Prayer beads can be used by many religions, including Buddhists, Muslims and Christians, or anyone else looking for ways to mark off and keep track of prayers, or a meditative practice.

Grech gifted each participant with rosary beads from the Holy Father and exhorted those on retreat to turn to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the “model and image of the Church,” to learn to be a ...

PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY REFLECTION BY CARD. ALFONSO LÓPEZ TRUJILLO The Rosary as Family Prayer In the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II ...

Novena for Pentecost: Join Dan Schutte in a virtual novena for Pentecost. The peace we pray for today is not about the absence of turmoil or anxiety. It is truly that peace that the world cannot give.

June 8, 2025, Pentecost Sunday, Vigil Mass: The readings and prayers of this extended liturgy can inspire a heightened experience of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the faithful and rekindle a ...

For 11 months out of the year, Charles Gendusa sits up at night threading beads onto string, crafting thousands of rosaries. It is a form of prayer, the 75-year-old retiree says, and it’s good ...

CHURCHES across Hampshire under the Diocese of Winchester have answered the Archbishops' calls for a great wave of prayer. Both Archbishops' of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and York, Dr John Sentamu ...

Prayer beads produced at Mangali, a village near Hisar in Haryana, are supplied across the country and the world for use by people from different religions for prayer and meditation.But Mangali ...

Editor's note: NCR is sharing with our readers a nine-day Novena for Pentecost resource created by board member and composer Dan Schutte.Schutte writes, "if there's ever a moment when we all could ...