pray together as a family?
Do we model forgiveness in our family?
Do we talk about and share our faith as a family?
Brother Francis has an entertaining and guidance-filled cartoon that will inspire children to deepen their faith by praying the Rosary! The Rosary is a captivating way to help children use their hearts and minds in prayer. Click below to watch.
Heavenly Father, you have given us a model of life in the Holy Family of Nazareth.
Help us, O Loving Father, to make our family another Nazareth where love, peace and joy reign.
May it be deeply contemplative, intensely Eucharistic and vibrant with joy.
Help us to stay together in joy and sorrow through family prayer.
Teach us to see Jesus in the members of our family, especially in their distressing disguise.
May the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus make our hearts meek and humble like His, and help us to carry out our family duties in a holy way.
May we love one another as God loves each one of us, more and more each day, and forgive each other’s faults as you forgive our sins.
Help us, O Loving Father, to take whatever you give and to give whatever you take, with a big smile.
Help us, O Holy Father, to make our families one heart, full of love, in the Heart of Jesus through Mary.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, cause of our joy, pray for us. St. Joseph, pray for us. Holy Guardian Angels, be always with us, guide and protect us.
Amen.
-- St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The rosary is a meditative and intentional form of prayer so, each evening our group prays for the intentions below and for any special intentions requested that evening.
Fill in the form below to request the chapet for someone who is actively dying. Why do we pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet? Below are the words Jesus spoke to St. Faustina. The numbers in parenthese reference paragraphs in her diary.
Encourage souls to say the Chaplet which I have given you (1541). Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death (687). When they say this Chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying person, not as the Just Judge but as the Merciful Savior (1541). Priests will recommend it to sinners as their last hope of salvation. Even if there were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this Chaplet only once, he would receive grace from My infinite mercy (687). I desire to grant unimaginable graces to those souls who trust in My mercy (687).
Mary has made 15 promises to those who pray the Rosary. They are listed below.
Ask anyone who has been praying the Rosary and they will share with you some of the ‘signal graces’ they have received.
Join us every day or whenever you can make time to pray with us!
1. Whosoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
[A signal grace may be a simple sign in daily life that answers a question made in prayer or points towards God’s will. For example, seeing a rose after finishing a novena to St. Therese of Lisieux could be considered a signal grace. Signal graces are often subtle or seemingly coincidental.]
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin and defeat heresies.
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!
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
[In other words, anyone who faithfully prays the Rosary and asks for Mary’s intercession will be saved from hell.]
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.
[An unprovided death means dying while not in a state of grace (that is, in dying with unconfessed mortal sin in the soul). The Blessed Mother promises that anyone who regularly prays the Rosary, and earnestly tries to live according to God's will, will be spiritually prepared when their time of death comes.]
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
[Our Lady ensures that the soul will receive sanctifying grace through the Sacraments prior to its departure from the body.]
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.
9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of Glory in Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by recitation of the Rosary.
12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
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.
14. All who recite the Rosary are my Sons, and brothers of my Only Son Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
[By this the Blessed Mother means that a devotion to the Rosary is a good indication that the devotee is on the path to Heaven.]