ThOuGhTs, iDeAs, oPiNiOnS, cHaTtEr: Rosary Procession

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Rosary Procession

Last year, we joined the Rosary Procession arranged by the Rosary Family Crusade for the Our Lady of Sorrows Parish. This year, we would be joining them again.

Left the condo around 2AM with my (black) Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical on my left wrist and my Apple watch on my right.

Usually with this procession, the float containing the religious images (or sacramental, if blessed) are being arranged and prepared by family. The family mans and follows their float during the procession.

We don't have a float. I just choose which float to follow. My conditions? Not motorized (so that I won't be smelling smoke belching from its exhaust pipe), only have a few people.

Last year, we followed a float containing three (3) people: the man pedaling the pedicab, the owner of the images who is holding the images to ensure it would not fall, and a woman with them. Lyn and I make it five (5). Then, I don't hear anyone praying nor prayer being announced on a speaker that Lyn and I started praying. The woman joined us.

Somehow you lose your breath praying aloud while walking. Because of this, I thought of bringing a small speaker where I can play a prerecorded prayer of the rosary.

Rosary procession

Most of the floats are motorized, either because they are mounted on a motorcycle or there is a generator to light the images. Found one but they are big group.

So Lyn, Monay and I joined them. We can actually hear the rosary being played on a speaker but we cannot understand it. So, I decided to play my prerecorded rosary on my portable speaker. We prayed the Glorious Mystery (in English).

I don't see anyone in the group we joined to be praying. But according to Lyn, she only saw the grandmother, being assisted by her grandson, who is praying the rosary.

When we finished our prayer, we were still far from the church where we started. So, I decided to play the Gregorian Chant Rosary in Latin. With that, not sure why the grandmother was looking at me but she was smiling. Later, Lyn said she heard the grandmother telling her companion that it is Latin. That means, even with my small speaker and the audio being played outside, they can hear it. Nice.

Truth, I was thinking of bringing my Marshall Stockwell II. Last minute, I changed it to my Marshall Willen. I think that the Stockwell would be too much since it is not our float--we don't have our own float!

When we have arrived near the church, we left the procession and went straight to church, waiting for the Mass to start.

After the Mass, since the Our Lady of Sorrows Parish is one of the Jubilee churches, prayed hoping to gain a plenary indulgence, which I offer for souls in purgatory who had or supported abortions.

Then, we proceeded to McDonald's for our breakfast before going home. 🙏

BTW Theo, the dog, is with us. He and Edgar were at the McDonald's parking lot waiting for us. They even attended the Mass, seating at the back of the church.