Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish hosts a Rosary Prayer Meeting every first Saturday of the month. Our next meeting is Saturday July 1st at 7:00 pm. All are welcome, even if you’ve never prayed the Rosary before! Prayer is followed by discussion about the Mysteries of the life of Christ, and the power of prayer in our lives. Prayer intentions can be sent to HolyRosaryEvents@hotmail.com, we will pray for you at our next meeting!

The Rosary is also prayed at the St Henri Church (3000 chemin Ste. Marie) after the 8:15 am Mass every Monday, Wednesday,  and Friday. 

There are few images that are as inherently Catholic as the Rosary. It’s right up there with the Crucifix, the Pope, and the roman collar. Many Saints, Popes and Christian thinkers and theologians promoted the great benefits of praying the Rosary. 

• St. Pope John Paul II said “The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.”
•  Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen said “The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.”
• Pope St. Pius X said: “The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God…and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.”

But what does that mean for you? 

It means… a moment, fifteen short minutes a day, or even a week, that you take out from your busy life and just… stop. A small quarter of an hour where you make time for yourself, and for God. Here are some tips to help you get started:

You can learn it from a podcast or YouTube 

If you don’t know how to pray the Rosary, or some of the prayers, a good way to learn is to pray along with a Podcast or YouTube video. Here are some suggestions: A Rosary Companion on Spotify & The Rosary with Bishop Robert Baron on YouTube

You don’t need a Rosary to start praying the Rosary.

You read that right! So long as you have ten fingers to keep track of the Hail Mary’s, you can start  praying the Rosary right now! 

You don’t have to pray before bedtime. 

We all have this image in our head of Nana praying the Rosary on her knees at her bedside. In reality you can pray the Rosary anywhere: on walks, at the park while you push your children on the swings, or in the car during your morning or evening commute. There are lots of occasions where you can pull out your Rosary and start praying.

You don’t have to pray it all at once.

Only have a few spare minutes scattered throughout the day? That’s fine! You can start the Rosary in the morning, and pray a decade (The Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, and a Glory Be) here and there. Before you know it, you’ll have made it through all five decades!

The repetition of the Rosary can seem empty, or even boring at first, but just imagine each decade as one of those old dynamo flashlights. For each decade we meditate on a mystery of the life of Christ, each Ave (Hail Mary) is a crank of the dynamo. When you reach the end of that decade, bam! Turn on the light of that flashlight, the light of Christ, with a “GLORY BE to the Father, to the Son, to the Holy Spirit …”. Isn’t that just amazing? 

The more we make time for prayer, the more we’ll find we have time for prayer. The important thing is to make that effort once in a while, then weekly, then daily for ourselves, and most especially for God. And there is none better to help us make time in our lives for our Lord than his Blessed Mother and her Holy Rosary.

“Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me, says the Lord.” Jer. 29:12-14a