The Library
Welcome to the Meinssen Handmade Rosaries Library section!
In this section, we provide information not only on the prayers associated with rosaries and chaplets, but also on how rosaries and chaplets are configured. This information on bead counts and placements is given especially for rosary makers. As with a neighborhood library, our library is organized into stacks.
Stack I: How to Pray the Rosary
This stack contains detailed pages concerning rosary prayer. Here you're introduced to how a set of rosary beads is configured, what the mysteries of the rosary are, the calendar we use day by day to pray the rosary, and, finally, a step by step guide to praying the rosary.
Stack II: Devotional Chaplets
Stack II deals with devotional chaplets, which are special prayers on either the 5-decade rosary, or prayer beads which differ from the full rosary in the number of beads used and how the beads are organized. These are used to pray for the intercession of the saints and angels, for souls in Purgatory, and for special devotions to Jesus and Mary.
Configured chaplets are those with a standard count and placement of beads in long use in Church tradition, such as the Infant of Prague chaplet. Nine bead chaplets are used for saints without a standard, configured chaplet of their own, and what I provide here are intercessory prayers for a variety of popular saints to be said on the nine bead chaplet end medals.
Stack III Writings of the Saints
Stack III offers several selections from the writings of the saints for you to read online. Most of the original manuscripts are huge. We've gone through them and taken excerpts so that you can get a feeling for a certain book's style and subject.
Stack III: Writings of the Saints
The Dialog of St. Catherine of Siena