Everest’s two first-grade classrooms enjoyed their mother and child retreats in late October. The classes enjoyed Mass, snacks, turtle tag, and the craft of making Rosary lap books. During October’s Month of the Rosary, first graders participate in the Everest tradition of having the “Pilgrim Queen,” an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, travelling to each of their homes to spend a week in their house. With their new Rosary lap books, each first grade can lead and pray the rosary on their own. Moms and students were encouraged to pray the Rosary at least once as a family while the Pilgrim Queen is present in their home and to finish this rosary by consecrating their family to the Blessed Mother. Our current pope, Pope Leo XIV, encourages praying the Rosary daily, especially during October, as a powerful antidote to the world’s noise and a means to achieve personal peace and world peace, urging the faithful to pray with intentionality and to reflect on the mysteries, rather than rushing through the prayer.
