Jean and Damiana are two Rosary Sisters. They do kneel in reverence at the festival of the “Lady of the Rosary” and pray together. Despite the difference in their ages and experience, one of them raises her hands in prayer, while the other shuts her eyes and closes her hands seeking blessings.
To whom do you both pray? The needs are innumerate and the pleas are huge. The festival this time is different from any time in the past. This time we mark a Rosary Saint, namely Marie-Alphonsine, Habemus Sanctam, the founder of the Arab Rosary Congregation, that is why the festival this year has a flavor of holiness as nuns pray to the heavenly saint asking her intercession to have more saints emergence from the same congregation.
These two nuns realize that they prostrate with such reverence, silence and calm, at a time when there is conflagration in the environs. This conflagration is definitely not at home but rather everywhere in the neighboring countries. The Rosary Feast, which marks the Battle of Lepanto when victory was achieved with the power of the rosary, is capable of ensuring that the powers of non-violence beat the forces of evil, destruction and daily bloodshed, that the power of prayer will be victorious, and that the power of rosary will be victorious as well. Why not, as every prayer, in every pebble, disseminates “peace”?
The two praying nuns know that this Mass, attended by numerous families who came alongside students of the Rosary School, coincides with the Synod on the Family and the Catholic Church. This synod is designed to safeguard families and preserve their faith.
That is why both nuns raise their hands in a fervent prayer pleading that this synod will lead to unity among the various components of the Church despite difference in views.
Both Rosary nuns kneel and pray for the sick, for the prisoners, for the forgotten elderly people, and for the perpetuation of peace in this country so that peace may spread to include the entire world.
Both nuns pray for whoever seeks prayers and is need for this prayer.
O Lord, do accept St. Ignatius of Loyola words…
We do repeat his words while focusing our eyes on the two praying nuns at the Rosary Sisters church in the center on Amman…
O Lord take and receive…
O Lord take and receive.
