This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosedary Meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

I am convinced that what our world needs is a movement of families and friends

who live friendship, good conversation, and pray the Rosary together.

Early last fall, I threw out the crazy goal of 10,000 people

praying the Rosary daily by means of this podcast by August 22nd, 2020,

and then a million by the end of 2025.

The Little Sisters of the Lamb heard me and then they let me know that someone had already

done this. I wanted to know who. Well, a 19 year old young woman in the early 1800s in France.

So they insisted I come to their monastery so they could give me a book about this young woman's life.

Her name, Venerable Pauline Jericho.

She was born in 1799 in Leon, France and created the living Rosary movement there.

Her brother, Phileas, had become a missionary priest to Asia, which had its headquarters at the Foreign Mission Society in Paris.

Though founded in 1622 it had fallen on hard financial times and they were unable to spread their mission. It was at this

moment in 1818 when Pauline was just 19 years old that she had an inspiration.

In her diary she writes,

one evening while my parents were playing cards and I was sitting by the fireside. I asked God for help or should I say

for an appropriate plan. A clear intuition of this plan came to my mind. I understood just how easy it would be for each

person that I knew well to find ten members who would donate one franc a week for the spreading of the faith.

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