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Devotions

Structured practices for the faithful — to walk, to meditate, and to pray.

Available Devotions

The Rosary

The Scriptural Rosary

The Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries — a scripture meditation before each Hail Mary, in English and Latin.

Chaplet

The Chaplet of St. Michael

Nine salutations honouring the nine choirs of angels — with Scripture meditations before each Hail Mary, in English and Latin.

Chaplet

The Chaplet of Divine Mercy

Five decades offered to the Eternal Father through the sorrowful Passion of Jesus Christ — a prayer of trust and supplication for the whole world, in English and Latin.

Via Crucis

The Stations of the Cross

The Via Crucis — fourteen stations tracing Our Lord's Passion from condemnation to burial, with meditations and prayers by St. Alphonsus Liguori.

The Dolors

The Seven Sorrows of Mary

The Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin — meditations on the sufferings of Our Lady, with Scripture and prayers approved by Pope Pius VII.

Lent

Lenten Reflection

Ecce homo — a reading companion to the Way of the Cross. The Sorrowful Mysteries walked slowly, with the devotion, the physician, the Shroud, the mystic and the prophets speaking in turn at each step.

St. Bernard

Devotion to the Shoulder Wound of Christ

A traditional prayer attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, honoring the hidden wound Our Lord bore beneath the weight of the Cross.

Collected for the faithful of The Layman's Lantern.