Children's Rosary at Divine Mercy Conference 2025 in Dublin

If you are attending the Divine Mercy Conference at the RDS in Dublin this weekend, please say hello to our Children's Rosary members who are helping to run a Children's Rosary informational table. This is our second year at the conference. The picture above was taken last year. The Children's Rosary is spreading extensively through Ireland and Northern Ireland. We hope to see this continue.

First Children's Rosary in Switzerland

We are excited to share that we have our first Children's Rosary group in Switzerland. Their first meeting was February 1, 2025. The children from two families gathered before the crib which was still present. This new group is located at the Parish in Montreux: Paroisse Catholique Romaine du Sacré-Cœur de Montreux. The new Children's Rosary group was Consecrated to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart at the first meeting. The group leader shared, after each mystery, a white rose was offered by the children to Mother Mary with song of Lourdes. Our prayers were accompanied by the Relic of Bless Carlo Acutis. A pancake party was organized. It is a tradition to eat pancake to celebrate Feast Day of the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple. 

Their next meeting will be March 1, 2025. We welcome this new Children's Rosary group. The children of this group pray in French. 

New Children's Rosary in Lincolnshire, England

We are happy to share that a new Children's Rosary met for the first time on February 2, 2025, at St. Hugh's Church in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. This group will be meeting on the first Sunday of each month at 5:00 p.m. The group leader shared that 3 families attended with 7 children total. The group has younger children, so she shared an interesting idea to engage the younger children:

I made a big rosary out of silicone cupcake cases and the children placed a pom pom in the case for each prayer, which was a good way of including the younger children who can't yet join in all the prayers verbally. 

Consecrate Yourself and Your Children to Jesus through Mary

On this beautiful feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, consider Consecrating yourself to Jesus through Mary. Importantly, also consider Consecrating your children or grandchildren. 

We have Consecration Certificates available HERE. These certificates were made after consultation with Bishop John Keenan. 

Mass Offered for Seminarians on February 1, 2025

On February 1, 2025, a Mass was offered for all seminarians with the intention that they grow in holiness and lead us in love. Seminarians need our prayers, and what a beautiful way for the world’s children to support these men called by God by praying for them. In 2024, we featured a seminarian’s vocation story almost every month, and how inspired we were by each man’s faith journey and message to the faithful!  We are so grateful to be able to continue featuring seminarians throughout 2025. This month, we introduce Samuel Saava, a postulant with the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles in Cromwell, Connecticut, USA. 

My name is Samuel Savva, and I am 20 years old. Currently, I am living and studying at the small but beautiful Holy Apostles College and Seminary, located in Cromwell, Connecticut. I am also a postulant with the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles (MSA), whose charism is to promote, form, and accompany vocations to the priesthood, religious life, and lay ministries in the Church. We are a missionary society, with several priests and brothers stationed in Cromwell, CT (running Holy Apostles College & Seminary is our primary apostolate in the US), as well as a large presence internationally, in various other countries. As of now, I am completing my second year of undergraduate philosophy studies, after which, God willing, I will continue on to Theological Studies, after completing my novitiate and taking first promises.

My vocation story started when I was very young. As a child and teen, I would often reflect about what I would do as a grown-up, and the priesthood was very attractive to me. However, I also felt very deeply drawn to marriage. When I was 15, though, I went through a very difficult social crisis, in which the “vocation plans” which I had hoped and dreamed of, especially regarding marriage, literally came crashing down. It was in the aftermath of this that I seriously began questioning what I would do with my life regarding a vocation, and because of the situation, my heart was very open to any possibility. Unaccountably, I began experiencing a deep draw and attraction toward the priesthood, something that stemmed from deep inside my soul, and that only grew stronger as time went on. Eventually, I started actively discerning with my home diocese, and became involved in their vocation programs and activities. Simultaneously, I graduated high school, and, feeling unready to begin seminary, but still wishing to discern where God was leading me, I came to Holy Apostles College and Seminary, where there is a program for young men to live alongside the seminarians and experience first hand seminary life as they discern. During the year that I spent in this program, God began to show me many signs that I was not called to serve as a diocesan priest but rather as a religious. Increasingly I felt a great sense of peace, joy, and wholeness in my soul regarding this, and felt led by God to embrace this vocation, which I had not really had a chance to discern previously. Under the guidance of several holy priests and friends, eventually the Lord led me to joining the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles, whose abundant joy, charity, and faithful service to God and the Church made a profound impact on me, and in whose company I felt the peace of Christ leading me to strive for sanctity.

As a priest, simply put, I hope to give my life in service to Our Lord and to His Holy Church, under the protection of Mary, my mother. I hope to spend the rest of my life loving and serving those around me with the heart of Christ, and with profound charity and zeal for the salvation of souls, so that one day I and all those I have encountered can rejoice together as brothers and sisters in eternity with Our Lord. As an MSA, I also hope to particularly minister to those discerning their vocation, whether to religious, married, or single life, assisting them on this crucial, exciting, but often difficult journey. Lastly, I hope to be of service in renewing and encouraging the priestly and religious vocations of those already consecrated, as well as married couples, so that there may be a new flourishing of holy priests, religious, and families in the Church and the world!

We humbly ask that you please keep Samuel Savva in your prayers.

New Children's Rosary at Kitgum Mission Parish, Gulu Archdiocese of Uganda

The Children's Rosary was launched at Kitgum Mission Parish in the Gulu Archdiocese on January 19, 2025. Over 200 children attended.

A Mass Was Offered on January 25, 2025 for All the Members of the Children's Rosary

A Mass was offered on January 25, 2025 for all the members of the Children's Rosary and all who help the Children's Rosary. We continue to have a Mass said for this intention on the 25th of each month. The Eucharist is such a powerful gift from Our Lord that when we wanted to extend thanksgiving to all of you we knew of no better way to express gratitude. May Our Lord's love be poured down on all of you through the powerful sacrifice of the Holy Mass. 

The picture above is a new Children's Rosary group in Pakistan. They are in the Faisalabad diocese and meet weekly at St. Thomas Catholic Church, Essa Nagri.