One Million Rosaries around the world

49 years
One Million Rosaries around the world
Afghanistan—military
Africa—Burundi
Africa– Cameroon
Africa—Ghana
Africa—Kenya
Africa—Malawi
Africa—Nigeria
Africa—Rwanda
Africa—Sudan
Africa—Tanzania
Africa—Uganda
Germany– World Youth Day
Granada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
India—Mumbai (Bombay)
Ireland
Philippines
Qatar
Italy—Rome—Mother Teresa’s nuns
Mexico
Nicaragua
Peru
Puerto Rico
Sri Lanka– Tsunami victims
Seoul Korea
U.S. Chapels, PIF -cancer patients, churches
U.S. Choose Life & Pray it Forward
U.S. California-San Francisco Life March
U.S. California—prisons
U.S. Colorado—prisons
U.S. Funeral homes
U.S. Hurricane & tornado victims
U.S. Lansing—Hospitals & schools
U.S. Mary at the Fair
U.S. Michigan prisons
U.S. Military
U.S. Texas
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
740 rosaries were sent from IHM
October, 2014
Ten years ago the people of Our Lady of
Fatima Parish in Haiti were starving and
many children were dying of dysentery
and other diseases associated with severe
poverty. Some parishioners from
St Brendan the Navigator Parish in
Cumming, GA heard about mission trips
that nearby St Monica’s church were
taking to Hinch, Haiti (who also take our
rosaries) and they decided to take on
assisting the community at Bassin Zim.
Clean water is essential and it was
discovered that for only $5 a family could
receive correct chemicals to purify their
drinking water for a whole year.
There was little or no education so a small
school was established which now serves
170 K-6th grade children .
With the help of business people from
St. Brendan small business’s became a
reality and with support and education
they slowly are helping give hope to the
community and the economy is beginning
to grow stronger..
Blessing of the rosaries at Our Lady of Fatima
Your rosaries will now give this parish
Church Bassin Zim Central Plateau of Haiti
a spiritual infusion of hope and healing.
They send their sincere thanks!!
School children are joyful when they receive a
rosary from Michigan.
Alba & Veronica picking up
1,100 rosaries to take to
Columbia, South America.
To the Rosary Makers,
In the name of Jesus Christ,
may you have a great year full
of love and prosperity.
I am a Religious Education
teacher at the Lacides Iriates
Normal National Superior
High School in Sahagun,
Cordoba Columbia.
It has been a great joy to have
received these beautiful
rosaries elaborated by all of
you and received through my
friend Alba Sanchez. Now that
they have allowed me to
organize a youth group, we
are going to extend this
devotion to the rest of our
school, now that the holy
rosary prayer is a Marian
prayer that centralizes our
mind and heart in our Lord
Jesus.
We are grateful for such
generous help. May God
multiply his blessings for you
and for your families.
These are pictures of our
youth.
May God reward you.
Gloria Bula M.
Congratulations to
Jane McNeilly
Jane is from St. Michaels Parish in Grand Ledge. She has been
a faithful Rosary Maker with us since 1970. Little did any of
us realize back then, that after 44 years making rosaries Jane
would top the charts by completing her one quarter millionth
rosary last month. Yes, that really is 250,000 rosaries!!!!!
There have been many times of great challenge for Jane,
raising 6 children , helping with many grandchildren and now
assisting her husband Jerry who is seriously ill (please pray for
him), but Jane never gave up. She is totally committed to helping especially those in the missions who can’t afford to pay a
whole day’s wages for a rosary. Her zeal and determination
are amazing. Thank you Jane for your dedication to sharing
your great love for Jesus and Mary with so many, many people
all over the world, and with us, your fellow Rosary Makers. .
God bless you always!!
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Congratulations to Karen & Mike
Golden on their 50th Wedding
Anniversary. Thanks to them for
their hard work on sales & especially
all the thousands of laminated
military prayer cards Mike creates.
God’s Blessings to All the Rosary Makers!
Once more we give thanks for the opportunities
you afford the children in IHM’s Religious Education
Program to experience your modeling of service and
to join you as team in rosary making.
Thanks to your hard work in Jan. 2014, 1279
Choose Life rosary prayer packets went to
Indiana and Arizona to the sisters Mary,
Mother of the Eucharist to take to the Life
Marches in Washington, DC and San Francisco. Some also went to EWTN for Pro-Life.
events.
Fifth and sixth graders find joy in being a part of
this service touching people near and far. They also
like being part of the friendly competition to make
the most rosaries to earn key roles in the May
Procession. Allie Crites made the most rosaries as
an individual and crowned Mary. Rayn Sova and
family made the most rosaries as a team and together
carried the six foot rosary in the processional. Other
key players in making the most rosaries individually
were Abbey Raymond and Karlee Kuhn . We were
thrilled again with the fifth and sixth grade
contribution to the rosary ministry at IHM. They
made a total of 425 rosaries during Lent.
We continue to be blessed with the encouragement of the staff team for fifth
and sixth graders who promote rosary making-Karen Salinas, Yolanda Toner, Hyonju Van Acker, Ken Gemalsky, Marty Mecher, Patty Blakeslee, Doug
Goulet, Leisa Gustin . Once more we give special thanks to Yolanda Toner who
serves as ‘quality control coordinator’ making sure each piece we give to the
rosary makers is a quality item.
Rosary Makers you’re terrific! May your ministry grow and grow and grow.
Sincerely,
JoAnn Angers, Director of
Thank you for all you do, you touch so many
lives. God bless you. Sr. Emmanuela
Thank you for the rosaries– everyone we met
enjoyed receiving them. Sr. Andrea
Thank you for sharing Christ through your
wonderful work. Sr. Emily
Thank you for your zeal for souls. Sr. Emma
Thank you for spreading the gift of the rosary.
Sr. Elias Maria
These are just a few of the notes from the
sisters who appreciated your rosaries!!
Religious Education and Social Ministry.
IHM School .
Mary Margaret Utess sends heartfelt thanks to all the RosaryMakers
for the hundreds of rosaries given to the IHM School children to pray
for others in their circle of family and friends. . These young people
are now “ praying it forward” on their own in many settings other than
just school.. This year they also prayed over 300 rosaries for patients
at Lansing area hospitals. May God bless you for your part in training
our youth in the importance of intercessory prayer.
Dear Mother Mary,
I place all my
children under your
mantle of loving
care.
Please protect and
watch over them
with your motherly
compassion.
Help them come to
know, love and
serve Our Lord.
Dear God, I ask this
through
Our Lady’s
intercession, in
Jesus’ name.
Amen
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Do you have children, grandchildren and other loved
ones who are away from the practice of their faith?
Would you like to come together with others to pray for
their intentions?
Rosary Maker Terry Noonan is willing to
assist iin starting a group that would meet
once a month for intercessory prayer
for our families. If you are interested
please call her at : 517-974-3007. :
This group would possibly rely on
St. Monica as their patron as well as
drawing on the Divine Mercy
devotion for all families.
Barb Droste & Alice Scamuffo
draw names for the beautiful
afghans and other gift items
The winner! Alice DiCarlo
Friends gather to share a meal and stories of how their rosaries
have touched people around the world.
Worker Bee’s Cheryl Bixler, Barb
Droste & Susan Epple creating
beautiful tables for the event.
Many thanks to all the members who so faithfully work on our many bake
sales, faith-building gift sales and other projects which raise needed money
to pay for supplies and other expenses of our group. Very generous donors ,
IHM bakers and those who pray for us also make it possible for us to do
more every year. Without these workers and givers, this apostolate would
not be possible. This is God’s work and yours too. You are the ones who
say “YES” when Jesus calls you to serve.
Beautiful handmade rosaries, books and
gifts help us share faith with others.
Alice, Dan & Marla work hard at the Women’s
and men’s conferences
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Tasty goodies sell, sell, sell !!
Good morning Rosary Makers,
Thank you for the Rosaries. I am excited to bring them to Ghana and provide them to a local church.
As promised, I am providing pictures from a previous visit to Africa. But first, let me explain why I go to
Africa.
I am a Navy Reservist and my reserve unit supports the U.S. Navy's relationship-building activities in the
Gulf of Guinea region of Africa on the Atlantic coast. My previous visits gave
me the opportunity to visit Cameroon, Gabon and Benin. Before my first visit
to Benin, I had the chance to meet Steve Gauss at Men's Conference hosted
by the Diocese of Lansing. Steve had set up a concession table at the conference for Pray It Forward. My conversation with Steve gave me the idea to
bring Rosaries to Africa and, thanks to the efforts of your Rosary Makers, I
have delivered three sets of 200 Rosaries each to Benin.
The pictures are from the first time I delivered them. I had no idea to whom I
should deliver them or how I should get the Rosaries to the right prayerful
hands. So I went to the cathedral and asked around. These pictures are of that visit. I met the
gentleman in the pictures who was studying for holy orders. He is Deacon Francis Djeguede and is awaiting ordination into
the priesthood. He and I have become good friends since then.
The red and white building in the background is the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Miséricorde. I was able to attend Mass
there. Thanks again for providing me the Rosaries.
Juan Balboa
Thanks from the
Military
Guest speaker—Adam Janke, Program Director
St. Paul Street Ministry
St. Paul Street Evangelization (SPSE) is a grassroots,
non-profit organization, dedicated to responding to the
mandate of Jesus to preach the Gospel to all nations by
taking the Catholic Faith to the streets.
As an on-the-street Catholic evangelization organization,
St. Paul Street Evangelization provides an avenue for
people to share the Person of Jesus Christ and the truth
and beauty of the Catholic Faith with a hungry culture.
Founded in May, 2012, and armed with a simple sign,
pamphlets and Rosaries, SPSE evangelists take to the
streets, going wherever people are gathered-on a street
corner, at a festival, college campus or even at a football
game. Our teams always begin in prayer. Initial contact is
limited to a friendly greeting and an offer of a free Rosary,
but the evangelist never tries to force anyone to stop and
talk.
St. Paul Street Evangelization has found this non confrontational approach to be very
effective at strengthening the faith
of practicing Catholics, bringing
back into the Faith fallen away
Catholics and clearing up misconceptions about the Faith held by
non-Catholics. SPSE evangelists
recognize it is only their job to
plant seeds, and in the end, it is up
to God to make those seeds grow.
Soldiers at Ft. Benning, GA offer manythanks and prayers of thanksgiving for
the thousands of beautiful military
rosary packets they have received over
the years.
Lt. Col. Voyt
Camp Pendleton, Calf.—500 Military rosaries for the Wounded
Warrior event in May, 2014. as well as other soldiers who are
served by this base. Many, many thanks from all of them.
Sister Pat Newhouse—St. Martha’s Parish took 200 military
rosaries to the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seaton who
hosts the annual Sea Services Pilgrimage for the Navy . Her niece
also took 500 military pks for care packages being sent to
Afghanistan.
Brian Moore—Al Udeid, Qatar. Our
deepest thanks and appreciation for your
generous donation of handmade rosaries to
the deployed service members and civilians.
Your gifts allow our parish community to
grow together in faith, hope and love through
the communal prayer of the rosary. Please
accept our gratitude, and keep us in your
prayers as we go about our duties in the
desert.
Joe & Kathy Tomo also prepare and
distribute military rosaries and prayer
packets for military funerals for which the
families are very grateful.
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Preparing military packets
Thanks come for the hundreds
of rosaries we send to
New Jersey for their Legion
work. They even give out rosaries at an annual St. Patricks Day
parade . They won best float for a beautiful float dedicated to
Jesus and Mary. What a way to evangelize! They say praying
and promoting the rosary is the very core of the Legion’s
existence.
September 2013– August, 2014
Margaret Bappert
Pamela Canty
Melva Castaneda
Ani & Angela Castaneda
Kristina Deemer
Georgina Franczyk
Carmen Loredo
Shannon McMurtray
Darlene Ryor
Jan Shepherd
Kathy Tomo
Gay & Madisyn Weymouth
Prison Ministry
Thanks to Kay Charles our rosary maker prison ministry coordinator, we
have been able to provide 1,220 rosary & prayer card packets so that
our IHM and diocesan prison ministers and prison chaplains can give
inmates the spiritual tools they need to grow in faith.
Prison Minister, Edward Struzinki gives us insight into the important
work they do: “ Every week, two IHM parishioners minister to the
Catholic inmates at Cotton Facility in Jackson. The Catholic inmates
look forward to the service because they have an opportunity to pray for
their families, their loved ones and receive “ Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.”
I n addition to the above, the Catholic men have the opportunity to pray
the Rosary. Each of the men usually volunteer to pray a decade of the
rosary and also very prayerfully recite the Mercy Chaplet.
They also inform us that during the day, some of the Catholic men
pair up in the courtyard and pray the Rosary daily. This, in
essence sets a good example for the inmates to witness.
For continued healing
Ruth Colson
Dan Spitzley
Susann Baker
Nick Scamuffo
Ted Angers(Husband of JoAnn)
Jerry McNeilley(Husband of Jane)
Tess Pido
Tom Mauro
Odile Valladares
Mary Margaret Utess
Lydia Verhelle
Let us continue to pray often for all the needs of
our fellow rosary makers and their families.
Bob and Pat Herford also use many rosaries in their “ New Life”
program as well as facilitate providing rosaries to other prisons
throughout the diocese. They tell us many of the inmates like to
wear the rosary under their clothing because, as they say, “ The
rosary reminds them that Jesus died for them and is with them
always.”
Occasionally we receive requests from out-of-state inmates. One
such inmate from Indiana said, “ A friend told me about your
ministry. I was a lapsed Catholic and am trying to find my way
again, please send me a rosary and information about the Church
as we have no Catholic Services here.”
Roger Esch (Son of Loretta)
Rose Fata
Judy McClain
Ada Schafer
Cecelia Stanaway
Joan Vigneau
HOLY SPIRIT ORATORY
Eucharistic Adoration Chapel
Located next to the IHM Parish office, the Holy Spirit
Oratory Eucharistic Adoration Chapel has been in
existence for 16 years. It is open 24/7 and is the
perfect place to enter into the Holy Presence of Jesus
as He is exposed in the Blessed Sacrament for your
adoration. Please, take some time out of your busy
schedule and come and
experience Him Radiating
His love upon you. He patiently waits for your visit.
Website:
Holyspiritoratory. catholicweb.com
Always remember, when you make
a rosary or pray one, you are
making a deposit into your eternal
retirement account.
Please consider committing
one hour a week as a regular
adorer. contact Jack Chan at
(517) 668-8113
Mary Lynch
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Rosaries sent around the world
Training
schedule for
2014-2015
September 2013 to August, 2014
Pray It Forward packets– misc. 2,329
U.S. PIF - Cancer pk
283
IHM-PIF—Adoration chapel
531
IHM PIF Gathering area
515
Lans. Hospitals-students prayed215
Lans. Women’s Conf-PIF
900
Lans. Men’s Conf.– PIF……….. 712
Choose Life –PIF pks– Wash., DC 1,924
San Francisco, Lansing, EWTN
Confirmation & 1st Communion 344
Mary at the Fair2,150
Gift bracelets & rosaries to sell
Philippines—
Africa– Nigeria
Africa– Ghana
Africa– Kenya
Cuba
Illinois Tornado victims
Nicaragua
390
2,000
5,620
2,150
2,100
200
800
1,030
New workers are
always welcome.
Training is the
1st Saturday of the
month following
8 am Mass and
rosary . Evening
training is on the
Monday following the 1st Saturday at 6:30 pm . All sessions
are in the IHM office basement. No meetings in July or Aug.
SriLanka
700
Puerto Rico
116
Haiti
1,710
Christmas Child 1,400
St. Paul Street org. 760
Michigan prisons 1,220
Military
2,631
MSU–
500
Mexico
895
Samples & misc. 1,836
Funereals
265
Columbia, S. Am. 1,100
Peru
100
Legion of Mary-NJ 280
Detroit nun
500
Come to any of these gatherings in the basement of the IHM
Parish office and meet other rosary makers and share new
methods to make your rosaries stronger.
Private instruction also available if you can’t come to the group
sessions. Please leave a message at the parish
office. 393-3030.
Total rosaries
distributed this year:
38, 206
49 years of Rosaries made for a grand total of
One Million, four thousand, eight hundred
“ Where two or three are gathered, there I am” Matthew 18:20 . Jesus’ words comes true when we think of the past 49
years of Rosary Making at IHM. Jesus and Mary brought 2 or three people together all those years ago and like the
multiplication of the loaves & fishes, the little band of workers has grown and grown. As Mother Teresa said “ always
do small things with great love,” and that is what this little group did. Just imagine .One Million rosaries !!! If each
rosary were prayed only once a week, for an average of 52 times a year, that would be 52 million rosaries prayed for
world peace !! Don’t give up, continue to plant seeds of faith and never, ever, stop crowding out the evil with good..
Thanks for your faithful service and God bless you all !.
Income
Expenses
Beginning balance 9-1-13
$ 2,029
Supplies for making mission rosaries
$ 6, 378
Donations ranging from $1 to $2,000
$ 9,671
Cord & laminate for making Military rosaries & pks
$ 1, 793
Supplies for gift rosaries
$
904
How to pray the Rosary pamphlets
$
——-
Copies, prayer cards , newsletter & mailing of NL
$
496
Postage & suitcase fees -$300 for Africa to ship rosaries
$
1, 717
Books , Cd’s & DVD’s for sales
$
507
Religious items to sell in gift sales
$
1,239
Baggies for prayer cards & rosary pks
$
651
Religious Gift sales only
Oct. 2013 Sale -Blue Army Convention Davison-
$
967
Oct. 2013 Sale after Holy Spirit Oratory Mass
$
266
2013-Women’s Conf.-($1,189) -2014-Men’s Conf.($582)
$ 1 ,771
April, 2014 -1st Communion sale—IHM
$
500
April , 2014 - Divine Mercy— Resurrection Parish
$
713
Individual sales throughout the year
$
664
IHM Bake & gift sales
Oct. 2013 Bake sale $ 708 + Gift sale- $ 275
$
983
Divine Mercy—Books, pamphlets & prayer cards
$
690
Dec., 2013 Cookie & Candy sale $ 460 + Gifts –KC sold
$
460
$
359
Feb. 2014 Bake sale—$545 + Gifts—$242
$
787
Misc. storage containers, Masses, funeral lunch,
office supplies
Raffle at Oct., 2013 Fall Gathering
$ 1, 304
Interest from savings
$
Total income
$ 20, 123
Total Expenses
$ 14, 734
Ending Balance
8/31/14
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$ 5, 389
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The world doesn’t have a
Prayer without YOURS.
Or Current resident
Rosary Makers Fall Gathering
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Potluck Luncheon (please bring a dish to pass)
following the 11:30 Mass
downstairs in the Family Parish Center
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
3815 South Cedar Street, Lansing, MI 48910
Everyone Welcome
Special Guest Speaker
Adam Janke
St. Paul’s Street Ministry Program
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