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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Family Rosary | Global Rosary for Peace | Pope Leo XIV
As our world continues to long for peace, unity, and hope, the Congregation of Holy Cross and Holy Cross Family Ministries (which includes Catholic Mom and Family Rosary) warmly invites you to join us for the Global Rosary for Peace on Thursday, October 22, 2026, the Feast of Pope Saint John Paul II. Inspired by our ministry founder and candidate for sainthood, Venerable Patrick Peyton, who reminded the world that “A world at prayer is a world at peace,” this annual event brings together families, parishes, schools, religious communities, and Catholic organizations from across the globe to pray for peace through a live Rosary.
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Family Rosary | Rosary with kids | family prayer
Learn how to pray the Rosary with children in a simple, engaging way that fosters a deeper relationship with God through imaginative prayer practices. Bring the Children to Me And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” (Mark 10:13-14) Like all faith traditions, the Catholic Church has been losing its children to the secular world for the past 60 years. How would the world be different today if children and parents had learned simple ways to pray?
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Cause for Canonization | Family Rosary | Father Patrick Peyton
How do you measure success in your family? Venerable Patrick Peyton wanted families to measure their success in prayer. His famous message, “The family that prays together, stays together!” Venerable Patrick Peyton was a priest with a mission that still inspires families today and will continue to do so for many years to come.
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Annunciation | Family Rosary | anxiety
Meg Herriot meditates on how anxiety and the desire to control can be parenting pitfalls, butwe have a model in our Holy Mother. Praying the Mysteries of the Rosary: a Meandering Path I’ve written before about the gift of praying the Rosary, and how it has been a meandering path of Our Lady leading my family closer to her and our Lord. There have been some Mysteries of the Rosary that have been easier to enter into, to meditate on, and understand. I would say the Mystery of the Annunciation has always been more of a mystery to me. I was fortunate enough to take a trip to the place in the Holy Land where this mystery has been understood to have occurred. But obviously, I’ve never had anything similar to that situation happen, nor would I ever be worthy of it. So it seems harder to enter into, that is, until the other day.
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Family Rosary | catholic family life | family prayer
Tami Urcia describes the surprising way her children have made a weekly family Rosary a treasured prayer practice. After attending the Catholic Mom Contributors retreat in February of 2025, I was inspired to pray the Rosary more as a family. Due to hectic schedules that sometimes have our family looking more like a revolving door than a cohesive unit, I knew that attempting a daily Rosary would result more in increased frustration than increased holiness. But we could definitely shoot for once a week.
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Cause for Canonization | Family Rosary | Father Patrick Peyton
How do you measure success in your family? Venerable Patrick Peyton wanted families to measure their success in prayer. His famous message, “The family that prays together, stays together!” Venerable Patrick Peyton was a priest with a mission that still inspires families today and will continue to do so for many years to come.
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