The Importance of the Rosary

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October 7th (Friday) this week, we celebrate the 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.  The power of the Rosary and the courage of the Catholic navies obtained an historic triumph over the Turks, and saved Christiandom from the advancing Turkish power.

Today, just as in the 16th century we desperately need Our Lady’s intervention through the Holy Rosary to turn back the moral, spiritual and physical threat we face as a State with the proposed passing of the Reproductive Freedom for All initiative, Proposal 3.  This Proposal, if passed, will codify abortion-up-to-birth and partial-birth abortion in our state constitution.  As Christians this is something we have to do all possible to stop from happening.

Won’t you join the thousands of Catholic Michiganders who signed up and are praying the 54-day Rosary Novena aimed at defeating Proposal 3 on the ballot.  This is something you can join anytime so don’t even think ‘it already started, so I won’t’.  Every single rosary is important and Our Lady will overcome this treat if we turn to Her in confident prayer and courageous action.  To be counted, and to get text reminders, text “FightLikeHeaven” to 84576.

Make the commitment.  It will cost you about 20 minutes a day; which is insignificant compared to the possibility there could be a fetus in its mother’s womb who will benefit from what you are doing.  Jesus is keeping track.