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Rosary For Revival: Resources


This little booklet provides the opportunity for you to see more clearly that all the mysteries of the Rosary are profoundly Eucharistic.*

Official Rosary of the National Eucharistic Congress

The Catholic rosary company Ghirelli recently announced its partnership with the National Eucharistic Congress in making the official rosary for the congress, which will be held July 17–21 in Indianapolis.

Founded by Alessandro and Cinzia Ghirelli, the family-run company has been crafting rosaries for more than 30 years. It has created the official rosaries used by the past three popes that are given by the Holy Father to special guests during his audiences and apostolic journeys.

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Rosary For A Eucharistic Revival by Fr Andrew Hofer, O.P.
A beautiful full-colour free online book.

Brief scripture passages accompanied by short prayers to introduce each mystery.

Christ your Son
promised to remain with us
before he ascended to your right hand.
Pour forth, O God,
his Spirit upon us
so that we may be more devoted
to Christ’s real presence
in the Sacrament of the altar.

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The Rosary and Eucharistic Adoration (2009) by Helen Hull Hitchcock and Susan F. Benofy.

Pope Benedict XVI, in his visit to Pompeii and the shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary on October 19, 2008, referred to Pope John Paul’s addition of Christological mysteries to the Rosary:

… it is necessary to experience personally the beauty and depth of this prayer which is simple and accessible to everyone. It is first of all necessary to let the Blessed Virgin take one by the hand to contemplate the Face of Christ: a joyful, luminous, sorrowful and glorious Face.

“The Rosary is a school of contemplation and silence”, Pope Benedict said.

At first glance, it may seem like a prayer that accumulates words, therefore difficult to reconcile with the silence that is rightly recommended for meditation and contemplation. In fact, this cadenced repetition of the Hail Mary does not disturb inner silence but indeed both demands and nourishes it. Similarly to what happens for the Psalms when one prays the Liturgy of the Hours, the silence surfaces through the words and sentences, not as emptiness, but rather as the presence of an ultimate meaning that transcends the words themselves and through them speaks to the heart.

Clearly praying the Rosary during eucharistic adoration is solidly grounded not only in historic Catholic practice, but in the most recent papal teaching.

[* Italics indicate quoted text]

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