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I am struggling a little bit with my contemplations during the Rosary. I am needing a little inspiration to stimulate my thought process. Does anyone have a good website to recommend that has meditations on the mysteries?

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Ophelia23 said:
I am struggling a little bit with my contemplations during the Rosary. I am needing a little inspiration to stimulate my thought process. Does anyone have a good website to recommend that has meditations on the mysteries?

Thank you in advance. My heart pours out so much love for this community!
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Dear Ophelia,

Forget the technology and the websites,

In the still and in the quiet…there you will find the Lord. Don’t try to grasp at every feeling and emotion or image…but allow Jesus to give you what He wants to give you.

Think of Him sitting in a chair with his head in His hands-waiting. But even this image don’t hold on to.

Allow for the aridness to happen and allow for the quiet and still to happen. Don’t get desperate or impatient. Pray in silence and stillness.

Aquiesce anima mea, in Deus salus mea.
 
Hello! I struggle every so often with saying the Rosary. I do find when I say it much slower and really try to emphasize certain words then my mind doesn’t jump as much. When I’m rushing my mind is cluttered. I think also what helps me is after I announce each mystery, I spend 30 seconds thinking about it. I.e. for the Holy Spirit coming down I think what the Apostles must have been feeling, what were the sounds, etc. etc. Every so often when I say it, before each mystery I’ll offer up a prayer intention for someone as well. God bless.
 
I copied and pasted a past reply I’ve made on CAF below. These are some things that helped me:
I find it helpful to pray the rosary with someone else leading. Mother Angelica and her nuns say the rosary twice a day on EWTN. Or you can get a free 17 minute Cd on the internet. I can find the link if you’re interested. Or you could say it together with a group at church. When the leader is saying their part, then I concentrate on the mystery, and then when it’s time to say my part, I just say my part. I also find it helpful to concentrate on the FRUIT of the mystery; for instance the fruit of the Annunciation is “humilty.” So when I’m praying that decade, I will pray something like this, “Mother Mary, pray that I will humbly accept the will of God.” OR “May I always understand that everything I have and am comes from you, Lord.” The fruit of The Descent of the Holy Spirit is “Love of God”, so I might pray, “Lord, let me love you above all things.” OR Lord, I pray that everyone who doesn’t know you will come to understand Your love for them." The fruit of the Crowning of Thorns is “courage”, so I might pray, “Lord, give me the courage to defend the Catholic Faith” OR “Give Suzy the courage to practice her faith even though her peers are not Christians.” Sometimes I dedicate the whole rosary to a person or persons or special intention and then relate all the fruits of the mystery to those people/intentions, and sometimes I mix it up and pray for lots of people/things. Here is a link that tells you what the fruits of the mystery are. catholicexchange.com/the-frui…of-the-rosary/ And YES, you can pray the rosary in front of the Blessed Sacrament! In fact, I’ve read that is when it is MOST powerful!!
 
Ophelia23 said:
I am struggling a little bit with my contemplations during the Rosary. I am needing a little inspiration to stimulate my thought process. Does anyone have a good website to recommend that has meditations on the mysteries?

Thank you in advance. My heart pours out so much love for this community!
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Here are a few that may help.

Thoughts for each decade of the rosary, for each bead.
rosary-center.org/joyful.htm
rosary-center.org/luminous.htm
rosary-center.org/glorious.htm
rosary-center.org/sorrow.htm

History of the Rosary
catholicapologetics.org/ap080600.htm

You can try Methods of saying the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort
montfort.org.uk/Writings/MSR.html

Scriptural rosary
ainglkiss.com/ros/sr.htm

How to say and pray the rosary
familyrosary.org/en/TheRosary.aspx

Thoughts for each decade of the rosary
rosary-center.org/howto.htm

Scriptual thoughts
how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com/military-victories-through-the-rosary.html

Pray the rosary in 17 minutes with online audio.
catholicity.com/cds/rosary.html
 
fred_conty said:
Here are a few that may help.

Thoughts for each decade of the rosary, for each bead.
rosary-center.org/joyful.htm
rosary-center.org/luminous.htm
rosary-center.org/glorious.htm
rosary-center.org/sorrow.htm

History of the Rosary
catholicapologetics.org/ap080600.htm

You can try Methods of saying the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort
montfort.org.uk/Writings/MSR.html

Scriptural rosary
ainglkiss.com/ros/sr.htm

How to say and pray the rosary
familyrosary.org/en/TheRosary.aspx

Thoughts for each decade of the rosary
rosary-center.org/howto.htm

Scriptual thoughts
how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com/military-victories-through-the-rosary.html

Pray the rosary in 17 minutes with online audio.
catholicity.com/cds/rosary.html
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These are just what I’m looking for. Sometimes I need just a hint of direction. I read the contemplations before I even pray the rosary, but it gives me ideas of where to bring my thoughts to during the Rosary if I find that I am wandering.

Thank you everyone for your kind words and advice!

With love and blessings,

Ophelia
 
I really find pictures helpful. When I am praying the prayers, the pictures help me to focus on what I am praying about, and not just the words themselves. I know there are rosary prayer cards which have the mysteries on one side and small pictures of each on the other. When I first learned how to pray, I was given a small pamphlet that included pictures with the instructions, and I kept it because I found the pictures so helpful. I think any good Catholic store will have a rosary prayer card of some kind.
 
-An inspiring word

-A religious picture

-A beautiful sunset

-A new born child

-A truth revealed in private prayer

these and a variety of other things can be an occasion for meditation and contemplation.

But, even painful things can make us think of God’s mercy and love.
 
You can also try the Scriptural Rosary, it places a scripture verse (from each mystery) before each ‘Hail Mary’. I have found this form of the Rosary very spiritual and easier to concentrate on.
 
A good newsletter I found recently from The Rosary Center might help you out too. It can be found HERE.
The whole thing is good, but the last article was very helpful. It’s called “Pray the Rosary - Pray it Well.”
 
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