A few ways to honor the month of the Rosary
Laura DeMaria
This past Thursday I joined the Morning Air team to give one last push for the month of the rosary. You can listen to the audio here. I’ve also summarized below what we covered, as well as a few other ideas we didn’t get to:
Give a rosary away! You’d be surprised by how people are impacted by receiving a rosary if they need it. Think of someone suffering, for example, and you share your own experience of praying the rosary with them. It can be very powerful.
Visit a Marian shrine - or just the Mary statue at your own church! Give her a flower crown, place a rosary on her hands, bring her some flowers. It’s like a mini pilgrimage.
Help a new mother - or a mother at any stage. Mary was Jesus’s mother, and she is our mother, and we all know moms need help sometimes (often). Bring a meal to a new mom, take her other kids to the park, run an errand for her, pay for a housecleaning service.
That last point is similar to another point: give alms. Jesus and Mary are close to the poor, and you can give alms - aka donate money - as a form of tribute. Particularly appropriate would be a pregnancy resource center.
Learn about a saint who had a devotion to Mary or even wrote a book about her. We talked about St. Louise Marie de Montfort and “True Devotion to Mary,” and St. Maximilien Kolbe as examples.
Last but not least: find out if your parish has a Legion of Mary - and attend a meeting!
Just a few more days of this month of the rosary - and it’s just about All Saints and All Souls Days! May your Halloween be spooky and holy.