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\n Melanie McClanahan, a Rosary Team volunteer, with a resident. \/ Credit: Mike Jensen<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

CNA Staff, May 18, 2025 \/ 06:00 am (CNA).<\/p>\n

Teresa Rodriguez was working as a hospice nurse, seeing patients at a memory care facility, when she realized that her patients were not being offered any spiritual services. While speaking with a patient and the patient\u2019s husband one day, the idea was proposed of organizing a time to pray the rosary. Rodriguez immediately decided to make that happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat day I talked to the activities director \u2026 and she was thrilled. [She was] so excited that we would even consider coming in and praying with the residents,\u201d Rodriguez told CNA in an interview. <\/p>\n

At the time, Rodriguez was leading a Bible study at her parish, Sacred Heart of Mary in Boulder, Colorado. She asked the women in her Bible study if anyone would be willing to volunteer to pray the rosary with patients at a memory care facility. Two of them volunteered to go with her. <\/p>\n

The event was quickly a success. What started as a once-a-week event quickly became twice a week, and then three times. Rodriguez placed bulletin announcements in the surrounding parishes and was able to gather more volunteers. This marked the beginning of what is now known as the Rosary Team<\/a>, which started in 2019 and today is made up of over 500 volunteers in 18 states.<\/p>\n

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Rosary Team volunteers pray with residents at a memory care facility. Credit: The Rosary Team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rosary Team held Zoom rosaries that were broadcast throughout the facilities. Once they began to reopen, Rodriguez reached back out to facilities to see if they could hold in-person rosaries again and, much to her surprise, there was even more excitement about having individuals come in to pray the rosary with the residents. <\/p>\n

Over the years, Rodriguez has had a plethora of moving experiences with residents at the memory care facilities. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne that really got to me was I was praying with one resident and she said to me after we were done praying, \u2018That\u2019s the first Hail Mary I\u2019ve prayed in 45 years,\u2019\u201d Rodriguez recalled. <\/p>\n

She added that at times they encounter residents who can\u2019t speak or can only say very few words, \u201cthen, all of the sudden, we start praying the rosary with them and they say out loud the prayers of the rosary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melanie McClanahan, a Rosary Team volunteer, said her time volunteering with the ministry \u201chas been a miracle in my life and I see how it is a miracle in the lives of others. I have watched people heal, including myself; I have seen family members come together, and I have watched people who weren\u2019t sure about their beliefs grow in their love of Jesus and their devotion to our Blessed Mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Teresa Rodriguez, founder of the Rosary Team, with her mom, Marian Buchheit. Credit: Photo courtesy of Paul Buchheit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When asked why it\u2019s so important to do work like this with the elderly and memory-impaired, Rodriguez said: \u201cThe elderly are quiet and we don\u2019t see them a lot \u2014 due to their health issues and their mobility \u2014 and they can be easily forgotten, especially when they\u2019re in facilities, when they\u2019re not out at our parishes, not in our neighborhoods, or in the grocery stores. They\u2019re such an easy group to forget and we don\u2019t want to forget them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a pro-life issue in pro-life ministry, that we need to take care of people from conception to natural death, and this is a part of caring for them and, you know, acknowledging them, and giving them love,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez said she hopes that both volunteers and residents are being impacted by this ministry and that \u201cthe faith and love for God grows through the Rosary Team, and through the volunteers and the residents praying together.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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