We celebrate the Most Holy Rosary this month of October, a beautiful gift we've received to help us deepen our prayer life and love for Jesus. Here's two practical ways it does that.
1. As the Rosary is prayed, we meditate and contemplate on the Mysteries of the life of Jesus. We do this by meditating on the four Mysteries of our Lord's life: the Joyful Mysteries, the Luminous Mysteries, the Sorrowful Mysteries and the Glorious Mysteries.
Within each Mystery, we are called to reflect on 5 parts (decades) of the life of Jesus. Here's an example from the Joyful Mysteries: the first decade we meditate on the Annunciation, when Mary gives her yes to the Archangel Gabriel at the invitation to carry Jesus in her womb; the second, the Visitation, where Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth and John the Baptist leaps in the womb of Elizabeth when he recognizes that Jesus, in the womb of Mary, has come into their midst; the third, the birth of Jesus (Nativity); the fourth, the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple; and the fifth, the Find of the child Jesus in the Temple.
By praying and meditating on these Mysteries while praying the Rosary, we are asking the person who knows Jesus best, his own Mother, to teach us who her Son is. Beautiful.
2. We recall that a good parent never neglects their child and that our Lord gives us his own Mother to be our Mother. So when we seek her intercession through the Rosary, we are crying out to her over and over again, "Mom! Mom! Mom!" or "Hail Mary... Hail Mary... Hail Mary!" In her love for the children given to her by her Son, she will listen to our cries and bring them to her Son.
What a gift we've been given. Let us draw nearer to our Mother with greater devotion who desires nothing more than to bring us to her Son. No better way to do that again, but through the Holy Rosary. Pray it by yourself. Pray it with your spouse. Pray it with your children. Pray it as a family. Pray it with Mary and Jesus.
A couple of more exciting things I want to share:
Sunday Faith Formation begins on Sunday, Oct 25th, from 10:45am-12pm.
Click here for a copy of the registration form. There are three forms, make sure you use the correct one (General Registration, 1st Communion & Confirmation). Please send/email your completed forms to Fr Peter ASAP.
Public Mass will resume in the church for the Saturday 5pm Sunday Anticipatory Mass Time. We will continue this through November and if things run well, we'll keep it going. If you able to assist as an Usher at the Saturday 5pm Mass, please contact
Kay Mottaz.
Mary, our Blessed Mother, pray for us!
