Altar Rosary Society

The St. Louis Altar Rosary Society (ARS) is an active ladies organization which takes care of the immediate needs of the altar, promotes praying the Rosary, and prepares funeral dinners.

All ladies of St. Louis Parish, age 18 and older, are members of the Altar Rosary Society. Dues are $10 per year for those considered active members.

Throughout the year the ARS offers retreats for women, prays the Rosary before Mass, collects sponsors for the Right to Life Ad campaign, and holds a spring flower sale as a fundraiser among a host of other activities and events.

Each year a mass is offered for the deceased members of the Altar Rosary Society.  Continue to pray for the reposed souls of our departed sisters in Christ.

Contact Julie Lause at [email protected] or 419-601-3319 to become a member or to share your ideas and interests.


"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you."  Luke 1:28 

An Election Prayer to Mary

O Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy, at this most critical time, we entrust the United States of America to your loving care.

Most Holy Mother, we beg you to reclaim this land for the glory of your Son. Overwhelmed with the burden of the sins of our nation, we cry to you from the depths of our hearts and seek refuge in your motherly protection.

Look down with mercy upon us and touch the hearts of our people. Open our minds to the great worth of human life and to the responsibilities that accompany human freedom.

Free us from the falsehoods that lead to the evil of abortion and threaten the sanctity of family life. Grant our country the wisdom to proclaim that God’s law is the foundation on which this nation was founded, and that He alone is the True Source of our cherished rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

O Merciful Mother, give us the courage to reject the culture of death and the strength to build a new Culture of Life. Amen.

Mary, the Immaculate Conception, pray for us.

In 1847 the Bishops of the United States requested permission from the Holy Father, Pope Pius IX, to declare the
Blessed Virgin Mary as patroness of the United States
under the title of "The Immaculate Conception."
This title reflects Mary's privilege of being free from Original Sin

​The Fifteen Promises of Mary to Christians
Who Recite the Rosary

• Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary, shall receive signal graces.
  
  
• I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the rosary.
  
  
• The rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
  
  
• It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the heart of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things.  Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
  
  
• The soul which recommend itself to me by the recitation of the rosary, shall not perish.
  
  
• Whoever shall recite the rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
  
  
• Whoever shall have a true devotion for the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
  
  
• Those who are faithful to recite the rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
  
  
• I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the rosary.
  
  
• The faithful children of the rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.
  
  
• You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the rosary.
  
  
• All those who propagate the holy rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
  
  
• I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
  
  
• All who recite the rosary are my son, and brothers of my only son Jesus Christ.
  
  
• Devotion of my rosary is a great sign of predestination.

(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan) Imprimatur: Patrick J. Hayes DD Archbishop of New York)