BEGIN A CHILDREN’S ROSARY IN YOUR PARISH
BEGIN A CHILDREN’S ROSARY IN YOUR PARISH
Steps to Begin a Children’s
Steps to Begin a Children’s
Rosary in Your Parish
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