The Holy Gospel according to St Matthew, chapter 22 ‘...And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, “What think ye of Christ: whose son is he?” They say to him, David’s”.’

I Have to speak to you tonight about the holy Rosary. There are, of course, ten thousand things to be said about it, the least of which is a glorious battle on which probably depended the civilisation of the world; but I am going to allow a little child to lead me and you into the Rosary.

There are not many trees in London streets, but there are a great number of children—better than trees of course—and God, in his goodness, often allows little children to hail me. The other day I was passing through one of our streets, close at hand, made beautiful with the feet of little children and their gambols, and two little ones I found suddenly by my side. I think they must have crossed the little narrow street; I don’t know. I only know that suddenly I found two little ones by my side. I think their aggregate age would be about six.