my name is Oni Maria aati I am Nigerian by origin I am a cradle Catholic last of five and growing up in my family the tradition was a daily family Rosary my dear father is 93 years old and growing up he did not go to church not having my father lead in prayer I believe contributed to me not making the best decisions in the men I would choose to let in my life in college as a Premed student I was a party girl I loved partying I would drink I would get a lot of wrong
attention I would get into situationships and get out of situationships and I was exercising twice every day I was addicted to exercise exercise was my God Fitness was my God I'd do kickboxing I'd run I'd lift weights I was a personal trainer I had three jobs and at one point I was not able to get out of bed for about a month I'd rise up look left look right oh it's Tuesday and I'd lie back down Something Told me go to mass go to midday mass and pray the rosary after Mass I hadn't gone to
mass in so long I I go to mass I pray the rosary and I'm like okay all right the nudge to pray the rosary is like done like okay all right I'm going to go home now and go back go back to bed before I could get to the car in the parking lot a friend of mine who I will always remember by the name of Benson he says Ah I haven't seen you at church in so long you still pray the rosary you still love our lady right I look at him mentally rolling my
eyes like yeah uh-huh yeah I oh yeah I mean I I prayed it right now yeah yeah totally totally pray Rosary daily he's like yeah there is a total consecration to Jesus Through Mary class uh happening mid July you should come I'm like sure cool story bro I'm I'm going to go home he's like hey let me get your number and I'll remind you I show up on day 11 and my life changed forever and the most notable way my life changed forever in going through a total consecration which has been done on this channel
and and I pray that you visit and you Savor and you renew every year and live out the way of life is the rosary came to life every single insight and knowledge and Love and Desire and pumping of my heart for the rosary came from my total consecration not just going through it once but renewing every year every year and living it out renewing every morning the short bite-sized prayer living and doing my actions through Mary with Mary in and for Mary we often pray thinking that God will surely Heal Me from cancer if I
pray God will surely give me that amazing job I wish for God will surely help me to be able to Bear children but the fact is this we serve a God that will give us good things always and whenever we pray for something and it does not come to pass according to our will I have learned that if it's not going according to my will especially through the prayer of the most holy rosary it is definitely going according to God's Will and God's will will always bring me and you to the fullest fullest intensity of
sanctity not always healing that's palpable but healing for your soul the rosary is not a prayer that will always change your toxic you know work environment or relationship but the rosary will change you I pray fervently and I have been praying fervently for my father to draw closer to our Lord through our lady I prayed the rosary for my father every single day I literally wrapped in love wrapped my dear father in every single bead in every single mystery in in every single virtue in every single Merit in every single Saint in every single clothing
and fold of our lady's mantle I wrapped my beloved father in that mantle and I said Lord do what you will with him did I pray just a 54 day Rosary Novena for my father no I've prayed for several years one faithful day as I was living with my parents at the time I go to morning mass and come home unforeseen my mom says bu which in my Nigerian EO language means come here my mother says boo something weird just happened when you went to mass Daddy called me and says would you like to pray
the rosary together I did not tell my mom that I had been praying for my dad's conversion I'm certain my mom had been praying for my father's conversion from that day onward my father began to not only just want to pray it because he has seen his family pray it without him for so many years but he began to savor it I began to feel this tug on my heart to spend a little bit more time more frequently in prayer and the more that I heeded that tug and that instinct to just just go to
go to mess more than three days a week maybe four at one point every day of the week I needed the holy sacrifice of the mass as much as I needed air and that was Grace I then began to realize I want to go to confession more regularly I want to ensure that I receive the creator of and the savior of my life worthily as worthily as humanly possible as reverently as humanly possible I began to go to the same priest regularly I said Padre um hi my name is omaria I've gone to confession to
you for like 3 months Padre the sins that have held me hostage my life has changed Padre I feel our Lord calling me to something and Padre Macio told me like oh Maria ask our Lord with a very Open Heart Lord what do you want me to be for you so as I repetitively would go from my holy hour I began to not just go to mass but holy hour every day my Legion of Mary Works externally were still good but I loved silence and I still do it wasn't the ears of my body or
the eyes of my body it was the ears and the eyes of my soul I can't describe it but for any person watching who God may be calling if you know you know there's this tug that you can't shake off the thing with being called is amidst the fear and they're like I don't want to do it it's scary family's going to be like you're leaving me which was my experience you get this courage to still do it afraid which was my case so long story short visited community's websites and I began to take every
visit to a community or website visit to our Lord like Lord what am I meant to see give me your vision give me your give me your heart mother Mary help me do whatever God tells me so with this I visited communities I then say Padre I I think maybe God is calling me to complete silence and he said okay and I entered August 22nd traditional Feast of the Immaculate Heart of [Music] Mary when I discerned religious life I commended my father's perseverance in trying to pray the rosary to Father Patrick Payton venerable I'm just
going to call him St Patrick pton and I said Patrick Patty you say that the family who prays together stays together and because you are a saint and before I even say the name of any saint including you you always come and help me you pick up the phone before I even dial your heavenly number Patrick I call the Saints first name because they are real people Patrick I'm going into the carlite monister in about 2 weeks I'm going to need you to keep my father praying the Rosary 2 days after I enter the monastery
he begins to join my mother to pray the rosary at 600 p.m. every day on Facebook live here is a man who for almost 100 Years of his life did not even pray did not even go to mass and he prays the rosary daily whenever I go see my parents Daddy how are you doing my father goes to Daily Mass even in the monastery he would write to me once a month boo I'm now involved with the Knights of Columbus the next month boo I'm now serving at Mass next month boo I'm now ushering and
I'm meeting all these new parishioners Boo the Knights of Columbus we have this philanthropic event and I'm going to go volunteer to help people with disabilities the rosary is the most efficacious prayer after the holy sacrifice of the mass the most effic ious prayer to transform the face of the world the fact about life is that we're going to go through suffering we find courage that no matter what this Earthly short finite life strips off of us that God will never leave us he will never leave us because it is in suffering that we most
imitate him what problems do you have tie the Roose rary around those problems consecrate your problems to our Lord through our lady Savor the rosary totally consecrate yourself to Jesus Through Mary let us now conclude Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen God love you God bless you and I will see you very soon
