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Students recite World Mission Rosary in Arlington

| Catholic Herald Staff Writer
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Students from the St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington form the shape of a rosary in the cathedral parking lot in observance of the month of the rosary and Extraordinary Missionary Month Oct. 18. KATHY POWERS | COURTESY

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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge (center) welcomes students of the St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington to the World Mission Rosary event, where the students were divided equally among the five decades to recite the rosary, each group wears a T-shirt of the color representing that decade. STACY RAUSCH | CATHOLIC HERALD

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A rosary and pamphlet with instructions on how to recite the World Mission Rosary were handed out at the living rosary event at the St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington Oct. 18. STACY RAUSCH | CATHOLIC HERALD

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The World Mission Rosary includes decades with beads in five colors. Green for forests and grasslands in Africa; blue for the ocean surrounding the Islands of the Pacific; white to symbolize Europe, the seat of the Holy Father; red for the fire of faith that brought missionaries to the Americas; and yellow for the morning light of the East, for Asia. STACY RAUSCH | CATHOLIC HERALD

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Students from St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington gathered to pray the World Mission Rosary in the Cathedral parking lot in observance of the month of the rosary and Extraordinary Missionary Month Oct. 18.

They were joined by school faculty and staff, as well as Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and chancery staff. Students were divided into groups representing the five decades, with different colors for each. Green calls to mind the forests and grasslands of Africa; blue is for the ocean surrounding the Islands of the Pacific; white symbolizes Europe, the seat of the Holy Father; Red echoes missionaries to the Americas; and yellow stands for Asia.

The World Mission Rosary was inaugurated by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, national director for the Propagation of Faith (1950-66) in February 1951.

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