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The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary


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Our Lady of Fatima by Charles Bosseron Chambers


On the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, October 7th, the girls and I spent the afternoon coloring pictures of our Blessed Mother and reading "A Children's Rosary". The pages are illustrated with the mysteries of the rosary. After reading the title of the mystery, I asked my 3-year old to explain what was happening in each picture. She says, "baby in belly" for the second Joyful Mystery and "baby Jesus born" for the third Joyful Mystery. She has been learning the mysteries of the rosary with the help of the ever-joyful Brother Francis. We have two episodes of the series and they are played over and over again. The girls favorite song is "Let's pray, Let's pray!"


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Kisses for Jesus

"Sacramentals are sacred signs instituted by the Church. They prepare men to receive the fruits of the sacraments and sanctify different circumstances of life." CCC 1677



The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary | by CustodiansofBeauty.blogspot.com



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Our Lady of Fatima holds a rosary, too!



The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary | by CustodiansofBeauty.blogspot.com
A rosary of roses for Mary


These fun (and free!) rosary coloring pages are from Paper Dali and St. John the Baptist Religious Education. Both these sites are a great resource for finding coloring pages of the saints, stations of the cross and the mysteries of the rosary.  

The word Rosary, in Latin rosarium, means "Crown of Roses". Our Lady has revealed to us that each time we pray a Hail Mary we are giving her a beautiful rose and each complete rosary makes her a crown of roses.



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The Fifteen Promises of Our Lady

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.

6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise.

9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.

12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.

14. All who recite the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.

15. Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

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