Favorite Rosary Prayer Book?

[landon13]

Hi y’all,
I’m looking for a new rosary devotion book.
I usually just pray with the mysteries memorized, but I want a new guide to pray and increase my devotion.
If possible, I’d like suggestions of ones that don’t include the luminous mysteries (please don’t make this into a 15 vs. 20 decade debate).

So any suggestions would be appreciated!

Pax.

 

[LJL5]

Gosh, what a great question! My very first thought was that I should recommend this little prayer book I used until it fell apart - I bought a second one exactly the same thing - it had a yellow cover and I carried it with me always - it had a wonderful set of scriptural rosaries in it. I have looked for it everywhere here at home and don’t know where I have it at the moment.

But I can recommend two others, one is from Priests of the Sacred Heart - called Sacred Heart Prayer Book. Each decade of the rosary has a reflection that goes with it and I really like that. The other is a beautiful book by the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel, called The Rosary - Chain of Hope. It has meditations on each of the mysteries and lovely illustrations. Fr. Groeschel always had a wonderful insight into this prayer - he prayed it right up to the last moment of his life. You can find his book through Ignatius Press.

 

[Casilda]

Hi y’all,
I’m looking for a new rosary devotion book.
I usually just pray with the mysteries memorized, but I want a new guide to pray and increase my devotion.
If possible, I’d like suggestions of ones that don’t include the luminous mysteries (please don’t make this into a 15 vs. 20 decade debate).

So any suggestions would be appreciated!

Pax.

 

[AKDee]

I’m currently working through, and very much enjoying, Father Peyton’s Rosary Prayer Book. It’s very enlightening. It was originally written just for the Joyful/Sorrowful/Glorious. Editors added a section in the back for the Luminous but you don’t have to use it.

Each day there is an introduction- for example, today was the Sorrowful Mysteries and the focus of today’s meditation was on how we can learn about Loneliness. Yesterday’s Joyful Mysteries we were meditating on Faith. It’s somewhat like a scriptural rosary in that each mystery has a reading. I tend to read a sentence, then say a Hail Mary, read another and say a Hail Mary, but you could just read the whole meditation and then say your Hail Mary’s.

In any case, it’s available from pretty much everyone- Amazon, Ignatius Press, etc.

 

[odhiambo]

I’m currently working through, and very much enjoying, Father Peyton’s Rosary Prayer Book. It’s very enlightening. It was originally written just for the Joyful/Sorrowful/Glorious. Editors added a section in the back for the Luminous but you don’t have to use it.

Each day there is an introduction- for example, today was the Sorrowful Mysteries and the focus of today’s meditation was on how we can learn about Loneliness. Yesterday’s Joyful Mysteries we were meditating on Faith. It’s somewhat like a scriptural rosary in that each mystery has a reading. I tend to read a sentence, then say a Hail Mary, read another and say a Hail Mary, but you could just read the whole meditation and then say your Hail Mary’s.

In any case, it’s available from pretty much everyone- Amazon, Ignatius Press, etc.

I read on line that Father Peyton was miraculously cured of tuberculosis! I will look for this book although I am quite sure it is not in the Catholic Bookshop here because I am always on the lookout for such books.
Thanks for sharing.