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10/08/2026

Today we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. Very important feast day as it falls in October, the month of the rosary. Praying the gospels is a very powerful prayer.

10/01/2026

October the month of the Holy Rosary.

October is traditionally the Month of the Rosary in the Catholic Church.
The link comes from October 7, 1571, the date of the Battle of Lepanto. Pope St. Pius V had asked Christians to pray the Rosary for the Christian fleet. After the victory, he established a feast of Our Lady of Victory, later named Our Lady of the Rosary and fixed on October 7. The whole month came to be set aside for this devotion.
In the late 1800s, Pope Leo XIII wrote a series of encyclicals encouraging the Rosary, especially during October, which strengthened the custom of treating the month as dedicated to it.
The Rosary is a set of prayers built around moments from the life of Jesus and Mary, grouped as the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and (since 2002) Luminous Mysteries, prayed while keeping count on beads. The main prayers are the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Glory Be.
October 7 remains the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

09/29/2026

09/29/2026

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Arc Angels.

Who are the Arc Angels?

https://stboniface-lunenburg.org/feast-of-saints-michael-gabriel-and-raphael-archangels

09/25/2026

Today the Church beatified a very Godly man Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Another intercessor for us in heaven.

Catholics for Catholics is on the ground covering the historic beat...

09/08/2026

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

September 8th is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where we recall her birth and role in the divine plan for our salvation. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of only three birthdays honored in the liturgical year: the others being that of St. John the Baptist and that of Jesus Christ Himself, all three born without original sin, though only Mary and Jesus were free from sin at the moments of their conceptions.

09/03/2026

Today is Saintly Gifts 35th anniversary! The very day my daughter Amanda started kindergarten is the day I opened the doors, she will be 42 the 17th of this month. Wow, the growth in Saintly Gifts has been amazing but not only that the growth in my faith. I love my job and the many people I have met and have become friends. I love you all and thank you so much for your support and kindness.

08/31/2026

THE PRAYER THAT MULTIPLIES THE HOLY ROSARY 9 TIMES

The Prayer of Salutation, given on June 20, 1646, to a shepherdess from Bavaria.

This is the story: the shepherdess had promised before an image of the Madonna to recite nine Rosaries a day. In the summer heat, the cattle became restless and she was unable to pray. Then the Virgin appeared to her and taught her this prayer, which was equivalent to nine Rosaries, asking her to teach it to others as well.

As reported by the German priest Joseph Ackermann in his book "Consolation for the Souls in Purgatory" (1793):

PRAYER OF GREETING

(to be recited 3 times after the Rosary and equals 9 Rosaries)

God greets you, O Mary

God greets you, O Mary

God greets you, O Mary

O Mary, I greet you 33,000 times,

as the Archangel Gabriel greeted you.

It is a joy to your heart and to my heart too,

that the Archangel has brought you the greeting of Christ.

Hail, O Mary...

08/22/2026

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth. She is the Queen Mother.

The Blessed Virgin Mary has been crowned queen in virtue of the Lord Jesus Christ, her Son, who is the king of the universe. In heaven as on earth, she points the way not to her own glory but to His, with which she has been robed and which she seeds only to reflect.

07/01/2026

To celebrate and honor our country’s 250 Anniversary, Saintly Gifts will be closed Friday, Saturday, and Monday for a long weekend. We will reopen Tuesday, July 6th. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸