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In addition, enrolled members also participate in all the prayers and good works performed by the friars, nuns, sisters, and laity of the Dominican Order. The Rosary Confraternity of the Dominican Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus publishes Light and Life, a bi-monthly newsletter of the Rosary Confraternity of the Western Province. [5]
The Rosary, Banner of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary Woodblock in the Alanus Psalter, 1492 Alan of the Rock OP ( Ecclesiastical Latin : Alanus de Rupe ; French : Alain de la Roche c. 1428 – 8 September 1475) [ 2 ] was a Dominican friar and priest , mystic and theologian .
The society was thereafter also known under the title of the "Confraternity Against Oaths". Several Popes following Pius IV in the 16th and 17th centuries also made the Confraternity an object of special preference, including, most notably Pope Innocent IX who strongly encouraged its promotion and issued orders regulating its organisation. [1]
Consueverunt Romani Pontifices is a papal bull by Pope Pius V issued on September 17, 1569, on the rosary. [1] This papal bull instituted the essence of the rosary's present configuration. [2] The Pope made it clear that there are two essential elements of the Rosary: vocal prayer and mental prayer. [3]
In 1439, the Augustinian Order obtained the faculty to set up the Confraternity of the Cincture for lay people. [6] Later on, it was adopted by the Hermits of Saint Augustine as a distinctive part of their habit. [7] The confraternity of Our Lady of Consolation was founded in 1495 in Bologna, Italy.
When a Catholic confraternity has received the authority to aggregate to itself groups erected in other localities, it is called an archconfraternity. [1] Examples include the various confraternities of penitents and the confraternities of the cord, as well as the Confraternity of the Holy Guardian Angels and the Confraternity of the Rosary.
In Augustissimae Virginis, Leo contrasted the growth of the society devoted to the Rosary, the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary, versus the evil societies of his time, the Socialists and Freemasons: "The natural tendency of man to association has never been stronger, or more earnestly and generally followed, than in our own age.
The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the heart of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things.