‘My first Hail Mary in 45 years’: Rosary Team brings prayer to memory care residents

Melanie McClanahan, a Rosary Team volunteer, with a resident. / Credit: Mike Jensen CNA Staff, May 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). 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’s husband one day, the idea was proposed of organizing a time to pray the rosary. Rodriguez immediately decided to make that happen.…