Elena 
October is a wonderful month to start saying the rosary or to renew a practice of saying the rosary. As I was looking around the internet for some new ways to spark enthusiasm in my children for the practice I came upon these very interesting sites!
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- My Domestic Church: Keeping your sanity in Your Domestic Church
This is a post I wrote about how to celebrate the liturgical year without going nuts! Pick the feasts that are important to your family and really celebrate those! - My Domestic Church: A Mother’s Love.
- Rosary Indulgences
- Basic Catholic Prayers in Latin and English in Audio or Sound File Format
- http://skimac.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/our-lady-of-the-rosary/
- The Scriptural Rosary
- My Domestic Church: Pepper
- Lepanto
- My Domestic Church: Praying for the Dead
- Rosary Tips ‘n’ Tricks
- My Domestic Church: Rosary to support the Shrine of the Holy Innocents.
- In the Heart of my Home: Summer in the Little Oratory: Praying the Rosary {and a Gorgeous Rosary giveaway}
- Is praying the rosary Scriptural?
- Ecumenical Miracle Rosary
- Rosary Cremation Keepsake Urns
- Explanations to some common misunderstandings about the Catholic Church.
- My Domestic Church: Some ideas for May – Also good for October!
- My Domestic Church: Gabe’s first communion portraits
- The Rosary Shop
- A Lacy Creation – custom rosaries
- My Domestic Church: A little rant
- My Domestic Church: Thought about it…
- My Domestic Church: A practical prayer idea.
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About 20 years ago my mother gave me a huge wall rosary. At the time Mr. Pete and I were very blase about our Catholic Faith, but my mom kept praying for us and giving me stuff like this. I would politely accept it and then put it away somewhere. I am so grateful that I never threw any of it out! Anyway, now I treasure my wall rosary. It’s beautiful. Its large beads make it very interesting for smaller children and easy for them to follow along.
Coming of age in the 70’s I have to say we weren’t big on saying the rosary during school – in fact I’d say it was almost discouraged as being kind of old-fashioned.
I didn’t rediscover the rosary until I was starting to homeschool my children. I remember going to one of my first homeschool meetings and the lady leading the meeting said we were going to listen to so religious music for meditation, and then we were going to say the rosary.
I remember thinking in my head at the time, “Well that’s dumb. Who carries around a rosary anymore? This is going to be awkward.”
After the hymn, everyone started digging in their purses and voila! Rosaries!! Lots of them. I was so chagrined – I couldn’t imagine that women my age even owned a rosary let alone carried them in their purses! I was humbled further when the kind lady next to me offered me her extra one.
That was one of the key moments in my re-conversion to my Catholic faith
I’ve come a long way since then. I have a few rosaries in my purse.
A day or so after my baby was stillborn, I was talking to a very kind and holy woman. She told me that I should think of my child as a little saint because he had lived and had never committed a sin, a holy innocent. Then she said something about relics and it occurred to me that I had nothing that my baby had touched to keep with me. So I quickly went down to our religious book store and bought the prettiest rosary that I could find and afford and then I drove over to the funeral home and asked them to let me spend a little time with my baby. I remember that I touched the center piece and the cross to his little body, so this is my little remembrance of him as well as a relic.
The second rosary is a gift to me from my oldest son from a year or so back. Its beads are very tiny and it is very strongly put together so I can let my granddaughter hold it when we visit church.
The purple heart rosary was made for me by my sister-in-law. She made it for me herself and then sent it to me after my stillbirth. I treasure it. It’s probably the rosary I used the most because it is strong, and I love the feel of the heart-shaped beads in my fingers. It was a great kindness of her to do that for me.
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When people ask me for guidance in saying the rosary I have a few favorite sources.
Rosary resources
How to say the Rosary Virtual Rosary
The Virtual Rosary easily downloads on your computer and guides you step by step through the entire rosary. It also tells you what mystery to say. Very helpful!
I also have a Rosary App on my phone.
Scriptural Rosary App
My favorite rosary book is Amy Welborn’s Praying the Rosary
The Rosary Shop has lots of rosaries for sale as well as free tutorials such as getting started on the Liturgy of the Hours. They also provide special custom rosaries. A service I recommend all of the time to new brides, for anniversaries or funerals is the Rosary Shop’s commemorative rosary. From their site:
If you have flowers from a special event in your or a loved one’s life — wedding, birth, funeral, etc. — we will be happy to create from them beads that can be incorporated into a rosary. This is sometimes referred to as a memorial, keepsake, legacy, remembrance or heirloom rose petal rosary.
There are many different processes for making rose petal rosary beads, most of which involve boiling a large number of petals and mixing them with various organic ingredients. We do it a little differently because we not
only wish to preserve the flowers, but want to make sure that the finished bead is going to last as long as possible. We chop and then grind the dried petals down with a mortar and pestle, gently knead the rose powder into ceramic clay, hand-roll the beads to 8mm each and fire them (unglazed) in a kiln. This creates strong, ceramic beads that contain the essence and elements of the original
petals, thereby preserving the memory for a lifetime. Alternatively, we can use polymer clay.
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I am a happy member of the Rosary of the Month Club and have received some beautiful rosaries over the past few months!
Also don’t forget all of the great resources from Catholic Icing.com for celebrating the liturgical month of October!
