Recognizing Saints for October and the Power of the Holy Rosary as a Weapon of these Times…

 By Monk, Rev. Susan Chamberlain, PhD

When GOD leads you in Prayer, you follow. When the Blessed Mother shows up, you Holy Listen. As the Holy Spirit descends upon you, you pick up your Rosary and Pray for those here and for those that have gone onto the other side of the veil.

This October, the Month of the Holy Rosary (so named by Pope Leo XIII - who wrote 11 encyclicals on the Rosary). St. Louis-Marie de Grignion Monfort (France 1673-1716) wrote the best book on the Rosary, “The Secret of the Rosary” and “True Devotion to Mary” . He had the best Devotion to Our Lady and he let others know it.

I was Guided this October by Heaven to continue to say the Rosary daily and as many times as I could. I was also Guided to say the “7 Sorrows of Mother Mary” . St. Anselm (1033-1109), a Benedictine Monk, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, and the Benedictines originated this concept. Pope Pius VII introduced it to the Church in 1814.
 

October is an extremely powerful month for the Champions of the Rosary. Our Lady of Fatima on (May 13-Oct 13) 1917, appeared to 3 Shepard children with a flock of their sheep on a mountainside.

There were 3 Secrets from Our Lady to the children. In the third vision the 3 children, all Saints now, all saw Hell in a SEA OF FIRE. The Miracle of the Sun happened on the last Apparition on Oct 13, 1917, as the “Lady of the Rosary” reveals her name.  

 

The Rosary was started in France. The French Revolution (1789-1799) occurs. On Feb 11, 1858 St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes, France, has apparitions of the Blessed Mother, who appeared to her 15 times. Our Lady of Lourdes also gave St. Bernadette 3 Secrets and one of the visions was Hell and it’s SEA OF FIRE. Our Lady taught little Bernadette the Rosary. On March 4, 1858 Our Lady appears again and says, “ I Am the Immaculate Conception” . December 8 is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and The Immaculate Conception of Mary is also the Patroness of the United States; also celebrated December 8.

 

St. Therese of Lisieux, France, her Feast Day is Oct 1. She is a Doctor of the Church. She is best known for “Story of a Soul” as “The Little Flower” and “St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face” . She is the most famous modern day Saint of these times. Her parents St. Louis and St. Marie-Zelie Martin, (canonized Oct 15) and her sister St. Leonie, all became Saints.

St. Therese was cured at age 10 by the intercession of Our Lady of the Smile. St. Therese also saw little demons at the age of 4.

St Therese appeared to me this day, Oct 1, in her full Carmelite Habit; I am humbled and honored.

Oct. 2 is the Feast of the Guardian Angels.

Oct 4 is the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi - “Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace’ .

St. Faustina Kowalska of Poland, also has a Feast Day this month, Oct 5. She is known for her diary, “The Diary of St. Faustina” and the “Divine Mercy Chaplet” . She had visions of Hell and it’s SEA OF FIRE. This day Jesus appeared to me as He usually is, I am humbled and honored.

Oct 7 is the Feast Day of Our Lady of the Rosary.

St. Teresa of Avila, Spain or St. Teresa of Jesus. Her Feast Day is Oct 15. She is a Doctor of the Church, the originator of the Carmelite Reform and founded many convents throughout Spain in the 1500’s. Her confessor and Spiritual Director was St. John of the Cross - “Dark Night of the Soul” , they also became friends; as they understood one another extremely well. She is best known for “The Interior Castle” - Mansions of the Soul, “Let Nothing Disturb You” . She had visions of Hell and it’s SEA OF FIRE. It took her 6 years to even write about her experience there, she said it’s filled with anguish and despair. She appeared this day, Oct 15, to me in her full Carmelite Habit; I am humbled and honored.

St. Pope John Paul II, the longest reigning Pope of our times, Feast Day Oct 22. He came to his papacy proclaiming his favorite Prayer was the Holy Rosary. In 2002 he added the “Luminous Mysteries” - “Mysteries of Light”.

He was shot 4 times on May 13, 1981 (Feast Day and first Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917) as the Blessed Mother intercedes for him and moves the bullets from crucial areas of the body. The Blessed Mother also appears as a silhouette holding the Pope in one picture that went public. In 2005 he crossed over at 84 and Servant of GOD, Sister Lucia of Fatima (only child of the Apparitions that lived) crossed over as well at 97.

Mary is the Mother of All Saints. She is the first Saint. Mary is the Mother of the Church. St. Joseph, in 1870 is made “Patron of the Church” and representation of all Fathers. So in 1879, St. Joseph appears in his first vision in Knock Ireland and then appears with Mary and the Child Jesus, again in the last vision of Fatima on Oct 13, 1917. Dec 8, 2020, to Dec 8 2021 was declared the year of St Joseph by Pope Francis. It was 150 years since St. Joseph became the Patron of the Church (1870). HIS Purity is able to drive out demons. His Prayer, along with St. Michael the Archangel Prayer and the Rosary, all drive out demons.