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Devotions
Traditional Catholic devotions — the Rosary, Divine Mercy, the Angelus, novenas, and more.
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Christological
On the last Sunday of the liturgical year the Church offers the whole human race to Christ the King in the prayer that begins 'Iesu dulcissime, Redemptor' — Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race.
Eucharistic
The rite that crowns exposition: after hymns, incense, and prayer, the priest or deacon blesses the people in silence with the Host raised in the monstrance.
Liturgical
Candles blessed on 2 February, the Presentation of the Lord, carried in procession to meet Christ the light of the nations, and afterwards lit in the home in sickness, in storm, and at the bedside of the dying.
Liturgical
The branches blessed and carried on Palm Sunday, taken home and kept through the year as a household confession that Christ is King and that his throne is the Cross.
Saintly
Thirteen small decades in honour of St. Anthony of Padua, whose feast falls on 13 June and whose intercession the poor and the bereft have sought for eight centuries.
Saintly
A bead devotion that honours the guardian of the Redeemer by joining the mysteries of the Rosary to a simple, constantly repeated praise of the Holy Family: 'Praised and blessed be Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.'
Angelic
A chaplet honoring Saint Michael the Archangel and the nine choirs of angels, asking their intercession and protection.
Saintly
Twenty-four Glory Bes, one for each year of St. Thérèse of Lisieux's short life, offered in thanksgiving to the Blessed Trinity for the graces given her and asking her intercession in a present need.
Eucharistic
Thirty-three beads for the thirty-three years of the Lord's life on earth, each carrying a single cry of faith to Jesus present on the altar.
General
Five mysteries that trace the work of the Holy Spirit from the conception of Christ to his indwelling in the souls of the just, each closed with seven Glory Bes for the seven gifts.
Christological
A devotion honoring the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, shed for the redemption of the world.
Marian
Also called the Servite Rosary, this chaplet leads the one praying through the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin, from Simeon's prophecy to the burial of her Son, so that compassion for the Mother becomes a way into the Passion of Christ.
Marian devotion
The Most Chaste Heart of Joseph is a Catholic devotion which venerates Saint Joseph as "the just man … a man of singular virtue.
Marian
An act by which a person, a family or the whole world is entrusted to the Heart of the Mother of God, so that she may keep what is given her and hand it over to her Son.
General
The veneration of Saint Joseph, the chaste spouse of the Virgin Mary and foster father of Jesus, patron of the universal Church.
Saintly
St Jude Thaddeus, one of the Twelve, is invoked by the faithful in desperate situations and hopeless cases, when every human remedy has been tried and nothing is left but prayer.
Angelic
The Church invokes St Michael as the prince of the heavenly host and defender of the People of God, above all in the prayer of Leo XIII asking his protection in the daily battle against evil.
Saintly
St Peregrine Laziosi, a Servite friar cured of a cancer of the foot on the eve of its amputation, is invoked by those who carry cancer and other grave illness, and by those who care for them.
Saintly
St Rita — wife, mother, widow and Augustinian nun — is turned to by those in painful marriages, in bereavement, and in situations that look impossible, and her devotion is marked everywhere by roses.
Passion
A devotion to the Passion that dwells on the five wounds of the risen Christ — in his hands, his feet and his pierced side — as the marks by which the disciples knew him and by which we are healed.
Angelic
The Church teaches that each person is entrusted to an angel who watches over him and helps him towards salvation; the devotion is simply the habit of living gratefully in that company.
Christological
A devotion of reparation honoring the Holy Face of Christ disfigured in his Passion, making amends for blasphemy and the profanation of Sundays.
Saintly
The household of Jesus, Mary and Joseph is set before Christian families as the model of domestic life, and the devotion consists mainly in learning to pray and live as they did.
Christological
Reverence for the name at which every knee should bow — honouring it, invoking it in temptation, and making reparation for the blasphemy and casual profanity that surround us.
General
Prayer and sacrifice offered for the souls in purgatory, that they may be cleansed and brought swiftly to the vision of God.
Marian
Veneration of the immaculate Heart of Mary as the seat of her purity, her love for God, and her maternal love for the Church.
Passion
July is kept as the month of the Precious Blood, honouring the price paid for our redemption and poured out still in the chalice at every Mass.
Christological
Adoration of the wounded Heart of Christ as the symbol and source of his redeeming love.
Christological
The devotion to the Child Jesus that came to the Philippines with the Gospel itself, and that still gathers whole cities around the image of the Holy Child each January.
Christological
The Second Sunday of Easter is kept as Divine Mercy Sunday, the day the Church sets aside to receive the mercy that flowed from the pierced side of the risen Christ.
