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Our church makes mission rosaries

This entry was posted on 5/17/2006 11:49 AM and is filed under Mission Rosaries.

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• 5/17/2006 12:07 PM jeff wrote:
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• 5/19/2006 4:17 PM Tom Simons wrote:
  I read an appeal from missionaries around the world for more rosaries in 2002. I began making cord and plastic bead rosaries at that time, shipping them to many different places around the world. I later started making chain linked rosaries, using different materials for beads. Each Lent, I choose a different mission to send my rosaries to. The last couple of years, my devotion has been to make at least 5 per day - which takes about an hour. By the end of the forty days, I have at least 200 to send. I also made several hundred to send to military troops, and when my best friend was deployed overseas as a reservist to Iraq, I gave him a couple of hundred to take to the base where they were leaving the US from. The priest there was quite glad to receive them.
  
  This last Lent, I made my intention for the celebration of the birth of my daughter, and sent the mission rosaries to St. Joseph's Hospital, where she was born. Having talked to the chaplain there, I was told they can never keep enough to meet the demand (and that's a glorious thing in itself!). They have one person who makes rosaries for them; and so I knew right then who would be getting a package from me this year.
  
  I can't even begin to explain the beauty of rosary making to someone that hasn't tried it. All I can say is that everyone should give it a try. My entire family is now involved in what started out as my Lenten devotion. Even considering that I'm not a Roman Catholic (although I'm getting closer), I love making the rosaries and praying the rosary. It's a small thing that we can do which helps glorify Christ and his Blessed Mother.
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