Chaplets are sets of prayers that help us contemplate aspects of our faith and help us to meditate and commune with God. Likely the best known chaplet type prayer is the Rosary. In fact it is so well known, and widely used, that it has its own section on the website. However, there are many other chaplets besides the Rosary.
Chaplets are also good resources for keeping your mind occupied when you are doing manual or menial labor, helping to focus your stray thoughts to God so that you are praying constantly as you walk through your day.
Below are some of the more widely used and practiced chaplets. Pray them when you think you might need them or learn them so that you can pray them whenever you want. Consider them weapons in your arsenal. You will fight many spiritual battles in this life, you would do well to have a full arsenal at the ready.
Websites for Chaplets
These websites list many of the chaplets that are in use. These websites and the other below also sell the chaplet sacramentals that can be used to pray the chaplets. The beads are not required to pray the chaplet, the prayers are what are important, but the beads can help you in your prayers.
Common Chaplets
Chaplet of Divine Mercy
After the Rosary this is the most widely promulgated chaplet of our times. It is a very simple set of prayers and a typical Rosary can be used to pray it if you want a sacramental to pray with. The chaplet focuses us on God's infinite mercy and love for us and calls us to cheerful repentance and full knowledge that no matter what we have do that God will forgive us if only we ask. The chaplet accomplishes this by drawing us into a remembrance of Christ's passion and death.
Chaplet of St. Michael
The chaplet of St. Michael is a chaplet centered around nine invocations of the heavenly angelic choirs. It can be used to call on the assistance of the angels for help with a specific cause or for help and protection in general. The chaplet can be prayed with a sacramental that is designed for the chaplet.
Chaplet of The Holy Face of Jesus
The chaplet of the holy face of Jesus brings to mind the image of Christ left on the Shroud of Turin. The chaplet focuses on his five wounds and his crown of thorns and how Jesus experienced those wounds with his five senses. The chaplet also calls upon God to rise up and defeat his enemies and can be a powerful prayer in times of spiritual warfare and need.
Chaplet of The Holy Face of Jesus
Chaplet of St. Joseph
This chaplet takes the person praying through the mysteries of the rosary in a briefer context than through the rosary itself. The traditional form of the chaplet involves meditation on the 15 traditional mysteries of the Rosary. The chaplet can be prayed with a sacramental that is made specifically for the chaplet.
Chaplet of St. Joseph