When Pope St. John Paul II introduced the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary in 2002, there’s no indication that he saw them as Lenten devotions. He proposed them in an Apostolic Letter on Oct. 10 that ...

The first time I remember praying the rosary of my own volition was in fourth grade during the History Bee. It was my first academic competition, but far from my last, and I made it to the final round ...

The Mysteries of the Rosary is a new video series filmed on location in the Holy Land. It takes viewers along to the locations where these mysteries took place. The Sorrowful Mysteries, the first of ...

VATICAN CITY -- Putting his personal stamp on a Roman Catholic tradition virtually untouched in 500 years, Pope John Paul II added a new set of meditations to the church’s beloved rosary Wednesday -- ...

Tomorrow, Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal will officially introduce the latest or the fourth addition to the Holy Rosary, called the "Mysteries of Light" in a Liturgical ceremony at the Cebu ...

The rosary is the oldest and most popular of all private Catholic devotions, and one that has been strongly promoted by the church since the 15th century. The origin of bead circlets used to aid in ...

Rosarius (Latin) means a garland or bouquet of flowers. Could also be used to mean 'an anthology' of poetry, for example. Bede (bead) was the Old Saxon word for prayer. The Rosary itself is as ...

For 500 years, devout Roman Catholics have recited the rosary, a mantra-like series of Our Fathers and Hail Marys designed to stimulate meditation on 15 key events or "mysteries" in the lives of Jesus ...

My fishing buddy’s a Freemason. Who would have thought that he would transform my experience of the Rosary? One day he handed me a box. Someone had given him a set of Rosary beads with instructions ...

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