If you are a Catholic and someone enquires of you “Sir, if you please sir, how does one pray the Holy Rosary, sir?” you should without any mental straining nor need of external reference be able to gainfully instruct the well-meaning fellow on the order and composition of the prayer, its Mysteries and on which days (if not seasonal variations) these are contemplated. Moreover, one should be able to impart some essential, antecedent knowledge of the background and history of this august prayer – why it is ‘Mary’s Psalter‘ – and should further be able to reach into one’s pocket and give practical instruction on the Rosary Beads procured therein.

In addition, one should without hesitation encourage the young chap to enrol himself in the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary, the arch-confraternity under the care of the Dominican Order (N.B. the ‘Rosary’ is the Dominican Rosary), thereby availing his eternal soul of the benefits and indulgences attached to such membership.

One will only become familiar with the Holy Rosary by praying it and with its Salvific Mysteries by immersed contemplation. The Holy Rosary is the weapon against evil and a path to salvation (5th Promise: “The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish”).

In the personal fancying of Your’s truly, the state of the world is a function of the state of the Church.

Have a look around you.

And having done so, pick up your weaponised beads daily and, to the everlasting glory of Almighty God, pray the Most Holy Rosary. Your Rosary will make a difference.

Every. Single. Day.

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