Other Thoughts | Remember The Rosary

Sources and Resources

Workshop Materials

If you’d like to promote the Rosary with a workshop, feel free to use this downloadable material. The Leader Guide and Participant Workbook can be printed two-sided and the workshop can be completed in one hour.

2020 Leader Guide
2020 Participant Workbook

Feel free to download the documents for free!

Alternately, if you want to purchase printed copies, Copy Stop in NY has the material and you can contact them for current pricing and shipping costs. Their website is https://www.royal-press.com/ .

Books! DVDs! and sites! oh my …

The New American Bible. Authorized by the Board of Trustees of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and approved by the Administrative Committee/Board of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference. Iowa Falls, IA 50126 USA: World Bible Publishers, 1970.

Catechism of the Catholic Church. United States Catholic Conference Inc, – Libreria Editrice Vaticana. St. Paul Books and Media: 1994.

St. Louis Mary De Montfort, Translator Mary Barbour, T.O.P., The Secret of the Rosary. Montfort Publications, Bay Shore, NY, July 2005.

Garry Wills, The Rosary. Viking, Penguin Group, New York 2005.

Janice T. Connell, Meetings with Mary – Visions of the Blessed Mother. Ballantine Books, New York, 1995.

LE McCullough, PhD, editor, Favorite Catholic Novenas for all Occasions. Regina Press, Melville, NY, 2003, 2005.

Compiled by Patricia Quintiliani. My Treasury of Chaplets.

Marians of the Immaculate Conception. 2003. Pray the Rosary Daily [pamphlet]. Marian Press, Stockbridge, MA 01263.

Revisit The Most Holy Rosary [DVD]. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Newport Beach, CA: Compiled and Edited by Patrick O’Neill, Produced by Catholic Radio Dramas.com, 2006.

Rosaries for sale, including plastic ‘bulk’ rosaries: www.rosaries.com

Lots of information on Our Lady: http://www.marypages.com/

Helpful info on faith formation: http://www.ascensionpress.com/

Information on prayers, plus booklets and DVDs: http://www.catholicity.com/

A lovely devotion: http://www.maryundoerofknots.com/home.htm

The Legion of Mary: http://www.legionofmary.ie

And most important,

I need to give credit where credit is due. The inspiration for the workshop and this website is a small booklet I found in my grandparents’ things called “The Rosary Crusade.” Here is a link from Archive.org to that booklet.

https://archive.org/details/rosarycrusade00unse
or for the PDF…
https://archive.org/download/rosarycrusade00unse

Why and When to Pray

Why Pray?

To join in the natural state that we hope to be in eventually, of praising God.

Often we pray in Petition. We ask or beg God for help for ourselves or someone we know. We pray for a particular outcome. God wants that – He can and will take care of us. There are two schools of thought on that, however, and there are good arguments for both. The first is turn over the problem to God without a solution or turn over problem with a solution asking specifically for what you want. Specifically asking for what you want is fine as long a you accept God’s will. Regardless, prayer isn’t only for petitioning God. In this website, I’ve included a sample Resolution statement – a promise to work on specific behaviors in order to imitate Christ – with each Mystery. I included a Thanks statement also, as a way to praise & adore God. I encourage you to create your own statements to enhance your own ‘interior’ prayers by alternating your approach. Remember prayer approaches in this order: ACTS, that is: Adoration, Confession/ Contrition, Thanksgiving and Supplication (Petition). Praying is an action verb!

Each time you touch a bead or start a prayer is an opportunity to remind yourself of the personal resolution or intention. The five Rosary prayers are: The Apostles’ Creed, The Lord’s Prayer, The Hail Mary, The Glory Be and The Fatima Prayer. There are also optional concluding prayers (Hail, Holy Queen and The Holy Rosary Prayer ) and in practice, frequently in a Novena for example, additional prayers are added for a particular saint. Each of the 5 core prayers on their own has a lot to teach us. But the way the Rosary is structured, when the prayers are combined with each other and then the meditations are layered in, we receive much more.

The Rosary includes stories from the life of Christ in addition to a handful of prayers. When you realize that this was prior to the printing press and therefore before each of us was able to have our own copy of the Bible to study, it helps explain its long tradition of teaching the faithful.

Opportunities to Pray

The Living Rosary for Groups
Family Rosary
First Saturday Devotion
Novena, 54 Day Novena
Chaplets and prayers to specific saints

Call to Action

Bible: 1 hour review to improve understanding of mysteries
Check Parish for groups

The Blessed Virgin’s 15 Promises

To all those who recite my Rosary devoutly, I promise my special protection and very great graces.
Those who will persevere in the recitation of my Rosary shall receive some signal grace.
The Rosary shall be a very powerful armor against hell; it shall destroy vice, deliver from sin, and shall dispel heresy.
The Rosary shall make virtue and good works flourish and shall obtain for souls the most abundant divine mercies; it shall substitute in hearts love of God for love of the world, elevate them to desire heavenly and eternal goods. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means!
Those who trust themselves to me through the Rosary, shall not perish.
Those who will recite my Rosary piously, considering its Mysteries, shall not be overwhelmed by misfortune nor die a bad death. The sinner shall be converted, the just shall grow in grace and become worthy of eternal life.
Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the consolations of the Church or without Grace.
Those who will recite my Rosary shall find during their life and at their death the light of God, the fullness of His grace and shall share in the merits of the blessed.
I will deliver very promptly from purgatory the souls devoted to my Rosary.
The true children of my Rosary shall enjoy great glory in heaven.
What you ask through my Rosary, you shall obtain.
Those who propagate my Rosary shall obtain through me aid in all their necessities.
I have obtained from my son that all the conferees of the Rosary shall have for their brethren in life and death, the saints of heaven.
Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are all my beloved children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.
Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of predestination.