1-31 october 2025

The October Rosary Challenge

31 Days to Strengthen Your Spirit and Anchor Your Peace

Build Consistency. Strengthen Focus. Amplify Your Prayers.

This October, take on the challenge to strengthen your spiritual discipline and make prayer a daily habit.

Join the 31-Day Rosary Challenge with Divine Indwelling and commit to praying once a day from October 1–31. Each prayer counts. Each day builds momentum. By the end of the month, you’ll have built a rhythm of focus, calm, and spiritual strength that lasts.

You’ll also tap into the power of community. When we pray together, our intentions multiply. Your prayer doesn’t just stay with you, it’s amplified by everyone else praying the Rosary around the world this month.

You can join live online or pray in your own time. What matters is showing up. Every day.

What You’ll Gain

  • A solid daily prayer habit

  • Greater focus, peace, and clarity

  • A stronger sense of purpose and connection

  • Amplified results through collective prayer

This is your challenge. 31 days. One commitment. Real change.

Join the Challenge. Start October 1. Finish stronger, calmer, and more connected than ever.

  • This offering is for anyone who longs to pray more deeply, regardless of background or tradition. It is especially for:

    • Christians who wish to pray the Rosary in community

    • Spiritual seekers drawn to contemplative practice

    • Those carrying personal or collective intentions

    • People exploring prayer with beads across traditions

    • Anyone desiring peace, presence, and connection

🌹 Your Challenge
Commit to 31 days of prayer with the Rosary. Make it your daily reset, your moment of calm, your victory of consistency.

🌹 Your Intention
Bring whatever matters most to you, your dreams, your relationships, your healing, or your hopes for the world. Each intention will be held in the group’s collective prayer.

🌹 Your Way to Participate
Join the live online sessions or pray in your own time. Either way, you’re part of the same heartbeat of prayer. When you register for the daily Rosary prayer journey, you will receive a complimentary booklet to accompany your practice.

Live online sessions schedule: Los Angeles: 8:00 a.m. | New York: 11:00 a.m. | Paris: 5:00 p.m. | South Africa: 5:00 p.m. | Bali: 11:00 p.m.

🌹 Your Win
By the end of 31 days, you’ll have built a spiritual rhythm that centers you, strengthens your faith, and keeps you grounded no matter what life brings.

Sign up now to start your 31-day challenge and receive your daily prayer guide

FREE ROSARY PRAYER MEDITATION GUIDE

When you register for the October Rosary prayer journey, you will receive a free booklet with Scriptures and guided meditations for each of the Mysteries of the Rosary. The Mysteries are sacred moments in the lives of Jesus and Mary that invite us into reflection, stillness, and deeper presence.

This booklet is created to support you whether you join us each day in community or pray quietly at home. The meditations also hold the intentions of everyone participating (those that have been submitted through the above registration form), so that our prayers are united in a shared offering for peace, healing, and the longings of our hearts.

Read the Guide 
Fill the form below to receive the free rosary prayer guide in PDF (printable)

SHOP THE BOOK

How to pray with beads, the sacred art of centering the heart

Prayer beads are humanity’s oldest meditation tool, strands of devotion and presence that have guided hands and hearts through fear and hope, silence and longing, for centuries. This book brings this timeless practice into the present, showing how beads can create moments of stillness, presence, and clarity in a restless world. You will learn to create and use prayer beads as companions that help you pause, breathe, and return to what matters most.

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Meet your Spiritual companion

Swaady Martin is a certified spiritual director, teacher, and sacred space-holder devoted to guiding others into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Divine.

Rooted in over 30 years of interspiritual study and contemplative practice, Swaady draws from a rich well of sacred texts, mystical traditions, and global wisdom lineages. Trained in spiritual direction, Swaady now shares this journey to help women become spiritual pillars in their relationships and pray with purpose for their beloveds present or future.

  • The Rosary is a centuries-old devotion in the Christian tradition, using beads to guide the heart and mind into meditation. While its origin is Christian, its essence is universal: using sacred repetition to quiet the mind, deepen reflection, and open the heart to grace.

    Through history, the Rosary has been a source of peace, consolation, and even miraculous hope. Stories abound, from moments of courage in times of trial, to Marian apparitions such as Lourdes and Fatima, where the Rosary was a vessel of light and healing.

    At Divine Indwelling, we honor this practice in its fullness while also embracing its interspiritual dimension: the Rosary as one path among many into the great mystery of Divine Love. In praying it, we join our Christian brothers and sisters, while inviting seekers of every path to find their own resonance in the rhythm of the beads.

    • Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7):

      • Instituted by Pope Pius V in 1571 to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Lepanto (October 7, 1571). The victory was attributed to widespread praying of the Rosary for protection.

      • First called the “Feast of Our Lady of Victory,” it was renamed “Our Lady of the Rosary” in 1573 by Pope Gregory XIII.

    • Dedication of October to the Rosary:

      • In 1883, Pope Leo XIII (sometimes called the “Pope of the Rosary”) officially dedicated the month of October to the Rosary.

      • He wrote numerous encyclicals on the Rosary, urging daily recitation in families and parishes during October.

    • Daily Recitation of the Rosary

      • Catholics are encouraged to pray the full Rosary (or at least one set of mysteries—Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, or Luminous) each day.

      • Families often gather to pray together at home.

    • Special Rosary Devotions in Churches

      • Many parishes organize daily communal Rosary prayers in October, often before or after Mass.

      • Some parishes hold a “Rosary procession” or a “Living Rosary,” where groups of people each lead a bead of the prayer.

    • Feast Day Celebrations (October 7)

      • On the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, special Masses, processions, and Marian devotions are celebrated worldwide.

      • In some countries (e.g., Italy, Spain, the Philippines, Latin America), there are large-scale Rosary processions with statues of Mary.

    • Intentions for Peace

      • Historically, October Rosary prayers have been offered especially for peace in times of war or crisis. This emphasis on peace and protection continues today.

    • Indulgences

      • The Church grants special indulgences during October for those who devoutly pray the Rosary in a group, in a family, or in a church.

    • At a General Audience (September 24, 2025), Pope Leo invited “everyone” to pray the Rosary daily throughout October for peace — personally, with family, and in community.

    • He specifically asked Vatican employees and officials to gather each evening at 7 p.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica to pray the Rosary.

    • He also announced a public Rosary in St. Peter’s Square on October 11, 2025, as part of the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality.

    • The Pope stated:

      “I invite everyone, each day of the coming month, to pray the Rosary for peace—personally, in the family, and in community.”

    In addition to this call to pray the Rosary for peace, the Vatican’s official Pope’s Monthly Prayer Intention for October 2025 is:

    “For collaboration between different religious traditions” —
    “Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice, and human fraternity.”

    This intention aligns closely with an interspiritual orientation and emphasizes the theme of unity among faiths.

  • 🌹 Hiroshima Rosary Miracle (1945)

    When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a group of eight Jesuit priests living just over a kilometer from ground zero survived unharmed, though everything around them was destroyed. They attributed their protection to their daily devotion to the Rosary. Despite medical examinations, they showed no ill effects of radiation.

    🌹 Akita, Japan (1973)

    In Akita, a statue of the Virgin Mary reportedly wept human tears more than a hundred times. Sister Agnes Sasagawa, a nun in the convent, received messages urging prayer of the Rosary for the world’s conversion and peace. Many healings and conversions followed, including the cure of Sister Agnes’s deafness after fervent Rosary prayer.

    🌹 Brazil Bus Hijacking (1970s)

    A group of schoolchildren and teachers in Brazil were on a bus hijacked by armed men. As fear spread, the children began praying the Rosary together. The attackers suddenly fled without harming anyone, leaving the group safe. The protection was attributed to the power of the Rosary prayed in unison.