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In February of 1951, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith from 1950 to 1966), in a radio address (The Catholic Hour), inaugurated a World Mission Rosary.
Each decade of that World Mission Rosary calls to mind an area where the Church continues her evangelizing mission: green for the forests and grasslands of Africa; blue for the ocean surrounding the islands of the Pacific; white symbolizing Europe, the seat of the Holy Father, shepherd of the world; red calling to mind the fire of faith that brought missionaries to the Americas and yellow, the morning light of the East, for ASIA.
Pope John Paul II encouraged everyone to intensify your praying of the Rosary… "to obtain from the Lord those graces that the Church and humanity especially need."
The World Mission Rosary is available through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith for a suggested offering of $11 each (includes an information / prayer booklet). Children's Rosaries are also available for a suggested offering of $5 each. There is no charge for shipping. To order Rosaries using a major credit card, visit our online donation site.
You may also download a World Mission Rosary order form (below) and mail your request to the national office. Send completed forms (with check, money order or credit card information) to World Mission Rosary c/o the Pontifical Mission Societies, 70 West 36th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or fax your order to (212) 563-8725.
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