The Rosary among Anglicans

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 20, 20 May 1909, Page 22

The Rosary among Anglicans

The London Tablet of March 27 (p. 490) reprints in part the rules and annual report of an Anglican Rosary Confraternity that has been in operation for the past four years. Here are some extracts which give some idea of the manner in which some of our devout brethren of the Establishment have been moving Romewards : — ' The Living Rosary of Oxtb, Lady and St. Dominic. ' This Society was founded in October, 1905, and its rules are : ' (1) To say daily the dscade of the Rosary, as appointed by the Quarterly lutenbion Card. ' (2) To receive Holy Communion Rosary Sunday. ' (3) To hear Mass on St. Dominic's day.' Among the ' Intentions ' on the Quarterly Card are the following : ' Thanksgiving to the Holy Guardian Angels ' ; ' Removal of prejudice against the Holy Rosary ' ; ' Restoration of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction ' ; ' Gratitude for the Immaculate Conception.' In the ' Annual Report' the object of this Anglican Society of 'The Living Rosary of Our Lady and St. Dominic ' is stated to be ' The furtherance of devotion to our Blessed Lady by means of the Holy Rosary. •It exists,' adds the Report, ' to encourage the faithful in the recitation of the Rosary,

and to bring its knowledge lind use into tho lives of others. There is no devotion which teaches the Incarnation so profoundly as does the Rosary, or which nurtures so perfect a Catholic tone and mind, besides enabling us to give Our Lady that regular and constant devotion which is due to her as our Queen and our Mother.'