Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary

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The Rosary Confraternity is a spiritual association of the Catholic Church, established more than 500 years ago, the members of which strive to pray the entire Rosary during the course of one week. They form a union of hundreds of thousands of the faithful throughout the world who, along with their own intentions, include the intentions and needs of all its members.

Enroll in the Confraternity:

Our parish officially launched our local Rosary Confraternity as a part of the worldwide Confraternity on Wednesday, October 7th, 2026, on the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary.

If you would like enroll in the Confraternity, please click the button below to submit your name & email.

Enroll in the Confraternity

What do Confraternity members do?:

Each member of the Rosary Confraternity strives to pray the complete Rosary each week (the 3 Mysteries, 15 decades) (this does not bind under sin, complete details here), and must have his/her name inscribed in the register of the Confraternity. There are no meetings, and no dues.

You may also read more about the obligations, benefits, indulgences and promises from The Rosary Center.

The benefits of membership are:

  1. The special protection of the Mother of God.
  2. A share in the prayer of many hundreds of thousands of members the world over, even after death.
  3. A share in the prayers, Masses and apostolic works of the entire Order of Preachers.
  4. The intercession of the entire heavenly court.
  5. Various plenary and partial indulgences.

Pope Leo XIII stated in his apostolic constitution on the Confraternity, “whenever a person fulfills his obligation of reciting the Rosary according to the rule of the Confraternity, he includes in his intentions all its members, and they in turn render him the same service many times over” (Ubi Primum 1898, 1).

Indulgences and Blessing of Rosaries

  1. For members of the Rosary Confraternity, a plenary indulgence, under the usual conditions, is granted:
    1. on the day of enrollment. (When application is made, a certificate of membership is sent, indicating the day of the enrollment.)
    2. on the following feast days: Christmas, Easter, Annunciation, Purification, Assumption, Our Lady of the Rosary, and Immaculate Conception.
  2. For those who pray the Rosary, a plenary indulgence is granted under the usual conditions, when the Rosary is prayed in Church, or in a Public Oratory, in a family (family Rosary), Religious Community, or Pious Association. Otherwise a partial indulgence is granted. (EI 48)
  3. A partial indulgence is granted to those who use a Rosary blessed by a priest (see below), even if five decades are not recited. The indulgence is plenary on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, if the blessing was performed by the pope or a bishop. (following EI 35)

A few notes on indulgences

  1. An indulgence is the cancellation of temporal punishment due for sin, when the sin’s guilt has already been pardoned.
  2. An indulgence is partial if it frees the Christian partially from the temporal punishment due for his sins, plenary if it frees him wholly.
  3. Both partial and plenary indulgences can always be applied to the dead, but only by way of suffrage.
  4. Since the Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul VI on Indulgences, a partial indulgence is no longer expressed in reference to time, i.e. days or years.
  5. A plenary indulgence can be gained only once a day, except by those on the threshold of death.
  6. To gain a plenary indulgence the person must perform the indulgenced act, and satisfy these conditions: Sacramental Confession, Holy Communion, prayer for the Pope’s intention, and freedom from all attachment to sin, even venial sin. If this detachment is not present, or if any of the above conditions are not fulfilled, the indulgence is partial.

Can I enroll for someone else?

Ordinarily the enrollment should be filled out by the one to be enrolled. The reason for this is that the enrollment is a personal pledge to pray the entire Rosary each week. One may enroll for another person, only when they are sure the other person understands the conditions for membership and has asked to be enrolled.

To be enrolled, one must be old enough to understand and fulfill the weekly obligation of praying the complete Rosary. The deceased cannot be enrolled in the Confraternity.