What is a Confraternity?

Rosary - comes form rosarium which is wreath of roses , and as described in the rosary section of this website, is a form of prayer

Con fraternity - con with and fraternity brotherhood.

so the rosary within a group of people.

In this way the rosary confraternity is

A World-Wide Movement of Prayer Entrusted to the DOMINICAN ORDER
by the HOLY SEE More than 500 Years Ago.

The Rosary Confraternity is a spiritual association (of the Catholic Church), the members of which strive to pray the entire Rosary during the course of each week. They form a union of countless hundreds of thousands of the faithful throughout the world who, along with their own intentions, include the intentions and needs of all its members, while they in turn pray for them.

Since the Holy Father has recently added the five luminous mysteries, we encourage members of the Confraternity to include that extra weekly Rosary. However, we have as yet received no official statement regarding this matter. Those who recite only the fifteen traditional mysteries will continue to share in the benefits of the Confraternity until some official source declares the contrary.

As Pope Leo XIII said in his encyclical on the Confraternity, "whenever a person fulfills his obligation of reciting the Rosary according to the rule of the Confraternity, he includes in his intentions all its members, and they in turn render him the same service many times over."

Each member includes deceased fellow members as well; and thus he knows that in turn he will be included in the prayers of hundreds of thousands both now and hereafter. This led the Cure of Ars to say: "If anyone has the happiness of being in the Confraternity of the Rosary, he has in all corners of the world brothers and sisters who pray for him." The deceased cannot be enrolled in the Confraternity.

We are a rosary confraternity, a "organisation of Catholics Specially designated by the church for the propagation of the Most Holy Rosary of Mary".

As an organisation we are very flexibel, and the new Canon law temr (1983) "pious associatin of the faithful" can be used to accurately describe the Rosary confraternity as well.

the Special designation byt the church refers principally to the dominican orders official responsibility for this confraternity over the past 500 years.

Propagation could easily suggest an apostolic organisition, however it is prayer that is the main concern of the fraternity. loving prayer wdded to and flowing from the meditationupon the myseteries of our lord , whi si the heart and soul of the confraternitites activity. this bonds us more and more with the blessed trinity, with our lady, and which each other, in a way that is fruitful for teh whole church.

the most holy rosary of mary really refers to Jesus the mysetries contemplated are the myseteries of his life, death and ressurrection. everything about mary, from her immaculate conception to her heavemnyl coronation refers to Jesus and her son. she is the gateway into the myster of Jesus Christ, God and Man.