the Hail Mary was added. The next step was the Marian Psalter, i.e. 150 Hail Marys (without the Our Father). In order to avoid empty and mechanical recitation the Psalter was reduced to fifty Hail ...

1. The Complete Rosary is a prayer comprising 200 Hail Marys divided into 20 decades, each of which serves to meditate on a mystery of Christ and Mary. All decades are preceded by an Our Father and ...

The Rosary is a centuries-old way of praying ... On each of the ten small beads, say a Hail Mary. Then pray the Glory Be. Each decade is a contemplation of the life of our Lord, witnessed ...

Modern scholars may question St. Dominic’s role in the Rosary, but historical evidence offers a compelling case.

Rosary takes us to the heart of the faith The ... We could say that in the Our Father and Hail Mary, we find a synthesis in which a dynamic, effective transmission of the faith passes through ...

Canadian Catholic Indigenous faithful have been gathering online each month to pray the Rosary in the different Indigenous languages ...