THE ROSARY

PRAYER OF THE POPES

This study, in its current presentation, is mainly based on resources available through the Internet and contains, at this stage, 36 names of Popes who spoke about the ROSARY. The list starts with H.H. Pope Leo XIV and ends with Pope Urban IV in the 13th century.

LEO XIV

2025-

FRANCIS

2013-2025

BENEDICT XVI

2005-2013

ST JOHN PAUL II

1978-2005

JOHN PAUL I

Aug.26-Sept.28 1978

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Pope Leo XIV begins every day with the Rosary and ends it before an image of Mary he has carried since seminary.

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“Do you pray the Rosary every day?”

“The Holy Rosary sustains us in the battle against the evil one and his accomplices.”

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“Dear young people, I invite you to value this traditional Marian prayer which helps us to understand better the central moments of Salvation realized by CHRIST.”

“The Holy Rosary is not a pious practice banished to the past. Without a doubt, this is one of the most eloquent signs of love that the young generation nourish for JESUS and His Mother, Mary.”

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“The ROSARY is my favorite prayer.”

“Pray, pray much. Say the ROSARY everyday.”

“I earnestly urge Pastors to pray the Rosary and to teach people in their Christian communities how to pray it.”

“How beautiful is the family that recites the ROSARY every evening.”

*Apostolic Letter ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE (16 October 2002)

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“The ROSARY, a simple and easy prayer, helps me to be a child again, and I am not ashamed of it at all.”

“The crisis of the ROSARY doesn't come first. What comes first is the crisis in prayer in general today. People are all taken up in material interests; they think little about the soul...For the interior life, and for …the tender colloquy with GOD,…it is too tiring to find a few minutes of time. What a pity !”

*MY ROSARY By Albino Cardinal Luciani (Pope John Paul I