“Dear brothers and sisters, contemplating the face of Christ with the heart of Mary our Mother will make us even more united as a spiritual family and will help us overcome this time of trial.”
-Pope Francis
Pope Saint John Paul II wrote in his Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, “The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.”
The Mysteries of the Rosary (EWTN)
- Joyful Mysteries – prayed on Monday and Sunday
- Sorrowful Mysteries – prayed on Tuesday and Friday
- Glorious Mysteries
- Luminous Mysteries – prayed on Thursday
Scriptural Rosaries
- Sorrowful Mysteries
- For Justice and Peace (Luminous Mysteries)
- For the Family (all Mysteries; from the Knights of Columbus)
- Pro-Life Rosaries
