In the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II once more urged Christian families to pray in their home by reciting the Rosary: "We need to return to the ...

No amount of study or intellectualizing can replace the actual practice of rosary meditation. Just as a writer must eventually stop planning and start writing, the person who plans to pray must ...

The Rosary is a centuries-old way of praying. "Medieval piety in the West developed the prayer of the Rosary as a popular substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours." Although obviously Marian in ...

Furthermore, one day of the week is set aside for prayers for the dead -Saturday, on which it is customary to have a service for the dead, unless it coincides with a feast, if such is to be served on ...

The popes tell us its essence is "to recall the mysteries of salvation in succession, while the subject of meditation is mingled and interlaced with the Angelic Salutation and prayer to God the Father ...

Pope Francis has led thousands of people in a moment of silence to pray for the aid workers killed ... and pilgrims in St Peter’s Square the rosary and camouflaged New Testament book that ...

IrishCentral contributor, Mary Ryan, recalls experiencing death and funerals in rural Ireland 70 years ago, in the. 1950s, a ...

Catholics who pray the rosary and believe according to the teachings ... that the presence of Boko Haram in Nigeria is all but dead. Bishop Doeme continues to strongly promote the rosary in ...