blessing of rosaries (shorter rite)

To begin, the celebrant says:

Lord, show us your mercy and love.

All reply:

And grant us your salvation.

As circumstances suggest, the celebrant may prepare those present for the blessing.

One of those present or the celebrant reads a text of sacred Scripture, for example:

Lk 2:51b-52

Mary, his mother, kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and favor before God and man.

or Acts 1:14

All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

With the hands outstretched, the celebrant says the prayer of blessing:

Blessed be our God and Father, who has given us the mysteries of his Son to be pondered with devotion and celebrated with faith. May he grant us, his faithful people, that by praying the rosary we may, with Mary the Mother of Jesus, seek to keep his joys, sorrows, and glories in our minds and hearts.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

℟. Amen.

or

In memory of the mysteries of the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord and in honor of the Virgin Mary, Mother of Christ and Mother of the Church, may those who devoutly use this rosary to pray be blessed, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, @ and of the Holy Spirit.

℟. Amen.