THE MONTH OF OCTOBER (THE ROSARY):

As we enter the month of October, may I remind you of some significant forthcoming feasts and their significance in helping us to focus our prayer-life during this time? Firstly, and because the Feast falls on the seventh of this month, it is traditionally called the month of the rosary. We know that Our Lady has asked specifically that we use this prayer as a means of confronting the power of evil in our world.

When I was a child in the 1950s there was a great crusade encouraging every family to pray the rosary together. Many of us can testify as to how difficult that was to maintain, but I encourage you to think of ways in which we might encourage one another to use this prayer. Maybe for starters: just one decade together as a family each day, prayed slowly and thoughtfully?

Over to you.