A Month with the Holy Rosary

October · Devotional · Christ Bearer Press $7.99 Kindle · $11.99 Paperback Buy on Amazon → Also in Spanish: Un mes con el Santo Rosario

Thirty-one days with beads in your hand and your heart near hers.

October belongs to the Most Holy Rosary, with the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary on October 7, the day the Church remembers the victory at Lepanto in 1571. The Rosary is the prayer of little ones and of saints, of commutes and kitchen tables and hospital waiting rooms. A Month with the Holy Rosary walks beside you through the whole of October, one quiet day at a time, so that by the end of the month the beads feel at home in your hand and one decade a day has become your own.

A few unhurried minutes each day, and every day you will find:

• A short passage from Holy Scripture to carry with you
• A warm reflection that meets you in ordinary life
• The words of the Fathers, Doctors and saints of the Church
• Three gentle questions to bring to the Lord
• One small, concrete thing to do before bed
• A closing prayer in plain, prayerful English

This is a book to live with, not just to read, written for lifelong Catholics and for anyone just beginning. Each day ends with something simple and good to do: a decade prayed on ten knots tied in a piece of cord, the wedding anniversaries of three couples you love written on your calendar, a spare rosary set aside for someone who needs one, the exact time and place of your daily decade decided and shared with a friend.

The month unfolds in three movements. The first week walks the foundations of the Rosary with the saints of early October: Thérèse, the Guardian Angels, the Apostles' Creed, Francis of Assisi, Faustina, and Lepanto, leading to the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Then come the twenty mysteries, one a day: five Joyful, five Luminous, five Sorrowful and five Glorious, each with its traditional fruit and a way to pray its decade, keeping company along the way with St. Teresa of Avila, St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Luke and St. John Paul II. The closing days keep Sts. Simon and Jude, read the Fifteen Promises honestly, and invite you to one decade a day for the rest of your life.

You will keep company with St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Augustine, St. Leo the Great, St. Bernard, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Louis de Montfort, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XII and Pope St. John Paul II.

Everything the month asks you to pray is printed at the back, so you never have to go looking: the Angel of God, the Apostles' Creed, and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy in a fresh translation from St. Faustina's own Polish. Start on any day; there is never any catching up.

If you have tried the Rosary before and lost your way among distractions, this book is gentle with you: each mystery comes with one picture to hold and one fruit to ask for, so the beads become a conversation rather than a count.

Who it is for

• Daily prayer through the month of October
• Anyone who has always meant to pray the Rosary and never quite started
• Families who want one decade together before bed
• Rosary groups, Legion of Mary praesidia and parish prayer groups
• Anyone coming home to the Church who wants a gentle place to begin
• A thoughtful gift with a rosary for a First Communion, a Confirmation or a friend who is struggling

"Pray without ceasing." (1 Thessalonians 5:17)

Come as you are. One decade, prayed slowly, is a real prayer. Mary will multiply what you can give.

Regina sacratissimi Rosarii, ora pro nobis. Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us.

Book details

Publisher: Christ Bearer Press · Paperback: 107 pages · ISBN 979-8-1902-4855-5 · Language: English (Spanish edition available) · Scripture: Douay-Rheims

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