"The Family that Prays Together Stays Together and a World at Prayer Will Be a World at Peace.": Fr. Patrick Peyton

Fr. Peyton addresses
one of his rosary crusades.

Sleep and I are not on good terms many nights. Last night was one of them. I woke about 3:45 this morning and got up at 4:15. Because of the mass visitation of family the past eight days, I haven't watched any Christmas movies (We play games more than we watch movies.) so I snuggled up under a blanket with my coffee and put on a silly black and white that isn't worth mentioning. Then, browsing through a list of "classic Christmas shows," I stumbled upon A Star is Rising from "rosary priest" Fr. Patrick Peyton about the coming of the three kings to Bethlehem. I've always loved Fr. Peyton so it was an easy choice.

Fr. Peyton was an Irish immigrant from a poor family who came to the United States as a young man in 1928 and worked in the coal mines. After being cured of tuberculosis through the intercession of the Blessed Mother, he decided to become a priest and spend his life working to spread the rosary. After organizing many rosary crusades in the U.S. and around the world, he decided to expand his reach through modern means of communication.

The Family that Prays Together Stays Together

"The family that prays together stays together." You've heard that right? It was the slogan of a man called the rosary priest, Fr. Patrick Peyton. Father Peyton used the media (like St. Maximillian Kolbe before him) to spread the faith. His Family Theater and Rosary crusades reached millions of people on every continent.

Fr. Peyton's cause for canonization is being introduced in Baltimore today. It certainly is timely and I urge you to pray your rosary today offering it for God's will in this matter. Suffering families surely need prayer. And if you want to read a great autobiography see if you can find All For Her. Thank you, Lord, for giving us such men to serve your Church.