Traditions

The Rosary – did you know?

by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Oct 3, 2021

Some history: Prayers with beads like the rosary may have begun as a practice by the laity to imitate the Christian monasticism of the Liturgy of the Hours, during the course of which the monks prayed the 150 Psalms daily. As many of the laity and even lay monastics could not read, they substituted 150 repetitions of the Our Father for the Psalms, sometimes using a cord with knots on it to keep an accurate count. During the middle ages, evidence suggests that both the Our Father and the Hail...

The Franciscan Crown Rosary

by Fr. George Corrigan OFM | Oct 3, 2021

At our parish in Tampa we have a Gift & Book Store. After shopping in the store, a parishioner sought out the pastor. “Father, your gift store has rosaries that were made by someone who didn’t know the rosary. Were they made in China?” The parishioner had noticed that some rosaries had seven decades of beads in contrast to the traditional five. It was not a mistake – those rosaries were called “Franciscan Crowns.” The Franciscan Crown – The Franciscan Crown (or Seraphic Rosary) is a...