The Holy Rosary, bead by bead

Pray the Rosary right now

This is the app, just as it looks on your phone. Swipe between the devotions and tap “Begin the Rosary”: today’s Rosary is prayed right here, bead by bead. The chaplets and novenas are waiting for you in the app.

Open, choose, pray

Nothing to set up. Rosarium is made so that only three seconds pass between opening the app and starting to pray.

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Which mysteries are prayed today?

Rosarium works it out on its own, every day. This is how the mysteries are spread over the week; on Sundays the liturgical season decides: the Joyful Mysteries in Advent and Christmas, and the Sorrowful in Lent.

See today’s mysteries · How to pray the Rosary, step by step

Five devotions, one app

Each one with its complete traditional text and its proper structure, guided bead by bead. Nothing made up: only devotions with recognized Church approval.

1

Holy Rosary

The Marian prayer above all others

How it is prayed

• 20 mysteries in four sets: Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious.
• For each decade: 1 Our Father, 10 Hail Marys and 1 Glory Be, with the Fatima Prayer.
• At the end: the Litany of Loreto and the Hail, Holy Queen in full.

When

Every day. The app suggests the mysteries for the day by the liturgical calendar, or you choose the set you want.

A meditation for each mystery with its Gospel passage.

2

Divine Mercy Chaplet

Saint Faustina Kowalska · Imprimatur Card. Macharski, Kraków 1994

How it is prayed

• Prayed on ordinary rosary beads.
• Opening: the prayer “You expired, Jesus…”, the threefold “O Blood and Water”, the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Creed.
• On each decade: 1 “Eternal Father…” and 10 “For the sake of His sorrowful Passion…”.
• Closing: the threefold “Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One” and the final prayer.

When

Especially at three in the afternoon, the Hour of Mercy, and on Divine Mercy Sunday.

The chaplet Saint Faustina recorded in her Diary, prayed complete.

3

Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel

Approved by Pope Pius IX · 1851

How it is prayed

• Nine salutations, one for each choir of angels: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Virtues, Principalities, Archangels and Angels.
• Each salutation: 1 Our Father and 3 Hail Marys.
• At the end: 4 Our Fathers, to St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael and your Guardian Angel, with the antiphon and Leo XIII’s prayer to St. Michael.

When

For spiritual battle: protection against evil, temptations and times of inner struggle.

The text of the Raccolta as approved by Pius IX, with the prayer of Leo XIII.

4

Devotions to St. Joseph

Two traditional forms · Official litany, 2021

How they are prayed

• Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows and Joys: the seven episodes in the life of the Guardian of the Redeemer, from his doubt before the angel’s message to the loss of the Child in the Temple, meditated one by one with their own prayers.
• Rosary of St. Joseph: with the “Hail Joseph” in place of the Hail Mary, the Memorare and the Litany of St. Joseph in its official text (2021).

When

On Wednesdays, St. Joseph’s traditional day; on the 19th of each month, and in March, his month.

Ideal for fathers, workers and for a happy death: the classic patronages of St. Joseph.

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Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary

Servite tradition · Confirmed in the apparitions of Kibeho

How it is prayed

• Opening with the act of contrition.
• Seven sorrows, from Simeon’s prophecy to the burial of Jesus, each meditated with 1 Our Father and 7 Hail Marys.
• Closing: 3 Hail Marys in honor of Mary’s tears and the final invocation.

When

On Fridays, in Lent and on September 15, the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. Our Lady asked for it expressly in Kibeho (Rwanda).

The only approved Marian apparition in Africa asked for this chaplet to be revived: Rosarium includes it in full.

Nothing made up, no paraphrasing

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