The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Translation of the Holy House

Lord have mercy.

Christ have mercy.

Lord have mercy.

Christ hear us.

Christ graciously hear us.

God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.

God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.

God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.

Holy Trinity, One God, have mercy on us.

Holy Mary, pray for us.

Holy Mother of God, pray for us.

The Dominican Rosary

Although the rosary is said to have predated Saint Dominic, Tradition does hold that the founder of the Ordo Praedicatorum introduced the use of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary as "a balm for the wounds of his contemporaries." Moved by a vision of the Mother of God, Saint Dominic preached the used of the rosary in his missionary work among the Albigensians, who denied the mystery of Christ.

Read SUPREMI APOSTOLATUS OFFICIO, Pope Leo XIII's Encyclical on the Devotion of the Rosary.

The DOMINICAN ROSARY