Annual Winter Rosary Novena 2025 - a bit late

 I have a few quick things to say today.

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First and most important:

Chari last posted her yearly 54-day Rosary Novena reminder a bit over 5 years ago, before this blog took a long nap.   I just noticed today that the winter one would have started January 24th, which is 10 plus days ago.   She usually leads a winter and summer one.

I'm reviving the tradition a bit late, but I think the timing is right!   When Chari and I travelled to the Oregon coast a couple of years ago, in February actually, we said so many Rosaries together as we drove!  

I did the math, and it looks like if you started today, as I will be doing you would end on March 31st, which is still in the month dedicated to St Joseph.     I have a few matters that could use some focused prayer, so I am going to try to do it as I can .

Here is a list of prayer intentions for husbands and marriages covering every month of the year, put together by Chari.

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Secondly, I'm going to quickly link to some of the posts that started this blog:

• Welcome to TUAR
• Our Plans for TUAR
• Our Patron Saints
• Chari's Introduction
• Willa's Introduction

Probably anyone reading knows us already!  But just in case.   

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The picture is of a relief-carving (there may be a better word) of the Holy Family that our small local church (a mission in the mountains) gave to me when I retired from playing the piano/ planning the music there.   

The wall behind it was painted by my husband a couple of years ago when we bought this Oklahoma fixer-upper.    How adventurous life is -- 12 or 13 years ago when this blog was at its most active time, I never could have pictured either being a quasi-music-director, or living in the center of the US in a tornado zone.  Or a pandemic and shutdown, or a historic California wildfire coming very close to our house.     Well, maybe I could have predicted the fire somewhat.   

Become like fire, indeed!  

Praying for all your intentions!