What do you do when you need 75,000 rosaries, comprised of 3,975,000 beads strung together by hand, in time for the Sept. 24 beatification of Bishop Fulton Sheen?
You go to your first-line volunteers, the sisters and cloistered nuns in convents across the United States, and ask if they would help make the official World Mission Rosaries designed by Bishop Sheen himself.
Dominican Sister Jude Andrew Link of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Peoria, first came up with the idea, which was approved by Msgr. Roger Landry, national director of The Pontifical Mission Societies USA. (Read all about putting out the appeal to all rosary makers.)
Sisters in many convents have answered the call.
When the request arrived for the Poor Clare Nuns of Maria Regina Mater Monastery in Kokomo, Indiana, there was no question they’d assist.
One of the sisters called to get supplies from Our Lady’s Rosaries Makers. Once they arrived, the nuns started this rosary-making project on May 13, the memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, a day which happened to coincide with Venerable Sheen’s 1977 visit to their monastery.
The Poor Clares feel blessed to be of help, as expressed in
