Children's Rosary at St. Patrick's Primary School in Castledawson, Ireland

The Children's Rosary at St. Patrick's Primary school has been meeting weekly during Advent. Twenty children have given up their lunchtime break to come together in prayer. 

One of the group leaders recently shared that she has noticed the strength of the children's prayers growing, and they were getting louder. With each decade more hands have been going up; more children wanted to have a turn in leading the prayers. Below is a note from Lynn Gallagher one of the group leaders:

"Yesterday's Rosary group was really lovely. Lots and lots of children again, all giving up their lunch break. At the beginning, my co-lead Helen urged the children to be missionaries of God and to individually go out and encourage others to pray the Rosary. We asked each child to lay a handful of straw on the manger bed to represent their prayers and sacrifices in order to make Jesus' bed really soft. At the end they got a book mark and wrapped cookie.  After the lunchtime group, I heard that 3 girls made a poster about which I've included. The words spoken at the beginning of our meet seemed to stay with them. Thank God!"

This is the flyer that the three girls made themselves which they wanted to share with the other children who were not part of the Children's Rosary. Truly the children had captured the spirit of evangelization through the Rosary!