During 2009 Holy Cross Family Ministries will conduct a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of birth of Servant of God Father Patrick Peyton, CSC.
Fr. Peyton, CSC, (January 9, 1909–June 3, 1992) also known as the Rosary Priest, was a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross. In the post-WWII years, Fr. Peyton worked tirelessly to promote the family recitation of the Rosary. He founded the Family Rosary Crusade, a global ministry to families and for prayer. A remarkable off-shoot of this organization was Family Theater Productions, a radio and film production studio based on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, and dedicated to the same message as the Crusade, “The family that prays together, stays together.”
Father Peyton’s most sacred insight, the goal toward which his whole fascinating life was directed, was to encourage families to come together daily to pray the Rosary. He saw so many benefits to this simple practice. In light of this, Holy Cross Family Ministries invites all families to honor these hundred years since the birth of Fr. Peyton (January 9th, 1909) with a family Novena of Rosaries. Make your Rosary for the intention of world peace and any particular petitions dear to the hearts of your family members.
Prayer for the Beatification of Servant of God Father Patrick Peyton, CSC
Dear Jesus, Father Peyton devoted his priestly life to strengthening the families of the world by calling them to pray together every day, especially the Rosary. His message is as important for us now as it was during his life on earth. We beg you, therefore, to hasten the day of his beatification so that your faithful people every-where will remember his message that the family that prays together stays together, will imitate him in his devotion to your Mother and ours, and will be inspired by his holy life to draw ever closer to you with childlike confidence and love. Amen
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