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<\/a><\/p>\nThe man behind it all was Fr. Patrick Peyton, a soft-spoken Irishman who coined the famous phrase \u201cThe family that prays together stays together.\u201d\u00a0 Fr. Peyton believed so fiercely in the power of prayer, and the power of the rosary, that he staged events like that all over the world \u2014 in Nairobi, in Madrid, in Bombay.\u00a0 In 1953, a rosary rally in Manila drew a million people.<\/p>\n
Today, nearly two decades after his death, Fr. Peyton has been declared a \u201cServant of God\u201d and is a candidate for sainthood.\u00a0 You look back on the impact he had, and you can understand why.\u00a0 I have no doubt he helped save many, many souls.<\/p>\n
And he did it by reminding the world of what matters.<\/p>\n
The gospel today concludes with Jesus telling the Pharisees to \u201crepay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.\u201d\u00a0 A lot of us know that saying translated as \u201crender unto Caesar.\u201d\u00a0 I think we all know too well what we \u201crender unto Caesar,\u201d what we repay to him.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think anyone disputes that Caesar gets its due.<\/p>\n
But I have to ask: what about God?<\/p>\n
How many of us take the time to repay \u201cto God what belongs to God\u201d?<\/p>\n
Do we even bother?<\/p>\n
In the responsorial psalm, we just sang, \u201cGive the Lord glory and honor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, here, in these beads, is our chance.<\/p>\n
I know, a lot of people think the rosary is boring. I can\u2019t tell you how many times my wife and I have started to say the rosary and she ends up digging her elbow into me because I\u2019ve fallen asleep.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not a poster child for this devotion.<\/p>\n
But I will tell you this: it has changed my life.<\/p>\n
When I wandered away from the practice of my faith, it was my wife praying the rosary that pulled me back.<\/p>\n
When I have found myself frightened or anxious or uncertain, it\u2019s the rosary that has helped me find focus.<\/p>\n
When I\u2019ve felt alone or worried, it\u2019s the rosary that has given me peace.<\/p>\n
This weekend, we invite you to rediscover what the rosary has to offer.\u00a0 October is the month of the rosary, and as has become our custom during this month, on Sunday afternoon, we will pray a \u201cLiving Rosary\u201d in the plaza outside our front door. What you\u2019ll experience is something remarkable.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll hear the rosary prayed in different languages, in different voices.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have a chance to bear witness to our faith, to all those who travel up and down Ascan Avenue.<\/p>\n
And with the Living Rosary, there is this: every one of us represents one of the beads.\u00a0 That means that we become what we pray.\u00a0 We give ourselves as living prayers to God, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.<\/p>\n
And, most importantly: we have a chance to give \u201cto God what belongs to God.\u201d\u00a0 To give thanks.\u00a0 To offer in some small way our lives, our hearts, our hopes for His greater glory.<\/p>\n
Paul\u2019s opening of his letter to the Thessalonians that we heard a few moments ago said, \u201cWe give thanks to God always for all of you\u2026calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope.\u201d<\/p>\n
In so many ways, that captures beautifully what praying the rosary is about.\u00a0 A work of faith.\u00a0 A labor of love.\u00a0 Endurance in hope.<\/p>\n
So this weekend, take 20 minutes and take a leap of faith.\u00a0 Make yourself a prayer.\u00a0 Pray that rosary with us.\u00a0 We only need 60 people.\u00a0 Imagine if we had 600.<\/p>\n
It won\u2019t be as massive as the rosary rallies of Fr. Peyton, and it won\u2019t make headlines like the people occupying Wall Street.\u00a0 But like those protestors, you will be doing something defiantly, proudly and deliberately countercultural.\u00a0 To a disbelieving world, you will say: \u201cNo.\u00a0 I do believe.\u201d\u00a0 The first words of the rosary are the creed: we believe<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 And it all flows from those words.\u00a0 The rosary is a devotion that professes belief and from that, trust <\/em>\u2014 all through the intercession of that most blessed among women, \u201cHoly Mary, Mother of God,\u201d the one who is \u201cfull of grace.\u201d<\/p>\nThis is a chance to say not only that we believe, but that we believe in the power of prayer.<\/p>\n
Call it Occupy Forest Hills \u2013 or at least, Occupy the Plaza outside our church.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t promise that it will change the world, or even change your life.<\/p>\n
But I can promise you this: you will experience, as Paul put it, a work of faith and a labor of love and endurance in hope.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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