Month of the Rosary

Attending daily mass and praying the rosary daily are most satisfying and worthwhile.

As this is the month of the rosary, here is an article about the rosary from Bishop Wenski of Orlando, Florida.

An excerpt.

“Since the time of Pope Leo XIII, the Month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary. For generations, the recitation of the Rosary was an integral part of their Catholic piety. The famous “Rosary Priest”, Father Peyton, encouraged families to pray the rosary together at home by telling them that the family that prays together stays together. In recent years, however, many Catholics – to their spiritual impoverishment – abandoned the practice of praying the rosary. Some found it “too old fashioned”, and others found it just too hard.

“Yet, in the contemplative prayer that is the recitation of the Rosary, Mary has given us a simple yet powerful weapon for the spiritual warfare that is part of our daily life in this “valley of tears.” It is not a weapon of violence or intimidation but rather one of peace and healing for praying the rosary leads us to a more intimate relationship with the Mother of Mercy, our Life, our Sweetness, and our Hope. In a world still threatened by weapons of mass destruction, we have in the rosary – as Mary indicated to the shepherd children of Fatima – a weapon of mass conversion. Indeed, the rosary sustained many of God’s faithful caught behind the Iron Curtain during decades of communist oppression and atheistic indoctrination. Deprived of freedom to practice their religion openly and oftentimes impeded from assisting at Mass, these faithful Catholics found in the rosary the strength to persevere. And should we not recognize in the unanticipated events of 1989 when the Berlin Wall was taken down and the communist regimes of Eastern Europe dismantled the evidence of Mary’s powerful intercession?”