Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary - How Will You Celebrate it?

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On October 7, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the yearly feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Known for several centuries by the alternate title of “Our Lady of Victory,” the feast day takes place in honor of a 16th century naval victory which secured Europe against Turkish invasion. Pope St. Pius V attributed the victory to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was invoked on the day of the battle through a campaign to pray the Rosary throughout Europe
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I plan on praying the Rosary of course (duh!), but also attending Mass in the evening. I’m looking for some more ideas to make this day truly special.

What are your plans?
 
I didn’t see anything in the bulletin about a holy day of obligation or extra masses?
 
Ragamuffingirl said:
I didn’t see anything in the bulletin about a holy day of obligation or extra masses?
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It is not a Holy Day of Obligation.
Aelred_Minor said:
I often reread G.K. Chesterton’s poem Lepanto on this feast.

Here’s the Wikisource text of it, though there may be typos in addition to the obvious one in the author’s name: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lepanto_(Chesterson
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How interesting! I’ve actually never read this poem. Thanks for posting this. I think I will include it on my blog!
 
TrueLight said:
It is not a Holy Day of Obligation.

How interesting! I’ve actually never read this poem. Thanks for posting this. I think I will include it on my blog!
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Of course the poem is not meant to accurately depict Islam at least as it exists on the surface. Also reference to Africa in a poem about Europeans fighting Turks may be confusing and disconcerting for some people. If I may give my own opinion (going from my memory of the poem; I haven’t read it for a year or two) Chesterton is likely referring to two other historical episodes which he implicitly connects with this one. The first is the Punic Wars between ancient Rome and Carthage, which to Chesterton elsewhere repeatedly represented a real fight of good (Rome) against evil (Carthage). The second and more immediate of course is the long struggle of the Spanish against the Moors, appropriate given Don John’s association with Spain. In both cases we are talking about northern Africa here, not sub-Saharan.
 
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Of course the poem is not meant to accurately depict Islam at least as it exists on the surface. Also reference to Africa in a poem about Europeans fighting Turks may be confusing and disconcerting for some people. If I may give my own opinion (going from my memory of the poem; I haven’t read it for a year or two) Chesterton is likely referring to two other historical episodes which he implicitly connects with this one. The first is the Punic Wars between ancient Rome and Carthage, which to Chesterton elsewhere repeatedly represented a real fight of good (Rome) against evil (Carthage). The second and more immediate of course is the long struggle of the Spanish against the Moors, appropriate given Don John’s association with Spain. In both cases we are talking about northern Africa here, not sub-Saharan.
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I just scanned it and haven’t taken the time to read it completely. Thanks for the heads up!
 
I am a rally captain for a rosary rally in my area of town. This will be held on Sat,Oct. 12th.
This is part of a nation wide effort to make reparation for offenses to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to pray for the conversion of the United States. This effort is also in commentating of the turning of the sun at Fatima.
If interested,you can go to the America Needs Fatima website to find a rally near you.🙂
 
Jeanne_S said:
I am a rally captain for a rosary rally in my area of town. This will be held on Sat,Oct. 12th.
This is part of a nation wide effort to make reparation for offenses to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to pray for the conversion of the United States. This effort is also in commentating of the turning of the sun at Fatima.
If interested,you can go to the America Needs Fatima website to find a rally near you.🙂
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Hi Jeanne,

So how does this work? I put in a zip code which pulled up a rally captain’s name and “custom field”. Is there a way to find out where the rally is taking place?
 
detoutcoeur said:
The Most Holy Rosary is prayed (in French) at the Grotto in Lourdes, France, each day at 3:30 p.m.

en.lourdes-france.org/schedule

en.lourdes-france.org/tv-lourdes/

(There’s a 6-hour time difference between Lourdes and the East Coast.)
timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20131006T0930&p1=263&p2=195

Blessings to all for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary! 🙂
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Awesome! Thanks to all the participants to this thread so far who are teaching me new things. 👍
 
Our parish is having a Rosary Procession in the evening. I will also go to daily Mass in the morning, & say the Rosary during Adoration after mass.
 
TrueLight said:
Hi Jeanne,

So how does this work? I put in a zip code which pulled up a rally captain’s name and “custom field”. Is there a way to find out where the rally is taking place?
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As far as I know that info should then allow you to find specific locations.I know I had trouble posting my rally info to the site,figured it was my ineptitude ;)),but maybe it is the website. having said that I finally just called my info in.If you are so nclined here is a. Number to call.
18665846012 🙂
 
I celebrated my Rosary on her feast day,by saying it twice,once at home and then I went to church and we had a living Rosary at6;30PM,and I was so over whelm.We all had little candles lit and sang songs to Our Lady after each Glory be,I,ll never forget that day.
 
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