Liturgical Prayer
One of the most meaningful expressions of communal prayer came from St. Louis de Montfort’s Secret of the Rosary. In the section on common recitation of the Rosary, he says, “Somebody who says his Rosary alone only gains the merit of one Rosary, but if he says it together with thirty other people he gains the merit of thirty Rosaries. This is the law of public prayer. How profitable, how advantageous this is!”
This type of communal prayer is a reality every day at St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis.
We can take with complete confidence what St. Louis de Montfort says: that communal prayer is more powerful than the prayer of any one member of a community could ever hope to give.
In a Dominican context, the Liturgy of the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours play a central role. And just like the rosary, when they are prayed with fervor and faithfulness together, there’s so much more power than there could ever be praying fervently and faithfully on one’s own.
This type of communal prayer is a reality every day at St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis.
We can take with complete confidence what St. Louis de Montfort says: that communal prayer is more powerful than the prayer of any one member of a community could ever hope to give.
In a Dominican context, the Liturgy of the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours play a central role. And just like the rosary, when they are prayed with fervor and faithfulness together, there’s so much more power than there could ever be praying fervently and faithfully on one’s own.
"Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring."
- St. Catherine of Siena