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Show THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC The Rosary a Most Beautiful Catholic Devotion In the fine old days of Catholic homes nothing was finer than the quiet, reverent group each evening, when all the family said thebeads together. The old folks let their worn rosaries slip through their fingers, saying the old prayers oyer sweetly, dwelling with unconscious emphasis on at the hour of our death. The youngsters prayed in a childish monotone, dwelling on no words in particular, hut with such a sense of reverence and confidence in the protection of their Mother Mary as would go with them and safeguard their souls from evil all their lives. The blessed Mother was a member of the family in those good Catholic homes where there were nightly beads; and the children loved her as truly and said their good night to her as affectionately as they did to their earthly mother, who was for them a proof and picture of their Mother in heaven. In how many Catholic homes of the present does this holy practice prevail of saying the beads every evening? Who can tell but God and' our Lady of the Rosary? The census does not deal with such things. Yet the answer to that question is of more importance to the Church and the State than most of what the census deals with, becauspHevotion to Mary and her answering protection make the best of citizens both for earthed for heaven. Why not begin this evening, if you have not begun it already, the practice of saying the beads all together every evening? Choose some fixed time a convenient time for everyone in the family (let us. say after supper, before anyone goes out for the evening), and keep to it as part of the inviolable order of the household at least as inevitable, let us say, as the daily meals. At the chosen hour gather the children together, and let father or mother or one of the children in turn say the beads and the rest answer. It will take but ten minutes or so, but they will be the most profitable and consoling ten minutes of your day. Why do not you, then, make this one of 37 your personal offerings to your Mother in heaven, to begin the daily saying of the beads by all the family? How it will Console you when the years have ebbed away and left you on the shores of eternity, to think that you have been the means of this family act of devotion to the Mother of God! What a consolation and a stay it will be in family anxieties and troubles to. remember that for years and years you have all joined together in a daily choriis of praise and beseeching to the Virgin most faithful and most powerful! We expect the blessed Mother to help us and get us favors or protection at very short notice sometimes, and with very little previous devotion on our part to justify our urgent pleading and sheTiears us not because of any desert of ours but because she has the heart of a mother. -- First Year in School Your little Girl or Boy will want to see just how they looked when they started to school. Bring them to our studio this month and let us make a permanent 'record of this interesting period in the life of your child. Lumiere Studio 4 South Main When hungry think of BUTTER - KRUST |