The 15 Promises of the Rosary

In these troubling times, a reminder to pray the holy Rosary.

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It may be a while so start slowly — perhaps just one decade as often as you can. There are plenty of resources if you are rusty! Look to the Rosary Center or Catholic Arena has guides on how to pray the Rosary (link to the right.) CA also has Irish/Gaelic, Latin translations and guides to resources for other languages.

Remember: no-one learns all the prayers overnight…and some are optional!

Saint Dominic, OP (Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221) founded the Dominican Order. “St. Dominic was distressed at his lack of success in his preaching in countering this heresy [the Albigensian heresy] and in his desperation turned to the Mother of God for help. She appeared to him (according to the tradition) and told him to use her Psalter in conjunction with his preaching of the mysteries of our salvation, as an instrument in combatting the great heresy of his day.”

Then, in the 15th century, Alanus de Rupe, also a Dominican friar, “received the 15 promises to those who pray the Rosary devoutly from the Blessed Virgin Mary through a private revelation. We hope that they encourage you in meditating on the mysteries of Christ by praying the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”

(Click image to link to the Dominican Friars webpage on the 15 promises listed below.)

1. Those who faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell. It will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. The recitation of the Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish. It will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God. It will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.

6. Those who recite my Rosary devoutly, applying themselves to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. In His justice, God will not chastise them; nor shall they perish by an unprovided death, i.e., be unprepared for heaven. Sinners shall convert. The just shall persevere in grace and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Those who have a true devotion to the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who faithfully recite the Rosary shall have, during their life and at their death, the light of God and the plenitude of His graces. At the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.

9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.

11. By the recitation of the Rosary you shall obtain all that you ask of me.

12. Those who propagate the holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of their death.

14. All who recite the Rosary are my beloved children and the brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.

15. Devotion for my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

(Click on image to link to the Rosary Center and Confraternity of the Rosary.)

Confraternity of the Rosary

The Rosary Center was founded by the Dominican Friars and is the HQ of the global Rosary Confraternity. They provide resources “to help the faithful grow in their love of our Lord, the Blessed Mother, the Rosary and the Catholic Church.”

The Friars “invite those who recite the Rosary regularly to enroll in the Confraternity, in order to gain extra spiritual benefits for each and every Rosary they pray.”

The Cure of Ars said: “If anyone has the happiness of being in the Confraternity of the Rosary, he has in all corners of the world, brothers and sisters who pray for him.”

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. They form a union of hundreds of thousands of the faithful throughout the world who, along with their own intentions, include the intentions and needs of all its members.

(The vision of St. Dominic receiving the rosary from the Virgin by Bernardo Cavallino)

Title picture is “The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary”: Netherlandish (Brussels) ca. 1515–20.

Bernardo Cavallino (1616–1656) painted “The vision of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from the Virgin.”

Kevin Hay.

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