Read: October | Month of the Holy Rosary

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Read: October | Month of the Holy Rosary

Welcome to October, the month of the Holy Rosary! This month also marks the beginning of the yearly Diocese of Lansing Eucharistic Rosary Congress. What? Let us explain.

Eucharistic Rosary Congresses consist of seven days of Eucharistic Adoration and Hourly Rosary in response to Our Lady of Fatima’s call to conversion, consecration, and prayer! The Eucharistic Rosary Congress promotes the mission of the current National Eucharistic Revival, to renew our worship of Our Lord, Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and to encounter His healing grace.

The Rosary Congresses began in Poland in May 1979 to coincide with Pope St. John Paul II’s historic visit to the former Communist country. They are now held in dozens of dioceses throughout the United States.

In 1988, one of the original participants of the Rosary Congress in Poland came to America to bring the gift from Our Lady to us. He found a small group of faithful people on the east coast who grasped the spirit of the congresses and began to organize.

The First National Rosary Congress was held in Washington, D.C., in 1988, at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, now a Basilica. Over the next five years the National Rosary Congress drew as many as 500 people who came from all over the country as well as outside of the country, who stayed at Catholic University during the week of prayer and adoration. There were many activities and conferences during those Congresses to encourage and strengthen the faithful, and to educate them in True Devotion to Mary and other practices such as wearing the Brown Scapular, praying the Liturgy of the Hours, and holding candlelight processions.

After the official prayer of the Church, the Liturgy of the Hours, the Rosary is the most powerful form of prayer. It is said that in 1214, the Blessed Virgin told St. Dominic that the principal weapon the Holy Trinity relies upon to reform the world is the Rosary. Throughout history there are numerous examples showing the power of Our Lady when humanity turns to her intercession through the Rosary.

Text above from the official website of the Eucharistic Rosary Congress: rosarycongressusa.org.

Details of the locations and dates of the Diocese of Lansing Eucharistic Rosary Congresses can be found below:

October 6th

Immaculate Heart of Mary – Lansing

Our Lady of Fatima – Michigan Center

St Michael – Grand Ledge

St Joseph – Dexter

St Jude – DeWitt

October 7th

Holy Redeemer – Burton

Immaculate Heart of Mary – Lansing

St. Catherine Laboure – Concord

St Mary Star of the Sea – Jackson

St Matthew – Flint

St Michael – Grand Ledge

St Matthews – Flint

St Thomas Aquinas – East Lansing

October 8th

Cristo Rey – Lansing

Holy Family – Adrian

Holy Rosary – Flint

Immaculate Heart of Mary – Lansing

Light of Christ – Deerfield

Most Holy Trinity – Fowler

Sacred Heart – Hudson

St Agnes – Fowlerville

St James – Mason

St John the Baptist – Yps

St Joseph – St Johns

St Mary – Durand

St. Paul – Owosso

October 9th

Christ the King – Flint

Church of the Resurrection – Lansing

Immaculate Heart of Mary – Lansing

Most Holy Trinity – Fowler

Our Lady of Fatima – Michigan Center

St Gerard – Lansing

St Isidore – Laingsburg

St James – Mason

St Joseph – Gaines

St Jude – DeWitt

St Mary – Pinckney

St Mary Student Center – Ann Arbor

St Peter – Eaton Rapids

October 10th

Church of the Resurrection – Lansing

Holy Family – Ovid

Immaculate Heart of Mary – Lansing

SS Charles & Helena – Clio

St Andrew the Apostle – Saline

St Francis of Assisi – Ann Arbor

St John – Davison

St Jude – DeWitt

St Mary – Chelsea

St Mary Magdalen – Brighton

St Mary of the Lake – Manitou Beach

October 11th

Fr Gabriel Richard High School – Ann Arbor

Holy Redeemer – Burton

Immaculate Heart of Mary – Lansing

Lansing Catholic High School – Lansing

Our Lady of Fatima – Michigan Center

St John the Baptist – Howell

St John the Evangelist – Fenton

St Joseph – Howell

St Jude – DeWitt

St Martha – Okemos

St Mary – Chelsea

St Mary – Pinckney

St Mary – Westphalia

St Mary Queen of Angels – Swartz Creek

St Patrick – Brighton

St Robert Bellarmine – Flushing

St Therese – Lansing

October 12th

Immaculate Heart of Mary – Lansing

St Anthony of Padua – Hillsdale

St Jude – DeWitt

St Robert Bellarmine – Flushing

St Thomas the Apostle – Ann Arbor

October 13th

Immaculate Heart of Mary – Lansing

St Augustine – Howell

St Mary Cathedral – Lansing



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