This is your reminder to join the Rosary Crusade for Vocation!
It began on May 13, 2025, on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima and will conclude on the same feast day on May 13, 2026. Just as we did two years ago, faithful in and friends of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston are asked to pledge Rosaries for an increase in vocations for the Mountain State.
Work with your pastor, religious educators, and Catholic organizations to make joining this effort fun and more rewarding by reciting it together as a group.
“Remember each priest, consecrated person, deacon, and Catholic marriage is truly a result of strong and intense prayer. Be that grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, friend, or parishioner that reverently prays for them.”-Sister Martha Gomez, R.G.S., Delegate for Consecrated Life in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
The Rosary was one of St. Teresa of Calcutta’s favorite meditations, especially when said during Eucharistic Adoration or just sitting quietly in the church before the tabernacle.
“When we recite the Rosary in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, we love Jesus with the Heart of Mary.… We offer Jesus the perfect Adoration of Mary. We join our own love for Jesus to Mary’s worship and perfect love. Jesus welcomes our time of adoration as if it were Mary’s own prayer. No matter how weak our faith or how poor our love, Mary receives us into her Heart, and Jesus acknowledges our time of prayer as if it came directly from the Heart of his Mother. The Immaculate Heart of Mary makes up for what is lacking in our hearts.”
