Scores of Catholics and other practicing Christians pray the rosary all year long — and many bestow gifts of rosaries on family and friends for Christmas and other special occasions. What is the ...

The Rosary of the Virgin Mary ... remains … a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness,’ ...

VATICAN CITY—Pope John Paul II celebrated his 24th anniversary as Pope by signing a new apostolic letter, “The Rosary ... Mary's presence is especially pronounced.” The sorrowful mysteries ...

Ever wonder how the Rosary, Mary ... is seen in how each set of mysteries of the Rosary contains five events or truths regarding the life of Jesus from the Bible. The joyful mysteries focus on the ...

Pope John Paul II has proposed that as the Luminous Mysteries can be seen discursively as following the Joyful Mysteries, meditatively, they should be prayed between them and the sorrowful ... of Most ...

Welcome Sorrow to Recognize Hope The sorrowful mysteries of the rosary call us to reflect on how the lives of Mary and Jesus help us to carry out the kingdom of God on earth. In a world often ...

In John’s Gospel, he also entrusted his mother to the disciple he loved and gave him to her as her son. Mary’s role as mother ... the practice of saying the rosary, a ritual that has come ...

at the end of the Month of Mary. The pope meditated on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary in union with Marian shrines around the world, including the Shrine of the Mother of God in Zarvanytsia ...

In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist ... the girls (Francisco could not hear Mary) about religion and politics, the Rosary, Russia and what it would take ...

“Dear seminarians, take up your rosary and ask Mary, Queen and Mother of Mercy ... to “lose yourselves there with Him.” In the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary, a priest is reminded ...