In the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II once more urged Christian families to pray in their ... seeing him with the Rosary beads between his fingers.

Rosary beads close rosaryA string of beads used as a method of prayer or meditation, for example by Buddhists and Roman Catholic Christians. are an aid to worship that focus on a set order of prayers.

Even today, foreigners in a strange land struggling to understand a different language, can take comfort in saying the Catholic rosary or another bead-prayer method in their faith and native language.