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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]
History of the rosary; Methods of praying the rosary; Our Lady of the Rosary; Rosary and scapular; Battle of Lepanto; Prayers and promises; Fatima Prayers; Fifteen rosary promises; The Mysteries; Rosary-based prayers; Rosary of the Holy Wounds; Three Hail Marys; Writings; God Alone; Ingruentium malorum; Marialis cultus; The Power 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, 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 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.
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.
The rosary may be prayed anywhere, but as in many other devotions its recitation often involves some sacred space or object, such as an image or statue of the Virgin Mary. [20] Anyone can begin to pray the rosary, but repeated recitations over a period of time result in the acquisition of skills for meditation and contemplation. [21]
Rosarium Virginis Mariae (Rosary of the Virgin Mary) is an apostolic letter by Pope John Paul II, issued on October 16, 2002, which declared from October 2002 to October 2003 as the "Year of the Rosary". [1]