Patiently Waiting Campaign 2018

This Advent Place a Patiently Waiting Sign

 in Your Window

Join the Children's Rosary by putting a sign in your window as a beautiful reminder of where our hearts can be found as we prepare ourselves for the coming of Christ. On Christmas replace the sign with one that reads: Christ is Born.

Fourth Anniversary of the Patiently Waiting Campaign

If you have a Children's Rosary in your school we invite you to have the children make signs in class and have them bring them home to put in their windows. The picture above was sent to us from a school in New Jersey last year. 

We have included a flyer for this year. Consider posting this at your parish or school. The flyer can be saved to your computer by right clicking on the image below and clicking save. This can then be printed. Alternatively, if you would like us to email you the pdf please write to blythe@childrensrosary.org 

Send us a Picture
We invite people to send us a picture of their Patiently Waiting sign in their window. Please include in the email where you live. We hope to feature some of these on our website. Pictures can be sent to: blythe.kaufman@gmail.com 

Invitation to Everyone
We should note that the Patiently Waiting Campaign is an invitation to adults and children. One does not have to be involved with the Children's Rosary to participate. 

The story behind the Patiently Waiting Campaign:
A number of years ago, I was walking past a home and in the window a sign read: Patiently Waiting.  It caught my attention.  Each time I walked past it each day I looked at it and was grateful for it. To see the sign made me happy inside. I wondered who put such a sign in their window.  Later I would find out it was a wonderfully holy priest.  After his passing, many shared how special this little sign was to them. It was so simple but it sent a ripple out into the community, a joyful one that is still moving in my heart years later even after the soul who placed it in his window has passed on.  This made me wonder, what if each of us put a sign in our windows?  What would be the effect...these speckles of love sprinkled all over the world. It was from this thought that the Patiently Waiting Campaign was born. 
                                                                                                             ~Blythe Kaufman

Immaculate Conception Novena November 29, 2018-December 7, 2018

In anticipation of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8th) consider saying this Novena from November 29th through December 7th.The following is the same prayer being said during the Novena at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy.

Immaculate Conception Novena 

Father, You prepared the Virgin Mary to be the worthy Mother of Your Son. You let her share beforehand in the salvation Christ would bring by His death, and kept her sinless from the first moment of her conception.

Help us by her prayers to live in Your presence without sin. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

(NCCB, Sacramentary, December 8: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, (p. 752-753).

In a special way we would like invite those joining us to pray for peace. In addition to the prayer listed above, we invite you to also say the Consecration prayers daily to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary listed on our favorite prayers page HERE. 

Thank you for joining us in this Novena. We will be praying for all those who are joining us before a first class relic of Bl. Stanislaus Papczynski, founder of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception. Bl Stanislaus frequently spoke and gave homilies about Mary's Immaculate Conception. We will be asking for his intercession through the course of this Novena. 

Thank you and may God Bless you. Amen

Church Teaching on the Immaculate Conception:

“Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, 'full of grace' through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:

The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin”. (Catechism of the Catholic Faith, 491).

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SEND A CARD TO A LOVED ONE

Remember loved ones by sending one of our Children's Rosary Christmas cards. Before mailing the card, say a prayer for the person receiving it. 

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33 Day Consecration to Jesus Through Mary (November 29th 2018-January 1st 2019)

The Children's Rosary humbly invites you to participate in a 33 Day Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary.  Our Children’s Rosary groups are Consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary at their first meeting. Once a year we invite members to do a personal Consecration. For those of you unfamiliar with Consecration to Jesus through Mary it has been blessed and supported by Cardinal Justin Rigali, Bishops and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. St. John Paul II urged Catholics to make this Act of Entrustment, which involves ten minutes of private prayer daily, for 33 days, in your home.  Many may be familiar with Totus Tuus which was John Paul’s papal motto. It is a Latin phrase meaning "totally yours" and expressed his personal Consecration to Jesus through Mary.

The 33 Day Consecration prayers traditionally precede a Marian Feast and the Feast that we will be saying our Consecration on is January 1st - the Feast of Mary Mother of God.  Therefore we will begin our prayers on November 29th. 

The traditional Consecration prescribed by St. Louis de Montfort can be used free online:  St. Louis de Montfort Consecration. 

For those who have made their Consecration already it is a wonderful practice to renew your Consecration each year.

God Bless you all.

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For more information about the Children's Rosary visit our website: www.childrensrosary.org
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Spiritually Inspired Christmas Gifts: Day 1

REMEMBERING THE HOLY SOULS

Today we would like to begin 9 days of ways to give this Christmas.  Our focus will be on Christ. 
As we are still in the month honoring the Holy Souls this seemed an appropriate way to begin. The Catechism of the Catholic Church encourages the faithful to help the souls that have gone before us. "The Church in its pilgrim members, from the very earliest days of the Christian religion, has honored with great respect the memory of the dead; and 'because it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins' she offers her suffrages for them. Our prayer for them is capable not only of helping them, but also of making their intercession for us effective". (CCC958) One of the most efficacious ways to help the Holy Souls is through having Masses celebrated for them.

Did you know that since October 7, 2017 the Children's Rosary has tried to have 2 Masses offered daily for the Holy Souls in Purgatory? With the exception of several small gaps, we have been successfully able to continue this effort through November of this year. We wish to continue but there is an ongoing cost to requesting Masses. Please consider making a donation to help us continue having Masses said for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. 
Donations can be made online HERE or checks can be made out to Children's Rosary and sent to:

Children's Rosary
PO Box 271743
West Hartford CT 06127 USA

The Holy Souls are grateful for any help we can render them. They in turn remember us in prayer. As these souls enter Heaven they will be our advocates before Our Lord. A Christmas gift to help the Holy Souls brings them joy but also joy to Our Lord as these souls are beloved by God and kindness shown to them is meritorious. 

Thank you for your generosity kindness!

Mass Offered on November 25th 2018 for Members of the Children's Rosary

Happy Feast of Christ the King!

A Mass was offered today for all the members of the Children's Rosary and all who help the Children's Rosary.  We continue to have a Mass said for the this intention on the 25th of each month. The Eucharist is such a powerful gift from Our Lord that when I wanted to extend thanksgiving to all of you I knew of no better way to express my gratitude.  May Our Lord's love be poured down on all of you through the powerful sacrifice of the Holy Mass. 

The picture above was taken during a visit, of several members of the Children's Rosary, to the Major Relic Pilgrimage of the Incorrupt Heart of the Cure of Ars. While the children were kneeling, we prayed together for all the members of the Children's Rosary and all who help the Children's Rosary. We also asked for the intercession of St. Jean Vianney in protecting the purity of the children who are part of the Children's Rosary. It is our hope that these Masses and prayers will continue to help us all on the road to sanctity. St Jean Vianney is a witness of holiness. The icon that is depicted above the relic of St. Jean Vianney is particularly beautiful especially in person. In a very tender way he holds the Crucifix. For Christ the King is not in some lofty place, He is a Crucified Lord. He embodies humility something St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney understood and witnessed so beautifully.

* A special thank you to Ann Ziluck who took the pictures shown above and sent them to us.

Our Sunday Visitor Features Children's Rosary

This week Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) published an article featuring the Children's Rosary. We wanted to humbly share the link to the electronic version HERE.