A “Seven Sorrows Chaplet” rosary has seven beads to say seven Hail Marys and seven sections to reflect on Mary’s Sorrows. [2] X Research source Some “Seven Sorrows Chaplet” rosaries have seven pendants to depict each Biblical scene of Mary’s Sorrows. A “The Franciscan Crown” rosary can also work since it has seven “decades,” which are sections with ten beads each.

Use your right hand to symbolize that Jesus sits on the right hand of the Father. [4] X Research source

Recite Luke 2:34–35: “Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too’. " Pray the Our Father Prayer. Pray seven Hail Marys. With each Hail Mary, move your fingers up one bead on the rosary. [9] X Research source Pray the Most Merciful Mother.

Recite Matthew 2:13-14: “When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, ’take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him. ’ So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt. ” Pray the Our Father Prayer. Pray seven Hail Marys. With each Hail Mary, move your fingers up one bead on the rosary. Pray the Most Merciful Mother.

Recite Luke 2:43-45: “After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. " Pray the Our Father Prayer. Pray seven Hail Marys. With each Hail Mary, move your fingers up one bead on the rosary. Pray the Most Merciful Mother.

Recite Luke 23:27-29: “A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. Jesus turned and said to them, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’” Pray the Our Father Prayer. Pray seven Hail Marys. With each Hail Mary, move your fingers up one bead on the rosary. Pray the Most Merciful Mother.

Recite John 19:25-27: “Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, ‘Woman, here is your son,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother. ’ From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. ” Pray the Our Father Prayer. Pray seven Hail Marys. With each Hail Mary, move your fingers up one bead on the rosary. Pray the Most Merciful Mother.

Recite John 19:38-40: “Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. ” Pray the Our Father Prayer. Pray seven Hail Marys. With each Hail Mary, move your fingers up one bead on the rosary. Pray the Most Merciful Mother.

Recite John 19:41-42: “At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there. ” Pray the Our Father Prayer. Pray seven Hail Marys. With each Hail Mary, move your fingers up one bead on the rosary. Pray the Most Merciful Mother.

Recite the Our Father Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) after you recite each sorrow. There is a short version of the Our Father prayer in the Gospel of Luke (Luke: 11:1-13).

Say 7 Hail Marys per sorrow, after the Lord’s prayer.

Pray the Most Merciful Mother at the end of every Sorrow.