The Holy Rosary
The Rosary is a sacramental (an object blessed by the Church to give grace). The rosary beads are used to keep count of the individual prayers and mysteries.
This Catholic devotion presents the truths of our redemption through prayer over the Joyous, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries of Our Lord’s life.
These meditations are accompanied by the recitation of Our Fathers and Hail Marys. The Blessed Mother assists in this contemplative prayer.
Pray The Sorrowful Mysteries
Rosary Indulgences
Apostolic
Plenary if you pray 5 decades at least once a week
7 years & 7 quarantines on any feast of Our Lord or the BVM
5 years & 5 quarantines on any Sunday
100 days on any other day of the year
All under the usual conditions
Brigittine
5500 days per rosary
500 per bead
Crozier
27,500 days per rosary
500 per bead
Dominican
5500 days per rosary
100 per bead
In general
10 years once a day with others
Plenary on last Sunday of the month
Plenary in front of the Blessed Sacrament
All under the usual conditions
15 Promises of the Blessed Virgin Mary to those who recite the Holy Rosary
1. Those who faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell. It will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4. The recitation of the Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish. It will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God. It will withdraw the hearts 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.
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
6. Those who recite my Rosary devoutly, applying themselves to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. In His justice, God will not chastise them; nor shall they perish by an unprovided death, i.e., be unprepared for heaven. Sinners shall convert. The just shall persevere in grace and become worthy of eternal life.
7. Those who have a true devotion to the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who faithfully 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.
9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.
11. By the recitation of the Rosary you shall obtain all that you ask of me.
12. Those who propagate the holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13. 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 their death.
14. All who recite the Rosary are my beloved children and the brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion for my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
Revelation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche
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