Patiently Waiting Campaign 2019

This Advent Place a Patiently Waiting Sign

 in Your Window

Join the Children's Rosary by putting a sign in your window as a beautiful reminder of where our hearts can be found as we prepare ourselves for the coming of Christ. On Christmas replace the sign with one that reads: Christ is Born.

Fifth Anniversary of the Patiently Waiting Campaign

If you have a Children's Rosary in your school we invite you to have the children make signs in class and have them bring them home to put in their windows. The picture above was sent to us from a school in New Jersey. 

We have included a flyer for this year. Consider posting this at your parish or school. The flyer can be saved to your computer by right clicking on the image below and clicking save. This can then be printed. Alternatively, if you would like us to email you the pdf please write to blythe@childrensrosary.org 

Send us a Picture
We invite people to send us a picture of their Patiently Waiting sign in their window. Please include in the email where you live. We hope to feature some of these on our website. Pictures can be sent to: blythe.kaufman@gmail.com 

Invitation to Everyone
We should note that the Patiently Waiting Campaign is an invitation to adults and children. One does not have to be involved with the Children's Rosary to participate. 

The story behind the Patiently Waiting Campaign:
A number of years ago, I was walking past a home and in the window a sign read: Patiently Waiting.  It caught my attention.  Each time I walked past it each day I looked at it and was grateful for it. To see the sign made me happy inside. I wondered who put such a sign in their window.  Later I would find out it was a wonderfully holy priest.  After his passing, many shared how special this little sign was to them. It was so simple but it sent a ripple out into the community, a joyful one that is still moving in my heart years later even after the soul who placed it in his window has passed on.  This made me wonder, what if each of us put a sign in our windows?  What would be the effect...these speckles of love sprinkled all over the world. It was from this thought that the Patiently Waiting Campaign was born. 
                                                                                                             ~Blythe Kaufman

St. Andrew's Novena: November 30th-December 25th

For years I have seen mention of the St. Andrew's Novena and was intrigued. Yet I never seemed to get my act together in time to start it. We have our yearly personal Consecration journey starting on November 30th and the Christmas/Infant of Prague Novena beginning December 16th. Yet this year I wanted to try the St. Andrew's Novena. Maybe there are others who might want to begin this novena as well. 

Prayer to Obtain Favors

Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires, (here mention your request), through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His Blessed Mother. Amen.

(it is piously believed that whoever recites the above prayers fifteen times a day from the Feast of St. Andrew (30th Nov) until Christmas will obtain what is asked)

Other Posts You May Enjoy:

How to Start a Children's Rosary
Children's Rosary Collection 

Doing Less so You Can Do More

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.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH OUR NEW VIDEO:

A VIEW FROM HEAVEN 

UNA PERSPECTIVA DESDE EL CIELO

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

Pour plus d'informations sur le Rosaire des Enfants, visitez notre site Web:www.rosairedesenfants.org

Join Us for a Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Beginning November 29th 2019

We would like to invite the members of the Children's Rosary to participate in a Consecration to Jesus through Mary beginning November 29th and ending January 1st on the Feast of Mary Mother of God. 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 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 Bishops and Pope 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. There are different preparations for Consecration available. The traditional St. Louis de Montfort version is available online HERE.

Other Posts You May Enjoy:

How to Start a Children's Rosary
Children's Rosary Collection 

A Child's Devotion to St. Joseph

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.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH OUR NEW VIDEO:

A VIEW FROM HEAVEN 

UNA PERSPECTIVA DESDE EL CIELO

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

Pour plus d'informations sur le Rosaire des Enfants, visitez notre site Web:www.rosairedesenfants.org

Happy Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal November 27th 2019

"O Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to thee."

Thank you to all who joined us for the Miraculous Medal Novena.

Mass Offered on November 25th 2019 for Members of the Children's Rosary

A Mass was offered on November 25th 2019th 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 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 photo above is of the Children's Rosary at St. Patrick's Parish in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania USA. They celebrated their 5th anniversary on October 21st 2019. Often we feature new Children's Rosary groups but it is important to also celebrate the groups that continue to meet faithfully year after year. This Children's Rosary created an M&M candy rosary to celebrate their anniversary. We thank the children and the group leader for all their prayers over these past 5 years.

Other Posts You May Enjoy:

EWTN Interview about the Children's Rosary in Spanish

How to Start a Children's Rosary
Children's Rosary Collection 

Invitation video for Schools

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.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH OUR NEW VIDEO:

A VIEW FROM HEAVEN 

UNA PERSPECTIVA DESDE EL CIELO

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

Pour plus d'informations sur le Rosaire des Enfants, visitez notre site Web:www.rosairedesenfants.org

King of Kings

Happy Feast of Christ the King! We received these pictures today from Pakistan. Many of the Children's Rosary groups had special festivities planned. Six Children's Rosary groups sent pictures from Pakistan. 

The children made signs which they carried in processions honoring Our Lord. The groups that met in the evening held candlelit processions. 

Some of the children from the Children's Rosary acted out parts of Our Lord's life to share with the people.

The six Children's Rosary groups that sent pictures are all new groups. The posters they carry say Jesus is King of Kings in Urdu. The children in all 6 of these groups have been meeting to pray without rosaries. They each would like to have a rosary. As soon as we have raised funds to cover the shipping costs we would like to send them several boxes of rosaries. 

Please consider sending a donation to help us send rosaries to these children in Pakistan. Donations can be made online HERE or sent to:

Children's Rosary
PO Box 271743
West Hartford, CT 06127 USA

*All donations are tax deductible in the US.

Thank you for your kindness and may God bless you abundantly.

Join us for the Novena of the Miraculous Medal: November 18-26th 2019

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 18th -26th).  
* 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. We pray for Peace, Peace Peace!  May God help us to put more miraculous medals in the hands of children. Amen.

A kind family sent the Children's Rosary 2,000 miraculous medals to share with children during our month long trip to East Africa this past June. The children were so grateful to receive a miraculous medal. Unfortunately, we ran out of medals and many many children did not receive one. We pray God may open hearts to help us send more miraculous medals. The family that sent the 2,000 miraculous medals ordered them from St. Paul St. Evangelization.

If there are any souls who feel moved to send us miraculous medals to share with children please send them to:

Children's Rosary

PO Box 271743

West Hartford, CT 06127 USA

May God Bless you!

Little Ones Becoming Leaders in Their Faith

On October 13th, our little Children's Rosary at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in West Hartford Connecticut, met. This is the home parish of the Children's Rosary. This is where the Children's Rosary began. Despite it being the home of the Children's Rosary, our group has at most had 20 children and often is much smaller with just a few children attending. We have seen repeatedly that numbers do not matter it is the faithfulness that God is asking of us. On October 13th, 4 children attended the Children's Rosary which included two of my own children. A little girl named Fiona (approximately 8 years old) and Peyton age 3 were there and pictured above.

Fiona's father shared with us that in her Spanish class they call her Fatima. Given it was October 13th, the anniversary of the miracle of the Sun in Fatima Portugal, we proceeded to call her Fatima for the remainder of the meeting.  Fatima took over the primary role of leading the prayers from the podium for our Children's Rosary. This was the first time Peyton, age 3, had come to the Children's Rosary. This appeared to be the first time she had prayed a Rosary.


Immediately we asked her to help by holding open the Children's Rosary book for Fatima so that she could look at the pictures of the mysteries as she led the prayers. It was a beautiful sight to behold. Little Peyton's eyes were the only thing seen over the book. She was so tiny yet so eager to help Fatima. She would periodically look at Fatima who was now taking a leadership role and serving as a model for Peyton. I could remember when Fatima, only a little over a year ago, was new to the Children's Rosary and was also learning from others. So quickly she had become a leader and was now guiding a younger one. Helping Peyton clearly made her happy and she was very excited to lead the adults in the pews in prayer. My older two children who were there kneeling around the altar have been guides for many children and now they too appreciated what was happening. Fatima whom they had helped was now helping a littler one and this gave us all great joy. One wonders how do we cultivate leaders in the Church. On October 13th Our Lady gave us a lesson. Start young, bring them together and put a Rosary in their hands. 

This past Sunday, November 10th, Peyton was back and she opened our Children's Rosary by doing the Sign of the Cross. She also was so proud she had learned part of our Children's Rosary theme song: Rosary Children. It hadn't taken long and already we were seeing a new leader at the tender age of 3!

Release of the New Children's Rosary Christmas Card for 2019!

We are so excited to release this year's Children's Rosary

Christmas Card. 

Meet the artist: these cards were painted by Abigail a member of the Children's Rosary. She lives on a farm with her 5 siblings in Wisconsin. She has a passion for art and sharing her faith. 

A box of 25 cards is available to order through EWTN Religious Catalog. By sending these cards this Christmas you also help support the Children's Rosary. With each box of cards purchased, a portion goes to help our mission of bringing children to prayer. These cards also open a door for Our Lord and Our Lady. On the back of each card there is information about the Children's Rosary. 

For more information on ordering and to view the inside and back of the card click HERE
* please note that the watermark is not present on the cards. 

New Children's Rosary Group Meets in Kentucky on the Feast of All Souls

Today a new Children's Rosary met for the first time at Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Danville, Kentucky USA. Nine children attended. The new group was Consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary. The children met after the Mass for All Souls in their Adoration Chapel in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Fr. Anthony McLaughlin, JCD so kindly joined the children for the meeting after speaking with parishioners after the Mass. The new group plans to continue meeting on the first Saturday of each month.

We welcome the members of this new Children's Rosary group!

For those interested in starting a Children's Rosary in their parish or school we have instructional videos to help. We have an instructional video for parish based groups and one for schools.