The Rosary of Confidence in the Mercy of God aims to increase our confidence in God's mercy by uniting the prayer of the Hail Mary to the meditation on the mysteries in a specific way.
First, it focuses our attention on our prayer to Mary. We address her with words from Scripture in the first part of the Hail Mary, “Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you! Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus!” Then, before our recitation of the second half of the Hail Mary, the Rosary of Confidence inserts a reminder of the unfathomable and undeserved love of God for us — sinners! — taken from the particular mystery. We then finish the Hail Mary by praying its second part.
Let us take as an example one Hail Mary from the Rosary of Confidence, from the Fifth Sorrowful Mystery, the Crucifixion. We pray, “Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you! Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus! Your Son's left hand was nailed to the cross for love of us! And so, Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.” We ask Mary to pray for us in the name of that mercy that brought Jesus to accept that His hand be nailed to the cross, confident that she will pray for us and that because of that mercy, God will answer her and our prayers. The Rosary of Confidence proposes an interjection for each Hail Mary of every decade, like that of this example.
Praying in this way, we remember God’s unimaginable love for us and His longing to save us and shower us with good gifts, and we are encouraged to have confidence in His mercy. Likewise, we are reminded that Mary will pray for us because — as St. Augustine says — the God of Mercy was conceived in her heart before it took flesh in her womb.
The Rosary of Confidence is not a new formal prayer to be codified, nor a replacement for the traditional recitation of the Rosary — far from it! Rather, the Rosary of Confidence offers a way of praying the Rosary that some people may find helpful. Indeed, some people may find it more helpful to take one of the suggested interjections and use it for every Hail Mary of a given decade; others may find greater benefit in composing their own interjections; still others may be more edified by inserting the interjection before the Hail Mary or after it, just before the “Amen.”
What matters when using the Rosary of Confidence is its aim: to pray the Rosary in a way that helps us grow in confidence that God is, “my love, my fortress, my stronghold, my savior, my place of refuge, my strength, my song, and my salvation” (cfr. Ps. 143 and Ex. 15).