{"id":7809,"date":"2011-10-13T13:40:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=7809"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:36:51","slug":"confessions-of-a-rosary-rattler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/10\/confessions-of-a-rosary-rattler\/","title":{"rendered":""Confessions of a Rosary Rattler""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>


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That\u2019s the title of this fine piece<\/strong><\/a> by Pat Gohn that looks at how she came to appreciate the rosary \u2014 and the woman behind it:<\/p>\n

My white-haired grandmother, Henrietta, owned a beautiful rosary with tiny delicate pearlescent beads. She kept it on her bedroom bureau in a small metal. Whenever I\u2019d visit her apartment, I\u2019d wander in and play with those beads. I had no real concept about prayer or its value at the time. But I dearly remember when those beads came into my possession. Nana\u2019s legacy of prayer was handed on to me at my First Holy Communion. Sadly, I ignored the magnitude of the true gift of that rosary for many years.<\/p>\n

I came to the Rosary, and really, to Mary, during the white-knuckled medical stresses of my first pregnancy. Prior to that, I always went to Jesus in prayer for help. My small mind reminded me that Jesus never had a baby. What I needed was some \u201cgirl talk\u201d; I longed for a strong feminine connection.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m only guessing, but I think Jesus used that opportunity to introduce me to his mother.<\/p>\n

A woman who was a little older than me, and about ten years into parenting, befriended me, and spoke to my angst about motherhood. As a mother of three, she gently encouraged me to look to Mary for help and example. I was so low, and so sick from all-day \u201cmorning\u201d sickness, that I couldn\u2019t muster a reason to argue.<\/p>\n

So, I daily opened Nana\u2019s pretty metal box and desperately prayed those Rosary prayers. They became a lifeline thrown to me in a drowning sea. I asked Mary to pray for me and with me. Very slowly, over those nine months, I began to see what was missing. I had kept Mary on a distant shelf, like a statue, or like my forgotten beads in their box. In time she became no longer an icon, but a living, holy presence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do read it all<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0You can thank me later. \u00a0I\u2019m planning to preach on the rosary this weekend, and this piece offered me inspiration.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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