How To Pray The Rosary
Pray for us o holy mother of god that we may be made worthy of the promises of christ.
How to pray the rosary. As we pray the rosary we meditate on the events of our lord s life and passion which are called nbsp mysteries. The repetition of the prayers assists in this prayerful meditation. The steps to praying the rosary are. The rosary is essentially the decades and their associated mysteries and only these must be prayed to pray the rosary either in satisfaction of our lady s requests or to gain the indulgences.
Remember o most gracious virgin mary that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection implored your help or sought your intercession was left unaided. Another fruitful way to pray the rosary is to meditate on important events in the lives of jesus and mary. That is why some of the popes have referred to the rosary as a compendium of the gospel. Joyful luminous sorrowful and glorious.
The rosary is a scripture based prayer. Pius v officially added the second part of the hail mary. Mary our loving mother pray for us. These mysteries are grouped into four sets.
Each set of mysteries is prayed on specific days of the week. Twenty of these moments are captured in what we call the mysteries of the rosary. The rosary in essence is a compendium of the gospel and leads us through the intercession of our lady to contemplate jesus christ. There are many traditional catholic novenas and several involve the rosary.
The rosary confraternity is a spiritual association of the catholic church the members of which strive to pray the entire rosary during the course of one week. Any time you pray any set of prayers nine consecutive times it is a novena novena is latin for nine. Mary queen of the holy rosary pray for us. Many families add favorite prayers at the end of the rosary or ask favorite saints and angels to pray for them.
Mary queen of peace pray for us. Grant we beseech thee that by meditating upon these mysteries of the most holy rosary of the blessed virgin mary we may. It begins with the apostles creed which summarizes the great mysteries of the catholic faith the our father which introduces each mystery is from the gospels the first part of the hail mary is the angel s words announcing christ s birth and elizabeth s greeting to mary. One cannot change the mysteries of the rosary without losing the indulgences that the church grants for the recitation of the rosary.
All the prayers of the rosary are available in multiple languages.
