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NORTH GRAFTON, MA (OCTOBER 23, 2008) - The author of the Mary, Queen of Peace Meditation Guide & Sung Rosary uses internet technology to create a website of sung prayer meant to create a prayerful community.

What do you get when you combine articles, spoken word, music and videos with one of the Catholic Church’s most beloved devotions, using Web 2.0 technology? You get www.sungrosary.com.

“SungRosary.com is a place where people can gather to listen, learn, and sing prayers to our Lord and His Blessed Mother,” Bailey says. She is looking to build a community around the sung rosary project she is releasing, Mary Queen of Peace Meditation Guide & Sung Rosary.

Through blogging, podcasting and videos, SungRosary.com offers many different kinds of prayer opportunities. Visitors can read and respond to the Shared Insights blog where Bailey and other guest authors share history and spiritual experiences inspired by the rosary and other sung prayers, plus the writings of saints such as Louis de Montfort.

Videos, songs and sung rosary prayers from Bailey’s Mary Queen of Peace Meditation Guide & Sung Rosary are available on each page.

Bailey shares beautiful photos of paintings, icons, stained glass windows and art she has created herself on the Photo Gallery page.

The Marian Cenacle Rosary Podcast offers visitors an opportunity to pray the rosary along with the podcast. Accessible through an easy-to-use player, the podcast follows a special format as Bailey explains: “It is set up to follow exactly the format of the Marian Movement of Priests cenacle, founded by Fr. Stefano Gobbi. It includes the rosary (some parts sung), prayers offered for Pope Benedict XVI, a reading selected from Fr. Gobbi’s book, To the Priests, and it ends with a consecration to Mary.”

Participants can leave prayer requests on a special prayer forum on the site, plus leave stories of blessings and prayers answered. “It’s important to gather people together to pray,” Bailey says, “and equally important to let the world know how God answers prayers through the Blessed Mother.”

Bailey freely admits that part of the purpose of the SungRosary.com website is to promote her Mary Queen of Peace Meditation Guide & Sung Rosary book and CD which is available for sale on the site. She adds though, “I truly desire to build a community around this sung rosary and other forms of sung prayer using the New Media forms of blogging, podcasting and videos. Our Blessed Mother wishes for everyone to know about the immense blessings that come from praying the rosary and meditating on the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious and Luminous mysteries, and I hope this site helps towards that end.”

Author, composer and performer Susan Bailey is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, along with her husband Rich and her two grown children, Stephen and Meredith. Rich is soon to be ordained as a deacon and he and Susan work in youth ministry and marriage preparation. Susan is also a member of the Commission for Women of the Diocese of Worcester, MA. She has been performing locally and regionally for fifteen years while ministering in song each Sunday at St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Westborough. She has appeared on EWTN’s “Backstage” and “His Love” with Marty Rotella on Catholic Familyland TV, and she performed on the 2005 and 2008 CatholicTV telethons. She was also a featured performer at World Youth Day 2002 in Toronto. She has three other albums available: Teach Me to Love, Wait with Me: Advent of the Promised Son, and Mater Dei.

For more detailed information on Susan Bailey, please visit her website at www.susanbailey.net. For further information on her rosary project, visit www.sungrosary.com.

Contact

CCAN
http://www.sungrosary.com  MA, 01536 US
Susan Bailey - Owner, 508 839-3055

Keywords

Rosary, Sung Rosary, Mary, Queen of Peace

Category

Marian