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A New Liturgical Rosary: The Rosary Florilegium - Sharon Rose - 10-03-2026
I would like to introduce a new rosary devotion derived from the Church's Sacred Liturgy.
The New Rosary Florilegium is a scriptural rosary gathered from the Liturgy of the Hours. As a rosary devotion to Mary's pondering heart, it is also called the Florilegium of the Heart: "Mary kept in mind all these things, pondering them in her heart" (Luke 2:19). Like the Angelus, the Florilegium Rosary offers a verse of scripture for each Hail Mary. It also offers a weekly cycle of seven Mysteries of the Lord, one for each day of the week, as well as three florilegia of scriptures for different liturgical seasons: the Florilegium Joyful for Ordinary Time; the Florilegium Sorrowful for Lent and Advent; and the Florilegium Glorious for Easter and Christmas.
This Florilegium of the Heart answers the call of the Vatican Council to draw Catholic devotions closer to the Sacred Liturgy: Popular devotions of the Christian people are to be highly recommended ... but such devotions should be so drawn up that they harmonize with the liturgical seasons, accord with the Sacred Liturgy, are in some way derived from it and lead the people back to it, since in fact the Liturgy by its very nature is far superior (Sacrosanctum Concilium I.1,V).
The Rosary originated in the Middle Ages in just such a desire of the faithful to imitate the chanting in churches of the Hours. The faithful began to pray an Ave for each of the 150 Psalms of the Psalter, the heart of the Divine Office. They called it Mary's Psalter at first. The Hail Mary consisted at the time only of the verses from Luke. To these scriptural verses the devotion of the faithful added praises and petitions of Mary and Jesus, one for each of bead of the rosaries with which they kept count. In the early 1400's the Carthusian Dominic of Prussia assigned 50 scriptural clausulae to each Ave; then in the 15th century the Dominican Blessed Alan of Roche simplified it into 15 mysteries.
Inspired anew by the renewed Liturgy of the Hours, the New Rosary Florilegium aims to bring forth both new and old (Matthew 13:52) out of the treasure of Mary's pondering heart, as the primordial witness to the Mystery of Christ: His mother kept all these things in her heart (Luke 2:51). The three seasonal florilegia gather from the Liturgy of the Hours its most moving scriptural verses and arrange them for meditation on the beads of the rosary, integrating the Holy Rosary with the Divine Office in the ancient tradition of Lectio Divina--as a new lay breviary for the contemplative Catholic.
The free website at NewRosary offers a free download of the Florilegium as well as various other devotionals, such as meditations on the mysteries by saints from the Office of Readings and papal teachings on Mary. The Facebook page offers a decade a day, with a link to the webpage for the full rosary of the day.
https://www.newrosary.com
There is a separate website at NovumRosarium.com for the Latin prototype of the New Rosary Florilegium, the Novum Rosarium Florilegium taken directly from the canonical texts of the Church's Novus Ordo and Nova Vulgata. This Florilegium in the mother tongue of the Church is likewise the motherlode of all the English translations based on a modernized Douay Rheims, corrected in light of the Nova Vulgata and New American.
https://www.novumrosarium.com
Sanctum Rosarium floribus floret denuo, plantatum secus decursus aquarum de Liturgia Horarum, cum novo hebdomadario mysteriorum in singulos hebdomadae dies, tribusque florilegiis Scripturae ad quodque granum, secundum tempora anni liturgici gaudiosa, dolorosa, et gloriosa.
Quasi ex oleastro excisum et in sacram olivam Liturgiae insertum, sociusque factum radicis et pinguedinis eius, novum rosarium floribus floreat denuo. Verbo Domini plantato ab Ecclesia in sua sancta liturgia, rigante Sancto Spiritu, det Deus Pater incrementum huic Florilegio in cordibus fidelium.