Rosary for the prisoners

We pray with Mary for those who are deprived of their liberty.

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"I was in prison and you came to see me" (Mt 25: 36). Whoever is deprived of liberty is not left outside the love of God or the memory of the Church. The Rosary allows us to pass through walls and bars to approach, along with Mary, the prisoners and their families. We pray slowly for them, we ask for conversion, hope and respect for the dignity that no mistake erases, because also their Son was apprehended, judged and condemned.

Suggested mysteries: Painful

Spiritual fruit: Conversion, hope and dignity

When I pray: For those who serve their sentences and for their families

How to pray it

Pray the Holy Rosary as usual - sign of the Cross, Creed, and every mystery with his Father, ten Avemarias and Gloria. Before you start, do the initial prayer; in every ten, you welcome the proposed intention; at the end, the final prayer. If you want to pray it guided step by step, enter into Begin the Rosary.

Opening prayer

Holy Mary, Mother of your arrested and condemned Son, I come to you to pray for those who are now deprived of their liberty. He welcomes prisoners and their families, those who repent and those who suffer a punishment that they do not deserve. He presents his lives to Jesus, who also knew the chains and unjust judgment. Get them a new heart, the hope of starting over and the certainty that no human being is left out of God's love. Amen.

Mysteries and meditations

Painful Mysteries - Christ imprisoned and condemned, for this purpose:

1st mystery - The prayer of Jesus in the Garden

In the Garden, Jesus is arrested and abandoned by his own. His solitude of that night accompanies those who sleep in bars today, far from those who love.

Intent of this ten: for prisoners and their families.

2nd mystery - The flogging of the Lord

Tied to the column, Jesus supports the punishment in silence. We ask for those who recognize their lack and want to change, so that the pain of guilt becomes a path of conversion.

Intent of this ten: for those who repent and seek to redo their life.

3rd mystery - The coronation of thorns

Jesus is condemned as innocent, mocked as a false king. We join those who pay for the guilt they did not commit, so that the truth will come to light and justice will be done.

Intent of this ten: by the innocent condemned.

4th mystery - Jesus with the cross way to Calvary

Others accompany Jesus on his way: the Cyrenees help him, women comfort him. We pray for officials, chaplains and volunteers who support the dignity of the prisoners every day.

Intent of this ten: by those who work in prisons.

5th mystery - The crucifixion and death of the Lord

On the Cross, Jesus promises paradise to the repented thief: it is never too late to start again. We call for the reintegration of prisoners and for the forgiveness that reconciles people.

Intent of this ten: for reintegration and forgiveness.

Closing prayer

Our mother, we entrust to you the fruit of this Rosary prayed for by the prisoners. Hold your hope, accompany your families and make no one feel forgotten by God or the Church. May those who have failed find the way of conversion, may their dignity always be respected, and may society be able to open the door to a new opportunity. To you, Mother of whom he was taken and condemned, we entrust all of them. Amen.

When you finish, you can offer this Rosary like a rose to the Virgin in the Rosary Garden.

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You can also leave an intention or pray for the intentions of others.

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