Check out our month-long rosary schedule featuring meditations written and spoken by the saints of the Church, collected and sorted to deepen our contemplation of all 20 mysteries.

Where the idea came from

Long ago, St. Thomas Aquinas compiled his Golden Chain commentary on the Gospels, which contained excerpts from some eighty Greek and Latin commentators. Among these commentators are found a good deal of saints. Since then, the Church's roster of saintly men and women has grown by an outstanding degree. 

Fast-forwarding a few centuries, the American Bishop Robert Barron decides to host rosary pray-along videos on his YouTube channel. Before each decade, the good bishop reads a reflection to help those praying along better meditate on the upcoming mystery. One of these caught my attention: a reflection on the Presentation at the Temple which quotes St. Augustine of Hippo. I thought, "surely there must be more quotes like these, meditations written by our spiritual forefathers that we could benefit from; the body of Christ acting as one in prayer." Fortunately, this thought proved to be right.

The Golden Chain Rosary project intends to unite the Catholic faithful through the daily recitation of the rosary. This unity we seek is not merely bound to the faithful of our age, but also extends to the faithful of ages past. We are one Church, the Body of Christ, and this bond extends beyond our time in exile.

"The Church has always believed that the apostles and Christ's martyrs who had given the supreme witness of faith and charity by the shedding of their blood, are closely joined with us in Christ, and she has always venerated them with special devotion, together with the Blessed Virgin Mary and the holy angels."

-Lumen Gentium (50)