Pray the Rosary: To Protect Your Family, Your Parish, Your Community, and the World!

I received the email below the other day from a friend after meeting him by chance at a local restaurant. We had taken our granddaughter out for lunch after she played one of Bianca's suitors in The Taming of the Shrew at Chelsea Academy. As we were leaving, he came in with some others. We had passed a group at the park next to the restaurant praying the rosary with a large statue of Our Lady of Fatima and a banner proclaiming her. Wonderful! I asked if he had been with the group since I know he's a mover and shaker when it comes to organizing public prayer. Anyway, He said, no, they had been attending a funeral. 

At any rate he invited me to join some of these events. They take place in Front Royal which is about forty minutes form our home in Woodstock, but I hope to join them on days I'll be up there. With the cost of gas, we'll be trying to consolidate errands and activities and limit our traveling. If you live in the Front Royal area, though, consider joining some of these prayer events. We certainly need prayer protection these days. And if you don't live in Front Royal, you can still join. Think of it as distance praying. We are all united when we pray Mary's rosary!

Our Lady, Queen of the Holy Rosary, pray for us. 

Our Lady, Queen of Peace, pray for us.

February 26 

Dear Mary Ann,

    I am glad that we met in the Mexican restaurant on Saturday.  You said you would make a note of our having a Rosary in the Park holy hour every Saturday at noon.  That is just one of 3 extra rosaries that some of us gather for each week.

    On Tuesdays, there is a Block Rosary in the Shenandoah Shores area [near Christendom College].  Since Covid hit, this group usually meets in the chapel at Seton Home School at 7:30 PM.  I've attached a file with the history of the Block Rosary in case you are unfamiliar with it.  (Tonight the Block Rosary will be part of the Holy Face Holy Hour in the chapel at St. John's at 7:00 PM).

    On Friday nights, right now at 6:00 PM, we have a Rosary mini-procession on the church grounds to pray for protection from threats to the chapel and parish properties.

    On Saturdays at noon, we pray at the Fantasyland Park, next to the Mexican Restaurant, for the Church and for the conversion of America.

    I have a list of email addresses to which I send out reminders of these different devotions, and of special things that come up.  Would you like me to add your email to that list?

        God bless you and your family, and your good work with Les Femmes.

I had never heard of the block rosary. What a wonderful project! I'll be blogging about that in another post. The Rosary has saved countries from war and Communism. Have you ever read about the rectory only a few blocks from ground zero in Hiroshima and the eight priests who followed Mary's Fatima message? Not only did they all survive, but none ever suffered ill effects from the radiation. If you want peace for the world in these troubled times, pray the rosary!