A holy man

Rome to consider possible miracle of ‘Rosary Priest’

Quite possibly a saint...

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A sports celebrity shows

how important his faith is...


Show of faith earns praise for Wayne Rooney

Public displays of one's faith are rare, and by celebrities, even rarer. How wonderful!

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Finding a new generation


Contemporary Catholics Retool Rosary

The spectrum of the physical rosary - from the free knotted cord rosaries of The Rosary Army to the multi-thousand dollar rosaries of any number of commercial enterprises...

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We are

We're all dying right now. We're born to it...

Now and at the Hour of Our Death 

"...the only way to Heaven is through the Sacrament of the Present Moment..."

What a beautiful phrase...

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Nice

The Rosary

Really good cartoon art, and a good story, from Killing the Buddha.

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The age of disinformation...

Uproar in Lebanon over Hezbollah chief rosaries

It's all about hearts and minds and creating dissension and striking fear and all those things. It's never an easy answer anymore...

Most times, I think,


you can't separate the discipline of actually saying the prayer (the physical, setting aside time and place, act) from the actual praying of it (the verbal, mental and spiritual act). The discipline to do it can be just as important, and just as miraculous. A good lesson for us all to learn...

Struggling with the Rosary

(Oh, and listening when you're told to do something. That's important, too!)

Stats and stuff


2008’s Seven Hottest Rosaries According To Google

An interesting comment:

"This trend shocks many as the 1960's witnessed a strong push to be a more "modern Church" and saw this antiquated devotion as "past its prime." With over 40 years to judge the fruits of the new "modern Church," many are seeing that there could be a direct correlation with with the fall of devotion to the Rosary and the fall of fidelity to the Catholic Church."

It may have been so in his parish or diocese, but where I'm from the devotion to the rosary and the Blessed Mother has not diminished, and didn't diminish after Vatican II. We have the Novus Ordo Mass in my parish, and lots of people who meet to pray the rosary, too. In fact, SWMBO and I make rosaries, from semi-precious stone heirloom rosaries to plastic, tightly linked rosaries for hospitals to cord knot rosaries. We both lived through the pre and post-Vatican II era as young people and, like others, we haven't lost our faith or our love of the rosary as a wonderful prayer and meditation practice. The comment might just be more blaming change for every bad thing. It's the way some people look at life...

Healing and prayer

Mysteries of Your Life Can Be Revealed and Healed Through Mysteries of Rosary

I believe that prayer can always be healing, though I think that when a prayer like the Rosary is prayed sincerely, faithfully and with a specific intent, then God can use that prayer and reverence to work in us. I have a lot of respect for Fr. Longenecker's opinions, from what I've read so far...

The beginning

of a l-o-o-o-o-n-n-g process...

Sainthood probe starts in US for 'Rosary Priest'

Pope John Paul II's move to a faster, or at least more prolific, canonization process, is being slowed down again by Pope Benedict XVI. I'm not sure that's a bad thing...

A struggle for many

Struggling with the Rosary

Any type of prayer can be a struggle. There are two hard things: one is to learn to focus your mind on what you're doing (prayer isn't empty, rote words or thoughts, and even centering prayer has a focus) and the second one, the biggest one, is to just sit down and do it. That's really the toughest one. Prayer doesn't mindlessly entertain like television or the internet. You have to do it.

That's a lot of work

‘Rosary lady’ seeks more beads to fix

Even just repairing chain rosaries can be a time consuming task...

A rosary from Sr. Lucia

Cory’s rosary: Made by Lucia, blessed by Mary herself

I'm not sure

that using rosaries as magical items will protect violent people from violent acts...

Are rosaries becoming a gang symbol?

The people who wear them are wearing them as fashion items anyway, not as a religious item. People who see them as sacramentals don't wear them, except in certain, and out of the ordinary, instances...

It's out of our hands

Electronic Rosary

Literally.

Whew!

It's the Rosary Bowl, for a Day: Bilingual Event Calls to Unity That Transcends Borders

When I first read the headline I thought they'd mixed the rosary with football or something. You never know anymore!