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The Children's Rosary® is a prayer group movement that was begun out of love for Our Lady and Her Son. Jesus tells us "Truly, I say to you unless you turn and become like children you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 18:3). The Children's Rosary is an effort to begin in parishes rosary prayer groups composed of children and led by children. Through prayer of the Rosary Our Lady will guide our young people while at the same time sanctify families and Parishes.
Walking the halls of the Shrine in my Children’s Rosary T-shirt and hiking backpack between shifts of work and in going to Mass or Adoration, I know I’m not the typical volunteer.
The picture above is a new Children's Rosary group at St Mary's Church in Lahore, Pakistan.
The group was Consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate heart of Mary at the first meeting by the parish priest Fr. Maxim Cardoza, OFM Cap.
If you are not familiar with La Salette Shrine where Asher is staying, Asher provides a nice post with the full background of the apparition (Click HERE to learn more).
To see all of Asher's dispatches from his journey click HERE
On Monday, July 14, I took the day to go to the Shrine of Notre Dame du Laus to stop in at the Adoratio conference there. My mother and I had attended Adoratio in 2024 in Toulon, and so it was nice to see attendees again, including Fr. Florian, and to meet people I had only known online, including Stefan from Germany (shown in the picture above far left), who was so munificent as to have printed and send many Children's Rosary books for distribution. I took the bus to Gap from Corps, and Florence, who was kind enough to host us for dinner last year when we were in France, generously took me from the Gap bus station to the Shrine.
The Children's Rosary from St. Patrick's Church in Celbridge, Ireland gathered in the photo below. They took a mini bus to the Radio Maria Station in Ireland (photo above) where they led the Rosary at 12:30 pm on Saturday June 28, 2025. This was also the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Members of the Children's Rosary have been helping to lead the Rosary at 12:30 pm on Saturday afternoons. It has been a lovely way for listeners to hear members of the Children's Rosary each week from different parts of the country. This is the first time one of the groups has traveled to lead the prayers on site at the station. Usually they call into the station. The children had a lovely visit. Sixteen children attended, six parents, two group leaders and two Radio Maria staff. Anne Carney, one of the group leaders, share "the Radio Maria staff were so welcoming and arranged a little party for the children and parents also. We had a wonderful time".
This Children's Rosary group will be using our book Child Consecration (https://consagraciondeninos.com) to make a 33 Day personal Consecration journey beginning September 4.
Asher began a year-long journey to help spread the Children's Rosary on June 28. The month of July he is spending as a volunteer at La Salette Shrine in France. Today he was praying in the chapel when Janet Vogel entered. He recognized her. We met Janet last summer in France at the Adoratio Conference in Toulon. She has since begun a Children's Rosary prayer group in Switzerland. Both Asher and Janet will be attending the Adoratio Conference which begins July 13 at Notre-Dame du Laus. Asher will only be able to attend on July 14 but he looks forward to seeing other Children's Rosary group leaders who will be attending.
We received these lovely pictures today from the Children's Rosary group in Fulda, Germany. They participated in the Corpus Christi Procession on Thursday June 19 from the Church "Rabanus-Maurus-Kirche".
Dear Friends,
As many of you may know Asher Kaufman, age 18, left on June 28 for a year-long trip to help spread the Children's Rosary in Europe and Africa. He is spending July in the French Alps at La Salette Shrine. Primarily he is assigned to volunteering at their welcome desk but he has also been helping in the housekeeping section of the Shrine making beds and in the kitchen washing dishes. After making 50 beds his first day, he happily reported he knows how to make a hospital corner properly.
As La Salette is a pilgrimage site he has had the opportunity to meet many pilgrims and priests and share with them about the Children's Rosary. After six days of work volunteers at the Shrine are given a day off. Each day there is an excursion to various villages in the region. Only those on a day off can travel to the excursion. Last Friday Asher went on one of these excursions.
The village was on the mountain next to the shrine but on the far side of the mountain. As the crow flies, it was 14 kms but it took them 1 hour by car to arrive there. As they approached the village they saw a group of people walking with some purpose across a field.
At first they thought they might be looking for something and one person joked that they were looking for gold. But once Asher arrived, he did speak with this group and found out they were botanists from Grenoble taking plant samples from the mountain.
This small village had a swift moving river running through it. The views are beautiful and give glory to God for all He has made. "In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also" (Psalm 95:4).
Thank you,
Blythe