Are we allowed to make up our own rosary mysteries?

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I have to agree with the person who posted these were given by Our lady of the Rosary to St Louis De Monfort, this is a perfect prayer given by the Mother of God to a Saint as a gift to us.Ppope John Paul II enhanced it with the Luminous mysteries, he did so by offering them as an approved addition, not saying they were mandatory and I feel that as he is a saint soon to be recognized by the Church that they are appropriate. I like to use other scripture with the mysteries, the different Apostles varied the wording of their gospels and different passages can give different perspectives in your minds eye. I would not assume to change the mysteries on my own however.

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One can pray the Holy Rosary anyway he or she wants when praying it alone. When praying the Holy Rosary in a group, then one should adhere to the approved
form given by the Church.
 
HOLYHEARTS said:
One can pray the Holy Rosary anyway he or she wants when praying it alone. When praying the Holy Rosary in a group, then one should adhere to the approved
form given by the Church.
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You’re right.

There are extra prayers that I ‘tack on’ when I pray my Rosary in private. But when I’m praying it in a public setting (i.e., before or after Mass), then I ‘conform’ to whatever the leader is doing.
 
Even the term “Rosary” coming from “Rosarium” or a “rose-garden” was not the favored term of the saints - “Psalter of our Lady” was.

The Rosary’s format of an Our Father (recalling the old Paternoster Psalter or 150 Our Father’s) followed by ten Hail Mary’s is the “rosary” proper. (The number ten alluding to the ten strings of the Psalter musical instrument).

If one prays 15 decades using other Mysteries - that is perfectly valid. As the Recusant Rosary confraternity members used to do on Fridays, we can pray 14 decades for each of the Stations of the Cross (with one more to make up 15 - say the Mystery of the Resurrection).

One may pray a decade for each of the 15 Brigittine prayers/mysteries. There are, as has been mentioned, all manner of ways to pray 15 decades and more of the Rosary.

St Louis de Montfort held to the 15 traditional Mysteries - but urged people not to limit themselves to them alone, as one can see in the devotional section of his book, “True Devotion to Mary.”

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the mysteries of the 150 Hail Mary “rule of prayer to the Mother of God” are as follows are different as it has only one Sorrowful Mystery - our Lady under the Cross of her Son.

One deacon I know did a booklet with different sets of Mysteries for five decades daily for a month . . .

One good way to pray the Rosary is to recite a decade while doing “lection divina” while meditating on scriptures.

Alex
 
I just thought about this possibility:

How about a 20-decade rosary that would take you from Genesis to Revelation, say from the Fall to the Parousia?

Joe
 
When you develop it, I would be pleased to use it!

Also, for Eastern Christians, 20 decades reflects the 20 parts into which the Psalms of David are divided in our tradition. Thus, 20 decades relates strongly to the idea of Our Lady’s Psalter, the favorite name of the Saints for this devotion.

Ultimately, we shouldn’t argue about it. Nowhere did Pope John Paul say that he was somehow “imposing” the extra Mysteries. It is much more important to really put one’s heart into the praying of the Most Holy Rosary (is there a better way than to add some words to the Hail Mary’s as per Montfort?).

However one wishes to do it - let’s just DO IT!

Alex
 
HeWillProvide said:
are we “allowed” to create out own mysteries from the bible involving Jesus and Mary and recite the rosary to them? like, if we want to focus on certain parts of jesus’ or mary’s life that aren’t already part of the mysteries but are in the bible, can we do that? or no?
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You can pray any way you wish. But by doing so it doesnt make it part of THE Rosary.
 
I’ve often wondered why the betrayal of Judas isn’t part of the Sorrowful Mysteries…
 
thistle said:
The Luminous Mysteries COMPLETED the Rosary. Previously the public ministry of Jesus was missing.

For my edification give me an example of a “Mystery” during Christ’s Ministry that would be a good addition to the Rosary.
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First off:
Yes, you can certainly use other mysteries for meditation whilst reciting the rosary prayers.

Secondly:
Thistle, are you seriously suggesting that the rosary (as it was pre-luminous) was incomplete? C’mon now…
 
Iotaunum said:
The Traditional belief is that the Roasry and its mysteries were given to St Dominic by Our Lady, thus the prayer is perfect and does not need to be changed for any reason. It has been approved and recommended by Our Lady and the Saints. My personal reason is that I just do not like the thought of inviting people to create their own mysteries anymore that I would invite them to change the Our Father, Hail Mary or any of the traditional litanies. There would be nothing wrong per se with these new “mysteries” provided they were significant events in the life of Our Lord and conformed to Catholic doctrine, but I simply do not see any reason nor benefit which would come with creating new ones. I say pray the traditional prayers and you will learn to love them.
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I’ve never prayed the Rosary before and would need a guide that tells which days to pray which Mysteries. The problem is I want to pray the old fashioned way without the Luminous Mysteries, but all guides now includes the new Mysteries. Anyone know a link to an old guide or can simply write in here which Mysteries for each day of the week?
 
Iotaunum said:
I realise that almost everyone else has said yes already, but I would say no. What I would advise if you want to personalise it is to follow St Louis De Montfort. He suggests many methods of saying and meditating on the traditional mysteries of the Rosary. These are contained in his book “Secrets of the Rosary” which you can get from TAN. I highly recommend it to everyone.
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I agree! Just pray the traditional mysteries given to us by the Blessed Virgin herself. Why make new ones when Our Lady’s psalter was given to us from the Mother of God. The rosary was complete with the 15 decades, unless you want to say Our Lady made a mistake with 15 decades, with 150 Ave’s for the 150 psalms of the psalter.

It is not our place to add to or change what the Blessed Virgin gave to us, unless we say she was in error. Just take this into thought, read the writings of St. Louis de Montfort, of St. Alphonsus Liguori, read the recordings of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin.

Pax.
 
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