The privileged place of the Rosary in intercessory prayer

 

For the faithful can do nothing more fruitful and salutary than to win for themselves the most powerful patronage of the Immaculate Virgin, so that by this most sweet Mother, there may be opened to them, all the treasures of the divine Redemption, and so they may have life, and have it more abundantly. Did not the Lord will that we have everything through Mary? (…)

As an exercise of Christian devotion among the faithful of the Latin Rite who constitute a notable portion of the Catholic family, the Rosary ranks after Holy Mass and the Breviary for ecclesiastics (priests), and for the laity after participation in the sacraments. It is a devout form of union with God and lifts souls to a higher supernatural plane.
                                                                                   Blessed Pope John XXIII