If you don't win this time, you can try again in the 200,000th page view contest

  Sisters of Carmel making rosaries

We have decided on the prize for our contest to guess the exact date Inigo Hicks reaches 100,000 page views.  It's a Rosary custom made by the Sisters of Carmel, who make the best rosaries on the web.  The rosary has black oval cocoa wood beads on a black cord, an Our Lady of Fatima centerpiece, a St. Benedict crucifix, and a St. Ignatius Loyola side medal attached to the centerpiece.  The St. Ignatius medal is there because I graduated from St. Ignatius Loyola Grammar School, and because Fr. John Hardon, our patron, belonged to the religious order founded by St. Ignatius.

Since the rosary is a custom job, I couldn't find any photos on the web.  It will look very nice, and will stand up to years of use by even the most devoted prayer of the rosary.

First to guess the exact date Inigo Hicks hits 100000 page views wins.  You get one guess.  If no one guesses the exact date, I keep the rosary for use in a future contest.  Enter your guess in the comments section of this post.  Good luck.

Resistance is futile

 Why resist in the first place?

Courtesy of Taki's Magazine, comes this account from Nicholas Farrell, an Englishman transplanted to Italy, who has been resisting the efforts of his wife Carla and their five children to convert him to Catholicism.   Carla and the kids have been saying the Rosary, though, so if they they keep that up it'll just be a matter of time.

To Carla, I say "Brava!"  To Nicholas, I say "Give up." (h/t Pewsitter)

Is wearing the rosary as a necklace a sin?

Not such a simple question.  Answer here.

Saintly Thought for Today

                                          The Rosary is not just for them



From St. Louis de Montfort's "Secret of the Rosary:"

It is a great mistake to think that only priests and religious and those who have withdrawn from the turmoil of the world are supposed to meditate upon the truths of our faith and the mysteries of the life of Christ. If priests and religious have an obligation to meditate on the great truths of our holy religion in order to live up to their vocation worthily, the same obligation is just as much incumbent on the laity, because of the fact that every day they meet with spiritual dangers which might cause them to lose their souls. Therefore they should arm themselves with the frequent meditation on the life, virtues, and sufferings of our Blessed Lord, which are presented to us in the fifteen mysteries of the Holy Rosary.

We’re all Invited

No invitation has ever been more timely.