PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY REFLECTION BY CARD. ALFONSO LÓPEZ TRUJILLO The Rosary as Family Prayer In the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II ...

In response, I told him that the prayers are very beautiful and worth learning, but that whatever way you pray the Rosary, God will hear you. More: Prayer / Faith. James Martin, S.J.

October is regarded as the "month of the rosary," a prayer that allows believers to contemplate the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. A Catholic priest in South Carolina shared insights.

Initially, the rosary prayer contained only 15 mysteries – the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious, Fr. Christopher M. Zelonis, pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Lehighton, ...

The Rosary Team, which began in 2019, is now made up of over 500 volunteers who pray with memory-care residents in 18 states across the U.S. Sunday, June 22, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

Family prayers, mass in Latin ... She’d prayed the rosary daily from the age of eight, and died at 95 in her sleep holding her beads. Mass in the early ’60s was said in Latin.

Repetitive prayer is a common thread across many faiths. For Catholics, the rosary involves reciting the "Our Father" once and the "Hail Mary" 10 times, repeated five times over.

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, the archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, led a rosary prayer for the late Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at sunset on Monday evening. Cardinals were joined by ...

VATICAN CITY — As Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome, thousands of faithful from around the world have been gathering by St. Peter’s and by the hospital to pray the rosary for him.