We Need To Pray The Rosary

  First a little history on the rosary. Trying to determine exactly when the rosary came about can be somewhat difficult. There is some evidence from the earliest days of the church that prayer beads were used. There was also the repeating of prayers to help with mediation. There are also roots that go back to before the christian era. There were also strings of beads used in the Middle Ages. They were used to count the Hail Marys and the Our Fathers. These strings of beads were known as Paternosters, which is Latin for Our Father.
 

What is going on with the Mass

  When I came back to the catholic church maybe 10 or 15 years ago I was very surprised at how it had changed. I remember back in the 60s to late 70s there was a distinct holiness that I do not see today. It seems as though the holiness has been placed aside somewhere. I know it was even different before the sixties, because I remember the old church in the basement of the catholic school where I went had the alter facing the wall and the new church had it facing the people. Plus where have all the statues gone. They are either missing or tucked away in a corner.