Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary

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Catholics around the world in the Confraternity pray for each other, each other’s intentions, and for members who have died. By joining, you also share in the Masses, prayers, acts of penance, and apostolic works of the Dominican Order.

Our parish is currently collecting names & emails of those interested in joining the Rosary Confraternity in unity with fellow parishioners on Wednesday, October 7th, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. If you would like to sign up for more information, please click the button below to submit your name & email.

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About the Confraternity:

Each member of the Rosary Confraternity strives to pray the complete Rosary each week (3 Rosaries, 15 decades, and 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 for membership in the Rosary Confraternity.

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.
  6. Six times a year the Rosary Center publication THE ROSARY, LIGHT AND LIFE is sent to those members who wish it. Its purpose is to provide sound doctrine and spiritual guidance for readers everywhere.

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).

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.