9 Days and 9 Ways to Get Involved and Help the Children's Rosary: Day 3

Beginning Tuesday and for the following 9 Days we are highlighting ways people can get involved and help the Children's Rosary. For those unfamiliar with the Children's Rosary,  the Children's Rosary is a prayer group movement for children. It is an effort to begin in parishes, schools and orphanages Rosary prayer groups composed of children. These groups meet regularly to pray a Rosary as a prayer group. Some groups meet monthly, weekly or in some places daily. The children in the groups traditionally range in age from 4-14. But any child with an interest to attend should not be turned away especially those with disabilities who may be older. Children younger then 4 can also attend. More and more there is an appreciation of the benefit young children can receive from praying and seeing other children praying at a very tender age.

Today we would like to invite people to help get the word out about the Children's Rosary. Jesus in the Gospel reading at Mass today, invites Andrew and Peter to become fishers of men. So we ask you to cast your nets into the sea. Reach out to people and invite them to become a part of the Children's Rosary.

Here are some ideas:

• Going on a pilgrimage - order our Children’s Rosary DVD to play on the bus and request 100 pack of our Children’s Rosary bookmarks to share with your fellow pilgrims or those you meet.

• Order a 10 pack of our Children’s Rosary Books which explain how to begin a Children’s Rosary prayer group and also how to pray the Rosary and keep one in your pocket. Say a prayer that the Holy Spirit will guide each book into the hands it was meant for and bring beautiful fruits. See how fast the 10 go!

• Obtain permission from your pastor to leave out information about the Children’s Rosary such as our bookmarks or Children’s Rosary books in a special area of your Church or Adoration chapel.

• Contact us about ordering larger quantities of our Children’s Rosary books or our bookmarks to give away. Discounted pricing available.

• Sign up for news and updates at the bottom of the screen on our home page www.childrensrosary.org and share information with friends and family.

* Contact us at info@childrensrosary.org or call us at (860) 785 3340 with questions or for information about obtaining our bookmarks, bumper stickers, sample flyers, or large quantity pricing of our materials. THANK YOU!

9 Days and 9 Ways to Get Involved and Help the Children's Rosary: Day 2

Beginning yesterday and for the next 9 Days we will be highlighting ways people can get involved and help the Children's Rosary. For those unfamiliar with the Children's Rosary,  the Children's Rosary is a prayer group movement for children. It is an effort to begin in parishes, schools and orphanages Rosary prayer groups composed of children. These groups meet regularly to pray a Rosary as a prayer group. Some groups meet monthly, weekly or in some places daily. The children in the groups traditionally range in age from 4-14. But any child with an interest to attend should not be turned away especially those with disabilities who may be older. Children younger then 4 can also attend. More and more there is an appreciation of the benefit young children can receive from praying and seeing other children praying at a very tender age.

Today we would like to invite those able to provide a financial donation. The Children's Rosary continues only through the generosity of people like yourself. We try to do a great deal with a very little. We would like to share with you how your donation can make a difference:

A donation of $25.00 helps us share enough materials for a new small Children’s Rosary group to form in the United States.

A donation of $50.00 helps us send enough materials for a small Children’s Rosary group to begin in a foreign country.

As requests internationally are usually for large groups, $125.00 allows us to send enough materials for 75 Children to have enough materials to begin a group and each child to have a Rosary.

Smaller donations of $5-$20.00 allow us to put together a missionary package to hand deliver to a person traveling to a distant area of the world to help begin Children’s Rosary groups.

Larger donations of $1,000 or more help us meet the demands of materials from missionary outposts where 15-20 new groups are requesting materials.

We also have some exciting projects planned for next year. One is the completion of our Portuguese translation of the Children's Rosary book. We have already begun sending Rosaries to Brazil at the request of a Pastor who would like to begin a Children's Rosary in his main parish and 15 outposts of the parish. The Parish is hoping we can get them the Children's Rosary book in Portuguese. We would love to complete this project in 2018! Donations will help us make this a reality and through this translation allow us to reach more children.

The picture above are some of the materials that were carried to Russia this past spring with hopes to begin a Children's Rosary in Magadan. Through donations we have been able to keep supplying materials and covering the cost of shipping these items all across the globe. 

The fruits of these efforts are bountiful. The group meeting pictured above is our new Children's Rosary group at Nativity of Jesus Parish in Magadan, Russia. The children there were the ones who received the Rosaries and books we sent last spring. The little seeds planted are bearing fruits. We have sent packages with Children's Rosary materials this year to the following countries: Vietnam, Philippines, Uganda, Colombia, Ecuador, Pakistan, Nicaragua, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Panama, Tanzania, Kenya, Australia, and  throughout the United States.

If you would like to help these efforts and become part of the tapestry of the Children's Rosary donations can be sent to: 

Children's Rosary 
PO Box 271743 
West Hartford, CT 06127 USA
or electronically HERE. 
Checks can be made out to: Children's Rosary Inc.

Thank you for your generosity which helps us keep reaching more children. Please know that we are praying for you.

St. Nick Celebrates with the Children's Rosary

Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Waterbury, Connecticut USA

Children's Rosary Fifth Anniversary Celebration

The Basilica Children's Rosary gratefully celebrates their 5th Anniversary on Saturday December 2nd 2017. The Children will gather at 3:30 PM ET to lead a Rosary at the front of the Church. After the 4:15 Mass, there will be a gathering downstairs in the basement to celebrate the anniversary. The children will be visited by St. Nicholas who will bring bags of chocolate gold coins and tell his own story! The gathering will enjoy a cupcake Rosary and refreshments. All are invited to join both the Children's Rosary and also to come and celebrate with St. Nicholas. If you live in the area please consider coming. If you live at a distance please consider unifying in prayer with the the children during their meeting.

* Just a reminder to those wanting to join the Children's Rosary on a 33 Day Consecration to Jesus through Mary. It begins today. See link Here.

Other Posts You May Enjoy:

33 Day Consecration to Jesus Through Mary 

When the Impossible Becomes Possible
A Journey to Bring the Baby Jesus to the Children

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.

For more information about the Children's Rosary visit our website: www.childrensrosary.org
Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org

9 Days and 9 Ways to Get Involved and Help the Children's Rosary: Day 1

Beginning today and for the next 9 Days we will be highlighting ways people can get involved and help the Children's Rosary. For those unfamiliar with the Children's Rosary,  the Children's Rosary is a prayer group movement for children. It is an effort to begin in parishes, schools and orphanages Rosary prayer groups composed of children. These groups meet regularly to pray a Rosary as a prayer group. Some groups meet monthly, weekly or in some places daily. The children in the groups traditionally range in age from 4-14. But any child with an interest to attend should not be turned away especially those with disabilities who may be older. Children younger then 4 can also attend. More and more there is an appreciation of the benefit young children can receive from praying and seeing other children praying at a very tender age.

Today is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving which has in recent years taken on the name giving Tuesday. This seemed an appropriate place to start this 9 day journey. Our last day will be December 6th the Feast of St. Nicholas. If you have been hoping to do something as a gift to Our Lady and Our Lord come on this journey with us. 

The first way to get involved with the Children's Rosary is to Start a Children's Rosary in your parish, school or in an orphanage.
The picture above is of a small Children's Rosary prayer group at St. Peter Claver Parish in Connecticut. This is a relatively small group of children...usually 2 or 3. Some of our Children's Rosary groups are much larger but many are tiny with a handful of children meeting. I share this group as an example because many may feel intimidated that finding enough children for a group would be difficult. 

If one thinks of an adult prayer groups these traditionally are small. Yet, there is great comfort that comes with praying with just one other person. It is also okay if the children involved are different ages...actually there can be some benefit to this. Young children are beautifully open to prayer. One of the ways I have seen to engage older children is to give them an opportunity to help the younger ones. Having a younger child in the group that needs help is just the situation where an older child can step in and help. I have seen this with my own children. When my older two children see a younger child come to the group who might be a little nervous and unfamiliar with the prayers they light up. There is something inside of all of us that takes joy when we feel needed and can help someone...this is especially true for children. 

We have tried to create various resources for those interested in beginning groups.
We have the steps to begin a Children's Rosary outlined in English, Spanish and French.
We also have created three instructional videos to help in: 
Starting a group (video in English & Spanish) 
Running your first meeting (video in English & Spanish) 
Answering frequently asked questions (video in English & Spanish)

The Children's Rosary book was also designed to help a person begin a Children's Rosary group. It can be very helpful to show the book to your Pastor when asking permission to begin a group. Additionally, it can also be used by the children to pray the Rosary. This book is currently available in English, Spanish and French and can be ordered through EWTN in the US and Great Britain. The English version is also available through EWTN shipping in Canada. The books are available as a single book and as a discounted ten pack.

We have also created a printable pdf of how to pray the Rosary in English, Spanish and French. This is particularly useful  if you do not have access to the Children's Rosary book.

If a person would like to begin a Children's Rosary and does not have the means to order materials please contact us (blythe.kaufman@gmail.com). We will make every attempt to get the materials to you. We also have donated handmade Rosaries which can be shared with groups that are forming.

Helping the Holy Souls in Purgatory

This was a drawing done by one of my sons four years ago. Kostin was approximately 9 years old when he did the drawing... maybe younger. I have always liked it. In its simplicity one can see how our prayers can help our dear friends the Holy Souls in Purgatory. The Catechism is clear that we should help them. "In full consciousness of this communion  of the whole Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, the Church in its pilgrim members, from the very earliest days of the Christian religion, has honored with great respect the memory of the dead; and 'because it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins' she offers her suffrages for them." Our prayer for them is capable not only of helping them, but also of making their intercession for us effective". (CCC958)

In November, in a special way we remember the Holy Souls. May I humbly share how over the past year I have come to a closer friendship with the Holy Souls. In the summer of 2016, a friend wrote to me from Europe. He had a sum of money he had kept for many many years with the hope to do something for God with it. He initially had a few ideas of how it might be used but somehow those did not come to fruition so the money lay there for the "right" moment. Well last summer, I received a note from this friend. He wanted to donate this money to the Children's Rosary for Masses to be said. Those who follow this blog may notice we have many Masses said for various intentions including for the members of the Children's Rosary. This friend who I will call "Generous" felt strongly the funds should go to the Children's Rosary for Masses but the exact intention was not given. Weeks went by with prayer and discernment as to what the intention would be. Then one day reading the life of St. John Vianney to my children there was a part about the Holy Souls. It was at that moment something took hold of my heart and I felt this was the intention for which the Masses should be said. Many little signal graces came (some may call these coincidences) that pointed to this intention in the time after this moment of clarify. I wrote to Generous explaining my hope to have the Masses said for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. He agreed and the funds were sent. There was delay in the wire coming but on the eve of the Feast of the Holy Rosary it arrived in time for the first Mass to be said on the Feast of the Holy Rosary. The funds allowed us to request 140 Masses to be said consecutively. That afternoon I happened to speak to a Children's Rosary group leader. In sharing the joy of the donation and our ability to give such a gift to the Holy Souls I shared with her my hope we might even do more for them. It would be so wonderful to have Masses said on each day for a whole year! She then asked if we had received her donation as this could help. Indeed as my daughter ran to the post office to check the box, there was the letter and donation also arriving on October 6th. Through the donations of several people we have been able to have 2 Masses said each day since October 7th 2016. These will continue until December 25th 2017. 

As our funds are tight at this time, we presently would not have funds to continue these Masses beyond those already requested through December 25th 2017. I share this with you as maybe there is someone reading this post who wants to help. Be sure that Our Lord is most generous to those who help these souls so dear to Him. If you would like to make a donation to the Children's Rosary for this effort of having Masses said for the Holy Souls, please let us know at the time of making the donation that this is what you would like to have the funds used for. 
Donations can be sent to: 

Children's Rosary 
PO Box 271743 
West Hartford, CT 06127 USA
or electronically HERE. There is a place to add a comment.
Checks can be made out to: Children's Rosary Inc.

Thank you in advance for your kindness and help.

Bl. Alberione Pray For Us

Today is the Feast of Bl. James Alberione. He was an Italian priest and founder of the Society of St. Paul and the Daughters of St. Paul. In a special way he saw how media could be used to evangelize and spread the Gospel. He died on November 26th 1971. 
He was beatified on April 27th 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
In the homily given by Pope John Paul II on the day of of the beatification, Pope John Paul II said:

Bl Alberione felt the need to make Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life, known "to all people of our time with the means of our time", as he liked to say. He was inspired by the Apostle Paul, whom he described as a "theologian and architect of the Church", remaining ever docile and faithful to the Magisterium of the Successor of Peter, a "beacon" of truth in a world that is so often devoid of sound spiritual references. "May there be a group of saints to use these means", this apostle of the new times was in the habit of repeating.

Recently during a meeting of the Children's Rosary at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Connecticut USA, we were able to have a first class relic of Bl. Alberione present. The children and those in attendance at the Children's Rosary were able to venerate the relic at the end of the Rosary. In a special way we prayed for the members of the Children's Rosary.

Today on the Feast of Bl. Alberione all the members of the Children's Rosary and all who help the Children's Rosary were prayed for while venerating a relic of Bl. Alberione.

Bl. Alberione Pray For Us. Amen.

A special thank you to Tran for allowing the children to be able to meet the saints in a very special way.
Other Posts You May Enjoy:

How to Start a Children's Rosary
Their Love for God is Great
A Journey to Bring the Baby Jesus to the Children

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.

For more information about the Children's Rosary visit our website: www.childrensrosary.org
Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org

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

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. 

Last week we were able to travel to Mexico and pray with one of our Children's Rosary groups. We shared a few pictures from this visit in an earlier post but we have more pictures to share. The pictures above are of the children who gathered for the Children's Rosary (Rosario de Niños).

The Church was named after Our Lady of Lourdes. There was a beautiful stained glass window over the altar with a Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes just in front of it. As the children were praying, Our Lady was just above them. St. Bernadette is shown kneeling looking up at Our Lady but the children in much the same way were kneeling and looking up at Mary as they too held their Rosaries.

A special thank you to all who have sent the Children's Rosary handmade Rosaries. We were able to bring over 500 on the trip to Mexico. The pictures below are of the children each choosing a Rosary to have as their own. 

Asher who speaks Spanish was able to visit the catechism classes at the parish that morning and tell them about the Children's Rosary. He showed them pictures of some of the Children's Rosary groups around the world. 

A thank you to all the children who participate in the Children's Rosary and those who help the Children's Rosary. May God Bless you. 

Other Posts You May Enjoy:

How to Start a Children's Rosary
Come one a Journey with the Children in Vietnam
Mercy in Action: the Children Visit a Leper Community

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.

For more information about the Children's Rosary visit our website: www.childrensrosary.org
Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org

Feast of the Vietnamese Martyrs

Today is the Feast of the 117 Martyrs from Vietnam canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 19, 1988. This picture Tran sent us from Vietnam in the postal mail of the Martyrs. We ask for their intercession this day for each of us, our families and for the Children's Rosary. In a special way, I would like to ask their assistance with the Vietnamese translation of our Children's Rosary book that is in process. We are in search of individuals to help in reviewing the initial translation that we now have of the book. We also pray for the intercession of these saints for the continued spread of the Children's Rosary in Vietnam. 

Good news has come this week that there is interest in starting a Children's Rosary at Xuan Duong Parish in Vietnam. Tran has requested a package of Rosaries be sent for this new group. These children would be our fifth Children's Rosary group in Vietnam. We currently have Children's Rosary groups in four orphanages in Vietnam. Three of the orphanages hold their meetings daily. This has been such a tremendous gift having so many sweet children praying in their groups each day.

If you are able to help with proofing of a translation in Vietnamese please contact us at blythe.kaufman@gmail.com. Also if you would like to help in providing donated Rosaries or financial donations to help us continue to meet the needs of so many groups around the world please send donations to:

Children's Rosary 
PO Box 271743 
West Hartford, CT 06127 USA
Checks can be made out to Children's Rosary.
Online donations are also possible HERE.

Other Posts You May Enjoy:

How to Start a Children's Rosary
Come one a Journey with the Children in Vietnam
Mercy in Action: the Children Visit a Leper Communnity

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.

For more information about the Children's Rosary visit our website: www.childrensrosary.org
Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org

An Unfortunate Event Creates an Opportunity for a Beautiful Act of Kindness

A couple of month ago a package arrived. From its outward appearance it had been through something...and it wasn't good. It was a large box with many handmade rosaries addressed to the Children's Rosary. As my daughter and I went through the package there was a note from the post office apologizing that some of the contents had been damaged. It appeared that the box had come open at the post office and some of the rosaries had come out of the box and possibly fallen into the machinery. As we went through things we found bags of Rosaries in perfect condition but then other rosaries which appeared to have some black grease from the machines on them.  My daughter went to work soaking the rosaries and trying to clean them. The weather was still warm at that time and we laid them out in the sun to dry. Yet still when we looked at them they were not completely clean.

Shortly after receiving the Rosaries I was at a physical therapy appointment, something I do each week, to treat my joint disability. While I was talking to my physical therapist who is Jewish, I mentioned the package and the damaged rosaries. It was sad to think of so many who had put love and time into making these handmade rosaries for the children. Yet in their present condition I felt they could not be sent out. Unexpectedly, my physical therapist asked if she could try to clean them. She is a an extremely clever and resourceful person. After raising three children and now helping with seven grandchildren she has had many experiences over the years and had some ideas of what she could try.

We gathered all the rosaries and gave them to her. Good news came with a picture. See above. She was very excited to show the rosaries to me at my next appointment. It surely had taken great time and work with a scrub brush to remove the grease. We were able to take some of the Rosaries she cleaned with us to Mexico on our trip last week. She was very happy to hear we brought some of the ones she cleaned with us to share with the children.

As today we celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States, I wanted to share this little story. An act of kindness from a person who might easily have let the moment pass by to help. Yet she did not. She took an unfortunate event and made it a moment to be grateful for because of the love she shared for both those who had given of their time to make the rosaries and also for the children who would find joy from receiving them.

A special thank you to all who so kindly help and support the Children's Rosary. May God bless you and your families.

Other Posts You May Enjoy:

How to Start a Children's Rosary
Novena of the Miraculous Medal
We are Not the Sum of Our Weaknesses

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.

For more information about the Children's Rosary visit our website: www.childrensrosary.org
Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org

Four Years Ago on the Feast of St. Cecilia....

Four years ago on the Feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians, the Children's Rosary humbly released a song. It was a song written for the Children's Rosary by Fr. Lawrence Tucker SOLT. He shared with us that while he was in prayer with his guitar, an idea came: wouldn't it be nice if the Children's Rosary had a theme song. A beautiful melody came as he began to play the guitar and the lyrics just as fast. Fr. Tucker kindly gave this song "Rosary Children" to the Children's Rosary and it has become our theme song.

Four years ago today, that song was made public to the world recorded by a male vocalist. Later, we released a version with children from the Children's Rosary singing this song. It can be heard on Youtube HERE.

We have invited Children's Rosary groups to sing this song at the end of their meetings. It is our hope that although groups exist all across the globe the children will learn the song in English. In this way there is a central song all the children would know and could sing together no matter what part of the world they had their groups.

We have provided subtitles in Spanish and French so that the children might know the meaning of the song but still we hope that the children could sing it in English.

We are grateful to God for this song. The children that sang the song in the recording are not professional singers but children whose experience is praying the Rosary. It is a simple song but made with love with the hope that it might bring joy to others and to Our Lord and Our Lady.

If you would like to obtain a copy of this song it is present on each of our three Children's Rosary CDs. The Sorrowful Mysteries CD has the version sung by Jeff Batter (I love this version as it reminds me of what the song might sound like if Our Lord sang it). The Glorious and Joyful Cds have the version sung by the children - also wonderful. The CDs are available through EWTN Religious Catalogue.
We also have available the song video with lyrics and the sheet music for the song available for printing as a pdf.

Other Posts You May Enjoy:
How to Start a Children's Rosary
Novena of the Miraculous Medal
We are Not the Sum of Our Weaknesses

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.

For more information about the Children's Rosary visit our website: www.childrensrosary.org
Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Yesterday we received these beautiful pictures from our Children's Rosary (Rosario de Niños) at San Miguel Parish - San Antonio de Padua outpost in Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo Mexico. This group meets daily at 5PM local time. 
I received a note with the pictures. Here is an excerpt from the note:
"Well the kids pray the Rosary every day at 5PM, the group is small but strong and some days there are more kids. In the pics you will see a little ba(b)y, he is just starting to talk, but he knows he will go everyday to pray "amen amen" (that is how he says)"

Today is the Feast of the Presentation of Our the Blessed Virgin Mary, we celebrate the day when Mary was brought by her parents (possibly around the age of 3) to be presented to God in the Temple.

In thinking about this Feast, the little boy in the picture kept coming to mind. His mother brings him to Church to pray with the other children each day...to spend time in his Heavenly Father's Home. He is in a way presented before Our Lord. This little boy knows so little but it is part of his day; something he has come to look forward to each evening. He sees the older children praying, just as he sees them most likely playing outside at other parts of the day. All these things for a little child are exciting. They watch in wonder soaking in so much. As this little boy watches the older children kneel, he is held in his mother's arms. But surely he wishes to join them. To be old enough to find his place next to the "bigger children". He sees some stepping forward to lead prayers. As he gets older might he wait for the day he is old enough to be asked to lead. Yes, this is how a child grows. Watching, soaking in all around them both good and less ideal. 

Recently, a priest asked Asher my 10 year old son, how can you get children to want to pray?  Asher tried to explain that it is what a child is used to in their family. For my small part, I mentioned the age of the children and the importance of having little children involved in prayer. How important it is to invite young children to the Children's Rosary. There is an age when children almost universally are open to prayer. It is in this window that exposure to prayer is so integral to their development. This does not mean that if a child is not exposed at an early age they cannot have a fully developed prayer life as an adult. But at those tender years seeds are sown and when those seeds are watered with prayer it becomes part of one's heart and later those seeds can grow and the roots can go deep. When trials come the roots of faith and prayer are less easily uprooted. It is one of the reasons, I suspect that Scripture has many references to Our Lord calling the children in particular to Himself. We might ask ourselves on this Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary why such a Feast exists and why St. Anne and St. Joachim brought Our Lady to the Temple at such a young age? How are we introducing God to our young children? Can we involve them more?

Other Posts You May Enjoy:
How to Start a Children's Rosary
A Procession for Our Lady
Under the Protection of Our Mother

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.

For more information about the Children's Rosary visit our website: www.childrensrosary.org
Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org

33 Day Consecration To Jesus Through Mary (November 29, 2017- January 1, 2018)

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A CONSECRATION 

TO JESUS THROUGH MARY 

May we the Children's Rosary humbly invite you to participate in a 33 Day Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary.  Our Children’s Rosary groups are Consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary at their first meeting but this would be a way to beautifully place our individual families and members under the protection of Our Blessed Mother who always leads us on the straightest path to her Son.  For those of you unfamiliar with Consecration to Jesus through Mary it has been blessed and supported by Cardinal Justin Rigali, Bishops and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. St. John Paul II urged Catholics to make this Act of Entrustment, which involves ten minutes of private prayer daily, for 33 days, in your home.  Many may be familiar with Totus Tuus which was John Paul’s papal motto. It is a Latin phrase meaning "totally yours" and expressed his personal Consecration to Jesus through Mary.

We would like to use the 33 days to Morning Glory written by Fr. Gaitley to guide our Consecration. We have been using this material yearly as a means of preparation to January 1st since 2013. The book has daily reflections with a short prayer. The first week contains reflections from writings of St. Louis de Montfort. The second week has excerpts from St. Maximilian Kolbe; the third St. Teresa of Calcutta and the fourth St. John Paul II.  It spends more time in reflection and less on vocal prayers of litanies. From all that I have seen, it has been well received by many. While I am recommending we use the 33 Days to Morning Glory, if you would prefer using a different format this would be fine. I myself have used the traditional St. Louis de Montfort Consecration prayers but also like this one as well. There is also an App available to do the St. Louis de Montfort Consecration each day.

The 33 Day Consecration prayers traditionally precede a Marian Feast and the Feast that we will be saying our Consecration on is January 1st - the Feast of Mary Mother of God.  Therefore we will begin our prayers on November 29th. This date is relatively close so this requires immediate action to participate.

Outline of the Plan:

Number 1: Obtain a Consecration book 33 Days to Morning Glory by Fr. Gaitley

(books are available to order online and at many bookstores) IMPORTANT: As we do not have much time until the start date of the 33 days of prayer beginning Nov 29th please order your book soon. If you have difficulty getting a book I have some and could send them to you but we simply ask for a donation to cover the shipping expense.

Number 2: Once receiving the book have a general read through the introduction.

Number 3: On Nov 29th begin the first day of prayers and reflections which takes about 10 minutes. Each day is clearly marked in the book.

Number 4: January 1st: Consecration Prayers.

Any questions about the Consecration please contact me. If you have already made a Total Consecration preceding another Marian Feast you could still participate in this Consecration. Please let me know if you are planning to join in (my email address is blythe.kaufman@gmail.com) Thank you so much!  

Please feel free to share this amongst your friends as we would like to have a large unified body making the Consecration.

Thank you all!

Novena of the Miraculous Medal: November 19-27 2017

O Immaculate Virgin Mary,
Mother of Our Lord Jesus and our Mother,
penetrated with the most lively confidence in your
all-powerful and never-failing intercession,
manifested so often through the Miraculous Medal,
we your loving and trustful children implore you to obtain for us the graces and favors we ask during this novena,
if they be beneficial to our immortal souls,
and the souls for whom we pray.

(Here mention your petitions *)

You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been 
the sanctuaries of your Son who hates iniquity.
Obtain for us then a deep hatred of sin and that
purity of heart which will attach us to God alone so 
that our every thought, word and deed may tend to 
His greater glory.
Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial
that we may recover by penance what we have lost
by sin and at length attain to that blessed abode 
where you are the Queen of angels and of men.
Amen.
(source: EWTN)

The Children's Rosary would like to humbly invite you to join us in praying the Novena of the Miraculous Medal (November 19th -27th).  
* In a special way may we pray for the intentions of Our Blessed Mother and a fulfillment of Her plans for each of us and the Children's Rosary prayer group movement.

Other Posts You May Enjoy:
How to Start a Children's Rosary
A Procession for Our Lady
Under the Protection of Our Mother

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.

For more information about the Children's Rosary visit our website: www.childrensrosary.org
Visite nuestro sitio web en español para obtener más información: www.rosariodeninos.org