The
CONFRATERNITY OF
THE
MOST HOLY ROSARY
,the
members of which strive to pray the entire Rosary during the course
of one
The
Rosary Confraternity is a spiritual association of the Catholic
Church, the members of which strive to pray the entire Rosary during
the course of one week.
The
CONFRATERNITY OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY brings its members under the
special protection of Our Lady, QUEEN OF THE ROSARY, and places their
spiritual welfare in her hands. Too, it enables them to share in the
Masses, Prayers, Acts of Penance and Apostolic works of over 100,000
members of the Family of St. Dominic. To this is added the prayers of
hundreds of thousands of members of the Rosary Confraternity
throughout the world who pray for one another.
Speaking of this, Pope Leo XIII wrote: “Whenever a person fulfills his obligation of reciting the Rosary according to the rule of the Confraternity, he includes in his intentions all its members, and they in turn render him the same service multiplied many times over.” The Confraternity asks its members to pray the entire Rosary each week. This does not bind under sin.
Speaking of this, Pope Leo XIII wrote: “Whenever a person fulfills his obligation of reciting the Rosary according to the rule of the Confraternity, he includes in his intentions all its members, and they in turn render him the same service multiplied many times over.” The Confraternity asks its members to pray the entire Rosary each week. This does not bind under sin.
Since
the Holy Father St. John Paul II added the five luminous mysteries,
it would seem that members of the Confraternity should strive to
include that extra weekly Rosary. Those who recite only the fifteen
traditional mysteries will continue to share in the benefits of the
Confraternity until some official source declares the contrary.
Commenting on the great fruitfulness of the Rosary devotion, and on
the “healing power” it possesses for the ills of society, Pope
Leo XIII added: “these advantages will be secured in a higher and
fuller measure by those who band themselves together in the
Confraternity of the Rosary, and who are thus more than others united
by a special and brotherly bond of devotion to the Most Holy Virgin.
They are, so to speak, the battalions which fight the battle for
Christ, armed with His sacred mysteries and under the banner and
guidance of the Heavenly Queen.”
The
Rosary Center P.O. Box 3617 Portland, Oregon 97208 USA
www.rosary-center.org
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