Bringing Our Children to Our Blessed Mother

Children's Rosary held on Nov 17th 2013
 at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Timor Leste

On this beautiful Feast of the Presentation of Mary, one can contemplate little Mary age three being brought to the Temple by her parents Anne and Joachim.  Little Mary kneeling in prayer with her parents close beside her.  We know Mary is a most beautiful example of purity and fullness of love.  As parents we want our children to grow in holiness as Mary did through her childhood.  

Seeing this recent picture of the Children's Rosary in Timor Leste one can see how beautifully Our Blessed Mother helps our children when we bring them to her.  She guides them in prayer and love to her Son.  

We pray to her tonight to gently take our children by the hand and cover them with her Mantle of love and protection.  Amen.

The Children's Rosary at St. Mary's School in Orange, Texas will meet tomorrow at 7:05 AM Central Time. Please consider joining the children in prayer from your home.  The children always pray for those unifying prayers with them.

Presentation of Mary in the Temple

On this beautiful day when we honor the Presentation of Mary in the Temple please consider joining our Blessed Mother in prayer of the Rosary today at 5PM EST.  The Children's Rosary in Rye, New York will be meeting at Resurrection Church. The children always pray for those unifying prayers with them.

Words From the Children's Rosary

ANSWERING THE QUESTION:

 WHY IS THE CHILDREN'S ROSARY IMPORTANT

Recently we introduced a new weekly highlight on the Children's Rosary Blog: Words from the Children Wednesdays. As the Children's Rosary is a prayer movement composed of children and led by children we have begun to highlight some of the beautiful feedback we have been getting from the children from our different Children's Rosary groups.  

This week we are featuring a picture from a 9 year old member of the Children's Rosary from West Hartford, Connecticut USA.  As the month of November is dedicated to the Holy Souls it seemed a perfect time to highlight this drawing.  

What is particularly special about this drawing is this child's faith that a single child kneeling in prayer of the Rosary can help to bring a great many souls to heaven.  It is this simple and beautiful trust that surely must be so pleaseing to Our Lord who so loves these dear souls in purgatory and takes such pleasure in seeing a little one praying for them.

All of our Children's Rosary groups include in their petitions the souls in purgatory.  
A special thank you for all of the drawings and notes which have been submitted from the children. Please continue to send them in.  Thank you all and God Bless!

New Children's Rosary in California, USA

There is a new Children's Rosary group meeting for the first time this evening in Angels Camp, California at St. Patrick's Parish.  This Church is in northern California in the Sierra Foothills.  This part of the United States is known for its vineyards and the historic California Gold Rush. Scenes from this region are breathtaking.

This new group will meet this evening at 4PM Pacific time.  This is the first meeting of a Children's Rosary in California.  This new group has also chosen to meet during their Parishes weekly youth formation class.  On this eve of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary we are so grateful to present to Our Lady another Children's Rosary which will be Consecrated to her Immaculate Heart and the Sacred Heart of her Son Jesus.

Please consider joining the children in prayer either from the Church or from your home.  The children always pray for those unifying prayers with them.

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne

This portrait of Mother Duchesne was reportedly done by an Ursuline nun in New Orleans
 and said to most closely resemble what she really looked like

Favorite Quotes of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne:

You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.

I love my solitude, and I would love it still more if I had more of it.

God alone and the desire of His glory - nothing else matters.

Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

Lord, I lean on You alone for strength. Give me your arm to support me, your shoulders to carry me, your breast on which to lay my head, your Cross to uphold me, your Eucharist to nourish me. On you Lord, I shall sleep and rest in peace.

Quotes On Suffering 

Let us bear our cross and leave it to God to determine the length and the weight.

Never forget that the road to Heaven is the Way of the Cross. Jesus has called us to follow Him, bearing the Cross as He did.

He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.

Background:

St Philippine Duchesne was a religious sister born in Grenoble France.  She was born in 1769 and lived until November 18th 1852. She spent a good deal of her life in Midwestern United States and brought the Society of the Sacred heart to America. The first Sacred Heart house built outside France was one she founded in a log cabin in St. Louis Missouri. St. Philippine also worked with the Native Americans and they were fond of calling her Quahkahkanumad, which means “women who prayers always.”  St. Philippine spent her last 10 years mostly in prayer in humble accommodations and passed away on Nov 18th 1852,

She was canonized by Pope John Paul II on July 3rd 1988.

Reflections

As a student of the Society of the Sacred Heart in middle school and high school I grew up hearing about St. Philippine.  Today as we have two Children’s Rosary groups meeting one in a school there is a wonderful joy and hope that St. Philippine will intercede for the Children’s Rosary and help our children as they grow in faith. Thank you St. Philippine.

Please consider joining the Children in prayer of the Rosary today.  The Children’s Rosary at Trinity Academy in Shenandoah Pennsylvania will meet at 12:20PM EST today and a second Children’s Rosary will meet in Mahopac, New York at 4:30 at St. John the Evangelist parish.  Please consider joining the children in prayer.  They always pray for those unifying prayers with them.

The Rosary is a "Spiritual Medicine" according to Pope Francis

Pope Francis at his Angeuls Address on Nov 17th 2013
Photo Credit Gregorio Borgia

The Rosary is a "Spiritual Medicine" according to Pope Francis at his Angelus address today. The Holy Father held up a box that looked like a pill box which contained a Rosary. He joked that he is like a Pharmacist. He recommends praying the Rosary as being "good for the Heart".

Join our Children's Rosary at Stim Thomas Church in Thomaston, Connecticut today in prayer of the Rosary either at the Church or from your home.  They will be meeting at 11AM ET.  The children always pray for those unifying prayes with them.

Other posts you may enjoy:
How to Start a Children's Rosary
Our Children are open to prayer they only need an invitation
The extended hands of Our Blessed Mother

New Children's Rosary to Meet in Sulphur, Louisiana Tomorrow

It is truly a special event to have a new Children's Rosary group meet for the first time.  At the first meeting the group is consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.  Such a gift to Our Lord and Our Lady is a beautiful thing to imagine.  The efforts of one or more souls to bring children to prayer of the Rosary must bring such joy to Our Lord who so loves the prayers of children.  

Our Lady of LaSalette

Each month I like to imagine Our Lady comes before Our Lord.  He asks her, which groups do you want this month?  She then shares with Him those special little groups her heart has been waiting for.  With each group that forms Our Lady has more prayers to bring to her Son and hence He grants her more groups.  It becomes exponential.  This is simply how I like to imagine this happening.  Yet one thing that has become clear is that the speed of the new groups is becoming faster and faster.  Every few days another person contacts us feeling called to begin a group.  These new groups could start with just one child or two children and those feeling called to begin a group should never feel worried that their are not enough children in their parish.  Many of our group leaders do not even have small children.  Our Lady looks for willing hearts close to her to begin a group everything else pales in comparison. With an open heart and a simple yes to Our Lady she helps put the pieces in place.   Those interested in beginning a group please contact Blythe Kaufman at blythe.kaufman@gmail.com and we will also help you as best we can.

Children's Rosary at St. Mary's Church
in Corvallis Oregon

This weekend a new Children's Rosary group is meeting at 9:30 AM Central time at Our Lady of LaSalette Church in Sulphur, Louisiana.  The name of the Church is in honor of Our Blessed Mother who appeared in the Swiss Alps to two small children who were shepherding cows.  She appeared on Sept 19th 1846 on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. Our Blessed Mother cried during the apparition with the children.  In LaSalette Our Lady pointed out the great blessing and mercy of the Holy Rosary.  It is thus such a consolation to have children meeting in prayer of the Rosary in a Church named after a time in history when Our Lady came to children with requests of prayer and reconciliation.

We also have two other groups meeting on Saturday.
The Children's Rosary at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Timor Leste will meet on Saturday at 3:00PM local time.
The Children's Rosary at St. Mary's Church in Corvallis, Oregon will meet at 9AM Pacific time.

Please consider joining the children in prayer either at the Church or from your home.  The children always pray for those unifying prayers with them