Fr. Deprey has asks that all families consider praying the 15 decades of the rosary every day as a means to obtain a positive resolution to our current coronavirus crisis.

To many of you this may seem daunting ?  If your days are quite busy, consider praying a morning rosary for your morning prayers, then a 2nd rosary spread throughout the day (i.e. pausing from your activities to pray a decade each hour), closing with a family rosary in the evening.  This can be done.

I would also encourage you all to wear the Miraculous Medal of St. Catherine Labouré which was first produced by the Daughters of Charity.  During the cholera outbreak in Paris in 1832, which claimed 20,000 lives, the first medals were being produced.  The sisters started to distribute the first 2,000 of them, especially to infected people who filled the hospitals.  The healings increased, including a lessening of emotional distress. So great was the effect that the people began to call it the “miraculous medal”.  We need all the help we can get !

Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee !  Amen.