Best way to learn the Rosary?

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What is the best way to learn the rosary?

I ask as in the past i have just recited the prayers without meditating. I offer up the rosary for my relatives who have passed away but i want to learn how to meditate properly during the rosary and what i should be meditating on.
 
I suggest reading St. Louis de Montfort’s Secret of the Rosary. TAN sells a paperback copy for maybe $5. I’m reading it right now and takes time to digest what he’s written but I think it’s worth it.
 
koolpc said:
What is the best way to learn the rosary?

I ask as in the past i have just recited the prayers without meditating. I offer up the rosary for my relatives who have passed away but i want to learn how to meditate properly during the rosary and what i should be meditating on.
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A good place to start is Romano Guardini’s book on the rosary. The best way to memorize the prayers is just to get a booklet with the prayers and start praying it daily. The first time you pray it might feel awkward and frustrating but over time you will get it and have a more fruitful time meditating on the mysteries.
 
You can also identify each mystery of the rosary, go to the Bible, and read on each of them. Reading the whole story of each mystery will give you plenty of food for thought as you are praying each mystery. The only two you will not be able to cover in that way are the fourth and fifth glorious mysteries, but you can read any one of many devotional books based on the life of the Blessed Virgin.

I’ve lost the reference, but google something called “the scriptural rosary.” It gives you actual Biblical citations.
 
If you have an iPhone there is an app called “Rosary - Mysteries of the…” by Ryan MacCarthy for FREE in the app store. Very cool app. I learned the prayers using it. 👍

Also Laudate (might be called CatholicOne on Android) for iPhone/Android is a good FREE app with a step-by-step Rosary.
 
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If you have an iPhone there is an app called “Rosary - Mysteries of the…” by Ryan MacCarthy for FREE in the app store. Very cool app. I learned the prayers using it. 👍

Also Laudate (might be called CatholicOne on Android) for iPhone/Android is a good FREE app with a step-by-step Rosary.
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It’s also called Laudate on the Android phone. I have the app on my phone and use it frequently.
 
I used a phone app to do a scriptural Rosary (it also has lovely religious art!). I use it daily to say my decade and find it the best way to do it. I could never really use the beads, although I think they are beautiful, I just find the visual/text presentation of the app easier to manage. Also, it allows me to pray anywhere–even at work. 🙂
 
koolpc said:
What is the best way to learn the rosary?

I ask as in the past i have just recited the prayers without meditating. I offer up the rosary for my relatives who have passed away but i want to learn how to meditate properly during the rosary and what i should be meditating on.
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This website may help you…

how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com/index.html

And this may be what odile53 is referring to. It is from the same website…

how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com/scriptural-rosary.html
 
There are also videos on youtube that do the Rosary with movie clips pertaining to each mystery. Love them.
 
Here is a site that allows you to participate in a world-wide Rosary.

comepraytherosary.org/

Here is a page that contains several Mp3 Rosaries - some of them scriptural Rosaries.

catholicdoors.com/misc/rosaryonmp3.htm

Here is a blog that has collections of artwork to accompany each mystery. Scroll down and click on the appropriate mystery along the right side. A pic of a Rosary comes up. Click on that an the collection opens and you can arrow through the paintings as you pray.

starrymantle.blogspot.com/
 
Lots of great suggestions here. If I may offer a more generalized answer, I think the key, once you’ve cleared the first hurdle of learning the prayers and the sequence of mysteries, is to find a resource (usually a good booklet or app, or any number of saints’ writings about the various mysteries) that lets you learn *what *the mystery is that you are supposed to be meditating: What happened, what did it signify, what does it signify in the larger context of Christian life, and what might it signify to me, today, with regards to my specific prayer concerns?

Eventually, if you pray the rosary regularly, you’ll become acquainted with enough facets of each mystery to fuel your meditation without needing to look to any meditation aids, although from time to time you will still want to seek some out, in order to expose yourself to new facets of the mysteries.

Even with such knowledge, though, *focusing *can still be a challenge. Good techniques that I’ve found work well at that stage are gazing upon an image of Our Lord while praying, or mentally ‘re-enacting’ in your mind the mystery as you pray your decade.
 
ewtn,when Mother Angelica, Fr. Pawca or any of the other times the rosary is prayed ,turn on the captions and recite along with them.thats how i learned.🙂
 
There is an app for adriod called Rosary Quick Guide, it’s free by the way, thats’s what helped me learn. 🙂
 
koolpc said:
What is the best way to learn the rosary?

I ask as in the past i have just recited the prayers without meditating. I offer up the rosary for my relatives who have passed away but i want to learn how to meditate properly during the rosary and what i should be meditating on.
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Blessed John Paul II’s awesome letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae. You can read it for free at the Vatican site:
vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae_en.html

After a while though, you may want to do like I did and buy a hard copy. It’s one of my favorite Bl. JPII writings. It has helped me a lot with praying the Rosary. Maybe it will help you too. 🙂
 
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