JENNY LIND — Sts. Sabina and Mary Church presented a Fire Rosary for Life Saturday evening, Jan. 17.
The rosary was presented after the 4:30 p.m. Mass as an alternative to the diocese’s Mass for Life for parishioners who could not travel to Little Rock.
The rosary was laid out on the lawn behind the church, with silver-colored cans of varying sizes for the crucifix, Our Father and Hail Mary beads. Young parishioners Jordan Meyer, Joey and Sammy Nichols, Ruth Etter, and Chiloh, Rebekah and Angelah Bartok led the decades of the Joyful Mysteries, reading a meditation and dedication before each mystery.
Parishioners prayed for unborn babies, the elderly, the disabled and the sick. Ken Huber, kneeling throughout the rosary, lit each can as the prayer was recited. When the prayers were completed, the rosary was a firelit testimony to life against the backdrop of the evening sky.
Karen Hollenbeck, principal of St. Boniface School in Fort Smith, came with her husband, three children and two of their friends.
“I want the children in my school to see this too,” she said, adding that she planned on having a fire rosary at St. Boniface.
Patti Logan, former director of Heart to Heart Pregnancy Support Center, coordinated the rosary.
“Please pray for an end to abortion and Roe v. Wade, and pray that the Freedom of Choice Act will not be signed into law,” she said.
Following the rosary and the singing of “Immaculate Mary,” parishioners and visitors attended the parish’s annual chili supper.
