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O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.

—Psalm 70:1 (DOUAY-RHEIMS)

“Like many Catholics, I grew up in a family that recited the rosary every night. And we knew why we did; as Mom would often assure us, the most effective person to take our prayers to Jesus was His own mother. As a good son, how could He refuse her?

“As children, we often came to the nightly rosary with protest—‘in a minute, Ma’—but having settled on our knees, it was a lovely, quieting time, one that bonded our family of nine kids at the end of a day of the usual sibling tensions. Years later, when we gathered for our parents’ wakes, and then for those of siblings, we prayed the rosary together and it bonded us still. The rosary crusader Father Paddy Peyton was right when he said, ‘The family that prays together, stays together.’” —Thomas Groome

Our Father…. Hail Mary….Glory be….