In honor of First Friday on October 1st

First Friday on the first day of October, brings back a happy memory. I remember gathering at the statue of Mary that stood just outside the Church every first Friday to say the rosary. We did this from the first Friday of May until the late fall winds would whip the leaves around us and we shivered in the waning evening light. I do not know why but that is such an happy memory for me. A bunch of us young friends would go, and people of all ages we did not ordinarily see would gather,The quietness before and after, the smiles that we did not see that often on each other. But the Blessed virgin gave us a sense of well being and peace for a while at least.