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The Rosary

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Over the years I have noticed, at least in the Vancouver/Portland area, there have been at least two different versions of the Rosary being played over the air--one appears to be in a church setting with a mellow-voiced male priest leading what sounds like a rather large congregation, and the other is with a man and a woman (from their accents, I would say they're at least partially Hispanic) reciting it with some sort of easy-listning instrumental music looping in the background. The latter has been airing since at least the mid-1990s.

The priest/congregation version is the one I'm curious about; I have heard it on various California-based mediumwave stations I've DXed, and I also have one partial instance of it on a reel-to-reel tape recorded by my Dad off KINK ("Stereo 101.9") in the early 1970s, when they used to run it every evening before sign-off. As far as I can tell, it is the same one that is still occasionally run at 1900 Pacific on KBVM (stream: mms://75.125.83.204/kbvm8311 ; 48000 Hz/128K stereo WMA9), just before they flip to Spanish programming.

Does anybody out there know anything about it? Who it is, where/when it was recorded, etc? I'm not even Catholic or even religious myself; although I was at least partially raised Catholic and used to hear it on my parents' stereo system occasionally when I was a little kid, so I am curious.
 
There used to be a show called "The Marian Hour" from the St. Olive's Guest Retirement Home in Powers Lake, ND that was mostly rosary with a short sermon. Some of the rosaries I hear today originates from EWTN.
 
I am pretty sure that the Rosary recitals on EWTN are Mother Angelica, but don't hold me to that.
 
Silkie said:
I am pretty sure that the Rosary recitals on EWTN are Mother Angelica, but don't hold me to that.
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Mother Angelica does still recite the Rosary on EWTN...usually in the evenings on TV and some time during mid-day programming on EWTN's radio network.

Speaking of EWTN Radio,affilliate St. Gabriel Radio in Columbus, Ohio moved a week ago from its leased WVKO 1580 AM to AM 820,the former WOSU-AM now WVSG. A good spot on the dial with 5KW that can be heard throughout much of Ohio during the day before it powers down after nightfall so as to not interfere with Ft. Worth talker WBAP.

http://www.stgabrielradio.com
 
More specifically, do they date to at least the early 1970s?
 
borderblaster said:
There used to be a show called "The Marian Hour" from the St. Olive's Guest Retirement Home in Powers Lake, ND that was mostly rosary with a short sermon. Some of the rosaries I hear today originates from EWTN.
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The Marian Hour was the shiznit. Used to hear it regularly in rural Minnesota. "The only program in radio whose audience is on its knees", they always said.
 
Sunday mornings at 9:30am on my first station. One fall week the priest opened with "We've had our first snowfall. It will be here until June" to which I thought "I didn't tell you to build your place in the middle of nowhere in North Dakota!"
 
My father would listen to polka stations like KNUJ New Ulm and KDHL Faribault, and one of those aired the Marian Hour at about 6:30 pm, I think. I'm not even Catholic, but I heard it so much I can say the rosary perfectly!
 
I understand how reciting the Rosary can reinforce ones Catholic faith...but really...does it make compelling radio? I think EWTN and other Catholic Radio programmers need to focus on the day to day needs of their target audience a bit...
 
Mother's Rosary with the nuns is aired a couple times a day on EWTN Radio.

For about 3 decades here in the Delaware Valley, the Catholic diocease would buy a half hour in afternoon drive on at least one area AM station to air Rosary during October.
 
It's more than one line. The obvious direct connection to Christ is good also. Some gain in their faith. I am appalled when rosaries are created then prayed over at Alvin and the Chipmunk speeds in Church. Any gain in this?
 
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