October 7, 2026, Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)

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Friends of the Rosary,

Today, October 7, is the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary and the power of the Rosary.

This celebration, formerly known as the Feast of Our Lady of Victory and the Feast of the Holy Rosary, was instituted to honor Mary for the Christian victory over the Turks at Lepanto on October 7, 1571, a favor due to the recitation of the Rosary.

Pope St. Pius V and all Christians had prayed the Rosary for victory, and then he instituted this celebration. This victory saved Europe from being overrun by the forces of Islam.

The Rosary, or the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is one of the best prayers to Mary, the Mother of God.

Lepanto, perhaps the most complete victory ever achieved over the Ottoman Empire, on October 7, 1571, is commemorated by the invocation “Help of Christians,” inserted into the Litany of Loreto.

Leo XIII added the invocation “Queen of the most Holy Rosary, pray for us,” to the Litany of Loretto. The Feast is, in reality, a great festival of thanksgiving for the signal and countless benefits bestowed upon Christendom through the Rosary of our blessed Queen.

In modern times, successive popes have urged the faithful to pray the Rosary. The Rosary, a “contemplative and Christocentric prayer, inseparable from the meditation of Sacred Scripture,” is “the prayer of the Christian who advances in the pilgrimage of faith, in the following of Jesus, preceded by Mary,” said Pope Benedict XVI.

Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!

Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!

+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New York

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