About this site

What this is

Straight answers to what people actually ask about the rosary. How to pray it. Which mysteries go with which day. What the prayers mean. How to keep going when you keep falling off. There is a companion app for praying it, and the two are meant to be used together, but everything here is readable without installing anything or creating an account.

The site has three libraries as well.

• The saints, searchable by name or by what you are facing, with a written page for each one: who they were, what they went through, and why people ask them to pray.
• The prayers, in their traditional wording, each one with its source stated and a note on the version you may know instead.
• The novenas, nine days of prayer for one intention. The daily meditations are written here.

The app, and how to use it

The app walks you through a rosary one prayer at a time. The words are on the screen, so nothing has to be remembered. It keeps your place, too. Close it in the middle of a decade, on purpose or by mistake, and it opens where you stopped.

Start with Begin praying. You do not need an account and you are not asked for an email. Pick a set of mysteries, or take the one the Church traditionally prays that day, name an intention if you have one, and go. A full rosary takes about twenty minutes and a single decade about four, which is the version most people can actually fit in.

What is in it

• All four sets of mysteries, and the day each one is usually prayed
• Every prayer written out in full. You tap to move on, and the bead you are on shows on the rosary itself
• A journal, if you want to write down what you prayed for and look back at it later
• A count of decades, rosaries and days in a row, which is there to help you notice a habit forming rather than to score you
• Groups, if you want to pray with other people and watch the decades add up
• Bigger text when you want it. Tap the A buttons in the corner, on any screen

Things worth knowing

It works without a signal. Once it has loaded, the prayers are on your phone. A basement, a plane or a bad line makes no difference. What you pray offline is saved when you come back online.

You can install it. Your browser will offer to add it to your home screen, where it opens like an app and without the browser furniture around it.

An account is optional. Pray as a guest and everything is still kept on that device. A free account carries that history to another phone. It is also what makes groups and daily reminders work. Nothing is shared with anyone. What you pray and what you write is seen by you alone.

Reminders, if you want one. After a finished rosary the app offers a single daily notification and never asks again if you say no. It is one message a day at most, it counts nothing, and it can be turned off in a tap. On an iPhone it works only from the app added to your Home Screen, which is Apple’s rule rather than ours.

How these pages are made

Software helps with the research and the first draft. Nothing goes up until a person has written it again. Every page holds at least one part drawn from real life, not pieced together from other articles.

Every claim about Church teaching carries a source you can check. That is the bar this site holds itself to. If a reader writes in with a fix, it gets taken seriously.

Where the claims come from

Every claim about Church teaching links to where it comes from: the Catechism with its paragraph number, a letter from a Pope, or another Church source. You can check it rather than take our word. And where a thing is a custom rather than a rule, the page says so. Most writing about the rosary blurs the two, which is what leaves people afraid of praying it wrong.

The same rule holds for the prayers. Each prayer page names the source of its wording. Where a second well known version exists, the page names that too, and does not tell you yours is wrong. Where the words most people know belong to somebody, this site leaves them out. The Nicene Creed here is the older English, not the newer one said at Mass, which is under copyright. The Divine Mercy chaplet is written fresh from the public domain text, with the official one linked. A few prayers were written for this site, and those pages say so.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, please say so and it gets fixed. These pages make claims about the saints and about what the Church holds. Being easy to correct is part of being worth reading. There is a contact form, and a correction is the most useful thing you can send through it.

What this site is not

It is not a site that argues for the faith, and it is not a Catholic blog. It covers the rosary. The rest is somebody else's subject.