"Preach My Psalter" – "Predica Mi Salterio"

Dominican Rosary Apostolate – Apostolado del Rosario Dominico
Friar Mariano D. Véliz, O.P., Promoter of "Preach My Psalter"
E-Mail/CE: frmarianovelizop@preachmypsalter.com
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Preach My Psalter

DOMINICAN ROSARY APOSTOLATE

THE CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY ROSARY

THE DOMINICAN PROVINCE OF ST. MARTIN DE PORRES

WELCOME

Greetings, dear friend!  Welcome to the registration page of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary. You may only register here if you are a Catholic living in the Dominican Province of St. Martin de Porres.  This province, located in the southern United States, includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.  If you live in any of these southern states, you can register as a member of the Holy Rosary Confraternity through this page.  The Confraternity is an ancient apostolate of the Order of Preachers that has led a great many people to Jesus through Mary under the title and patronage of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary.

REGISTRATION

Membership in the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary requires registration.  After reading this article and agreeing to the requirements, you become a member by registering in the Rosary Confraternity.  You will then be enrolled in the Confraternity registry.  There are no meetings or membership dues.

REQUIREMENTS

As a member of the Confraternity, you are required to offer at least fifteen mysteries of the Holy Rosary weekly. You may offer these mysteries either altogether or separately in three groups of five mysteries. In doing so, you promise to pray for all the Confraternity members whenever you offer a Rosary. This is your only requirement as a member of the Confraternity.

According to Tradition, membership in the Rosary Confraternity originally required Catholics to offer three Rosaries daily.  This meant reciting 150 Hail Marys, 15 Our Fathers, and contemplating the 15 Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, including the Joyful, the Sorrowful, and the Glorious Mysteries, each and every day.  This made them Daily members of the Confraternity.  Today, this remains the ideal practice for Catholics, but is not required anymore.

St. Louie de Montfort, O.P., says that the original requirement of offering three Rosaries daily for membership in the Rosary Confraternity was changed to include Catholics who did not have the fervor for Daily membership. On the one hand, this change opened membership to Catholics who recited three Rosaries every week.  This made them Ordinary members of the Rosary Confraternity.  On the other hand, the change in the requirement for membership also opened the Confraternity to Catholics who recited the Rosary three times each year.  In doing so, they became Perpetual members of the Rosary Confraternity.

Today membership only requires a Catholic, such as yourself, to become an Ordinary member of the Rosary Confraternity by reciting three Rosaries every week.  You may offer these three Rosaries either altogether or separately during the week.  In doing so, you promise to remember all the Confraternity members as you offer these Rosaries.

PROMISES

According to Dominican Tradition, after the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, commissioned St. Dominic to propagate her Psalter, her Holy Rosary, in the early 13th Century (1208), she revealed Fifteen Promises to him and later to Blessed Alan de la Roche in the 15th Century. In doing so, she said she would fulfill these promises for them and all other Catholics who faithfully pray the Rosary.

  1. Whosoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
  2. I promise my special protection and the most extraordinary graces to everyone who recites the Rosary.
  3. The Rosary will be a powerful armor against hell; it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
  4. It will cause good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities and will lift them to the desire for Eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means!
  5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
  6. Whosoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, and he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he is just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of Eternal Life.
  7. Whoever has true devotion to the Holy Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
  8. Those faithful to recite the Rosary shall have the Light of God and the plenitude of His Graces during their life and at their death; at the moment of death, they shall participate in the Merits of the Saints in Paradise.
  9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
  10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of Glory in Heaven.
  11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by recitation of the Rosary.
  12. I shall aid all those who propagate the Holy Rosary in their necessities.
  13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have the entire Celestial Court for intercessors during their life and at the hour of death.
  14. All who recite the Rosary are my children and brothers and sisters of my Son Jesus Christ.
  15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

BENEFITS

As a member of the Confraternity, you receive various blessings.  In the first place, the members of the Confraternity pray for you, not just in this life, but also after your death.  Secondly, you also receive the fruits of the prayers, Masses, and apostolic ministries of the Order of Preachers.  Thirdly, various plenary and partial indulgences are available to you as a Confraternity member.  An indulgence is the remission of the temporal punishment due to sin whose guilt has already been forgiven. On the one hand, a partial indulgence frees you partially from the temporal punishment due to your sin. On the other hand, a plenary indulgence frees you completely. You can only gain a plenary indulgence once a day unless you are near death.  Both partial and plenary indulgences can be applied to the dead, but only through suffrage. Fourthly, you can receive a plenary indulgence on the day of your enrollment, on Christmas Day, Easter Sunday, the Feast of the Annunciation, the Feast of the Assumption, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and the Feast of Our Lord’s Presentation.  You can also receive a plenary indulgence by praying the Rosary in a Church or oratory, in a family, religious community, or in a pious association of the faithful.  If not, the indulgence is only partial.  Finally, you only receive a plenary indulgence on the days mentioned above by fulfilling certain conditions or requirements. They include: Sacrament of Confession, Holy Communion, prayer for the intention of the Pope, and freedom from all sin, even venial.  If you are not detached from such sin, or if you have not fulfilled any of the other conditions, your indulgence is only partial. 

ENROLLMENT

If you are a Catholic living in the Southern United States, such as Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, or Florida, I hope you consider registering as a member of the Rosary Confraternity. You can register here: https://form.jotform.com/81274503040142. Moreover, you may only register yourself, not your family members, friends, or the deceased.  After completing the registration, you become a member of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary.

In Christ with Blessed Mary,

Friar Mariano D. Veliz, O.P.

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