a Spike Ministries volunteer shows off donated rosaries in Uganda in 2024

Start a Rosary Making Group

ROSARIES FOR THE WORLDWIDE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY

Making rosaries with members of your parish community blesses you, your parish, and the recipients of your rosaries. Use the agenda and rosary making instructions below to get started.

Spike Ministries can help you establish your own rosary making group. We’ll travel to your parish and train your members in how to run a meeting and assemble rosaries.

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Spike Ministries donated thousands of rosaries to a Guatemalan Catholic community in 2025.

Rosary Making Group Agenda

Spike Ministries recommends meeting weekly for two hours to make rosaries. We like to break up rosary assembly with prayer, as you’ll see in the agenda below.

Hour One

1. Group Catch-Up

2. Call Meeting to Order

3. Recognize New Members

4. Rosary Assembly

Hour Two

1. Prayer Requests for Family and Friends

2. Group Prayer (See Below)

3. Rosary Assembly

4. Meeting Close

5. Group Catch-Up

Group Prayer for Rosary Making

1. Make the Sign of the Cross

2. Recite the Our Father

3. Recite One Decade of the Rosary for the Prayer Requests

4. Recite the Glory Be

5. Recite the Fatima Prayer

6. Recite the Rosary Maker’s Prayer (see below)

7. Call and Response: Mary Queen of Peace

8. Call and Response: Mary Protector of the Unborn

9. Make the Sign of the Cross

The Rosary Maker’s Prayer

Dearest Mother, to you we pray.

Bless the rosaries we make today.

With loving hands, we add each bead,

then with trust in you, we further plead.

Bless the ones in foreign lands.

Reach for them with outstretched hands

and pray like we that God hears our call

for a world united and peace for all.

How to Make a Rosary

Assembling rosaries is a beautiful and prayerful craft that blesses people across the world. Here are the simple instructions for assembling rosaries using Spike Ministries assembly kits.

  • Our rosary assembly kits contain everything you need to make rosaries. Each rosary maker will also need a pair of pliers.

    Each rosary will require the following materials out of your kit:

    • 53 small beads (for the Hail Marys)

    • 6 large beads (for the Our Fathers)

    • Crucifix

    • Centerpiece to connect the crucifix chain to the loop of beads

    • Rosary string

  • A rosary has two main parts: the pendant and the main loop.

    The Pendant

    The pendant is the beginning part of the rosary. It contains the crucifix, 2 Our Father beads, 3 Hail Mary beads, and the centerpiece.

    The Main Loop

    The main loop contains the prayer beads. It connects to the pendant through the centerpiece. It contains 50 Hail Mary beads and 4 Our Father beads total.

  • 1. Attach the crucifix to a short length of string.

    2. Add the pendant beads in this order: 1 large bead, 3 small beads, 1 large bead.

    3. Connect this strand to the centerpiece.

    4. Connect a long length of string to one side of the centerpiece.

    5. String 10 small beads followed by 1 large bead. This completes the beads for the first mystery.

    6. String 3 more sets of 10 small beads followed by 1 large bead.

    7. String 10 small beads.

    8. Attach the end of the chain to the other side of the centerpiece.

Spike Ministries donated rosaries for display and distribution at the Vatican display at the Mall of America

Our Rosary Assembly Kits

We supply our rosary making groups with rosary assembly kits. Our rosary assembly kits contain everything you need to make 50+ rosaries. Each rosary maker will also need a pair of pliers.

Each rosary requires:

  • 53 small beads (for the Hail Marys)

  • 6 large beads (for the Our Fathers)

  • Crucifix

  • Centerpiece to connect the crucifix chain to the loop of beads

  • Rosary string