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Roses are red, violets are blue. Sapphire is nice, so is my rosary.

This is my fifth rosary. My first rosary was given to me by my mum which was green in colour, my second rosary was given to me by my aunt which was black in colour. My third rosary was a present from another aunt which now I put it at the dashboard of my car. The first one already kaput because I prayed too much, while the second one was lost sometime last year. Prior to buying myself this sapphire rosary from Carlo CCS, Johor Bahru, I got myself one white rosary from St Anne’s Church, Bukit Mertajam.

Why sapphire? Good question… Sapphire is my birthstone to be exact… Hint: I was born in September, hence a Virgo who tries not to seek for perfection but to strive for excellence. One of the reason why I bought this rosary was in it contains holy water from Lourdes, a town situated in southwestern France. Its beauty I can’t resist. Its fine craft I can’t deny. Its sincere invitation to prayer is so strong… I am loving my fifth rosary.

Simple yet profound, the Rosary still remains, at the dawn of this third millennium, a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness. It blends easily into the spiritual journey of the Christian life.. The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.
~Pope John Paul II on the importance of the Rosary