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Rosary, Prayers, Guest Speaker & Refreshments!
OCTOBER : Month of the ROSARY Find it hard to say the Rosary every day? Pick up a Rosary on CD at our meeting. If you would like one now, email our group at our new email: [email protected] and we will get you one! Listening to the Rosary in your car on your way to your errands is an easy way to pray it daily! Our Blessed Mother doesn’t care that you split it up, saying half on your way to the bank, and the other half on your way to the grocery store! Never miss a day with a Rosary CD in your car!
NOVEMBER 7 Holy Hour for
Vocations 7 p.m. St. Barnabas Church
Rosary & Benediction
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ST. PADRE PIO PRAYER GROUP NEWSLETTER
Spritual Director: Rev. Fr. Edward Janoch
Group Leader: Cindy Russo
OCTOBER 12 7th Annual Rosary Rally at Noon at Twinsburg Town
Square at Routes 82/91
NOVEMBER 2 Padre Pio Prayer Group Meeting: St. Barnabas Church, 8:30 Mass, Rosary, Prayers, Speaker, Refreshments
Fall has come upon us. The weather is changing, the color of the leaves is changing and are you changing? Have you seen spiritual growth since spring and summer in you? If you have, say ‘yes’ to this question, then you are on your way.! Spirituality should not stay stagnant. When have you asked God to increase your faith? You can’t do it alone. Without all the summer activities, perhaps it is time to retreat to your favorite quiet place. You can increase your knowledge of God with a great book. Go to a special program offered at your church. Find a program or series on EWTN. Be selfish. Make some time for you and the Lord. You cannot truly share in His love if you don’t do the work for yourself first. As you take the walk of faith, you will be amazed what God has in store for you. The simplest, kind act to others pleases our Lord. St. Padre Pio spent his whole life seeking, finding, adoring, sharing and sacrifice. Remember every morning is a brand new beginning. Don’t let the opportunity slip away. The past is gone and we don’t know what the future brings. Find JOY in each new day!
Jesus Others You
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REFLECTIONS FROM OUR SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother.” and “Go to the Madonna. Love her! Always say the Rosary. Say it well. Say it as often as you can! Be souls of prayer. Never tire of praying, it is what is essential. Prayer shakes the Heart of God, it obtains necessary graces!” Our Lady of Fatima reminded the three children, Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia that praying the Rosary is God’s “Heavenly Plan for World Peace.” Pope Paul VI says:
“The Rosary draws from the Gospel the presentation of the mysteries and its main formulas. As it moves from the angel's joyful greeting and the Virgin's pious assent, the Rosary takes its inspiration from the Gospel to suggest the attitude with which the faithful should recite it. In the harmonious succession of Hail Mary's, the Rosary puts before us once more a fundamental mystery of the Gospel-‐-‐the incarnation of the Word, contemplated at the decisive moment of the Annunciation of Mary. The Rosary is thus a Gospel prayer, as pastors and scholars like to define it, more today perhaps than in the past.” (Marialis Cultus 44)
Personally, many of us already know the benefits that one can receive when praying the Rosary. Many anxious moments have been brought to a tranquil conclusion by praying this prayer of the Rosary. Many conversions to the Catholic Faith have occurred by our praying for loved ones and total strangers, the Rosary. Many of God’s Occurrences and not coincidences [also known as miracles] have come about by this prayer. This prayer is so simple in structure, but so powerful in its effects. It is so because of whom the intercessor is, Mary, the Mother of God. To Jesus, through Mary, Rev. Edward J. Janoch Spiritual Director
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This month I would like to encourage us to pray the prayer of the Rosary. Many of us already pray this prayer faithful, so this may be more of a reminder as to why we pray this prayer instead of encouraging us to pray the Rosary. October 7th is the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary; a day in which we remember the effectiveness of this prayer which brings us comfort, peace, tranquility and many graces so as to meet and accept the challenges of daily life whether they be good or bad, holy or evil. From the Book, Saints of the Roman Calendar, by Enzo Lodi, we read the following:
“This feast derives from the feast of St. Mary of Victory, instituted by the Dominican Pope St. Pius V after the defeat of the Turkish fleet at Lepanto on October 7, 1571. Pope Gregory XIII made it obligatory for Rome and for the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary in 1573. In 1716 Pope Clement XI inscribed the feast in the Roman Calendar for the first Sunday in October. The Dominicans also celebrate this feast on the first Sunday of October. Counting one’s prayers on beads is a very ancient form of praying. . . . It seems that the repetition of the Hail Mary on the beads of the rosary goes back to the twelfth century. Around the year 1328 a treatise named Rosarius referred to St. Dominic as the promulgator of the rosary. In the fifteenth century the Dominican Alan de la Roche emerged as an outstanding preacher of the ‘Psalter of our Lady,’ a term he preferred to the term ‘rosary.’ The title of this feast was changed from the Holy Rosary to Our Lady of the Rosary in 1960.”
St. Pio of Pietrelcina says that:
“Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today.
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‘HAIL MARY’…What does it mean to you?
“Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our
death”? We believe Mary is holy because she is the vessel that carried Christ. We call her “Mother of
God” very simply because it follows logically upon the fact that Jesus is God. We can’t doubt that God
chose Mary to play a very important part in salvation history. Her only desire is to lead us closer
to Jesus, her Son. She knows him best! By honoring her and asking her to pray for us, she will
help us to know and love him more.
We honor Mary for the special grace and privilege that was given to her. In fact, by honoring Mary we imitate the Lord who honored her by becoming flesh in her womb. Yes, as Jesus literally entrusted himself to Mary, we too can entrust ourselves to her care and
“Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you,” were the words that the Archangel Gabriel spoke to Mary. “Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb,” were Elizabeth’s words to Mary upon hearing her greeting. By praying these words we are simply echoing the inspired words of Scripture.
October is the month of the Rosary. Our Mother Mary asked us to pray the rosary
every day. Once you hear it, once you feel it, it will become a part of you. Let us try to be obedient .To pray the Rosary, to pray with
Mary, is to learn and to love the Lord more. And isn’t this the deepest desire of
every human heart?
The Rosary is not chatter. It is not repetition of words with our lips disconnected from our hearts. When prayed from the heart, the Rosary becomes, as some popes have stated, a “compendium of the Gospel.” It brings the Gospel to life, because when we pray the Rosary we see Christ’s life through Mary’s eyes. As Pope John Paul II was fond of saying, when we pray the Rosary we enter the “School of Mary.” See with Mary’s eyes. Feel with her heart. This is the interior reality of the Rosary. Rather than being a devotion that leads us away from Christ, it leads us closer to Him–much closer. For who was closer to Jesus than His mother? Who knew Him better? Who better to teach us about His life?
HEALING PRAYER Beloved Padre Pio, today I come to add my prayer to the thousands of prayers offered to you every day by those who love and venerate you. They ask for cures and healings, earthly and spiritual blessings, and peace for body and mind. And because of your friendship with the
Lord, he heals those you ask to be healed, and forgives those you forgive. Through your visible wounds of the Cross, which you bore for 50 years, you were chosen in
our time to glorify the crucified Jesus. Because the Cross has been replaced by other symbols, please help us to bring it back in our midst, for we acknowledge it is the
only true sign of salvation. As we lovingly recall the wounds that pierced your hands, feet and side, we not only remember the blood you shed in pain, but your smile, and the invisible halo of sweet
smelling flowers that surrounded your presence, the perfume of sanctity. Padre Pio, may the healings of the sick become the testimony that the Lord has invited you to join the holy company of Saints. In your kindness, please help me with my own special
request: (mention here your petition, and make the sign of the Cross). Bless me and my loved ones. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Houlahan, Dan Houlahan, Gina Delessandro, Carmelita Pruchnicki, Robert Snyder, Richard Merecki, Ed Chesar, Nicholas Anthony DiDonato
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