Care must be taken, therefore, that, in these times of mourning for the Church, the most holy devotion of the Rosary of Mary be assiduously and piously observed, the more so that this method of ...

Just as moments of silence are recommended in the Liturgy, so too in the recitation of the Rosary it is fitting to pause briefly after listening to the word of God, while the mind focuses on the ...

The next step was the Marian Psalter, i.e. 150 Hail Marys (without the Our Father). In order to avoid empty and mechanical recitation the Psalter was reduced to fifty Hail Marys called rosary ...

3. In the fourteenth century the rosary also has the meaning of florilegium, a collection of pious thoughts or little poems about Mary. The stanzas (varying in number, 50, 150...) rhymed with Ave and ...

A. These are things the liturgy neither prescribes nor forbids. Both are time-honored prayer practices that fall squarely ...

In this gallery, we delve into a deeper reflection on the lives of Jesus and Mary, known as the Mysteries of the Rosary. In the words of the late Pope John Paul II, “To recite the Rosary is ...

By Deborah Castellano Lubov Thousands of children across the United States Midwest came together on January 28, on the ...