Mass Offered for Seminarians on April 1st 2020

A Mass was offered on April 1st 2020 for all seminarians that they will grow in holiness and lead us all in love. Every month we have a Mass offered for this intention. As our seminarians will be the future shepherds and our children are the future flock, it seemed a beautiful way for the children to help. 

We have been periodically featuring different seminarians on the first of the month by inviting them to share something of themselves - a beautiful sharing of faith and love of Our Lord. We will be featuring Santiago Gabriaguez. He is a seminarian from San Lorenzo, Paraguay. 

I am Santiago Gabriaguez Ojeda, I am 20 years old, and I am from San Lorenzo, Paraguay. I am a seminarian of the Congregación Rogacionista de Corazón de Jesús, and I now am in the second year of philosophy. 

I felt my vocation from when I was very little, I always attended Mass and said, "I want to be like the Father that leads the Mass." This restlessness I conveyed to the Parish Priest and there he presented me with the figure of our founder, Saint Anibal as a model to follow in following Jesus. I began to be an altar server at the tender age of 6, since then I have never separated from this beautiful service on the altar. At the age of 11 I began to carry out the vocational experience in the seminary until I finished High School in 2017. I entered the Congregation in 2018. 

I want to be a religious serving the Church in the priesthood. I want to be a worker of the harvest closest to my town, bringing the Gospel wherever it is necessary, to serve and educate, to show the love of God in forgiveness and relive each day the sacrifice of the cross. 
I count on your prayers.

Send, Lord, Holy Apostles to your Church!

Santiago Gabriaguez O.
Seminarista Rogacionista

We are very excited that Santiago Gabriaguez Ojeda reached out to us with an interest in spreading the Children's Rosary in his native country of Paraguay. We recently sent him a box of rosaries and Children's Rosary materials, which successfully arrived.

We humbly ask that you please keep Santiago Gabriaguez Ojeda in your prayers.

Today is the 15 Year Anniversary of the Passing of St. John Paul II

Cardinal Dziwisz, who was the Secretary to the late Pope John Paul II, has asked all people at 9:37 PM, local time tonight in Poland, to light a candle. This will be the exact 15 year anniversary of the passing of St. John Paul II. 

Let us ask St. John Paul II to intercede for us. 

Please look up your local time that coincides with 9:37 PM local time in Poland. For those living in the Eastern time in the US it will be 3:37 PM. 

St. John Paul II has been a powerful intercessor for the Children's Rosary. All of our Children's Rosary books, CDs, and DVDs have been dedicated to the Holy Trinity, Our Blessed Mother, and in gratitude for the intercession of St. John Paul II.

Providentially, last night my three kids helped in planting a rose officially named, Pope John Paul II, by the Rose Company Jackson and Perkins. We will look forward to the white blooms that may follow. 

St. John Paul II Pray For Us

Visit our site www.childrensrosary.org and click "Join in Prayer" when you light your candle. This will add a gold twinkling light to the map of the world.

Misa ofrecida por los seminaristas en April 1st 2020

Una misa fue ofrecida hoy por todos los seminaristas que crecen en santidad y que nos guían a todos en amor. Cada mes tenemos una misa ofrecida por este intención. Como nuestros seminaristas serán los pastores del futuro y nuestros niños son el rebaño del futuro, parecía una forma hermosa para que los niños ayuden.

Nosotros hemos presentado periódicamente diferentes seminaristas en el primer día del mes, invitándolos a compartir algo de ellos mismos - un presentación hermosa de la fe y amor de Nuestro Señor. Vamos a estar presentando Santiago Gabriaguez Ojeda. El es una seminarista de San Lorenzo, Paraguay. 

Soy Santiago Gabriaguez Ojeda, tengo 20 años, soy de San Lorenzo, Paraguay. Soy seminarista de la Congregación Rogacionista del Corazón de Jesús, actualmente curso el segundo año de filosofía.
Mi vocación la sentí desde muy pequeño, siempre asistía a misa y decía, "Quiero ser como el Padre que preside la misa." Esa inquietud transmití al Párroco y ahí me presentó la figura de nuestro Fundador San Aníbal cómo modelo a seguir en el seguimiento a Jesús. Inicié a servir en el altar a la tierna edad de los 6 años, desde ahí nunca me he separado de este hermoso servicio en el altar. A los 11 años inicié a realizar la experiencia vocacional en el seminario hasta que terminé en el año 2017 mis estudios secundarios. Ingresé a la Congregación en el año 2018.

Quiero ser religioso sirviendo a la Iglesia con el ministerio sacerdotal, para ser un obrero de la mies cercano a su pueblo, llevando el evangelio donde sea necesario, para servir y educar, para demostrar el amor de Dios en el perdón y revivir cada día el sacrificio de la cruz.
Cuento con vuestras oraciones.

¡Envía Señor, Apóstoles Santos a tu Iglesia!

Santiago Gabriaguez O.
Seminarista Rogacionista

Nosotros estamos muy emocionados que Santiago Gabriaguez Ojeda nos contactó con un interés en propagar el Rosario de Niños en su país de origen, Paraguay. Nosotros recientemente le enviamos una caja de rosarios y materiales del Rosario de Niños, cuales llegaron exitosamente. 

Por favor incluye Santiago Gabriaguez Ojeda en sus oraciones.

Anniversary Novena of Masses begins on April 1st 2020

The ninth anniversary of the first meeting of the Children's Rosary is on April 10th 2020. We have made it an annual tradition to offer a novena of Masses for the 9 days prior to the anniversary for the fulfillment of Our Lady's plans for the Children's Rosary. We then follow this with 9 days of Masses in thanksgiving. As our anniversary falls on Good Friday we will not be able to have any Masses said on that day. Rather we will have Masses celebrated from April 1st through the 9th. This will be followed by 9 days of Masses in thanksgiving starting on April 11th. The support for this effort has always been strong and for the past several years we were able to have three Masses offered on each of the 18 days. We have been able to arrange two daily Masses during each of the 18 days of the novena. Even as Churches are closed, priests we have visited in East Africa are helping to say these Masses privately. We hope to set up even more Masses during these 18 days. 

April 1-9: For the Fulfillment of Our Lady's Plans for the Children's Rosary
April 11th-19th: Thanksgiving

"We offered our rosary for the children who receive them"

We received a package this week from a 5th grade faith formation class from St. Joseph Church in Hastings, Minnesota USA. The note read:

Enclosed are 7 rosaries our faith formation class is sending you for our "service project" this year. We are 5th graders and have learned how to pray the rosary on these beads. We offer our rosary for the children who receive them. Thank you for your ministry. God bless you.

We were very excited to receive this box. We will be including these rosaries in the packages we send out to new Children's Rosary groups.

We encourage other faith formation classes who would like to do a service project to send rosaries to the Children's Rosary. It is a fun activity to learn how to make a rosary and then send it to be shared with another child. Offering prayers as these children did to accompany their rosaries was an added gift!!

Thank you all

Feast of the Annunciation: March 25th 2020

The Children's Rosary has a little gift for all the members.  A Mass was offered for all the members of the Children's Rosary today.  This is something we do on the 25th of every month.

We also wanted to feature one of the drawings we received as a gift during our trip to East Africa this past summer. The picture shown was given to us by Ggay Simon, age 10, who is a student at Uganda Martyrs School in Uganda. 

As today is March 25th we are exactly 9 months from Christmas!  A few years ago a member of the Children's Rosary shared with us a 9 month novena that begins on the Annunciation and ends on Christmas. It is called the Nine Month Novena for Impossible Requests. We included it on the Children's Rosary website a few years ago.  We are including the prayers again. Maybe you would like to bring some special intentions to prayer leading up to Christmas.

This is a daily novena to be said for nine months, beginning with the Annunciation (March 25) and ending on Christmas Eve. 

You may pray for up to three intentions. ------------------------------------------------

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.

To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us,

And after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God,

That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

O Virgin of the Incarnation, a thousand times we praise thee, a thousand times we greet thee, for the joy thou didst know when the Son of God took flesh in thy womb.

Because thou art powerful, O Virgin Mother of God, grant what we beseech thee, for the love of God.

(Here name your three intentions).

Remember, O Most Gracious Virgin Mary,

That never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection,

Implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.

O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions,

But in thy mercy, hear and answer me.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world and in the hearts of all men, even until the end of time. Amen. 

¡Únase a nosotros en oración!

Debido a la propagación del Coronavirus, muchos pueden estar en casa sin poder asistir a la escuela o al trabajo. Las iglesias en muchos lugares están cerradas, como en nuestra Arquidiócesis de Hartford, Connecticut, EE. UU. Para limitar la propagación del virus, se nos recomienda que nos mantengamos alejados de otros en la comunidad. Sin embargo, en la oración podemos permanecer unidos. Nos gustaría pedirle humildemente su ayuda. Por favor únanse con nosotros en oración. Mientras estemos en nuestros hogares, hagamos estos hogares como pequeñas capillas: cada familia es una Iglesia Doméstica. Si tiene hijos, reúnalos para rezar el Rosario, lea las Escrituras y simplemente traiga todas sus preocupaciones y problemas a Nuestro Señor. Antes de que comiences a rezar, visite www.rosariodeninos.org haga clic en el botón: Únase a la oración. Esto agregará una luz dorada parpadeando durante 30 minutos en nuestro Una Perspectiva desde el cielo. Uno de mis hijos vino muy emocionadamente para decirme ayer que había una luz en Gadsden, Alabama, mientras rezábamos. No importa si eres una persona única orando o una familia. Únase a nosotros en oración. Puedes rezar el rosario o meditar en silencio. Su selección de oración es tuya. Simplemente te invitamos a unirse y dejar que otros se unan con usted en nuestro mapa, Una Perspectiva desde el cielo.

Agregue su luz e ilumine nuestro mundo oscuro en oración en www.rosariodeninos.org

Nosotros tenemos un video que ayuda a mostrar la idea detras de la mapa Una Perspectiva desde el cielo.