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Devotions
Structured practices for the faithful — to walk, to meditate, and to pray.
The Blessed Sacrament
Eucharistic Adoration
A holy hour before Our Lord in the Most Holy Sacrament — how to keep it, the Church’s own Eucharistic hymns and prayers in English and Latin, and meditations from Scripture and the Catechism.
The Rosary
The Scriptural Rosary
The traditional fifteen mysteries — the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious — and after them the Luminous Mysteries (optional; added by Pope St. John Paul II in 2002), with 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.