All About the Holy Rosary
How to Pray the Rosary Well
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 meditation on 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 us in this contemplative prayer.
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Pray the Rosary Daily
Begin here. Let this short presentation renew your resolve to take up the beads every single day.
Know the Prayers
The whole Rosary is woven from a handful of prayers the Church has always known. Read each one slowly, and learn it by heart.
Pray Along
The Sorrowful Mysteries
Don’t just read about the Rosary — pray it now. Take up your beads and pray five decades along with this recording.
The Fifteen Promises
The promises of the Blessed Virgin Mary to those who recite the Holy Rosary, revealed to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche.
Those who 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.
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.
The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
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.
Those who have a true devotion to the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
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.
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.
By the recitation of the Rosary you shall obtain all that you ask of me.
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 their death.
All who recite the Rosary are my beloved children and the brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
Devotion for my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
Treasury of the Church
Indulgences of the Rosary
Apostolic
- Plenary if you pray five decades at least once a week
- 7 years & 7 quarantines on any feast of Our Lord or the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 5 years & 5 quarantines on any Sunday
- 100 days on any other day of the year
- All under the usual conditions
Brigittine
- 5,500 days per rosary
- 500 per bead
Crozier
- 27,500 days per rosary
- 500 per bead
Dominican
- 5,500 days per rosary
- 100 per bead
General
- 10 years once a day with others
- Plenary on the last Sunday of the month
- Plenary in front of the Blessed Sacrament
- All under the usual conditions
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Spiritual Reading
Meditations on the Mysteries of the Rosary
Rev. R. J. Miller, C.SS.R.
A short meditation on each of the fifteen mysteries, to read before each decade and pray the Rosary with attention.
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