THE MYSTERIES OF THE HOLY ROSARY

The Rosary is a prayer of hope.

The Rosary is a powerful prayer of devotion to God through devotion to Mary by means of a series of prayers and meditations on the life of Jesus and Mary. In it we find all that life offers: pains and joys, but also always the hope that only a loving, protecting, saving Father can truly give. The Rosary is a prayer of hope. The complete Rosary is composed of twenty decades. It is divided into four distinct parts of five decades. If you say only five decades a day, it is customary to say:

• The Glorious Mysteries
  (Wednesdays, and Sundays throughout the year)

• The Joyful Mysteries
  (Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays of Advent, and Sundays from Epiphany until Lent)

• The Sorrowful Mysteries
  (Tuesdays, Fridays, and daily from Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday)

• The Luminous Mysteries
  (Thursdays throughout the year)