Living Fatima-5 Ways to Jumpstart Your Rosary
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
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🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Are you too busy to pray the rosary? Get distracted? Get bored? Prefer shorter prayers?
For many, the rosary is the marathon of all Catholic devotions. “I prefer shorter prayers like the Divine Mercy chaplet.” Who has time for 50 plus beads of prayers?
But what if I were to tell you the rosary is not beyond you. That you don’t have to pray it all at once. And that there are creative ways to incorporate it into your daily life.
There was only one request that Our Lady of Fatima made in all six apparitions: to pray the rosary daily. In this week’s episode, Edward Sri explores the importance of Our Lady of Fatima for today, including her call for us to return to the rosary. So whether you’re an avid devotee of the rosary or a beginner or someone who has not prayed it in a while, discover five easy ways to jumpstart your rosary devotion and experience the power of this prayer.
Show Notes
For more on the Rosary see Edward Sri’s latest book, Praying the Rosary Like Never Before: Encounter the Wonder of Heaven & Earth (Servant Books).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:17.0 | Picture the scene, a Pope approaching a statue of Mary carrying a bullet in his hand and putting the bullet in Mary's |
| 0:26.2 | crown while repeatedly saying these words, you saved me, you saved me. Well that's what happened in 1982 when Pope St. John Paul II visited the |
| 0:37.6 | apparition site of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal a year after he had been |
| 0:41.8 | shot in St. Peter's Square. But I want to highlight |
| 0:44.8 | how the Pope wasn't just giving things to Mary in a general way. He was |
| 0:48.8 | recognizing the crucial role the apparitions of Our Lady of Panama specifically had in really |
| 0:54.4 | summing up the drama of the last hundred years and a drama in which John Paul II |
| 0:58.6 | himself was caught up in a very profound way. Well in this week here we are celebrating the 100th anniversary |
| 1:05.3 | of the final apparition of our Lady of Fatima |
| 1:09.2 | to the three children in Portugal. |
| 1:11.7 | And in this year, many people are wondering wondering, well why is Fatima so important? What's the big deal? And in the end, how can I actually live and apply it to my life? Well, there was one of the |
| 1:23.7 | about the rosary she gave it at every one of the nine apparitions we're |
| 1:27.8 | going to talk about that message of the rosary and I want to practically talk |
| 1:30.8 | about how we can bring the rosary more into our daily lives and live out this message of fadema. |
| 1:36.3 | You know, for many good Catholics, I meet many good Catholics who tell me things like this, |
| 1:41.2 | I'll say things like, I know the rosary is important I know it's an |
| 1:43.7 | important prayer but I just don't like praying it they'll say things like it's the |
| 1:50.0 | marathon of all Catholic devotions you know I prefer the chaplet of divine mercy. |
| 1:54.7 | I can get that done in five or seven minutes. |
| 1:56.8 | And so many people can be intimidated by the rosary or if they try praying the rosary, |
| 2:01.6 | their mind wanders and they're supposed to be thinking about the mysteries of the rosary, |
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