The Rosary: A Solution for a Divided Society

What are you engaging in that might be destroying your soul? Pam Spano encourages you to pick up your Rosary and smile! You’ll feel so much better.

While scrolling through Facebook, I came across the page for Ghirelli Rosaries. A friend of mine had commented, so out of curiosity, I stopped to read.

The ad was for the National Eucharistic Congress Official Rosary to commemorate the Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. My friend's comment was, “What’s one more Rosary?” I laughed out loud and sent her a private message that she had sold me! She told me she had a weakness for commemorative Rosaries. I ordered three (one each for me, my daughter and my husband).

After the Rosaries arrived, I made a mental note to take mine to Mass to have it blessed and to use it at my next Zoom Rosary meeting.

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Insulted while watching the news

We had a busy weekend, and the Rosary was forgotten until my husband and I started to watch a news show. There was so much anger, hatred, and bitterness from the commentators that it seemed to physically fill our living room with the negativity! No one smiled as they pounded the news desk with their fists and shouted obscenities at the viewers.

After I got over the shock, I got angry, too. How dare you speak to me like that? How dare you speak to your viewers like that? And why would anyone watch this?

You’ve probably heard the phrase, “this is not who we are.” This is exactly who we are. We have become an angry society, whether it’s on social media or an unfortunate encounter with someone who does not believe the same way we do. No one has ever changed their mind about a held viewpoint when someone curses at you because you disagree.

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Why are people so angry? Why doesn’t anyone smile anymore?

People are not happy because they fill their environment with negativity. The things we watch on television, the social media we engage in, and perhaps even our own adverse engagement with others eat away at our very souls. What has happened to us?

The Rosary can be a solution

After calming down, I noticed the Rosary I had just purchased on my desk. Neatly in its case, it laid there, but I felt it was about to speak. “When are you going to pray?”

Oh dear. When, indeed?

For my own part, I stay away from the controversies on social media and with friends who don’t share my views. There are other things to talk about and enjoy. But I did notice something about myself, and pondered: What was I engaging in or watching that might be destroying my soul?

I picked up that Rosary not yet blessed and started to pray. After that, I opened my Hallow app and listened to one of the many prayers offered. Guess what? My anger was gone ... and I felt at peace. I began to smile! Imagine that?

For those of you who regularly pray the Rosary, God bless you and please keep that up! For those of you who haven’t picked up your beads in a while (like me!), please start! The Hallow app offers the Rosary, as does other apps. YouTube has numerous Rosary channels that offer wonderful recitations of the Rosary. EWTN broadcasts the recitation of the Rosary daily.

And if you can’t find your beads or just need a bit of a pick-me-up, treat yourself and perhaps a couple of your loved ones to new ones. (By the way, the commemorative one for the Eucharistic Congress, is gorgeous and affordable!) Start a Rosary group to either meet in person or online. Let’s join together and flood the atmosphere with prayers to Our Heavenly Mother!

[Editor's note: Our sister ministry, Family Rosary, offers the Holy Rosary and Eucharist each weekday beginning at 11:30 AM Eastern, and the videos as well as videos of the Rosary prayed by Venerable Patrick Peyton, can be found on YouTube.]

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