How To Pray a Chaplet

Chaplets are like "mini-rosaries" -- they are designed to be small so you can carry them easily and pray them discreetly if you like. Some chaplets are devoted to saints and prayed with special prayers. Our chaplets use the same prayers as a traditional rosary. They are not devoted to saints; rather, they are named for saints to honor them.

A chaplet is prayed the same way as a rosary (see How to Pray the Rosary archived on this site). In the interest of keeping our chaplets small, they require several prayers to be prayed on the same bead. Say both of The Apostles Creed and the Our Father prayers on the crucifix. Then, pray The Hail Mary on the next three beads. Pray the Our Father prayer on the center bead at the beginning of each decade.

With practice, praying a chaplet becomes second nature!