Can We Add Onto The Rosary Mysteries?

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Hello all, I had a quick question about the Rosary. Is it acceptable for individuals too add new “sets” of Mysteries to the Rosary? Perhaps a set for each day? Since it isn’t a formal prayer, and as long as the Mysteries are from the Bible so we are meditating on Scripture, I imagine this would be ok, but I just want to make sure 🙂 thanks!
 
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Hello all, I had a quick question about the Rosary. Is it acceptable for individuals too add new “sets” of Mysteries to the Rosary? Perhaps a set for each day? Since it isn’t a formal prayer, and as long as the Mysteries are from the Bible so we are meditating on Scripture, I imagine this would be ok, but I just want to make sure 🙂 thanks!
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It’s a private devotion and you can say it however you wish, and attach any meditations to it that you wish.

However, if it is a question of obtaining an indulgence, or performing an assigned penance (i.e., if the priest gives you a rosary as penance), you’d probably be best advised to follow the traditional formula.

I read somewhere in some Vatican document, and I can’t locate it right now (apparently it is not Marialis cultis, which will tell you anything about the rosary you could ever want to know, very good reading), that adding mysteries and meditations to the rosary was not out of the question. Apparently John Paul II used this as his rationale for adding the “luminous mysteries”. I do not say them myself, because I prefer the traditional formula which MC describes, but if others do so, that’s up to them.

It is always a good thing to pray the rosary, regardless of how you pray it.
 
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Yes.

You may be interested in another discussion that began today and has a lot of ideas about Rosary Mysteries. While the title and original post are specifically about triumphant mysteries, the discussion is much broader.
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Do We Need Triumphant Mysteries of the Holy Rosary? Spirituality
This is a new prayer, proposed for private devotion. “How dare you change to the Rosary!?,” you ask? Well, read on… If we accept that the Rosary is intended to recall the milestones of salvation history, and that it is meant for the active prayer of the faithful, then there is a gap with the current set of mysteries. All four sets of mysteries happen in the past. They do not include the events that remain in our future that are foretold in the Gospels and the book of Revelation. They also leave…
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You may be interested in another discussion that began today and has a lot of ideas about Rosary Mysteries. While the title and original post are specifically about triumphant mysteries, the discussion is much broader.

This is a new prayer, proposed for private devotion. “How dare you change to the Rosary!?,” you ask? Well, read on… If we accept that the Rosary is intended to recall the milestones of salvation history, and that it is meant for the active prayer of the faithful, then there is a gap with the current set of mysteries. All four sets of mysteries happen in the past. They do not include the events that remain in our future that are foretold in the Gospels and the book of Revelation. They also leave…
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I actually like these mysteries very much. I hadn’t heard about this.

People need to be thinking more about the end times, and where they would stand before Almighty God, when those times finally take place.

Living as though you could die this very day, is also a possibility. Who among us knows that they won’t?
 
Thank you all! I appreciate you sending the other thread btw!
 
I used to sit with a bible and say one line of scripture and one Hail Mary and go around the beads. My favorites were the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, which is a big thing in the Eastern church, and the transfiguration. Imagine my surprise when our beloved JPII announced the Luminous mysteries.
 
Please explain the other mysteries because there are many rosaries…scriptural, brigantine etc.
There are so many chaplets too.
 
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Just call me redundant 🙂 just read other thread
I personally pray daily the rosary that was given to St.Domenic. And add chaplets (Philomena, St. Michael and so on.)
 
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The Rosary is generally private devotional prayer. It is not a liturgical prayer of the church.

Homeschool Dad is correct that if one wants to get an indulgence, one should use the Church-approved mysteries. Some devotions such as Rosary novenas also specify which mysteries you’re supposed to meditate opon. The Church-approved mysteries are also appropriate for most group recitations of the rosary. I say “most” because as I noted in the other thread, there is at least one shrine that promotes a different set of mysteries surrounding the Eucharist; I presume they have whatever approvals they need from their bishop to do that.

But if you’re just saying the Rosary on your own for a private devotion, I don’t see the harm in meditating on other events of Jesus’ life or other stuff from the New Testament, and maybe even some stuff from the Old Testament that relates to Jesus.
 
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Yes this is true @Tis_Bearself.
But the Madonna of Fatima asks us to pray the official rosary. I am sure she is overjoyed by extra prayers and meditations. I see rosary then I see chaplets and litinies

We pray to honor Christ and remember His life. So if added prayer helps the prayer do that I am not here to judge.
 
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ah! well I was hoping for a fifth set to pray each day anyway 🙂 so it is just additional praying. I’m praying all the original sets too
 
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