Sub Tuum Praesidium

We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God; Despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.

About


One definition of a guild reads:
  • an association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal.
The Newman Rosary Guild aims to unite people of common interest—i.e., the praying of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary—to assist them to better dispose themselves to the will of God. We humbly ask the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, to obtain for us from her Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the grace to sustain our growth in holiness.

The Guild provides information to educate and form Catholics. All visitors are invited to pray well and often for those in most need of God's mercy. Keeping in mind personal sanctification, those motivated by this Guild will promote the reverent recitation of the Rosary as a sure way for people to embrace the wisdom conveyed by Saint Francis: “Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.” Our families, communities, cities and nations desperately need what God alone can offer us, first through His sacraments, and through the Rosary, to draw others to salvation in Christ.

Saint John Henry Newman, priest and doctor

Saint John Henry Newman is a significant influence among Ordinariate Catholics. Possibly the greatest theological mind since St. Thomas Aquinas, Newman's thought anticipated in many ways the Second Vatican Council. A convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism, Newman's conversion prefigured the movement of contemporary Anglicans to Rome. His movement to Rome models the path all sincere seekers can take to heal the wounds of division among Christians. Bearing in mind Newman's example of unity-oriented conversion, we in the Ordinariate, are "(c)alled to be gracious instruments of Christian unity." — from the official website of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.

That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.—The Holy Gospel according to Saint John 17:21.

We are reminded of the centrality of the Cross every time we begin the prayer of the Apostles' Creed on the cross attached to the Rosary.
All are encouraged to:
  • maintain a commitment to regularly pray for: one's community/parish; one's pastor and priests; one's bishop or ordinary; for one's family; and for those in most need of God's mercy.
  • promote a weekly communal recitation of the Rosary (5 decades; one set of mysteries) in one's community, if possible, before Mass.
  • form home prayer groups that meet regularly at an agreed upon time to pray for the needs of the Church.
  • seek the intercession of Mary under her title Our Lady of Walsingham by praying the following prayer during the Rosary: Our Lady of Walsingham, plead with thy Son for our parish, its priests and people. Guard us beneath thy protecting veil from sin and sorrow; be our shield against pride and envy, and all the snares of the devil; and teach us, loving thee, to love the Lord Jesus and all souls for His sake. Amen. V. Our Lady of Walsingham: R. Pray for us.