Pope John Paul I
(August 26–September 28, 1978)

“MY ROSARY” ( Oct.7, 1973 )
Homily by Albino Cardinal Luciani

“The Rosary is an impoverished prayer? What then would be a 'rich prayer'? The Rosary is a procession of Paters, the prayer taught by Jesus; of Aves, the salutation of God to the Virgin by means of the Angel; of Glorias, the praise of the Most Holy Trinity.”¹

“The crisis of the Rosary doesn’t come first. What comes first is the crisis in prayer in general today. People are all taken up in material interests; they think little about the soul...For the interior life, and for…the tender colloquy with God,…it is too tiring to find a few minutes of time. What a pity!”

“…The Rosary, a simple and easy prayer, helps me to be a child again, and I am not ashamed of it at all.”

The Rosary–even if it should be shortened and adapted–recited in the evening by the parents together with the children, is a form of family liturgy.

1 All the quotations on this page are from the homily “My Rosary”

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