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The Mysteries of the Rosary are commemorated on each of the large beads.

On each of the 50 small beads, say one Our Father, one Hail Mary, one Glory Be to the Father, and the ejaculation: ‘Hail Mary Most Pure, conceived without original sin.’

As in the traditional Rosary, the Creed is said on the Crucifix.

Notes and Commentaries

The Little Office of the Holy Ghost was composed in 1924 by Rev. Father Felix of Jesus of the Missionaries of the Holy Ghost. It has the required ecclesiastical permission.

Comment: We know that the “Works of the Cross” (the principal ones, among others, for seculars) are works of the Missionaries of the Holy Ghost and Sisters of the Cross, a Mexican foundation requested by Our Lord of the servant of God, Concepción Cabrera de Armida, of holy memory. The Works of the Cross have as their divine object the revival of the love of the Cross specifically, since it is only through the Cross that Heaven is attained.

Now, the combining of this Office with the Holy Rosary, said with arms extended in the form of a cross, has also been dictated by God Our Lord to María Concepción Zúñiga recently. He told her that “this will be a Penitential Rosary that will please the Heavenly Father a great deal,” because He, Christ, would be the One Who would stand before the faithful who recite it and offer it in remission for all the sins of the world – their own and those of others.

Among the members of a single family (as we human beings are), there must be solidarity. Some must compensate for others. And in the measure that we see God offended, in that measure we must offer penance, counteracting the works of the disordered world with works of virtue, of charity, and of atonement, for the purpose of attaining forgiveness for everyone.

Mysteries of the Holy Rosary

JOYFUL MYSTERIES
(Recited on Mondays and Thursdays)

1. The Annunciation
2. The Visitation
3. The Birth of Our Lord
4. The Presentation
5. The Finding of the Child in the Temple.

SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
(Recited on Tuesdays and Fridays)

1. The Agony in the Garden
2. The Scourging at the Pillar
3. The Crowning with Thorns
4. The Carrying of the Cross
5. The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord

GLORIOUS MYSTERIES
(Recited on Sundays, Wednesdays and Saturdays)

1. The Resurrection
2. The Ascension
3. The Descent of the Holy Ghost
4. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
5. The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

LET US PRAY

Let us pray humbly, on our knees!
Let us pray devoutly, with arms extended in the form of a cross!
Let us pray uninterruptedly!
Let us pray while working!
Let us pray while suffering!
Let us pray intensely when walking down the street!
Let us make reparation by our prayers and acts of penance!
We have an extremely grave account before Divine Justice!
We are debtors for each other!
Let us counteract sin! How? By praying, and by practicing the virtues contrary to the sins we see our brothers committing.
Le us engage in the apostolate of prayer, of good example, and of voluntary sacrifices performed with love!

May it be for the glory of God!