BLOCK ROSARY PRAYERS

THE BLOCK ROSARY

I. WELCOMING OUR LADY TO OUR OFFICES AND CLASSROOMS

Head of Office/Department: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

ALL: Amen.

Head of Office/Department: Let us welcome our Mother Mary with a song.

ALL: Our Lady Of Fatima, We Come On Bended Knee

To Beg Your Intercession, For Peace And Unity.
Dear Mary, Won’t You Show Us The Right And Shining Ways.
We Pledge Our Love And Offer You A Rosary Each Day.

You Promised At Fatima, Each Time That You Appear,

To Help Us, If We Pray To You, To Banish War And Fear.
Dear Lady, On First Saturdays, We Ask Your Guiding Hands,
For Peace And Guidance Here On Earth, And Protection For Our Land.

Our Lady Of Fatima, We Come On Bended Knee

To Beg Your Intercession, For Peace And Unity.
Dear Mary, Won’t You Show Us The Right And Shining Ways.
We Pledge Our Love And Offer You A Rosary Each Day.

We Pledge Our Love And Offer You

A Rosary Each Day.
Head of Office/Department: We remember, dear Mother, your humble visit to your cousin
Elizabeth. You set out proceeding in haste into the hill country to a
town in Judah. You knew you were the Mother of the Saviour, a great honor.
But you forgot your dignity and in humility you went to serve your cousin.
You come with concern for our needs.

ALL: We are honored to receive you into our office/classroom, O Mary.

Head of Office/Department: When Elizabeth heard your greeting, O Mary, the baby leapt in her
womb and she was filled with the Holy Spirit. Fill our hearts with the joy, love
and peace of the Holy Spirit.

ALL: We are honored to receive you into our office/classroom, O Mary.

Head of Office/Department: Blessed are you, O Mary, among all women. Blessed is the fruit of
your womb, Jesus! Who are we that the mother of our Lord should come to
us? The moment your greeting sounded in the ears of Elizabeth her baby
leapt for joy. Fill our offices and school with openness and faith in you.

ALL: We are honored to receive you into our office/classroom, O Mary.

Blessed are you, O Mary, you trusted that the Lord fulfills His words. Pour into
our hearts great trust in our Lord that we may accept whatever message He would
like to tell us through your visit.

ALL: We are honored to receive you into our office/classroom, O Mary.

Head of Office/Department: Let us pray the PRAYER OF WELCOME.

ALL: O Mother of Christ and Help of Christians we are happy and honored of
your visit to our humble office/classroom which you made worthy to be the
abode of your love during your stay with us. Give us, beloved mother/ your
blessing. Bless all those who stay in this office/classroom, never allow us to
commit anything that will give you sorrow. Help us grow in imitation of your
virtues. We are yours our Queen and Mother. Take care of us all, like your
own now and forever.

Head of Office/Department: Let us now recite the ‘Song of Mary’, her great prayer to God
Almighty. As we say it, let us ask for the grace of humility and faith
so we may always find joy and strength in our trust and dependence on God.
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, My spirit rejoices in God
my Saviour for He has looked with favor on his lowly servant.

ALL: From this day all generations will call me blessed: The Almighty has
done great things for me, and holy is his Name.

Head of Office/Department: He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation. He has
shown the strength of his arm. He has scattered the proud in their conceit.
ALL: He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the
lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away
empty.

Head of Office/Department: He has come to the help of his servant Israel. For He has remembered
His promises of mercy, the promise He made to our fathers, to Abraham
and his children forever.
ALL: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy spirit. As it was
in the beginning is now and will be forever. Amen.

II. THE HOLY ROSARY

OPENING PRAYER
In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Leader: O Lord, open my lips

ALL: And my tongue shall announce your praise

Leader: Incline unto my aid, O God

ALL: O Lord,make haste to help me

Leader: Glory be to the Father, to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
All: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen.

APOSTLES CREED
I BELIEVE IN GOD, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only
Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius
Pilate, was crucified, dead and was buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from
the dead: He ascended into heaven; and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from
thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit; the Holy Catholic Church; the Communion of Saints; the
forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and life everlasting. Amen.

OUR FATHER HAIL MARY (Three times)GLORY BE

THE FIVE JOYFUL MYSTERIES: (To be said on Mondays and Saturdays)

1. THE ANNUNCIATION
2. THE VISITATION:
3. THE BIRTH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
4. THE PRESENTATION OF OUR BLESSED LORD IN THE TEMPLE:
5. THE FINDING OF THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE:

THE LUMINOUS MYSTERIES: (To be said on Thursdays)

1. THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD:
2. THE MANIFESTATION OF JESUS: The Wedding in Cana
3. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KINGDOM:
4. THE TRANSFIGURATION:
5. THE INSTITUTION OF THE EUCHARIST

THE FIVE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES: (To be said on Tuesdays and Fridays)

1. THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN:
2. THE SCOURGING OF JESUS AT THE PILLAR:
3. THE CROWNING WITH THORNS:
4. THE CARRYING OF THE CROSS:
5. THE CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST:

THE FIVE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES: (To be said on Wednesdays and Sundays)

1. THE RESURRECTION:
2. THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST INTO HEAVEN:
3. THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE APOSTLES:
4. THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY INTO HEAVEN:
5. THE CORONATION

HAIL HOLY QUEEN

Hail Holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do
we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs mourning and
weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy
toward us, and after this our exile show us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O
clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
Leader: Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God.
ALL: That we maybe made worthy of the promises of Christ.

LET US PRAY
O God, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death and resurrection, has purchased for us
the reward of eternal salvation, grant we beseech you, that meditating upon these
mysteries in the most holy rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary; we may imitate what they
contain and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

LITANY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

LET US PRAY
Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord God, that we Thy Servants may enjoy unfailing health of
mind and body and through the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Her glory free us
from our sorrow in this world and give us eternal happiness in the next; through Christ
Our Lord. Amen.

V. May the Divine Assistance remain always with us.

R. Amen
V. And may the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.
R. Amen
V. (Make the Sign of the Cross) And may Almighty God bless us, the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit.
R. Amen.

THANKING OUR LADY FOR HER VISIT

Head of In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
office:
Members : Amen.
Head of Beloved Mother, Mary Help of Christians, after staying with us for
office: some precious hours during which you have been asking God to
shower down on us choicest graces, we thank you. Allow us to
 repeat our love for you with this departure prayer service.
Members: Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us.
Head of O Mary, the Church has always interpreted the Old Testament
office: prophecies in the light of the Gospel. In Judith, she sees Mary
as the help of the Christian people: you are our Help of
Christians.
Members: Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us.
Head of Let us ask God to fill us with faith whenever we envoked this
office: beautiful title of Mary: O Lord, you have given us Mary as our
Mother and help. Through her intercession, grant that we may
love you and live fully the life you have given us your children.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
All : Amen.

IMMACULATE MOTHER
Immaculate mother,
To you do we plead
To ask god, our father
For help in our need
AVE, AVE, AVE MARIA (2x)
We pray for our country
The land of our birth
We pray for all nations
That peace be on earth

AVE, AVE, AVE MARIA (2x)