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Everyday Rosary Newsletter -- Remember The Unborn December 25, 2010 |
Everyday Rosary Newsletter Vol.2, Issue #08 -- Remember The Unborn During DecemberDecember 25, 2010 Solemnity of Christmas Merry Christmas!The monthly Everyday Rosary Newsletter is brought to you from the How-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com website. In each issue you will find Rosary inspirations, new meditations, feature articles and ideas that support your prayer life, a calendar of upcoming Rosary Feast Days, and how to incorporate your faith in other holidays. Plus stories on how the Rosary has affected the lives of others and what people are doing to promote the Rosary. It will also keep you up-to-date on information added to the site. It is your monthly dose of Rosary inspiration! Table of Contents
A Note From The Editor:During December the feast of Holy Innocents brings to mind the horrors of the innocent ones who are slaughtered during our own time, the millions of unborn babies killed each year from legalized abortion.
“The period in which we prepare for Christmas is an appropriate time to invoke divine protection on every human being called into existence, and to thank God for the gift of life we received from our parents.” These words were spoken by Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI a few weeks ago on November 14th.
If we are to attain true peace in this world this horrific crime of abortion must come to an end! Offer your Rosaries for this intention. Pray without ceasing to end abortion.
ArticlesNothing New Under The Sun Abortion is the greatest evil of our time. But look no further than the Bible account of the birth of Jesus to find that horrors such as this have always existed. King Herod was so jealous of anyone who may take his power from him that he had all the small boys murdered by his soldiers. If I really allow myself to envision this I absolutely shudder. How horrific. Imagine those poor mothers having their babies ripped out of their arms then slaughtered and left dead before their very eyes. Imagine the suffering this event caused the Blessed Virgin Mary. To think that because of her Child, all those other boys were killed. Another horrific ruler performed this same form of cruelty. Montezuma and the Aztecs slaughtered innocent men, women and children to keep the Aztec people enslaved by appeasing their blood thirsty pagan "gods". People lived in fear that they would next be the "sacrifice". Our Blessed Mother stepped in and ended this horror at Guadalupe. Because of this great miracle, millions of Aztecs were baptized and the killing stopped as the Jesuits went about baptizing and spreading the Catholic faith. Abortion is the newest in a long line of animosity towards and a disrespect for human life. We must flee to Mary's production, implore her help, and seek her intercession, so that this scourge upon the earth will come to an end. The devil hates humans. He is behind all murder, from the time Cain killed his brother Abel up to our current state of affairs where mothers kill their own helpless babies within their own wombs. Mary is the only one who can battle against Satan. She will crush his head. We all play a part in this battle. Now is the time to choose a side. Choose life!
Top PicksWays To End Abortion Abortion is a symptom of a more serious illness that afflicts the world. This sickness is the denial of the existence of God and a refusal to honor and worship Him as the Author of Life.
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Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.
Amen.
Pray this prayer daily to end abortion. Top
Calendar Of Upcoming Feast Days2nd Sunday of Advent - December 5th St. Nicholas' Day - December 6th Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception - December 8th 3rd Sunday of Advent - December 12th (Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe) St. Lucy's Feastday - December 13th 4th Sunday of Advent - December 19th Solemnity of Christmas - December 25th Feast of the Holy Family - December 26th Feast of Holy Innocents - December 28th Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God - January 1st Solemnity of Epiphany - January 6th Feast of The Baptism of the Lord - January 9th ResourcesRosary Gift Resources
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A Special Thanks To Our Visitors!How You Can Make The Most Of Your Evangelization Efforts!We would like to take this opportunity at the closing of the year to thank all you visitors for your generous donations that help keep this site going. Thank you for supporting our sponsors which is another key to keeping this site on the web. If it wasn't for you, our visitors, we wouldn't be where we are today. Because of your many content contributions we have been able to accomplish our goal of building an interactive online Rosary Community. A special thanks goes to our featured Rosary Promoters. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to learn more about you through the interviews you so generously did for us. This has been an extremely rewarding process for us members of the Rosary Team. We feel we are fulfilling Our Lady's request in spreading devotion to the Rosary in particular and that we are spreading the Catholic faith online. It is our hope that websites where Jesus is King will take over the internet. Consider doing your part in making the internet and therefore the world a holier place. If you would like to do more to promote the Rosary or just spread the Gospels, why not build a site the way we did! Click here to learn more... This is also a great resource if you have ever considered having your own business online! TopQ&AThese two questions were taken from our Ask A Rosary Question Section at How-to-pray-the-Rosary-everyday.comI would like to start a tradition of praying the Rosary on Christmas Eve but am wondering if you pray the Joyful Mysteries on Christmas Eve no matter what day it lands on or do you go by the set calendar (i.e..Monday & Saturday-Joyful, Tuesday & Friday-Sorrowful, etc...)? You should pray the Joyful Mysteries on Christmas. Christmas starts at nightfall on Christmas Eve so the Joyful Mysteries can be prayed that evening too. In fact the Joyful Mysteries should be prayed on every Sunday during the Christmas Season. Aren't the rosaries and crucifixes graven images and therefore a sin against the First Commandment? The Church would never present for the faithful an object or action that would be offensive to God. Furthermore, rosaries and crucifixes are not graven images. Take a look at what he Bible says: Thou shalt not have strange Gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. (Exodus 20:3-4) The first commandment of God is: I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.
It is good you are concerned about obeying this commandment. I will make reference to the Baltimore Catechism to eleviate your concerns of the rosary or a cricifix being a cause for disobeying this commandment. The first commandment forbids the making or the use of holy objects such as statues, rosaries and crucifixes only when they promote false worship. Forbidden also is attributing power to an object or person that belongs to God alone such as using charms or seeking the advice of fortune tellers. To clarify, Catholics do not pray to the rosary or the crucifix but rather to the persons they represent, namely Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Much to the contrary praying with rosary beads or before a crucifix honors the persons they represent, namely Jesus and Mary. (Baltimore Catechism lessons 16-17) Please visit the Ask A Rosary Question section on the website and ask your questions. You are encouraged to answer questions that have been posted there as well.
What's NewA Glimpse Into Next Month's Newsletter Next month's Newsletter - Finding Christ In February
New On The Site Back in May we highlighted Peggy Bowes author of The Rosary Workout as our featured Rosary Promoter for that month. Recently she was interviewed on EWTN on The Journey Home. The interview is posted on our site. Click here to watch! Coming soon - Great Ebay Rosary resources! Thank You!Thank you for reading! Keep visiting www.how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com and remember we love hearing from you. Please use the "contact us" page to leave any and all suggestions or comments. I hope your New Year is filled with peace and blessings from God. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death! To Jesus through Mary, Kathleen Bowen and The Rosary Team P.S. If you like this newsletter and are looking for an easy way to promote the Rosary, please "email it forward" to someone you know who might appreciate it. If a friend did forward this to you and you like what you read, please subscribe now! As our site and community grows, I hope that you drop me a line and tell me how the Rosary is working in your life! Did a personal transformation take place in your life that was inspired by something on our site? Share it with the rest of us! Often, having a support community really keeps you going. Feel free to send in tips or questions too! We love mail! Everyday Rosary Newsletter is our personal Rosary newsletter and it may accept advertising and other forms of compensation. Such compensation does not influence the information in this newsletter. We always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences etc... for more on how our site is compensated please visit our advertising and disclosures page.
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