Oct 7 - Our Lady of the Rosary/Our Lady of Victory

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This Sunday, Oct. 7 is the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary - formerly called Our Lady of Victory. Since Oct. 7 is a Sunday, the Sunday Liturgy will take precedence, but hopefully, many Priests and Deacons will make at least some mention of the powerful intercession of Mary, commemorated in the past Victory at Lepanto, and the many victories won through her intercession in so many crises – both personal and worldwide.
Saint Pius V established this feast in 1573. The purpose was to thank God for the victory of Christians over the Turks at Lepanto—a victory attributed to the praying of the rosary. Clement XI extended the feast to the universal Church in 1716.

The development of the rosary has a long history. First a practice developed of praying 150 Our Fathers in imitation of the 150 Psalms. Then there was a parallel practice of praying 150 Hail Marys. Soon a mystery of Jesus’ life was attached to each Hail Mary. Though Mary’s giving of the rosary to Saint Dominic is recognized as a legend, the development of this prayer form owes much to the followers of Saint Dominic. One of them, Alan de la Roche, was known as “the apostle of the rosary.” He founded the first Confraternity of the Rosary in the 15th century. In the 16th century, the rosary was developed to its present form—with the 15 mysteries: joyful, sorrowful and glorious. In 2002, Pope John Paul II added five Mysteries of Light to this devotion. See HERE
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Pope Francis recently encouraged the Church to pray the Rosary daily followed by the “Sub Tuum” ( "We fly to thy protection…) prayer and the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel for protection in the battles against evil we are facing in the Church today:
We fly to thy protection, O holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin.

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
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Come Holy Spirit, fill the Hearts of Your Faithful, kindle in us, the fire of Your Love.
Jesus we trust in You.
Mother Mary, Queen of the Rosary, Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
St. Joseph, St. Michael and all you holy Saints and Angels. pray for us!
 
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Tomorrow, Oct. 7, is the day for the Rosary Coast to Coast in USA.
There will be many groups praying the Rosary for the United States on that day, all over the country.
Also the annual National Rosary Rally will be happening in DC, at the conclusion of the 54-day “Novena for our Nation”.
 
May I ask where you learn this information, I would like to be informed as well. My husband joined the confraternity of the Holy Rosary last year and gets newsletters but is there a website where one can be so informed or a few different ones perhaps. I feel out of the loop a lot.
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Fr. Richard Heilman, who operates RomanCatholicMan.com web site and its associated online shop, RomanCatholicGear, runs several 54-day Novenas online every year and is one of the main organizers of the annual National Rosary Rally. He has also been involved with Rosary Coast to Coast in USA. He has a (closed) Facebook group and a web page where he promotes these things. Fr. Heilman is very traditional and is friendly with Fr. Z, so I agree with some of the things he says and others I don’t, but we can always all agree that it’s good to pray the Rosary for the country or for the Pope or for personal holiness. (Also he is always trying to sell things from his website for fund raising, but you don’t have to buy them to say the prayers.)

I see Fr. Heilman as being this generation’s equivalent to Fr. Peyton, the “Rosary Priest”, who went around encouraging large groups of people to pray the Rosary. Fr. Peyton did not have the Internet at his disposal - the Internet makes it very easy to join a big group of people in prayer.

If you go to Novenaforournation.com and scroll down there is a map of all the Rosary groups for tomorrow.
 
Sorry, the map is actually at http://rosarycoasttocoast.com/ .

You can get there from Novena for our Nation page, just click on the Rosary Coast to Coast big picture.

I hope you can join us in praying a Rosary tomorrow. You can pray it by yourself or with your husband if you can’t find a group near you that’s convenient.
 
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Thank you! I can’t wait to look through them all. I love that Youtube has Fr Peyton and I can hear his voice and reflections on the rosary. He says it rather quickly is what I notice and I’m slower but that doesn’t matter I can always slow it down I’m sure. The only reason I mention it is because so may folks talk about saying it slowly being more reverent but I find that highly individual now. My husband for example told me once (We we’re saying it together and I was saying it slow partly because I naturally can’t speak quickly and partly because I “spiritually zone in better saying it slow”) that he says it quickly (as I find Fr Peyton does) because to him it’s a battle prayer and his way of saying it is like a battle speech quick and with oomph of force. I respect that as well. Anyway, sorry to digress. I thank you so much for sharing again, God bless you!
 
Fr. Peyton is Irish. Irish people are known for saying the Rosary quickly, often in between doing other things. I actually find Fr. Peyton’s speed to be a good reverent speed for me. When I pray with Mother Angelica, I always have to speed her up a little bit.

My focus in saying the Rosary is to get into a meditative state where I have a rhythm going on with the prayers. As I am thinking (or trying to think) about the mysteries, I do not focus so much on the words of each repeated prayer. Other people may choose to pray slower and focus on the words. As it is a private devotion we can each find a good way that works for us. It’s always interesting when you pray with a group and different people lead the decades though, as some will pray very fast and some will pray very slowly.
 
I appreciate you saying this , and I feel weird saying this but sometimes saying the 10 hail Marys distracts me from the actual mystery and I often repeat because I lose track which i’m sure is ok but I lose track often. I want to say the rosary but I want to only focus on each mystery without words and I know I can do that since it’s a private devotion anyway but then I feel bad because it’s not the actual rosary and I would like to honor our Blessed Mother. I do have attention deficit perhaps that’s why.
 
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Some people on here have said at the beginning of the Mystery, they just announce the mystery, then sit for a couple minutes thinking about it, then pray the decade of prayers, because they can’t think about the mystery and pray at the same time.

Other people use a Scriptural Rosary where you are reading the scripture verse between every Hail Mary so it brings you back to the mystery.

I will sometimes use a Scriptural Rosary or a meditation aid like a video, a booklet or a picture, and try to be looking at the aid while I pray the Hail Marys and such. It requires multiplexing and some days I’m better at it than others, also sometimes I can’t use an aid (you can’t be watching a video while praying with a group in church or in the car) so I just have to use my imagination. Whatever works, just get the prayers said, Mary appreciates our efforts I am sure. St. Therese also had trouble with keeping her mind on the mysteries during the Rosary, so if it was hard for her, it’s probably twice as hard for us.
 
Thanks for your reply, lilypadrees. Every day is Magnificat Day for me! 🙂
 
Thank you, Tis_Bearself, for carrying on the conversation with MarthaSo. The dialogue covered many questions and answers. Yes, certainly the Rosary is both a private devotion and a communal prayer. Some find it had to “slow down” and some find it hard to “speed up” but in charity when we are praying together at our Legion meetings we have come to a comfortable and reverent way to keep all of us either pondering the mysteries or alternating with thoughts on the words of the Our Father, Hail Mary and Gloria.

The Rosary is such a beautiful and powerful prayer because it helps us to grow in our Love for God and His Mother. It can be difficult to keep our minds and hearts focused, but that is part of the spiritual “battle” we wage against the world, the flesh and the devil.

Mary asked the three little children at Fatima to pray and make sacrifices for sinners, and I hope we all are remembering her request and doing our best to intercede with Mary and Jesus for those souls especially who have no one to pray for them. It is no wonder Mary appears so often to children and the child-like for they are so willing to trust, and to respond to one who loves them. 🙂
 
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If you get EWTN, you can watch it throughout the day. It’s on now.
 
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