“Up to the week before she died, she was still making rosaries for Uganda,” Father Rob Jack said of his great-aunt, Betty McGuire, who died two years ago at the age of 94 in Middletown, Ohio. “That’s ...
Years ago, Holy Rosary Catholic Church members Murphy and Jeanette Gautreau began their own spiritual ministry by creating rosaries from Job’s tears seeds. Carrying on her parents’ tradition, Kathy ...
Pat Evans had big dreams when she helped coordinate a rosary-making campaign for U.S. servicemen six years ago at St. Mary in Annapolis. Still, she can hardly believe the effort has blossomed to 25 ...
Every Christian is called to be a person of prayer. The battle of prayer is real, especially in a secular age that dismisses transcendence, the supernatural, and things beyond what we can control and ...
First came The Bible in a Year, then The Catechism in a Year — now comes The Rosary in a Year, Ascension’s newest podcast that will begin on Jan. 1, 2025. Hosted by Father Mark-Mary Ames of the ...
Sophie Kapral, 94, works on her rosary-making project at a table at Meadows Manor in Dallas, where she recently became a resident. When she’s finished a rosary, Sophie Kapral, 94, might drape it ...
In 2017, while working at the World Food Program office in the Azarieh building in downtown Beirut, Iman Hijaze spotted her colleague’s rosary lying on the floor. Alex Imad, a former Shiite Muslim who ...
Just as the AR-15 rifle has become a sacred object for Christian nationalists in general, the rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or “rad trad”) Catholics. On this ...