UPCOMING EVENTS
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Month of October – Month of Holy Rosary
“Teach them to say the Rosary, the family Rosary, and all will be well.” St Mother Teresa of Calcutta
We will understand the importance of Rosary in the month of October with little bit of history. In the 16th century, the Islamic Ottoman Empire presented a serious military threat to western Europe and sent a fleet of ships to attack Christian defences in southern Europe. Pope Pius V recognized the grave danger and organized a fleet called the Holy League to confront the navy of“Teach them to say the Rosary, the family Rosary, and all will be well.” St Mother Teresa of Calcutta
We will understand the importance of Rosary in the month of October with little bit of history. In the 16th century, the Islamic Ottoman Empire presented a serious military threat to western Europe and sent a fleet of ships to attack Christian defences in southern Europe. Pope Pius V recognized the grave danger and organized a fleet called the Holy League to confront the navy of the Ottoman Turks.
Pius V knew he needed more than just military strength to defend Christian Europe, so he asked that all the faithful pray the rosary, requesting the intercession of the Blessed Mother. At the end of the Battle of Lepanto, the Holy League was victorious and the maritime expansion of the Ottoman Empire was permanently prevented. The next year, Pius V established a feast on October 7 in honour of the Blessed Mother, originally called Our Lady of Victory.
The entire month of October was dedicated to the rosary in 1884 by Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical “Superiore Anno”
May I ask you, during this month of October, to pray a decade of rosary for someone other than your family member?
The concept of “Chain Rosary” is something we can look at, form a group either by your family members or by friends and pray the rosary every night without fail. Make sure, at least one person in the group will pray the rosary so that the chain is not broken.
“With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.” St John Paul II
Fr James T Antony CMI