Devotions

Please pray for the following:

Jim Jackson 
Jack Stout 
Hadley Cauthon 
Mary McKnight 
Marianne Green 
Stephen Moylan 
Dennis Buck 
Bill Piercy  
Debbie Bell Johnson 
Irene Page 
Sophia Lola Shrout 
Hannah Snyder 
Andy Pastor 
Bill Verhaeghe 
Erika Rimmer 
Jessica Wilcox 
Shawn Keating 
Donna Lett 
Mary Ann Hammond 
Beatriz & Luis Grine 
Tommy Paulson 
Dana Stewart 
Adrianna Cuezze 
Randy White 
Ann West 
Mike Strausbaugh 
Kaden Frodsham 
Sascha Oster 
Tara Moylan 
Charlie McKee 
Kenneth Setter 
Linda Elliott 
Fritz Sullivan 
Gracie Austin
Dave Horton
Susan Hernandez
Jeff Kelly
Alpha Kelly
Vonnie Pennings
Gregg Quackenbush
Kim Shortle
Toby Wiseman
Kathy Koenig
Lisa Kelly
Jim Blaise
Ava Earnshaw

The rosary has roots in several early Christian prayer traditions. They share similar formats to the rosary with repetitive structures and prayers.

• Third-century Christian hermits and monks in Egypt (known as Desert Fathers) used stones and later prayer ropes to keep track when praying the 150 Psalms.
• Various forms of “the Jesus Prayer” (such as “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.”) became popular. The short prayer was said over and over again in a type of mantra while counting beads.
• The Our Father was also prayed 150 times, using a string of beads with five decades referred to as a Paternoster (Latin for “Our Father”)
• Tradition has it that St. Dominic was given the rosary in a vision by the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• The Virgin Mary, in numerous private revelations during the past century, has encouraged the faithful to take up the daily praying of the rosary as a powerful spiritual weapon against evil.