I received an antique silver rosary in the mail recently from someone who asked for me to re-home this extra. As you can see, this rosary is quite lovely and so I polished it up and thought you might like to pray the first decade with me as its purpose is restored. Here are little thought-mediations we might focus on between the first ten Hail Mary's.
Our Father
May the world's children be welcomed, cherished and loved.
Hail Mary
May we understand "pro-life" in ever expanding and encompassing ways — making us a church which upholds life through justice.
Hail Mary
For fire fighters and flood rescuers. May we learn to love and protect our planet — the water, the air, the soil, the plants and animals.
Hail Mary
For Pope Francis to be blessed with strength and health as he returns to Rome from his Penitential Pilgrimage to Canada where he set out to reconcile and heal the wounds Christians inflicted on indigenous peoples. May the Church be healed wherever it has sponsored terrible actions done in the name of Jesus.
Hail Mary
Wars only bring death, fear, wound and waste. May the war makers be blessed with true sight — Christ's sight. For those whose lives are changed forever by war.
Hail Mary
For the wellbeing of family and friends. Asking for gifts of health and healing where there is dysfunction, addiction, depression or sickness.
Hail Mary
May we be real disciples — not confusing the mind of Christ with ideologies of arrogance and power.
Hail Mary
May we be an inclusive people —putting away any us vs them thinking. May we see no one — no group — as other.
Hail Mary
Make us to be children of light — dispelling ignorance and pettiness. May we learn humility and compassion.
Hail Mary
There is a consistory in Rome later this month in which twenty-one new cardinals will be created. One of them is a Christian dalit (untouchable) from India. Even though this caste system has been outlawed, its categorizing of people endures. For the many people around the world who feel unseen, unheard, unloved.
Hail Mary
Glory be to the Father...
