New Grotto in Honor of Our Lady Begins to Take Shape

Members of the Children's Rosary in Qila Didar Singh Gujranwala, Pakistan are building a Grotto in honor of Our Lady. The Children's Rosary group leader sent these pictures of the progress. He also shared that all the children are working with him on the project.

Significant progress has been made on the floor and brick walls. We will continue to follow this project in the coming weeks. The Children's Rosary group leader asked for prayers for this Grotto Project. 

Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii

"He who propagates my Rosary will be saved" 
This was a promise given to St. Dominic during a vision of Our Blessed Mother. These words were extremely important to Bl. Bartolo Longo. 

Blessed Bartolo had grown up in a religious home where the Rosary was prayed. However, in his early adulthood he had rebelled against his Catholic upbringing and become a satanic priest. It was through a friendship with a Dominican priest that his conversion back to the Catholic faith began. Feeling disconcerted that some ties or effects from his old life of satanism might still exist, he took great consolation and placed his confidence in the promise given to St. Dominic by Our Lady: "He who propagates my Rosary will be saved." Thus, Bartolo Longo sought to spend his life spreading devotion to the Rosary.

He was instrumental in the  construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in the ancient city of Pompeii. This was Consecrated on May 8th 1891. Within the Church, he placed a picture of Our Lady of the Rosary and over time had it restored. This image was connected to many reported miracles. A rendering of this painting was done at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC. We were able to take a picture of it during a visit and have included it above. On this Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii, we ask for her prayers and blessings and also the intercession of Blessed Bartolo Longo who stands as a witness to the veracity of the statement: He who propagates my Rosary will be saved.

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Pope Francis Places the People of Latin America Under the Intercessory Protection of Our Lady

Pope Francis continues to show his beautiful love for Our Lady.

During his trip this week to Brazil for World Youth Day 2013 he visited the Shrine of Aparecida.  It  is one of the largest shrines in the world dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.  He told those present that he had come to place the people of Latin America under the intercessory protection of Our Lady.

Pope Francis went on to say that "it is from Mary that the Church learns true discipleship."

This is not the first time Pope Francis has turned to Our Lady and sought her protection and guidance.  The Holy Father recalled during the visit that he consecrated his pontificate to Our Lady at the Basilica of Mary Major in Rome.

Pope Francis prayed silently in front of the 15 inch statue of Our Lady of Aparecia, the "Black Mary." His eyes began to tear up and he was visibly moved as he prayed before Our Lady.  He later was given a replica of the statue and carried it in his arms.  He made a promise to those present that he would again return to this Shrine in 2017 to honor the 300 year anniversary of the finding of the statue of Our Lady of Aparecia in a nearby river.  

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Our Lady is Going on A Big Trip

Today Our Lady is going on a big trip to begin two Children's Rosary groups in Timor Leste, a country in South East Asia.  Her flight will be a long one as she crosses the globe with 100 Rosaries.  Her distination two parishes on the Island of Timor Leste:  Our Lady of Fatima Parish and St. Joseph Parish.  Many of the rosaries she is traveling with have been made by children and all have been gathered by members of the Children's Rosary with the prayer that children will find a love of Our Lady and her Son through prayer of the Rosary.  

100 Rosaries, many made by children
 ready to be sent to 2 new Children's Rosary groups in East Timor

Over the past two years over 780 Novenas have been said to different saints asking that the Children's Rosary would be the extended hands of Our Lady and her Son and gather a great many souls for Our Lord especially young people.  Today on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel the fruits of so many prayers can be seen.  Our Lady is setting out to bring more of her children to her Son.  

Several weeks ago an inquiry came from a young man from Timor Leste hoping to start a Children's Rosary group.  He is a man of great faith with a Biblical name: Abel.  As we began to correspond he shared his strong devotion to Our Lady and commitment to sharing this love with young people. At first he was considering beginning a Children's Rosary in one parish but then wrote and said he was starting groups in two parishes two hours a part by bus.  He began signing children up for the Children's Rosary and found he had close to 100 children interested in participating. It was beautiful to see this young man named after a shepherd from the Bible gathering so many "sheep" for the Lord.

Whenever possible, if a new group is in need of rosaries the Children's Rosary tries to help and so our network of members went into action to make and gather enough rosaries for these two new groups.  Abel then wrote to us with another request.  Could we send a statue of Our Lady.  While this at first seemed impossible I could not shake the feeling that Our Lady would show us a way.  Today on the Feast of Mount Carmel she provided a perfect statue.  Our pastor at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in West Hartford offered one of our statues of Our Lady for the group.  It was hollow and relatively light which was perfect for the shipping.  

Through each step of this project children have been in the center.  The Children's Rosary is a prayer movement composed of children and lead by children. Today both Asher, age 6 and Kostin age 9 helped carry our Lady to the post office.  Despite the 95 degree heat they were all smiles.  Happy to share Our Lady with more children and help form two new Children's Rosary groups. 

Thank you Blessed Mother for your unfailing love and assistance.