How does one "pray" a Rosary?

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I don’t get the beads…how does that work?

EDIT: I checked out the second site and get it now. Where does one, if interested, get a Rosary…and do they cost anything?

~mango~
 
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mango_2003:
I don’t get the beads…how does that work?

EDIT: I checked out the second site and get it now. Where does one, if interested, get a Rosary…and do they cost anything?

~mango~
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You hold the bead with your fingers while reciting the indicated prayer. For further explanation… familyrosary.org/main/rosary-how.php.

You may obtain a rosary at no cost or for a small donation at any Catholic parish. Just ask the parish office, and they will direct you to Rosary Makers or whoever gives rosaries. You can also purchase a rosary at a Catholic store. You can also request a rosary at… familyrosary.org/main/rosary-rosaries-contact.php.

Hope this helps. 😉
 
One last question. Are there alternatives to the standard method…like a different method instead of the Hail Mary?

~mango~
 
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mango_2003:
One last question. Are there alternatives to the standard method…like a different method instead of the Hail Mary?

~mango~
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I’m sorry, but I don’t understand your question. :confused:
 
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JMJ_Pinoy:
I’m sorry, but I don’t understand your question. :confused:
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Well…the point is meditation on the Mysteries. I think that’s neat. But I’d rather not say the Hail Mary’s. Is there any other prayer that can be substituted for the Hail Mary?

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mango_2003:
Well…the point is meditation on the Mysteries. I think that’s neat. But I’d rather not say the Hail Mary’s. Is there any other prayer that can be substituted for the Hail Mary?

~mango~
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I don;t think there is a devotion that is like the Rosary that has any other prayer replacing the Hail Mary. You can say other prayers though while focusing on the mysteries.
 
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jimmy:
I don;t think there is a devotion that is like the Rosary that has any other prayer replacing the Hail Mary. You can say other prayers though while focusing on the mysteries.
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Actually there are many chaplets that do (like the Divine Mercy chaplet that uses the beads but with different prayers) – but then that one does not incorporate the mysteries. Only Our Lady’s Rosary meditates on the mysteries: “taught in the school of Mary”, neat huh?
 
Oh what a rare pleasure to offer the rosary to another Christian.

The point of the Rosary is prayer. Here are some of my favourite helps to get started right now:

Download the Virtual Rosary program, and use PrayerCast to see the intentions of others and pray for them all over the world. Mary loves company so much in praying, she’ll bring you closer to Jesus every time. That’s her whole thing, BELIEVE ME PLEASE.
virtualrosary.org
This blessed program teaches you how to pray it, and helps you pray by letting you choose MP3s to play during your prayer, includes a selection and choice of images and scriptural and other meditations, and displays someone’s PrayerCast intention for each bead of the Rosary.

Don’t worry about the Hail Mary prayer: it is just a summation from scripture and the point is the most sacred fruit of her womb, Jesus!:

How to pray the Rosary on one handy sheet:
newadvent.org/library/rosary.pdf

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Pray with friends or a recording–the Holy Spirit is Mary’s divine spouse and so will step into your heart through your ears. I felt wierd about this at first until I twigged and realized that all our prayers enter into eternity. Doesn’t matter if they are recorded. It’s a big help. Here are my favourites:

The Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries of the Healing Rosary of our most Blessed Virgin Mother, Mary

ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/seriessearchprog.asp?seriesID=6687&T1=healing+rosary

And the new Luminous Mysteries added by Pope John Paul II in 2002, the year of the Rosary:
ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/dload1.asp?rafile=olam_luminous.ra&source=frmselectseries.asp&seriesID=&T1=Luminous%20Mysteries

And for a deeper understanding, here is an entire 15-part series of wonderful half-hour programs on the Rosary by Fr. Jacques, a convert from fundamentalism.
ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/seriessearchprog.asp?seriesID=6633&T1=Rosary

This gentle series of talks will warm your heart to the Mother of God, and you will begin to feel why she is so deeply loved by our Saviour.

montfort.org/English/Download.htm

This link has wonderful books to download by St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort, one of the most devoted of the saints to Our Lady. He wrote centuries ago but it all still works today.

And if you want a more modern take, look at the life of St. Maximilian Kolbe, “The Saint of Auchwitz” priest and martyr, who was killed by carbolic acid injection in a starvation cell in Auchwitz after volunteering to substitute for another prisoner.
consecration.com

And even more recent is St. Pio, the only Saint of the Church to bear the five woulds of the Stigmata for 50 years, and the only priest to receive His precious wounds.
padrepio.com/

Finally, if you really are worried about the Hail Mary prayer for some reason (I know it can be a difficulty), just pray whatever you like on the beads. But honor the idea of using the beads as a tool to meet your promise to God for more prayer. The rewards will be greater than you can imagine if you will dedicate yourself to prayer each day like this. Develop your own prayer if you like, but be sure to learn the Rosary as it has been developed over so very many years, too.

God bless you and I will be praying for you as your love for Mary and your Faith in Christ grows.

The Rosary is the most excellent means of contemplating the face of Christ with Mary His Mother. St. Pio wrote “The Rosary is THE WEAPON” – Satan and his armies simply cannot remain in its presence. It is the Atomic bomb in the spiritual war. Join us fellow prayer warrior and add the Mother of God to your arsenal in Christ’s Most Holy Name.

Pax et Bonum,
 
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mrS4ntA:
Actually there are many chaplets that do (like the Divine Mercy chaplet that uses the beads but with different prayers) – but then that one does not incorporate the mysteries. Only Our Lady’s Rosary meditates on the mysteries: “taught in the school of Mary”, neat huh?
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The divine mercy chaplet uses Hail Mary’s though.

markhargrave.com/chaplet.html
 
This is a wonderful site about the rosary.

mostholyrosary.org/prayers.html

You can pray with Fr. Scanlon as he leads the rosary aloud (I think it is .mp3 or .wav file). He offers short meditations and songs between mysteries. I have prayed this rosary in the car for years. Now it is online. There are many other wonderful pages to this site.
On your point of saying Hail Marys: I’ve heard them compared to little drops of oil added to the virgin’s containers who are waiting for the bridegroom.
 
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seek1st:
This is a wonderful site about the rosary.

mostholyrosary.org/prayers.html

You can pray with Fr. Scanlon as he leads the rosary aloud (I think it is .mp3 or .wav file). He offers short meditations and songs between mysteries. I have prayed this rosary in the car for years. Now it is online. There are many other wonderful pages to this site.
On your point of saying Hail Marys: I’ve heard them compared to little drops of oil added to the virgin’s containers who are waiting for the bridegroom.
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St. Louis de Montfort in “The Secret of the Rosary” writes that as you pray each decade, your angel makes a crown of 10 perfect white eternal roses and places it as a perfect gift of love on hers and Jesus’ heads on your behalf. He also writes about a king who was a non-believer but who required praying the Rosary of his people, even though he didn’t himself; he just kept one wrapped around his arm all the time. When he became deathly ill, he had a vision of his judgement in which our Lord weighed his sins–the sins of a pagan king–and their weight easily condemned him. But then Jesus commanded his angel to add to the scale all the masses of eternal crowns of roses made from all the pious rosaries said by his people through all the years he required it of them, and their weight was so great that the scale fell and he was saved. He awoke from the illness, converted and became a holy and pious king, and pledged to God his devotion to spreading the Rosary: truly a changed man.

Now since this story would be under the heading of a personal revelation, and therefore is not required to believe, I still like it a lot.

Spread devotion to Jesus through Mary’s Rosary. It’s a very nice thing to do for your friends.
 
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I don;t think there is a devotion that is like the Rosary that has any other prayer replacing the Hail Mary. You can say other prayers though while focusing on the mysteries.
When the internet became readily accessible at my DH’s place of work, the first thing he downloaded and printed was various types of rosaries. I’d never know there were so many. I think I might still have that printout; it was about an inch thick!

A few, maybe 3, yrs ago I also ran across the rosary online, but it was without Hail Marys.

Yes, the Hail Mary is mostly scripture; from Luke. Some non-Catholics do not like the ‘Mother of God’, but read what Elizabeth says to Mary when she comes to visit. " Who am I that the Mother of my Lord should come to me?" Pls correct me if that’s not accurate, I don’t have my Bible open in front of me.

Blessing to all! This forum is such a great resource.
 
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