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Even Beyond Death: The Rosary Holds Family Together

By: Guest blogger November 15th, 2026

My mother lay dying. My siblings and I stood around her bed, praying the Rosary as she lay unconscious. The Rosary reminds me that Mary, our Blessed Mother, is always near. I felt her presence with us then, as I did years ago when we prayed the Rosary as a family. We had prayed it together for years. We didn’t always come willingly. We were distracted, sometimes even arguing just before it began. We came in from different moods—half-paying attention, sometimes reluctant, sometimes restless. Yet once we started, something changed…