Many of us call the Rosary our "beads." Almost every Catholic carries these beads in his pocket or in her purse. Little children love to say them with their parents. When Catholics die, usually their beads are twined through their fingers and they are buried with them. Great saints have called their beads a ladder leading up to heaven. We can say it when we walk, in street cars, while we wait for friends, at night in our rooms, driving our cars, wherever we think of Jesus and talk to Mary.
Mary is the lovely Mother of the world. She is the beautiful Queen of Heaven. Now the sweetest gift that we can give to a mother and a queen is a bouquet of flowers. Mary, since that first Christmas, has been wonderfully good to all of us, her children. So we love to give her roses. Since she is in heaven, it is hard to give her roses from our gardens. But we do this when we decorate her shrines. Even better we can give her our Rosary, a beautiful bouquet of prayers. So we lay the Rosary in the arms of our Queen and Mother.
How blessed we are to have such a loving Mother!
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