A set of rosary beads today includes 50 smaller beads divided ... Praying the 15 original mysteries involved reciting 150 Hail Mary prayers, a number that corresponds to the number of psalms ...

Eventually, those knots were swapped for beads ... prayed all 150 Psalms. Synods, councils and bulls would address the standardization of the Divine Office well after the Rosary skyrocketed ...

It does not matter, however, what type of beads we hold. What matters is our willingness to pray the Rosary together — and remember the lessons Mary taught at Lepanto, Fatima and Father Peyton ...

"There are actually 150 mysteries of the rosary in the olden days but it was shortened as it became a Marian prayer," Tagle said at the weekly radio program "CBCP on the Air." Tagle explained that ...

While praying the rosary, Catholics use a set of beads or knots to count and keep track of the prayers. Prayer beads as physical counting tools are quite common in several religions, including ...

Catholics are being urged by the country’s bishops to pray the rosary with them Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. on the Facebook page or YouTube channel of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops.

EXETER -- There was an interesting sight over the Wyoming Valley Tuesday afternoon: a big floating rosary. Wyoming Area ... by a much larger one, all 59 beads of the Catholic prayer tradition ...