WelCom December 2024/January 2025
Rebecca Taylor-Hunt, Catholic Enquiry Centre
What is a Chaplet?
This question came from a woman returning to the Catholic faith.
A chaplet is a devotion that uses beads and repetitive prayers, such as the Rosary. The structure of these prayers can vary widely, and many have their own sets of beads, shorter than Rosary beads.
Catholics have been using chaplets as forms of devotion for centuries, each with its own unique prayers and structure. Some commonly prayed chaplets include the Chaplet of the Sacred Heart, the Chaplet of St Joseph, and my personal favourite, the Chaplet of St Anthony. There is a meditative quality to praying this way, and chaplets can prove to be powerful. It is a way of connecting with our saints and with God.
Exploring different kinds of prayer brings us closer to God, and that’s the point of it.
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