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... a quieting of the spirit ...
'In saying the rosary, truth sinks into the subconscious like a slow and heavy downpour.  The hammered sentences of the Gospel receive and indelible validity for precisely the little ones, the least, to who belongs the Kingdom of Heaven ... the Rosary is a long and persevering gaze, a meditation , a quieting of the spirit in praise of God, the value of which we Protestants are learning more and more.'  Richard Baumann (German Lutheran Minister)

... a former Southern Baptist ...
 Last fall I started thinking about starting a Rosary making group at our local parish but kept putting it off .  Since I'm housebound with bad lungs I thought I'd  invite people to my home and form a group!  When I finally put my plans into action about 6 weeks ago, our parish priest put a notice in the church bulletin every week for several weeks, asking people to call me.  WELL!!!!!!!!!  I now have an afternoon group and an evening group!  We have a list of 14 places where we want to send finished rosaries and a Sister at our parish school wants to learn so she can teach her students. The CCD director also wants the CCD children to make them  for a service project.  Next fall Father wants each of the school children to make a rosary they can keep at school and USE at least once a month if not once a week.
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 I've made each Group member a rosary bracelet and because several women have chosen to wear them to work, new groups are forming at 2 other parishes!!!  Conversations were started over the bracelets and the plans began because someone was wearing a sacramental for the world to see!
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Isn't all this wonderful?  Especially when you consider that my husband and I are not cradle Catholics!  We joined the Church on Nov. 24 of 1994.  A former Southern Baptist is now making rosaries in her living room!
Pray for peace,   Phyllis

... rolling thunder - 2002 ...
A little over two years ago several men from my home parish would meet a say a Rosary every Friday at 6:00 am.  We have been as few as two and sometimes up to a dozen.  In April of this year one of our parish priests, Fr. Bill challenged us to bring 200 men together to say the rosary on Fridays during May.  While we were not completely successful in meeting the 200 voices ... we were able to bring between 120 and 150 men's voices together on those Fridays.  To hear the church filed with those voices was  extraordinary.  Fr. Bill called it "rolling thunder."  It was a true blessing to be present.  Again, thank you for your work.  I look forward to receiving my rosary. Kelly G (IA) 

... using the scriptural method ...
I wish to give you my heart-felt thanks for your beautiful gift you've given me and I want you to know I'm praying my rosary using the scriptural method.  Some days I go through the 15 mysteries and other days I use the one for specific days of the week. I really enjoyed reading the history of the rosary, I never knew all that.  Claudia Valencia (USA)

"My life line"
 - about the rosary while in prison in China for 12 years    Bishop James E Walsh

... The rosary is not a road - but a place ...
…  speaks of the rosary's contemplative and liturgical nature as "a sojourn" which offers a "quiet, holy world that envelops the person who is praying . . . The rosary is not a road - but a place - it has no goal but a depth.  To linger in it has great compensations." Romano Guardini

... bind me forever ...
"O Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, I would like to be filled with love for You; keep me closely united with You, may my heart be near to Yours. I want to be to You like the apostle John. O Mary of the Rosary,keep me recollected when I say these prayers of yours; bind me forever, with your rosary, to Jesus of the Blessed Sacrament. Blessed be Jesus, my love, blessed be the Immaculate Virgin Mary." Pope John XXIII, Journal of a Soul

... shining beads of prayer ...
'I wish that my friendship's fingers, might take the dark beads of care,
and leave on the rosary of your life, the shining beads of prayer.' Old Victorian Postcard

I pray the Rosary all the time with my brother and my grandma.
Romeo P (NJ)

WISDOM 1:13-15
For he fashioned all things that they might have being;  and the creatures of the world are wholesome, And there is not a destructive drug among them nor any domain of the nether world on earth,  For justice is undying.