Rosary Essay Contest -- "Gazing on Christ Through the Rosary"
The Diocese of Winona is pleased to announce a Rosary Essay Contest sponsored by the Offices of Catholic Education and Faith Formation. We strongly encourage all of your students in grades 4-12 to participate.
On December 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Rosary will be prayed at 2:00 p.m. by every Catholic school in the Diocese of Winona. Please make arrangements with each of your school sites to decide the place to pray the Rosary in a school wide assembly. This is the official start of the contest.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen said,
The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of this world, and open on the substance of the next. The power of the rosary is beyond description.
Students and staff may focus the power of the Rosary on any intention they choose such as positive experiences in school, the health of a loved one who is sick, for other little children around the world or for world peace.
Thank you for your commitment and loyalty to our Catholic Schools