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)