Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Rosary Stories

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Drew Mariani (0:16)

Hey, thanks for joining me. Let's pray. All right, we'll pray the chaplet. What a great day to pray the chaplet today too. It's the great feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. This is a prayer very close to my heart. It's a prayer that I pray daily. And if you love the chaplet and you've not prayed the rosary in a long time, I'd encourage you to do it. A lot of graces come with it. I've often shared the stories of so many miracles that have happened. And if I have time, maybe, maybe after the chaplet, I can tell you what's happened with militaries and different nations and scientists. And there's a ton of wonderful stories regarding the power of the rosary and how, for some reason, God really honors those intentions that we present to him through that. Of course, the chaplet, which we're about to pray, highly indulged, if you will, with promises from our Lord Jesus himself. And we can talk a little bit about that as well. But let's pray. If you want to get in, phone lines will fill up quickly. I'll give you the number. Good time to try to sneak in. Number's 888-914-9149.

That's 888-914-9149.

I'll try to take the first five, six, maybe seven calls. I'll try to get a few more in today, if I can. But we'll turn to Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, especially under her title as Mother of Mercy. Our Lady has all these very, very beautiful titles, and we'll ask her to intercede for her son, as she does so often for all of us. I'm joined by my colleague, Brooke Taylor. It's great to have her here with me today. And Brooke, I am looking forward to this coming Friday. Just a couple days away, Brooke and I are gonna be together in Champion, Wisconsin, a site where Our Lady appeared in 1859, where there were great miracles that have taken place and continue to take place to this day. And it's a place where I love to pray, because when you go there, I often, there's a few places I've experienced this on the planet. I've prayed in some very holy places. Champion's one of those, where the veil that separates heaven and earth, it just seems a little thin. It just seems thinner there for some reason. And you can get lost in prayer.

It's a special place. It's almost as though you cross another dimension. It's hard to put it into words, but it's an anointed place. And I love it, and I'll be there on Friday. So I'll remember your intentions at the tomb of Sister Adele when I go there to pray. Her cause is now open as well. Brooke, I'm looking forward to seeing you there, too. It's gonna be a great, great remote.

Brooke Taylor (2:43)

Hi, Drew. I can't wait in the time of year. It's so extra beautiful in Northeast Wisconsin that time of year. So we'll enjoy the drive, we'll enjoy the solemnity in seeing you as well.

Drew Mariani (2:54)

It's gonna be fun. Anything you want to pray for? You used to live not too far from that shrine, too, right?

Brooke Taylor (2:58)

I sure did.

Drew Mariani (2:59)

Did you pray there, too, before it was approved? Did you know about it?

Brooke Taylor (3:03)

Great question. It was a time where I was really away from my faith. I was working, actually, in secular radio there, and we lived just about 10 minutes away, and I actually had a healing there. I thought I discovered this shrine, and it was probably 20 years ago, so it definitely was before the title and the elevation of a National Marian Shrine. And so, like you said, though, something attracted me, and even though I was away from my faith, I kept being drawn back there and was struggling, had had one of several miscarriages. And to make a long story short, after I had gone there to pray, we found out a few weeks later, almost inexplicably, that I was pregnant, and that's our son, Garrett, he's had a lot of amazing things in his life. He had a stroke when he was six, and it could have been very bad. It all, by all accounts, should have been, but he's healthy and strong today, and he's about 20 So, I'm very grateful for that shrine and the honor to go back there.

Drew Mariani (4:04)

God is merciful, that's for sure. It is a special place. I used to love, I lived outside of Green Bay years ago, for a period of time when the network was up there, and I would go up there, nobody would be around, I would have the place to myself to be able to pray.