October 18 marks the 100th anniversary of World Mission Sunday, and to honor that anniversary, a variety of events have been planned in Rome. One such event is the International Missionary Rosary, which is scheduled for 3 p.m. Rome time (9 am New York time) on Saturday, October 17. You can join the livestream at VaticanNews. This Rosary is connected to the recently beatified Fulton Sheen, who promoted it, as the Pontifical Mission Societies in Los Angeles explains. In February of 1951, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith from 1950 to 1966), in a radio address (The Catholic Hour), inaugurated a World Mission Rosary. “We must pray, and not for ourselves, but for the world. To this end, I have designed the World Mission Rosary. Each of the five decades is of a different color to represent the continents.” According to VaticanNews, on Saturday, “the mysteries will be Read More…

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