Rosary Give-Away!

 I decided a few months ago that I wanted to do a give-away in May, 

 to promote the rosary, 

one of my favorite prayers.

May, being the month of Our Lady and all.

Well, May is long gone and life just took over.

SO June it is!

My good friend Barbara donated one of her beautiful rosaries

for my give-away!

Here is the description of the above rosary:

This sweet rosary is made with 6mm opal glass Ave beads and 8mm millefiori glass Pater beads in green, white, and red, capped with pretty silver flowers. The flowers on the Pater beads look like star-shaped flowers. The beads are linked with base metal eyepins and chain. The crucifix is a pretty flowered style in nickel, and the center is a Miraculous Medal with the mysteries of the rosary etched on plates attached to the back of the medal. The plates fan out from the medal to read the mysteries.

Her rosaries are beautiful and strong,

 the beads feel so nice in your fingers as they glide along while you pray 

A few years ago, I won one of her beautiful rosaries

but someone needed a rosary and I ended up giving it away!

(because it was one of my favorites)

(yes, I have a few favorites, but only a few)

I loved her rosary so much,

 I wanted you to have a chance to win one too.

You can also buy one if you don't win!

Look HERE

 I'm going to entice you with a little chocolate too

Since there are so many opinions on dark or milk chocolate,

I'm giving away both!

 I'll even throw in a CD 

If you don't know how to pray the rosary, 

because it's been a long time or you've never been introduced to it

More CD's HERE

 hopefully, this will help!

I grew up praying the rosary during Lent.

My dad would try to get us to kneel down around the table, next to the chairs

but we ended up only praying it a few times.

My dad always led when we did pray.

When I got older, I always carried my rosary in my purse.

It was a plastic pink and blue one.

Funny thing, even through my hard times, when 

I was not so faithful, I still carried that rosary.

(and my scapular too)

When I went through my conversion (to a stronger Catholic faith)

I wanted to pray the rosary on my own

I listened to several different rosaries and taught myself.

My favorite?

This is Dana and Father Scanlon

(this is only the Joyful Mysteries)

You can purchase it 

HERE

It's so very beautiful!

 One thing I love about the rosary is 

that it is all about the life of Jesus.

It is Mary by His side through it all.

As my fingers go across the beads,

and I pray the memorized prayers, my mind can 

picture and meditate on the life of Christ.

And for whoever I am praying for.

We are to be like Christ, right?

Christ loved His Mother.

 The rosary is one of the few things Mary specifically told us to do

 The saints loved the rosary

 The rosary brings our family together, 

it calms our nerves our anxieties 

It somehow brings peace to our family

 I must add that wearing the scapular is also one of the very few things Mary 

has specifically asked us to do.

Barbara also makes these!

(and they are very special)

I'm curious as to why more people don't wear them 

and why more Catholics don't even know what it is?

 Is it a pain to wear the scapular?

Yes.

It can be itchy and not real flattering coming out of my top all the time

I don't look cool like some people do that wear theirs 

on the outside of their clothes

but it makes me think of Jesus and Mary 

and it somehow grounds me.

And Mary told me to wear it.

 

 Mary said to St Dominic:

"One day through the Rosary and Scapular I will save the world."

That's powerful

So

WEAR YOUR SCAPULAR!

PRAY THE ROSARY!

 I love seeing St Mother Teresa's hands holding her rosary, clutching it always.

(she's one of my very favorite saints)

 Beautiful.

My rosary.

This is the one I pray in the Adoration chapel.

It is adorned with special medals

My little brother Jordan gave it to me the day our Adoration chapel opened.

I was going through a very hard time (divorce and annulment) 

He was only 9 at the time.

(I was 25)

He spent his own money and sent away for this just for me.

I can't even tell you how many of hundreds and hundreds of rosaries

I've prayed on these special beads

I can't tell you how many countless numbers of people I've prayed for.

But I can tell you

 that if I were stranded on an island and could pick one thing 

to have

 it would be this rosary.

It used to be silver.
It turned gold in our Eucharistic Adoration chapel,
at the time, I was going daily.

While on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, the crucifix turned gold.

Right before my eyes.

While praying the rosary on the  mountain where our Blessed Mother 

first appeared to those young visionaries.
After the rosary, it turned silver again...a gift for  me.

It is a gift.

It is a reminder for me to keep praying

to keep changing and growing closer to Christ.

(at least that is what I think)

(I pray my Clay Rosary for our family rosary)

I never feel I can do the Rosary justice.

It's a hard thing for me to write about

I love it so much.

I will draw a name next Friday, June 13th.

Please leave a comment if you'd like to enter

(and a way to contact you if you win!)

We will do it the old fashioned way, 

one of my beautiful children will draw a name!