Chu Fink sells handmade rosaries at a sale to benefit the rosary makers group at St. Anne Catholic Church, 1901 Maryland Parkway, May 3, 2015.

The word “rosary” refers to a set of prayers in the Catholic Church as well as a physical object. While praying the rosary, Catholics use a set of beads or knots to count and keep track of the ...

Here's how to understand the rosary, a Catholic prayer tradition practiced by millions of faithful worldwide — including the beads, the link to Mother Mary and the meaning behind the prayer aid.

These Catholic Prayer Beads Are Older Than the Rosary, New Jersey’s Church of St. Dominic Before and After, and More Great Links! The Best In Catholic Blogging ‘Beads’ (photo: GLady ...

Even today, foreigners in a strange land struggling to understand a different language, can take comfort in saying the Catholic rosary or another bead-prayer method in their faith and native language.

Catholic faith uses either a string of beads or a knotted cord to track their progress through the prescribed series of prayers. Each rosary contains 59 beads arranged in five decades of 10 beads ...

PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY REFLECTION BY CARD. ALFONSO LÓPEZ TRUJILLO The Rosary as Family Prayer In the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II ...

Prayer beads played a large role in Catholic evangelization in the “New World,” which is why many Latinx individuals like Mar consider the rosary a symbol also of their cultural identity.

But for millions of believers, the beads, which provide an aide-mémoire for a sequence of devotional prayers, are a widely recognized symbol of Catholicism and a source of strength.

The word “rosary” refers to a set of prayers in the Catholic Church as well as a physical object. While praying the rosary , Catholics use a set of beads or knots to count and keep track of ...

The word “rosary” refers to a set of prayers in the Catholic Church as well as a physical object. While praying the rosary , Catholics use a set of beads or knots to count and keep track of ...