A new Springtime for the Rosary

Today, together we confirm that the Holy Rosary is not a pious practice banished to the past, like prayers of other times thought of with nostalgia.

Instead, the Rosary is experiencing a new Springtime. (…) When it is prayed in an authentic way, not mechanical and superficial but profoundly, the Rosary brings, in fact, peace and reconciliation. It contains within itself the healing power of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, invoked with faith and love at the center of each "Hail Mary".

Address of Pope Benedict XVI in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, May 3, 2008