Rosary

Ellen says: I am now a mother of three and up to this day, I still carry a rosary in my pocket because my mom taught me to do so when I was a little girl. Her most important "paalala" is not to forget the rosary wherever I go...

The word rosary comes from Latin and means a garland of roses, the rose being one of the flowers used to symbolize the Virgin Mary. If you were to ask what object is most emblematic of Catholics, people would probably say, "The rosary, of course." We’re familiar with the images: the silently moving lips of the old woman fingering her beads; the oversized rosary hanging from the waist of the wimpled nun; more recently, the merely decorative rosary hanging from the rearview mirror.