Bringing Our Lady Prayers on the Feast of the Visitation

Happy Feast of the Visitation! On this day when we honor Our Blessed Mother and the life of Our Lord I share with you some recent pictures from a meeting of the Children's Rosary at Bac Hoa Orphanage in Bien Hoa City, Vietnam. The pictures were taken on May 20th 2017 when the children held an extra special meeting with prayers and also singing. The picture below is of the children singing as they enter the chapel at the orphanage to hold their meeting. One can see the joy that the children bring to their prayers.

Before beginning the Rosary the children sang and danced. Several of the nuns who care for the children are in the picture below. 

The children also took turns placing fresh roses before the feet of Our Blessed Mother. A little girl below carefully places a rose before Our Lady.

Many of the children living at the orphanage have disabilities.  Living in an orphanage they have very little to give but every day they take their rosaries in hand and pray...giving Our Lady armfuls of Ave Marias to present to her Son. The children meet daily in their Children's Rosary group each evening at 7PM local time in Vietnam (8AM ET). They will be meeting today in approximately 45 minutes. Please consider joining them in prayer. If you visit our website www.childrensrosary.org you will see our View from Heaven map.  In just under an hour a blue flashing light will be seen on the night sky map. This will be the prayers of these little ones. Consider praying with them and clicking "join in prayer". This will add a gold flashing light to the map. In this way, you will be joining the children in bringing Our Lady prayers on this beautiful Feast of the Visitation.

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Para más información sobre el Rosario de Niños visita: www.rosariodeninos.org

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Mass Offered on May 25th 2017 for all the Members of the Children's Rosary

A Mass was offered today 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 the this intention on the 25th of each month. The Eucharist is such a powerful gift from Our Lord that when I wanted to extend thanksgiving to all of you I knew of no better way to express my 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 of the Children's Rosary at St. Bernard's Parish.  They meet on the first Sunday of the month at noon.  This month the children held a crowning of Mary.  This has become a yearly tradition for their group.  As I was looking back at some pictures they sent from last year's crowing one can see how the children are growing. 

How wonderful to see the faithfulness of the children to praying together and with their Heavenly Mother.  They didn't forget to remember Her in a beautiful way each May with a crown of flowers. 

Please consider joining the children in prayer. The children are asked to pray for those unifying prayers with them.  See a schedule of meetings on our website: www.childrensrosary.org or www.rosariodeninos.org
The meetings are listed in your local time zone. Meetings also appear as a blue flashing light on our View From Heaven map when the children are meeting in their prayer groups. By clicking "join in prayer" you can add your gold flashing light to the map.

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Mother's Day in Pakistan

This week we received these pictures from several of our Children's Rosary groups in Pakistan. The group leader shared that this is Mother's Day with the Children's Rosary and their Mothers.  

One can see there are cards for the Mother's and even presents given. 

I always think that one of the best presents to get on Mother's day is to receive prayers from one's children. So when Mother's Day falls on a day when we hold our Children's Rosary I am always very excited. Looking at the pictures that were sent I began to reflect over the last few days and the challenges that have come in the role as mother. I do not think my experiences are unique. But something very special happened on Friday evening. I was trying to discuss with one of our kids some behavior that needed improvement. I could see that although the wrong doing was clear their did not seem to be a clear motivation to change. As we were still together something came into my heart.  It seemed flooded with love...love from God. The same seemed to be happening to my child. Tears came into Kostin's eyes and I went to him and hugged him and told him that it is not too late. There is time to change.  He said he wanted to change and a tear fell from his face on my arm.  We talked and as I left Kostin, I said to him that our conversation could only happen through grace. I asked him if he saw this. He said yes. I said this is why we say our Rosaries. Through prayer one finds peace and forgiveness.  Prayer is so important in the lives of children and also the family.

I know I am a weak person. I struggle as a mother in so many ways.  God and Our Blessed Mother help to make up for so much. So it brings me great joy to see these children meeting in their Children's Rosary prayer groups and their mothers there with them. 

There is a quote from St. John Paul II that I like:

"We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures. We are the sum of our Father's love for us." John Paul II

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Don't forget to unify prayers with the children during their meetings. A schedule of meetings is present on our website. By clicking "Join in Prayer" you can add your gold flashing light to our View from Heaven map.

Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org

Primer Rosario de Niños en Panamá

Estamos emocionados de compartir que hay un Rosario de Niños en Panamá. El grupo está ubicado en la parroquia de San Isidro Labrador en Sona, Panamá. Ellos celebrarán su primera reunión el 26 de mayo de 2017. Esta semana celebramos la fiesta de San Isidro. La parroquia tuvo una celebración de la Fiesta. Se pueden ver fotos del día.

We are excited to share that there is a new Children's Rosary group that has formed in Panama.  The group has formed at St. Isidore Parish in Sona, Panama. Their first meeting will be May 26th 2017. This week the parish had a celebration as it was the Feast of St. Isidore. They shared some pictures with us.

San Isidro es el santo patrón de los agricultores, por lo que se ve una gran cantidad de frutas para comer durante su día de fiesta.
As St. Isidore is the Patron Saint of Farmers, there was lots of fruit to share on his Feast!

Para más información sobre el Rosario de Niños visita: www.rosariodeninos.org

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"Children from Four Families I Found Reciting the Rosary!"

Recently we received a note from Fr. Jude the Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Uganda. Fr. Jude has begun several Children's Rosary groups: in the school he oversees, his home parish where he grew up and in the Church where he is the Pastor. In April he sent us this picture and note:

"Children from four families I found reciting the rosary! I gave them rosaries and I encouraged them to join the Children's Rosary group nearby. They willingly accepted."

When I received this picture, I thought what it must have been like to be walking outside and come upon these children praying.  Might it have been very much like stumbling upon the children of Fatima praying the Rosary together as they shepherded their sheep?  

Fr. Jude has been working hard to spread the Children's Rosary in his region. He speaks of fruits coming from it. What a beautiful gift for him to have come upon this scene of the children praying. Fr. Jude also speaks of giving the children rosaries. The timing of this meeting was also providential as he had just received a box of rosaries from us so he had rosaries to share with the children. 

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Don't forget to unify prayers with the children during their meetings. A schedule of meetings is present on our website. By clicking "Join in Prayer" you can add your gold flashing light to our View from Heaven map.

Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org

Harvest on the Feast of St. Isidore the Farmer

The Feast of St. Isidore is a favorite in our family. We are a family that loves to garden.  After dinner tonight the kids went outside. Alina went to work harvesting parsnips that had survived through the winter.  Asher was put on the task of cutting the heads off the parsnips.  For those who are not familiar with parsnips they are much like carrots only white.  When a parsnip makes it through a New England winter it often does not look like the parsnips you see in the stores. It may have many "legs" as the kids call them.  As the plant has been through considerable hardship, at the first bit of warm weather it begins to go to seed thus one loses the vegetable to eat. So the race is on to harvest them before they go to seed. Something else which is special about the parsnips that endure a long winter and survive...they are extra sweet when cooked! 


Our whole family loves to spend time in the garden. With my joint disability it is the kids who do most of the work. I provide the guidance on diagnosis of what is in the garden..weed or plant. But even now the kids are becoming very good at the diagnosis phase in the spring. You see we do something interesting with our garden:  we let nature do a lot of our work.  In the summer when many would remove plants such as lettuce and kale that have gone to seed as the greens turn bitter, we do not. Instead we let the plants mature and drop their seeds in the fall. Thus in the spring at just the right time up pops lettuce and kale. This year we had an abundance of parsnips that had seeded in the fall and managed to survive the winter.  One has to have the eye to know what is a weed and what is a plant worth keeping but it is amazing to see nature at work.  So much of our work is done for us. 

The Feast of St. Isidore is the official date, given to me once by a priest of when it is safe to plant vegetables that cannot withstand a frost in our region. So our family looks forward to the Feast of St. Isidore with anticipation. The cold nights of winter we anticipate are finished and it is time to look forward to summer.  

We also had some good news today. We received an email this morning from a women from the Republic of Panama trying to begin a Children's Rosary in her parish. The Parish she shared with us is named after St. Isidore. Amazing!

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Don't forget to unify prayers with the children during their meetings. A schedule of meetings is present on our website. By clicking "Join in Prayer" you can add your gold flashing light to our View from Heaven map.

The Children in Vietnam Unify Prayers with Those in Fatima Today!

Today some of the members of the Children's Rosary in Vietnam came together. They created an incredible space in honor of Our Lady, surrounding her with flowers. They projected all that was happening in Fatima onto the wall. They watched, prayed and sang with all the pilgrims. 

They held candles too, raising them as the pilgrims did in song in honor of Our Blessed Mother. I marveled to see these children spending a Saturday evening in Vietnam together in prayer.  Nothing had been spared to honor Our Blessed Mother. Pictures of the two children, Jacinta and Francisco, placed before them with candles burning.  

The children called me and through video I was able to sing and pray with them. I felt honored to spend this time praying with the children as they met in Vietnam...all the while together watching the images and listening to the songs playing from Fatima.

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Don't forget to unify prayers with the children during their meetings. A schedule of meetings is present on our website. By clicking "Join in Prayer" you can add your gold flashing light to our View from Heaven map.

Two Masses Celebrated in Succession Today for all Children

The photo above are wild flowers that grow along the way that my children and I walk to Mass.  When they first come up these plants look like weeds. Some you might see by the side of the road or in your yard and not think much of them. Some people may even identify them as weeds and pull them up. But together they are a heavenly sight. In looking at the flowers, there is incredible beauty...individual flowers that alone might be considered common or ordinary but together bring wonder and awe.  

As more people are brought to the Children's Rosary and the number of little flowers grows, more and more people are seeing the beauty of simple people often young in age who choose to come together in prayer. 

Today two little shepherd children will be canonized: Francisco and Jacinta. There simplicity is much like the flowers above. They were little but they answered the call of Our Blessed Mother to prayer and sacrifice. 

We are excited to share a gift from one of our Children's Rosary groups in Vietnam. Today beginning at 4AM two Masses were celebrated in Vietnam for all children.

Many Children's Rosary prayer groups will meet today. Please consider unifying prayers with them from your home through our View from Heaven map.  You can add your gold light to the night sky by clicking "Join in Prayer".

Easter Celebrations in Pakistan 2017!

We have received some beautiful pictures from different Children's Rosary groups in Pakistan. Throughout Lent there were reports of the children praying, offering up little sacrifices and also visits from priests to celebrate Mass and offer reconciliation to the children. But now with Easter the children were ready to celebrate the glorious Resurrection of Our Lord. The children held candlelit processions. They also had celebrations on Easter Sunday. As each group met during this Easter Season there was celebrations. 

The group leader shared that there were little Easter parties in the groups with some indoor and outdoor games. They also were able to distribute some religious photos to the children. 

He relayed that the children were very happy. One can see the smiles on the children's faces.

They also distributed 18 packages of food to orphan women and children. Indeed even though there is considerable poverty the spirit of charity is beautifully alive.

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Don't forget to unify prayers with the children during their meetings.  A schedule of meetings is present on our website. By clicking "Join in Prayer" you can add your gold flashing light to our View from Heaven map.

Vocation Sunday 2017

As today is Vocation Sunday I thought it would be timely to share some good news from one of our Children's Rosary groups in Nigeria. This Children's Rosary group formed after we meet the Pastor, Fr. Paul, at the World Meeting of Families in 2015.  Returning home to his parish in Northern Nigeria, he began a Children's Rosary prayer group. The group chose to meet twice a week. He shared with me that the Children's Rosary became a shining light in his Diocese. Whenever there was an event the children would go and lead a Rosary. Someone seeing the children leading the prayers offered to make a donation for uniforms to be made which you see in this picture. 

Fr. Paul was selected from his Diocese to go to Rome in September 2016 to obtain a Masters in Evangelization.  As he was leaving the parish, one of the girls who was helping with the Children's Rosary group decided to enter the convent. She entered in the fall of 2016.  The Children's Rosary group continued after Fr. Paul left for Rome. One of the boys who has been helping to organize the group recently shared he is now interested in entering the seminary.  So there is much to be grateful for with such good news. Two beautiful vocations to the religious life have taken root in this Children's Rosary group.

Sometimes people ask what are the fruits of having a Children's Rosary prayer group. One fruit which we have seen not only in this group but others is vocations. Other fruits have been evangelization, peace, return to prayer of the children and those around them, rebuilding of the Church physically and spiritually. Indeed we have seen abundant graces flowing.  On this Vocation Sunday, I would like to thank in a special way God the Father for calling these souls to a life of prayer and service through priesthood and religious life.  

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Don't forget to unify prayers with the children during their meetings. This group meets each Wednesday and Saturday at 7PM. A schedule of meetings is present on our website. By clicking "Join in Prayer" you can add your gold flashing light to our View from Heaven map.

Rosaries for Russia

Yesterday we sent out 200 handmade Rosaries and 25 Children's Rosary books. The ultimate destination of the materials is Russia. These materials will be brought by hand to Russia on May 18th 2017 with hopes of beginning a Children's Rosary in Eastern Siberia. This region is considered subarctic. The destination is a port town but it is also very isolated. The nearest large city is 1200 miles away reached only by an unpaved road. I marvel sometimes at the locations where our Children's Rosary materials are carried. Sending out this package yesterday I could not help but think of the coming 100th Anniversary of Fatima next week. It would be so wonderful to have a Children's Rosary group in Russia. 

Several months ago we also began the translation process of our Children's Rosary book into Russian. Please keep this effort in your prayers.

For those who make Rosaries or know people that make Rosaries please consider donating Rosaries to the Children's Rosary. There have been a flood of requests for materials with new Children's Rosary groups forming around the glove.  We try to respond to these requests right away so Rosaries are always needed.  A special thank you to all those who have donated Rosaries. This has been a tremendous help.  

Rosaries can be sent to:
PO Box 271743 
West Hartford, CT 06127 USA

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Don't forget to unify prayers with the children during their meetings. A schedule of meetings is present on our website. By clicking "Join in Prayer" you can add your gold flashing light to our View from Heaven map.

Children's Rosary Discussed on "At Home with Jim and Joy" on EWTN May 1 2017

We are so grateful to Jim and Joy Pinto for their invitation to join them on their show to discuss the Children's Rosary.

For those of you unable to see it LIVE Monday here is a LINK.

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Don't forget to unify prayers with the children during their meetings. A schedule of meetings is present on our website. By clicking "Join in Prayer" you can add your gold flashing light to our View from Heaven map.