When Pope St. John Paul II introduced the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary in 2002, there’s no indication that he saw them as Lenten devotions. He proposed them in an Apostolic Letter on Oct. 10 that ...

The first time I remember praying the rosary of my own volition was in fourth grade during the History Bee. It was my first academic competition, but far from my last, and I made it to the final round ...

Pope John Paul II has proposed that as the Luminous Mysteries can be seen discursively as following the Joyful Mysteries, meditatively, they should be prayed between them and the sorrowful Mysteries - ...

Twenty years ago, St. John Paul II published the apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, adding five Luminous Mysteries to the traditional 15 meditated on in the rosary. The Luminous Mysteries ...

The Rosary is a centuries-old way of praying. "Medieval piety in the West developed the prayer of the Rosary as a popular substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours." Although obviously Marian in ...