The Rosary (Part 4): Aid to the Spiritual Life

The Rosary is made up of two things: mental prayer and vocal prayer. In the Rosary mental prayer is none other than meditation of the chief mysteries of the life, death and glory of Jesus Christ and of his blessed Mother. Vocal prayer consists in saying the decades of...

The Rosary (Part 3): Fatima

On May 13, 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary first appeared to three shepherd children, Lúcia dos Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinta Marto, at the Cova da Iria outside the village of Aljustrel, near Fatima, Portugal. In the months that followed, the children would see...

The Rosary (Part 1): Origins

St Dominic receives the Rosary Catholics traditionally associate the month of May with the Blessed Virgin Mary. This association developed as a way of evangelizing pagan cultures. In the northern hemisphere, May is the last month of spring, a time of fruitfulness and...