Traditional Catholic Novenas
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Novena Regina · Paperback
The Seven Sorrows of Our Lady: History, Meditation, and the Traditional Rosary
Learn the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows and pray it with understanding. Historical prayers, Gospel readings, and reflections help you keep company with Our Lady at the foot of the Cross.
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- English
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Inside the book
- The meaning and purpose of the Seven Sorrows
- Servite history and the traditional prayer order
- Step-by-step instructions and a worked example
- The Act of Contrition, Our Father, and Hail Mary
- The seven Sorrows, with Gospel readings and the full prayers
- Reflections, imagined everyday examples, and practical applications
- The closing prayers, sources, and edition notes
A short sample
Why pray the Sorrows?
You may come to the chaplet with a grief of your own or with someone else’s name in mind. You may also pray it during a peaceful season, in gratitude and love. Read the mystery, say the prayers, and give God the attention you can. No particular feeling has to be produced.
Excerpt from The Seven Sorrows of Our Lady: History, Meditation, and the Traditional Rosary.
Sources and arrangement
The prayer order, Act of Contrition, traditional meditations, and closing prayer follow The New Raccolta (1903), pages 222 to 224. The common prayers follow Father F. X. Lasance’s With God (1911), and Scripture readings use the Douay-Rheims Bible. Explanations and imagined everyday examples are editorial aids, kept separate from the historical prayers. This private devotional compilation carries no ecclesiastical imprimatur.
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