Childrens Rosary English

The Dicastery for Laity Family and Life, a Holy-See appointed initiative, currently promotes the Children’s Rosary on their website for bishops and other Church leaders visiting the Vatican.

A Prayer Group for Children

Uniting Children in Prayer Across the World

in Schools, Churches, Parishes, and Orphanages

What is the Children’s Rosary?

The Children’s Rosary is a lay prayer group movement for children. It is an effort to begin

in parishes Rosary prayer groups composed of children and led by children. The target

age of the children for these prayer groups is between 4 and 14 years old. Bernadette

of Lourdes and the children of Fatima were all within this age range. However, there is

ﬂexibility at each end of the range, and children should never be turned away if they

have a desire to be part of a prayer group.

Of special note are children with disabilities who may be older in age but have a special

place in the Children’s Rosary. These children should be encouraged to be a part of

this prayer movement. Adults are always welcome and encouraged to come to the

Children’s Rosary. These individuals are the special “guardian angels” of this movement.

How it Began: The Children’s Rosary began out of love for Our Lady and her

Son, Jesus. It was born out of a call for help; the request for help came from our

priest who saw his Parish suffering a ﬁnancial crisis and worried for its future

existence. In prayerful reﬂection on this call for help an inspiration came to

bring our children before Our Lady and Our Lord in the prayer of the Rosary, for

we know how strong and dear the prayers of children are, and how all heaven

delights in them.

The ﬁrst meeting of the Children’s Rosary was on April 10, 2011. It was the

Sunday before Palm Sunday that year. A group of children knelt before a

statue of Our Lady and prayed as a group for our parish and the intentions of

Our Lady. The weekend of the ﬁrst Children’s Rosary had a record collection

surpassed only by Easter and Christmas for the remainder of the year. There

was nothing special about that weekend except for a small group of children

who knelt in prayer of the Holy Rosary.

The Children’s Rosary has been dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and

Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is therefore under the protection and guidance of

Christ and His Mother.

The Children’s Rosary which once began in one Parish has now grown and

by the grace of God will continue to grow so that Children’s Rosary groups

will exist in parishes across the globe. The Children’s Rosary is now in over 40

countries throughout the world.

Resources, instructional videos, prayers, songs, and guides can be found at:

ChildrensRosary.org

Start a Children’s Rosary prayer group.

If there isn’t a Children’s Rosary near you,

consider starting one in your local school, Church,

or Parish. Our Lady has continued to show us through

the apparitions in Lourdes and Fatima that she is calling our

children to prayer, and in a special way, the Rosary.

BEGIN A CHILDREN’S ROSARY

IN YOUR SCHOOL

While the Children's Rosary began as a prayer group

movement in parishes, we have extended this to

schools and orphanages. The model is very simple.

Choose a regular time for the children to come

together to pray. We have seen schools easily fold this

into their school day weekly, monthly or even daily.

An example of this is in Birmingham, Alabama, USA at St. Francis Xavier School

where the children meet every Friday at 2:30 PM. Each class is its own prayer

group. Yet the school is also praying as a whole. An area is set up with an image of

Mary. The children are invited to kneel around her during the Rosary. The children

take turns leading the prayers. After each decade, a child is asked to place a ﬂower

at the foot of Our Lady while the teacher asks for the fruit of that mystery. The

children at St. Francis Xavier have made paper ﬂowers. Our parish-based groups

often use fresh ﬂowers.

If you have any questions please contact

Blythe Kaufman at Blythe@childrensrosary.org

Testimonials from Principal Wright,

St Francis Xavier School:

Principal Wright was able to share some of the

beneﬁts he saw since forming a Children's Rosary

in his school.

In regard to the peace, Principal Wright has seen throughout the school, he goes on

to say, “I believe the Children’s Rosary is one of the most effective anti-bullying

efforts one can do in a school.”

Principal Wright liked having the children of his school all meet at the same time to

pray each week. He explained, "I feel it is very important to have the children all

praying at the same time in the classrooms. They are little prayer groups and

yet one uniﬁed voice together."

"One of the things I very much like about the Children’s Rosary is that it is child

led. This is important because the children take the leadership role. When they

go home, they are comfortable leading a Rosary and can lead their family in

prayer."

"When you commit to a weekly Children's Rosary during the school day, you are

inviting the Blessed Mother into the life of your school. She will not fail to gently

and powerfully move your school towards a greater devotion to her Son."

BEGIN A CHILDREN’S ROSARY IN YOUR PARISH

Steps to Begin a Children’s

Rosary in Your Parish

1. Obtain permission from your Priest

to begin a Children’s Rosary group.

2. Choose a location (usually in a church

or parish center, but groups cannot meet in

private homes).

3. Choose a regular meeting time

(monthly, or if interest exists, weekly or daily).

4. Invite a group of families and

children to your ﬁrst Children’s Rosary

and consider putting a notice in your

Church bulletin.

Guidelines for Your First Children’s Rosary

5. Register your Children’s Rosary with us on our website or by email:

blythe@ChildrensRosary.org or by mail at Children’s Rosary, P.O. Box 271743,

West Hartford, CT 06127, USA (In this way we will have a central list of all Children’s Rosary

groups formed).

1. Begin by Consecrating your new

group to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

and Immaculate Heart of Mary (both

Consecration Prayers on our website).

2. Invite the children to kneel together

before a statue of Our Lady, in front of

those gathered.

3. In turns have a child stand and lead a

decade of the Rosary.

4. The child should say the ﬁrst part

of each prayer, and the group say the

latter part.

5. An optional addition is the use of

ﬂowers (roses or any other ﬂower). This is

particularly nice for smaller children not

able to lead or children with disabilities

preventing them from leading. At the

end of each decade, a child is asked to

place a ﬂower at the foot of a statue of

Mary if available.

6. Consider having a prayer book with

illustrations of the mysteries of the

Rosary for the children to use during

prayer. The Children’s Rosary book was

designed for this purpose.

7. Consider having a petition box.

The children can decorate the box if

desired, and it can be placed in front of

the children while they are saying their

monthly Rosary.

If the group desires, and is given

permission from the priest, the box can

be left out for members of the parish to

place petitions in all month.

Resources, instructional videos, prayers, songs, and guides can be found at:

ChildrensRosary.org

The goal of the Children’s Rosary is to support the

prayer lives of children and to help them to grow in holiness

WAYS TO HELP THE CHILDREN’S ROSARY:

•

If there isn’t a Children’s Rosary near you, consider starting one.

•

Share this ﬂyer and purchase a ten pack of Children’s Rosary books.

Each book can be a seed for a new group.

•

Provide ﬁnancial assistance which allows the non-proﬁt to

continue to say “Yes” to the requests we receive for materials.

Donations can be made electronically at ChildrensRosary.org

or by contacting your nearest regional team.

•

Please pray for the Children’s Rosary Apostolate.

Over 500,000 handmade Rosaries have been sent to

support Children’s Rosary groups around the world!

Help this mission by donating at ChildrensRosary.org

Request for Each Children’s Rosary Group:

•

We do ask that each Children's Rosary

group is Consecrated to the Sacred

Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart

of Mary at the ﬁrst meeting.

•

While the Children's Rosary is not an

intercessory prayer group movement,

meaning its purpose is not to pray

for a certain intention, we do ask that

you include the following items in the

prayers that are offered up during

your meetings: For Our Blessed

Mother’s intentions, for the members

of the Children's Rosary, all who help

the Children's Rosary, and for those

unifying in prayer.

•

After receiving permission from your

Parish priest to begin a group, we ask

that each group register with us.

•

We ask that each group be called a

Children’s Rosary.

Beneﬁts to Participation in the Children’s Rosary:

•

Support for the prayer lives of

children.

•

The children of your parish or school

are joining a tapestry of prayer

composed of children from over 40

countries. In this way, the children

are covered in the prayers of other

children meeting around the world

each day.

•

Monthly Mass is offered for all the

members of the Children’s Rosary

and all who help the Children’s

Rosary.

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Child Consecration

Child Consecration: To Jesus through Mary—Following in the Spirit

of St. Thérèse, the Little Flower is a 33-day journey for groups, parishes,

families, children, schools, homeschool groups, and adults.

This Consecration to Jesus through Mary is the request we make to Mary

to bring a soul entrusted to her under her mantle of protection. The soul

brings all it has; past, present, and future, to be placed at the disposal of

Mary. In turn Our Lady takes the soul by the hand and guides it to its true

home in Heaven while cultivating a multitude of fruits. More info at ChildConsecration.com

“This Consecration has been one of the loveliest things of my priesthood. There is

something of Heaven about this Consecration and I pray many individuals and

families may consider taking up this book. I also humbly invite Shepherds to consider

leading their ﬂock in this Consecration. A great harvest lies ahead.”

–Bishop John Keenan of Paisley, Scotland

A Soul Prepared through Sufering

This book is a 40-day retreat. It is for those in the trenches of suffering and

for those yet to be put to the test, for it prepares people to understand that

suffering shared by a loving God works in ways nothing else can.

“This book written by Dr. Blythe Kaufman is very important for our

age when many Christians see redemptive suffering as foreign to

human existence . . . This book is a must-read. I recommend it for all

Christians and non-Christians alike. It is very important for overall spiritual growth.”

–Most Rev. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, Nigeria

ENJOY OUR CHILDREN’S ROSARY RETREATS

childrensrosaryretreat.com

Children’s Rosary books, CDs,

DVDs, T-shirts & banners

as well as instructional videos, guides, prayers

& songs can be found at ChildrensRosary.org

Children’s Rosary websites are available in:

English childrensrosary.org

Spanish rosariodeninos.org

French rosairedesenfants.org

Portuguese rosariodascriancas.org

German kinderrosenkranz.com

The Children’s Rosary book, which has an

Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat, has been released in

English, Spanish, French, and German.

RESOURCES TO

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