Hard to Find the Time

The late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, declared Venerable in 2012, loved to promote the rosary. He was a practical man and understood that for many of us it is hard to find time in the day to pray a full rosary. He had this to say:

To develop that spiritual comradeship with Jesus and Mary, the rosary is most effective. The word rosary means a "garland of roses" culled from the Garden of Prayer. . . . 

If you do not say it all at once and on your knees, then say one decade when you arise in the morning, another decade on your way to work, another decade as you sweep the house or wait for your check at the noon lunch hour, another decade just before you go to bed; the last decade you can say in bed just before falling off to sleep.

So do not let a scarcity of time rob you of the chance to greet Mary and reflect on her Son, even if only for a few moments at a time. These can be the crucial moments that bring us a course correction as we sail through our day.