213

A Varesano interviewing M/M Joe Sulkusky
- 2 -
8/8/82[?] 8/8/72
Tape 30-1
035

why you often see me sittin' on the swing I be there, sittin' alone, and I
dictated (sic) that to the rosary. You know, I have it by myself, and I,
that's how I pass my time in the evening.

AV: Well, how does this rosary society work? What do you use the card for?

MS: That you get your card, what you have to pray the devotion to what saint.
You know, like the lady that gives you the card, she changed the card, well
then you pray that, all month you pray that rosary to that saint.

AV: To a saint?

MS: That's the name of the, the seer, the saint, the ro, the rosary, that you do.

AV: Oh. I thought that the different cards have different mysteries.

MS: Well, that's what you do when you get your mystery. And you pray to that
mystery.

AV: For a month?

MS: For a whole month you do that. To that one saint, you do the mysteries, you
know, you get your mystery out.

AV: Gee, that's a little different from what I learned. But, how do you
concentrate on the mysteries when you're saying the rosary?

MS: Well, you pray to that mystery that you got to pray, all, all month you do it.

AV: For example, what's the one for this month?

MS: I have like, I have, mine is the blessed of the, ah, I just can't explain it
to you, it's in this here, that I do it.

AV: Oh, what is it in Slavic?

MS: In Slavic it's [??????????], you know, when Jesus was arisen from birth,
from the, the.....

AV: From the dead?

MS: Yeah, yeah.

AV: Oh, the Resurrection.

MS: The Resurrection.

AV: So then, what do you do with that mystery?

MS: Well, then, I pray that all month.

AV: All month?

MS: All month I do that. That's my [?????] to pray all month for that mystery
that I get, that I have to pray to that all month.

AV: What do you mean, pray to it?

MS: Honor that .

AV: How do you do that?

MS: Well, just that, to pray to.

AV: You mean, when you're saying the Hail Mary's, what do you do?

MS: Hail Mary Our Father Who Art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom
come, They will be done on earth as it is in Heaven, Give us this day our
daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
against us, lead us not in temptation, but deliver us from evil, Amen. And
when you say that, repeat that every, (this here (/?)..)

AV: What do you mean, between the Hail Marys, you repeat...

MS: Yeah, yeah...

AV: ...the name of the mystery.

MS: Mysteries, um-hum.

AV: So you'd say like a Hail Mary, and then you'd say the Resurrection...

MS: The Resurrection, yeah...

AV: And do you think about the Ressurrection?

MS: Well, I do, I think of that, you know, that, for that prayer I have, for the
Resurrection, already trhen.

AV: Is there a special prayer they give you for the Resurrection? I mean, some
kind of devotio that you're supposed to read?