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Devotions
Traditional Catholic devotions — the Rosary, Divine Mercy, the Angelus, novenas, and more.
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Marian
A small light-blue scapular bearing the Immaculate Conception on one side and the name of Mary on the other, worn in honour of Our Lady conceived without sin.
Marian
A Marian sacramental and sign of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, worn as a pledge of her protection.
Marian
A worldwide association under the care of the Dominican Order whose members bind themselves to pray the Rosary regularly and share in one another's prayers and good works.
Eucharistic
The Blessed Sacrament carried publicly through the streets on the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, so that the town itself becomes a place of adoration.
Christological
A devotion to the Divine Mercy of Jesus, revealed to St. Faustina Kowalska. Prayed on rosary beads.
General
Four sets of three days spread through the year — Wednesday, Friday and Saturday — given to fasting, prayer and thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and for those about to be ordained.
Marian
A devotion of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary requested at Fatima, made on the first Saturday of five consecutive months.
Eucharistic
A solemn period of continuous prayer before the Blessed Sacrament exposed, recalling the forty hours the body of Christ lay in the tomb.
Marian
A seven-decade rosary of the Franciscan family that crowns Our Lady with the seven joys of her life, from the Annunciation to her Assumption, as a garland of flowers was once laid on her image.
Marian
A single piece of green cloth bearing the Immaculate Heart of Mary, worn or quietly given to another, with a short daily prayer for conversion and for a good death.
Eucharistic
An hour spent in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, keeping watch with Christ in his agony in Gethsemane.
Marian
The Rosary is the great Marian psalter of the Latin Church: a meditation on the mysteries of Christ's life prayed in the company of his Mother.
Christological
A devotion to the childhood of Christ centered on the venerated image of the Holy Infant enshrined in Prague, honoring his kingship and his humble humanity.
General
An Advent tree hung with one symbol each day, tracing the ancestry of Christ from creation through the patriarchs and prophets to the shoot that springs from the stump of Jesse.
Marian
A short, fixed office of psalms, hymns and antiphons in honour of Our Lady, built on the pattern of the Divine Office and made for those who want to pray the hours without the complexity of the full breviary.
Saintly
A blessed medal covered with the initials of Latin prayers against the devil, worn or placed in homes as a sign of the Cross's victory and of St. Benedict's protection.
Marian
The medal of the Immaculate Conception revealed to Saint Catherine Labouré in 1830, worn as a sign of trust in Mary's intercession and the graces she obtains.
Reparation
A devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus consisting of receiving Holy Communion on the first Friday of nine consecutive months in reparation for sin.
Passion
A scapular of red wool showing the crucified Lord with the instruments of his Passion on one side and the Hearts of Jesus and Mary on the other, worn as a daily reminder of the price of redemption.
Marian
Through the fifty days of Easter the Church sets aside the Angelus and greets Our Lady with the Regina Caeli, asking the Mother who stood by the Cross to rejoice because her Son is risen as he said.
Marian
A blessed medal bearing the Sacred Heart on one side and the Blessed Virgin on the other, which Pope St. Pius X permitted the enrolled faithful to wear in place of a cloth scapular.
Marian
A devotion meditating on the seven great sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by which she shared most fully in the Passion of her Son.
General
The oldest Christian gesture: a confession of the Trinity traced on the body, marking the day's beginnings and endings, its meals, its dangers, and its work with the Cross that saved us.
Marian
A simple daily devotion of three Hail Marys in honor of the Blessed Virgin's purity and power, asking her protection from sin.
General
Water blessed by the Church and used to sign oneself, one's family, and one's home, so that every day begins again from the font where we were baptised.
Saintly
Honour given to the bodies of the saints and to what has touched them, because those bodies were temples of the Holy Spirit and are destined for the resurrection.
General
The white scapular of the Trinitarian family, marked with a blue and red cross, worn in honour of the Blessed Trinity and of the work of ransoming captives.
Marian
An act of entrusting oneself entirely to Jesus Christ through the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as taught by Saint Louis de Montfort.
Liturgical
On the one day of the year when no Mass is offered, the Church shows the wood of the Cross to the assembly and everyone present comes forward, one by one, to honour it.
Eucharistic
The short, frequent, unhurried visit to Christ reserved in the tabernacle — friendship kept up by calling on a friend, as St. Alphonsus Liguori described it.
