Why Join
Spiritual Benefits of Members
The intercession and special protection of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, the Queen of Heaven.
Rosary Indulgences
“An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.” ~ CCC 1471
For members of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary, a plenary indulgence, under the usual conditions, is granted:
- On the Day of Enrollment: (When application is made, a certificate of membership is sent, indicating the day of the enrollment.)
- On the Following Feast Days: Christmas, Easter, Annunciation, Purification, Assumption, Our Lady of the Rosary, and Immaculate Conception.
For those who pray the Rosary, a plenary indulgence is granted under the usual conditions, when the Rosary is prayed in Church, or in a Public Oratory, in a family (family Rosary), Religious Community, or Pious Association. Otherwise a partial indulgence is granted.
PROMISES
According to Tradition, after the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Rosary, commissioned St. Dominic to propagate her Psalter, her Holy Rosary in the 12 th Century, she revealed fifteen promises to him and later to Blessed Alan de la Roche in the 15 th Century that would be fulfilled for them, and all other Catholics, who faithfully practiced the Rosary.
- Whosoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
- I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all people who recite the Rosary.
- The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
- It will cause good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means!
- The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
- Whosoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
- Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
- Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the Light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
- I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
- The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.
- You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
- All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
- I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.
- All who recite the Rosary are my children and brothers and sisters of my Son Jesus Christ
- Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
What is the Rosary?
“With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and are led to contemplate the beauty of the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love."
— John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, n. 1.
Rooted in the Sacred Scriptures and in their presentation of the life of Christ, the Holy Rosary is a prayer beloved by Christians throughout the world. Although Marian in character, it is nonetheless a truly Christocentric prayer. Consisting of both vocal prayer and meditation, the Rosary has the simplicity of a popular devotion while also possessing great theological depth.
As a spoken prayer, the Rosary has its origins in the words of Scripture. The Rosary includes the perfect prayer that Our Lord taught to his Apostles, the Our Father. It also includes the Hail Mary, which brings together the Angelic Salutation found in Lk. 1:28 and the words of St. Elizabeth in Lk. 1:42. In addition, the Glory Be, an ancient Christian doxology, and a few other traditional elements (e.g., the Apostles’ Creed, and the Salve Regina) help to form the whole of the Rosary.
Although it may sound a bit complicated when described, the Rosary is organized in a very simple and intuitive way. Traditionally, the Rosary is prayed using small and large beads (Rosary beads), arranged on a cord or chain in a circle with a cross at the end. Rosary beads are an almost universally recognizable symbol of devotion to Our Lady and to her Son, Jesus Christ.
The Rosary brings together both vocal and mental prayer. Along with reciting the words of the Our Father and the Hail Mary, the Mysteries of Christ’s life form the basis of one’s meditation. Traditionally, the Rosary involves meditating on fifteen specific Mysteries from the life of Christ, drawn from the Gospels. More recently, Pope John Paul II proposed adding five additional mysteries, also drawn from the Gospels, for a total of twenty.
The Rosary while always personal is also a communal act. When we join together to pray the Rosary, to contemplate Christ with Mary, we grow not just as Christians but as the Church. Whenever two or three are gathered, there Christ is (MT 18:20). As St. Augustine says,
“The main reason for your coming together is to be of one mind and one heart on the way to God.”
The Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary serves that end.
The Confraternity allows lay men and women to participate in prayers as a communal body; to participate in and build up the Preaching Charism of the Dominican Order.
