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Rosary Health
The Catholic Church has many devotional prayers, e.g., the Stations of the Cross, Lectio Divina, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Novenas, the Divine Mercy Chaplet, the Angelus, etc., but most popular through the ages is the Rosary, which gets emphasized in May and October. Many who grew up in the twentieth century prayed the rosary nightly as a family at the urging of church leaders and because of a message from Our Lady of Fatima in 1914 to use it in spiritual warfare in combatting atheistic communism and to bring about world peace.
Though we may not, singularly, have much control over world peace, we might be able to control our own interior peace. Among the many beautiful and powerful aspects of the rosary is how it diminishes anxiety for those who contend with constant pressures—like motherhood. I think that Blessed Mary, the patroness of mothers and focus of the rosary beads’ emotions of joy and sorrow, particularly blesses moms and other people who benefit through this stress-reducing action while they tend to daily encounters.
Father Don and his sister, Barbie, drop a podcast about podcasts, particularly this podcast, Upon This Rock, as we pause operations to assess its impact and how the church can reach people in our twenty-first-century virtual society. They reminisce about messages from the hundred-plus conversations and how we can encourage people to talk with one another about matters of faith and faith that matters to us, our families and friends, our community, and our world.
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Listen to all the Upon This Rock episodes. #uponthisrockpodcast
Saint Thomas More (STM) Parish has a sister community relationship with San Andrés Itzapa, a rural parish in south-central Guatemala. STM Parishioners Phil Smith and Marla Byrne have visited frequently in recent decades, often leading groups on work retreats and pilgrimages of faith that support foreign friends. The STM group has escorted thousands of Kansas Citians, including over a thousand teenagers, to Central America to encounter brothers and sisters who struggle in ways that open their eyes and hearts.
Direct Link. Listen on Apple and Spotify. Download the MP3 file.
Listen to all the Upon This Rock episodes. #uponthisrockpodcast
"In the end, these things are only required: that you act justly, that you love tenderly, and that you walk humbly with the Lord."
— The Prophet Micah
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the name of our destination. We must return from where we came to discover where
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