"Add-on" prayer said during a Rosary...what is it?

[Gardenman]

I attended a Rosary for someone the other night, and it has been a very long time since I’ve been to one. Many people don’t do it anymore.

They were reciting a short prayer at some point which I’ve either never heard or forgotten about. I can’t remember exactly how it goes, but it is something like, “…and save us from the fires of hell…— — —…for those most in need of thy mercy…”

Should I know this, or is this an older prayer that isn’t used much anymore???

 

[PatienceAndLove]

I attended a Rosary for someone the other night, and it has been a very long time since I’ve been to one. Many people don’t do it anymore.

They were reciting a short prayer at some point which I’ve either never heard or forgotten about. I can’t remember exactly how it goes, but it is something like, “…and save us from the fires of hell…— — —…for those most in need of thy mercy…”

Should I know this, or is this an older prayer that isn’t used much anymore???

It is the Fatima prayer.
“Om my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell. And lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of your mercy.”
It is usually said at the end of each decade, after the Glory Be.

You probably should know it. Most rosary “how-to’s” and CDs (at least the ones that I have seen/read/heard) include it.

That said, you don’t HAVE to say it.
It’s kind of like how the St. Michael prayer is said at the end of the rosary, after the Hail Holy Queen. Same with the Litany of Loreto. Pious traditions/habits, but by no means required.

 

[demerzel85]

Its the Fatima Prayer.

“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Lead all souls into heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.”

It is added to each decade of the rosary. There are a a number of Lation versions of the prayer also.

 

[allhers]

It was one of the prayers that Our Lady taught the three shepherd children that she had appeared to at Fatima. Jacinta Marto, Francisco Marto and Lucy Dos Santos. (Now known as St. Jacinto, St. Francisco and Sr. Lucy, (whom just recently, like within the past four years or so passed away.) The two little Saints passed away in the early 1900’s I believe.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.

We, and everyone else I know, personally and in our Parish pray this prayer after the Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit when praying the Rosary.
You can learn more about this here:
ewtn.com/fatima/

 

[demerzel85]

Its the Fatima Prayer.

“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Lead all souls into heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.”

It is added to each decade of the rosary. There are a a number of Lation versions of the prayer also.

Oops “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls into heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.”

 

[Like]

It was one of the prayers that Our Lady taught the three shepherd children that she had appeared to at Fatima. Jacinta Marto, Francisco Marto and Lucy Dos Santos. (Now known as St. Jacinto, St. Francisco and Sr. Lucy, (whom just recently, like within the past four years or so passed away.) The two little Saints passed away in the early 1900’s I believe.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.

We, and everyone else I know, personally and in our Parish pray this prayer after the Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit when praying the Rosary.
You can learn more about this here:
ewtn.com/fatima/

Just a little correction here…

Jacinta Marto, Francisco Marto are not saints yet.

 

[Phemie]

Don’t feel bad. We said the rosary regularly at home when I was a kid and there were never any prayers added anywhere.

On the days I go to daily Mass early, I usually hear the regulars mumbling the rosary and have yet to figure out the multitude of payers they add to it. Most times It’s even hard to decipher whether they are saying the Hail Mary, the Our Father or the Glory be.

It’s always bothered me. If you’re going to advertise and have a public praying of the rosary shouldn’t you actually pray it so that everyone could hear and understand what you’re saying?

 

[barb_finnegan]

It was one of the prayers that Our Lady taught the three shepherd children that she had appeared to at Fatima. Jacinta Marto, Francisco Marto and Lucy Dos Santos. (Now known as St. Jacinto, St. Francisco and Sr. Lucy, (whom just recently, like within the past four years or so passed away.) The two little Saints passed away in the early 1900’s I believe.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.

We, and everyone else I know, personally and in our Parish pray this prayer after the Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit when praying the Rosary.
You can learn more about this here:
ewtn.com/fatima/

You’re right about the prayer…but not about the names and ‘titles’ of the children. [please don’t take this the wrong way]

Francisco and Jacinta are still 'Blesseds", not “Saints”…at least not yet. They were beatified in 2000 by John Paul II when he made his last pilgrimage to Fatima. There is a miracle being investigated that might secure their canonization.

Lucia is now called 'Servant of God". She died four years ago yesterday (the 13th), and Benedict XVI waived the fifty-year time span so that her Cause could start sooner. Remember that she died two months before John Paul II-her last act before dying was receiving and reading a fax he sent her just hours before she died.

Francisco died April 1919-so this year is the 90th anniversary of his death. He died in his home in Aljustrel, which was near Fatima.

Jacinta died February 1920. She died in a childrens’ hospital in Lisbon, where she was sent for treatment of tuberculosis [the end result of pneumonia, then pleurisy].

Francisco’s and Jacinta’s feastday is February 20.

 

[Chatter163]

The Fatima prayer, as has been pointed out, is not required, but it is very widely used. Most of the public rosaries that I have heard around the USA have used the Fatima prayer.

 

[barb_finnegan]

The Fatima prayer, as has been pointed out, is not required, but its is very widely used. Most of the public rosaries that I have heard around the USA have used the Fatima prayer.

I’ve used it in my own private Rosary since the mid-60s, when I first read about Fatima.

 

[Gardenman]

Thank you ALL for your responses. That is indeed the prayer and I did find it in an old missal.

Why I don’t recall it is beyond me…especially since I was an altar boy for 8 years. I honestly don’t remember us ever saying it, even in Catholic school.

It seems rare anymore for families to hold a rosary for a newly deceased.

 

[palmas85]

Thank you ALL for your responses. That is indeed the prayer and I did find it in an old missal.

Why I don’t recall it is beyond me…especially since I was an altar boy for 8 years. I honestly don’t remember us ever saying it, even in Catholic school.

It seems rare anymore for families to hold a rosary for a newly deceased.

It is still pretty much the norm in Filipino and Mexican families to have a rosary for the deceased.

 

[WMM]

I attended a Rosary for someone the other night, and it has been a very long time since I’ve been to one. Many people don’t do it anymore.

They were reciting a short prayer at some point which I’ve either never heard or forgotten about. I can’t remember exactly how it goes, but it is something like, “…and save us from the fires of hell…— — —…for those most in need of thy mercy…”

Should I know this, or is this an older prayer that isn’t used much anymore???

The Fatima Prayer (said at the end of each decade of the rosary)

***O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of your mercy. ***

Yes, I say it at the end of each decade of the rosary every day.

 

[CB_Catholic]

Don’t feel bad. We said the rosary regularly at home when I was a kid and there were never any prayers added anywhere.

On the days I go to daily Mass early, I usually hear the regulars mumbling the rosary and have yet to figure out the multitude of payers they add to it. Most times It’s even hard to decipher whether they are saying the Hail Mary, the Our Father or the Glory be.

It’s always bothered me. If you’re going to advertise and have a public praying of the rosary shouldn’t you actually pray it so that everyone could hear and understand what you’re saying?

And I thought I was the only Catholic here that did not learn to say the Fatima Prayer when I was taught to say the Rosary We (meaning at home, Church, or school) only said the regular prayers and the Mysteries.

I was invited after Mass one day to say the Rosary with a group of women. They said not only the Rosary with the Fatima prayer, they said every Marian prayer known to man (well a slight exaggeration) at the end, THEN proceeded to pull out prayer books stuffed full of prayers to various and sundry Saints PLUS prayers from the books. They must have been collecting these prayers for years! Mass was 1/2 hour. The Rosary was an hour.

These women do this every day, God love them. There can’t be anyone left in Purgatory by now, not if they have had their way.

 

[CB_Catholic]

Thank you ALL for your responses. That is indeed the prayer and I did find it in an old missal.

Why I don’t recall it is beyond me…especially since I was an altar boy for 8 years. I honestly don’t remember us ever saying it, even in Catholic school.

It seems rare anymore for families to hold a rosary for a newly deceased.

Around here, it is still a custom for a Rosary to be said after the calling hours are over.

 

[Phemie]

And I thought I was the only Catholic here that did not learn to say the Fatima Prayer when I was taught to say the Rosary We (meaning at home, Church, or school) only said the regular prayers and the Mysteries.

We didn’t even learn the mysteries, not at home, not in school. Straight Creed, Our Father, Hail Mary & Glory Be. That’s it.

 

[PatienceAndLove]

We didn’t even learn the mysteries, not at home, not in school. Straight Creed, Our Father, Hail Mary & Glory Be. That’s it.

At one time, I made up hand motions to remind me of the mysteries.
Now all I remember are my hand motions for the Glorious mysteries…

 

[Gardenman]

I forgot to mention this in the original post:

At this rosary, which was for a very prominent member of the parish, and extremely well attended, the funeral director was handing out what appeared to be individually wrapped “disposable” rosaries. ( I doubt they were really disposable…but they were definitely inexpensive and put together with string and plastic beads…) to those who needed one.

This struck me as extremely odd…that there would be that many people coming that didn’t even OWN a rosary. What decent Catholic doesn’t own a rosary ???

I almost found it “offensive” that they would have such a “hand-out” for people, but I guess it was good for people who might have forgotten to bring one with them or were possibly coming straight from work.

I neglected to notice if these rosaries got collected by the funeral parlor helpers, afterward.

Is this the norm nowdays ???

I WAS pleased however, in noticing how many children knew the words to the Hail Holy Queen…they eveidently are still learning it in the “modern” Catholic schools.

 

[PatienceAndLove]

I forgot to mention this in the original post:

At this rosary, which was for a very prominent member of the parish, and extremely well attended, the funeral director was handing out what appeared to be individually wrapped “disposable” rosaries. ( I doubt they were really disposable…but they were definitely inexpensive and put together with string and plastic beads…) to those who needed one.

This struck me as extremely odd…that there would be that many people coming that didn’t even OWN a rosary. What decent Catholic doesn’t own a rosary ???

I almost found it “offensive” that they would have such a “hand-out” for people, but I guess it was good for people who might have forgotten to bring one with them or were possibly coming straight from work.

I neglected to notice if these rosaries got collected by the funeral parlor helpers, afterward.

Is this the norm nowdays ???

I WAS pleased however, in noticing how many children knew the words to the Hail Holy Queen…they eveidently are still learning it in the “modern” Catholic schools.

My old parish had wee “throw away” style rosaries. I have several of them myself, in my purse. I give them out to people, if they seem to be in need. I think that is the purpose- to have them when people need them. Not everyone carries their rosary around 24-7