OCTOBER - THE MONTH OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY

“The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families…that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.”
~ Sister Lucia dos Santos, Fatima seer

October is the month of The Most Holy Rosary - what a beautiful gift our Mother has given us!  I heard about a blog recently that refers to the Rosary as "battle beads", and what a perfect description that is.   Don't know about you, but so often I get distracted and my mind wanders while I'm praying the Rosary.  Or even worse, I'm ashamed to admit, I usually fall asleep when praying it at bedtime!  St. Teresa of Avila used to say she was plagued by distractions during prayer, comparing it to wild horses running in all different directions (or something to that effect).   Boy, can I relate!  But no matter how poorly my Rosary is said, I will never give up praying my "battle beads". It has been a lifeline in good times and bad, and many a night when I have had trouble sleeping, it has been the cure for insomnia. And, like St. Anthony Mary Claret said, "when people love and recite the Rosary they find it makes them better." If all else was taken away from us - The opportunity to attend Mass, spiritual books, the Bible - the Rosary will still be there to bolster us. You don't even need a Rosary to pray it, God gave us just the right number of fingers - 1 for each of the 10 Hail Marys in a decade! 


May you all be blessed on this beautiful feast of Our Lady of the Rosary and throughout this Month of The Holy Rosary!  Let us heed our Mother's request to  pray for this troubled world we live in.


Here are some excellent links to help with distractions while praying the Rosary:


http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/Articles/four-ways-to-avoid-distractions-during-the-rosary.html?utm_campaign=1916&utm_content=E0192&utm_medium=email&utm_source=E0192&utm_term=E0192

http://acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2006/07/distractions-during-prayer.html

http://www.mycatholicsource.com/mcs/dusub/rosary_tips.htm

http://www.howtopraytherosary.net/prayingtips.html

Let's be Our Lady's Fools - a blog on the America Needs Fatima site about the Rosary


Please see our Praying the Rosary section on our home page for additional links.