How to Pray a Full Rosary?

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Well > Long story short, I have never prayed a full rosary. How should I do this? Should I say certain mysteries before others (in a specific order) or does this not matter?

Please advise,
Lucien
 
easterbrooks.com/personal/calendar/rosary.html

Nice link Capt. I saved to my favorites. The link above is a pretty straight forward website for praying the Rosary. It’s not a visually appealing as the Capt’s, but it does have an online Rosary. The correct Mystery to pray depends on what day it is. There’s also a great App, for those with smart phones, that has an interactive Rosary. It also has a bunch of other cool features for the Catholic on the run. God Bless and good luck.
 
FYI

The Cycle of the Rosary

The Joyful Mysteries are usually said on Mondays and Saturdays.
The Sorrowful Mysteries are usually said on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Glorious Mysteries are usually said on Wednesdays and Sundays.
The Luminous Mysteries are usually said on Thursdays.
The Mystery for Sunday may optionally vary depending upon the seasons of the liturgical year.

The Joyful Mysteries may be said on Sundays during the seasons of Advent and Christmas.

During the season of Lent, the Sorrowful Mysteries may be said on Sundays.
 
The Joyful Mysteries are usually said on Mondays and Saturdays.
The Sorrowful Mysteries are usually said on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Glorious Mysteries usually said on Wednesdays and Sundays.
The Luminous Mysteries are usually said on Thursdays.
I follow this (except I usually don’t say it on Saturdays and Sundays). I find it provides a nice rhythm to the day and week. Also, I say it a decade at a time as I’m walking to and from the train, to and from work, etc. I find it helps keep my mind on God and away from frivolous daydreams (the Jesus prayer helps too). Of course most days it’s tough to focus but the effort is there.

I can’t recommend Holy Rosary by St. Josemaria Escriva enough. It’s beautifully written in a very simple childlike way. I can honestly say it helped bring me closer to Christ. Here is an online version: escrivaworks.org/book/.htm
 
FYI

The Cycle of the Rosary

The Joyful Mysteries are usually said on Mondays and Saturdays.
The Sorrowful Mysteries are usually said on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Glorious Mysteries are usually said on Wednesdays and Sundays.
The Luminous Mysteries are usually said on Thursdays.
The Mystery for Sunday may optionally vary depending upon the seasons of the liturgical year.

The Joyful Mysteries may be said on Sundays during the seasons of Advent and Christmas.

During the season of Lent, the Sorrowful Mysteries may be said on Sundays.
I think it should be added that none of this is in stone. You may pray whatever mysteries you like on whatever days you like, and even better, pray them all every day, if you have that kind of time. I have to say that I tend to pray the Sorrowful mysteries every day in Lent (except Sunday), and I also make sure to pray the Sorrowful mysteries on every Friday, because it is a day of penance. I also make sure to pray the Glorious mysteries every Sunday, because it commemorates the resurrection.
 
I pray the rosary as I have time. I usually start where I left off the previous day. Somedays, 2 mysteries, some days 8. But rarely more than 15.

Some days I add mysteries that are not in the Dominican Rosary. Today, I prayed the joyful mystery of the Immaculate Conception.

It’s not set in stone. Here is a longer list:

Joyful Mysteries:
  1. The Immaculate Conception
  2. The Annunciation
  3. The Visitation
  4. The Nativity
  5. The Presentation
  6. The Finding in the Temple
Luminous Mysteries:
  1. The Baptism by John
  2. The Wedding at Cana
  3. The Proclamation of the Kingdom
  4. The Transfiguration
  5. The Entry into Jerusalem
  6. The Institution of the Eucharist
The Sorrowful Mysteries
  1. Gethsemane
  2. The Scourging
  3. The Crowning of Thorns
  4. The Way of the Cross
  5. The Crucifixion
  6. The Pieta
Glorious Mysteries
  1. Resurrection
  2. Ascension
  3. Pentecost
  4. Assumption
  5. Queenship
  6. Patronage of Mary/the Vision of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
 
Another traditional option is:

Sunday - Glorious (after Epiphany/Easter/Pentacost); Joyful (in Advent); Sorrowful (in Septuagesima and Lent)

Monday - Joyful
Tuesday - Sorrowful
Wednesday Glorious
Thursday - Joyful
Friday - Sorrowful
Saturday - Glorious
 
Oh, also it’s nice to say the Sorrowful Mysteries every day in Holy Week and the Glorious Mysteries after day in the Octave of Easter.
 
Another traditional option is:

Sunday - Glorious (after Epiphany/Easter/Pentacost); Joyful (in Advent); Sorrowful (in Septuagesima and Lent)

Monday - Joyful
Tuesday - Sorrowful
Wednesday Glorious
Thursday - Joyful
Friday - Sorrowful
Saturday - Glorious
We say the Luminous Mysteries on a Thursday; otherwise yours are the same as ours:)
 
There are also a few rosary apps for smart phones that are good too. I remember the first time I tried to pray the rosary I fell asleep! :rolleyes: Then I started a 54-Day Rosary Novena (that I didn’t finish) but it got me into being able to say the rosary (in about 30 min or less). I don’t pray it every day but I keep my rosary in a pouch in my purse because sometimes, I go to church for Mass during the week, for Adoration, etc so it’s a good thing to do when there’s downtime. I also took it with me on my last trip and pulled it out when we hit some wicked turbulence! Over time, it definitely gets easier so start with the interactive rosaries and go from there. 👍
 
I don’t know about where you live but we have a Bible Bookstore here and you can get a little pamphlet for praying the rosary. It has all the mysteries & also the prayers.
 
What a great thread. Thanks for asking Lucien123. I hope this is helping and not overwhelming. :o

Yes, I agree the list or the actual verbiage for the mysteries is not set in stone. I have heard variations at funerals and from different sources. Websites and such. Yes, you can obtain a pamphlet that contains the mysteries and everything you need to pray the Rosary. I have one somewhere. I try not to get caught up in the technicalities and it seems all the posters on this thread are doing likewise. How charitable. So nice.

I think, Lucien123, you just have to find something that is comfortable for you. IMO, it’s all about clearing your mind from the din of everyday life and allowing your mind, body and soul to be still and quiet for a while so that we can hear the whisper of the Holy spirit. And, by the “din of everyday life” I’m not just talking about the ambient noise around us. I mean the noise of the worry of job, bills, family, children, etc, that clouds our mind and prevents us from hearing the Holy Spirit whisper words of wisdom. I’m getting misty, so I better stop.

Good luck and God bless.
 
By “full rosary” do you mean 5 decades (one set of mysteries) or 15-20 decades (three or four sets)?

If you mean the higher number:

In the The Secret of the Rosary, St. Louis de Montfort recommended three different sessions (one for each set that he knew) instead of praying all of the decades straight through. I don’t know why, though I have a few speculations.

He also recommended, for those without the time to pray all of it at once, praying a decade when the opportunity arises, such that the whole is prayed by the end of the day. People have noticed that most people are awake for at least fifteen hours a day, and it’s possible to pray one decade each hour; twenty decades is a bit more work, but many people have enough free time for that, too.

Of course, it’s also possible to pray five decades together (probably cycling through the five “continuous” mysteries on different days) and pray the other ten or fifteen throughout the day. I should try that.

As for five decades a day, which has been more of my usual practice so far than a notably higher number:

I ordinarily follow the same practice as Rich C describes. I’m not opposed to the Luminous mysteries but am happy to treat them as a suggestion.

Another tweak that some people use (I don’t know how common this practice is) is using the relevant set of mysteries on a feast that matches one of the mysteries. That is, when Christmas falls on a Friday and I’m praying only one set that day, I’ll use the Joyful mysteries because they contain the Nativity.

But as others have pointed out, none of these options is mandated.

A final note:

To obtain the plenary indulgence, praying five decades “without interruption” is necessary. There are also other conditions, like praying the rosary in a certain place or in a certain group–not to mention the conditions for plenary indulgences in general.

Obviously, though, no one should refrain from praying the rosary out of not being able to pray all five decades at once, just as no one should refrain out of not having access to a church (or oratory) or a suitable prayer group, and just as no one should refrain out of not being able to fulfill all of the general requirements for a plenary indulgence. The praying of the rosary is of much spiritual benefit, with or without a plenary indulgence.
 
I follow this (except I usually don’t say it on Saturdays and Sundays). I find it provides a nice rhythm to the day and week. Also, I say it a decade at a time as I’m walking to and from the train, to and from work, etc. I find it helps keep my mind on God and away from frivolous daydreams (the Jesus prayer helps too). Of course most days it’s tough to focus but the effort is there.

I can’t recommend Holy Rosary by St. Josemaria Escriva enough. It’s beautifully written in a very simple childlike way. I can honestly say it helped bring me closer to Christ. Here is an online version: escrivaworks.org/book/.htm
Outstanding. I wasn’t aware of this meditation.

-Tim-
 
Outstanding. I wasn’t aware of this meditation.

-Tim-
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This quote is one really stuck with me. He managed to sum up the whole mystery of the Wedding at Cana in two sentences.

"Lord, I want to abandon all my concerns into your generous hands. Our Mother —your Mother —will have let you hear those words, now as in Cana: “They have no wine!”
 
Well > Long story short, I have never prayed a full rosary. How should I do this? Should I say certain mysteries before others (in a specific order) or does this not matter?

Please advise,
Lucien
The mysteries are all in chronological order, which makes it easier to remember them. They are the events of Jesus’ life on this earth and his death/resurrection.

I love to say the Rosary! My mother used to love it too. At one point we even made rosaries at home. I didn’t remember any of the mysteries and I still have to look up which mysteries to say on what days. I have 2 or 3 booklets with pictures that I use when I say it alone. I like it when the leader will say a Scripture or a meditation point before doing the decade of Hail Marys, but some just give the event itself.

It’s helped me remember the Apostle’s Creed, too, which is the creed I learned as a child (We didn’t say the Nicene Creed then). I didn’t know any of the prayers said afterward such as the St. Michael prayer, so I had to write those down on a “cheat sheet” to keep up. Our church group says about 6 or7 additional prayers at the end as well as 3 more Hail Marys for vocations, so it’s a lot to remember!

In any Catholic bookstore you will find tons of options for the rosary. And beautiful rosaries too!

:love::crossrc::knight2:

Satan HATES the Rosary!!! A great reason to say it every day!!
 
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