October joyfully celebrates Our Lady of the Rosary, whose feast is on the 7th and encourages devotion to this great gift, given through Saint Dominic. It is especially consoling to pray the Holy Rosary during difficult times. It may be a chore to pick up those beads and get it started, but you will never regret it. Spiritual effort always comes back to you in blessings 100-fold! October also, sorrowfully remembers the unborn and all those in our society whose lives are considered of less value, such as the handicapped and elderly. Death will not remain in confinement. It will continue to take more and more human territory until no one is safe. This obvious fact mysteriously eludes so many. We all must fight this fight. The innocent and vulnerable need us. Judgement is now upon us and has been a long time coming.
+++ Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy. +++
The feast of the Annunciation is exactly 9 months before Christmas Day, March 25th. On October 11th, we commemorate the Divine Maternity, as the Mother of God enters the final stages of carrying Our Lord in her womb. How appropriate it is to remember pro-life intentions this month.
We continue to meditate here, upon the “Marian Triad of the Months.” We have contemplated her most loving heart, her great sorrows and now her glory as Our Lady of the Rosary, which streams from her Immaculate Heart and is the antidote to our own sorrows. Let us consider this Mariology and pray on it during the coming month, as many polycrises are heating up in the world and the future is quite uncertain. Let us flee to Mary for consolation and guidance in examining our consciences well, so we may obtain mercy and not wrath, for ourselves, Holy Mother Church and the world.
On the last Sunday of October, we honor the King of Kings, Christ the King, in the traditional calendar. We then enter into the “Triduum of Death,” to contemplate our mortality, roughly 4 weeks before a new Church year and our meditation upon the Incarnation!
Notable feasts of October:
1st-Saint Therese of Lisieux (new)
2nd-Holy Guardian Angels
3rd-Saint Therese of Lisieux (trad)
4th-First Friday of the Sacred Heart/Saint Francis of Assisi
5th-First Saturday of the Immaculate Heart/Saint Faustina
7th-OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
11th-DIVINE MATERNITY OF OUR LADY/Saint John XXIII
16th-Saint Margaret Mary (new)
17th-Saint Margaret Mary (trad)
18th-Saint Luke, Evangelist
19th-Saint Isaac Jogues & Companions, Martyrs of New York territory under the Native Americans
22nd-Saint John Paul II
24th-Saint Raphael the Archangel
27th-CHRIST THE KING
28th-Saints Simon & Jude
31st-Triduum of Death (till Nov 2nd)/All Hallows Eve
November 1st to 8th-Be Ready for the Plenary Indulgences! Get 8 Loved Ones into Heaven! (Get your instructions right here in the coming month.)