October is known across the Catholic world as the Month of the Holy Rosary. It was Pope Leo XIII, in 1884, who dedicated this month to the recitation of the Rosary, placing in the hands of Mary’s children a spiritual weapon of hope and victory.
As a little boy in my family home in a rubber plantation in Johor, 7 pm daily meant kneeling in the living room as the candles flickered before a small altar, hosting the Cross and several statues of saints, and of course, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
