Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Martha
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Posted: Aug 22 2006 at 12:36pm | IP Logged Quote Martha
We've been doing rosary daily as soon as the littles go down for naps for some time now, but the interruptions for fidgetting and bothering and whining and so forth are very distracting and unpleasant.

So today I decided my little soldier would march for Mary! Everyone lined up behind me and I would shout out a phrase at a time of the prayers, they'd repeat it, just like military drills as we marched in rhythm single-file in circles. (My house is small.)

We would all say "HAIL MARY!", "HOLY MARY!", "FATHER!", "Jesus!", and all the other names/titles and "AMEN!" together. At each hail mary's "Amen!", we'd add a wooden block to our tower in the center of our circle to keep track until we had 5 towers.

We loved it! Great "excercise" in faith!

Just thought I'd share. I'm sure my house isn't the only one where rosary time can be a bit of a test of for saintlyness.

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Posted: Aug 22 2006 at 12:38pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
How cute!

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Posted: Aug 22 2006 at 2:05pm | IP Logged Quote Sarah
This would be a good idea here. We battle all the lack of attention, giggles and wiggles, too.


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