The author sketches the historical development of the Rosary, its place in Catholic spiritual life and its resurgence as a contemplative prayer. "A clear focus on the life of Christ emerges as the mysteries of the Rosary make the circle from joyful to luminous to sorrowful to glorious," Hutchinson writes. Our fingers passing from one decade to the next make the journey with Jesus as he is conceived and born, as he teaches and heals, as he gives himself to us in forms of bread and wine, as he suffers and dies, rises and is glorified in the Church of our day." Includes a discussion of the newly-added Mysteries of Light.