I can never remember the days for the meditations for the Rosary

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Can anybody help me with remembering the days and meditations???:confused:
 
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I always get them mixed up. I have the Rosary on several different CD’s that I use to help me, and I just keep rotating them! Occasionally I’ll get it right and do the Sorrowful one on Friday and the Glorious one on Sunday, but most of the time I know I’m getting it wrong.

Bottom line, I’m saying the Rosary almost everyday, I think God is pleased that I just love the devotion and spend my time there with Him. That’s just my opinion though. 😉
 
Just say all twenty mysteries every day. That should clear up the confusion.😉
 
Here’s how I do them, although it might not be exactly what is recommended now that we have the Luminous Mysteries. I must admit, I don’t always do the Luminous - too set in my ways.

Monday - Joyful
Tuesday - Sorrowful
Wednesday - Glorious
Thursday - Luminous (new) or Joyful (old)
Friday - Sorrowful
Saturday - Glorious
Sunday - Glorious or seasonal (Joyful in Advent, Sorrowful in Lent)

Betsy
 
baltobetsy said:
Here’s how I do them, although it might not be exactly what is recommended now that we have the Luminous Mysteries. I must admit, I don’t always do the Luminous - too set in my ways.

Monday - Joyful
Tuesday - Sorrowful
Wednesday - Glorious
Thursday - Luminous (new) or Joyful (old)
Friday - Sorrowful
Saturday - Glorious
Sunday - Glorious or seasonal (Joyful in Advent, Sorrowful in Lent)

Betsy
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That sounds about right, except I think Saturday is Joyful. Of course, those are just suggestions, we are free to choose any Mysteries on any day.
 
Get a small catholic prayer book or a rosary booklet and use it as a guide. Eventually you will get it down.
 
What mystery on what day is really just a suggestion, so don’t stress over it too much. The important part is pray, pray, pray! The post about all 20 decades a day is a good one! I used to be able to do that without too much trouble. But here lately… I barely get 5 said a day. 😦
I suppose an easy way to do it would be to say them in chronological order. Start with the Joyful then Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious without worrying what day it is. As long as you remember the last one you said, you’ll be golden. 😉
 
I think Our Lady is pleased at whatever feeble attempts we make to recite the Rosary. If we get the wrong set of mysteries for the day, at least we tried…🙂
 
In the dark ages when I learned, it was two sets of Joyful-Sorrowful-Glorious each week, plus Glorious (or seasonal) on Sunday. There were no Luminous back then.

Betsy
 
I do it a little differently. Not sure if this is the right way, though.

Mon: Joyful
Tues: Luminous
Wed: Sorrowful
Thurs: Glorious
Fri: Sorrowful
Sat: Depends on the season - Joyful in Advent and Christmas, Sorrowful in Lent, Glorious in Easter, and Luminous in Ordinary Time
Sun: Glorious

This way I get to go through things sequentially from Monday, keeping Friday and Sunday fixed with their days’ respective meanings and leaving Saturday open for the season. Will say Glorious ones on any major feast day, though, regardless of where it falls in the week.
 
The Joyful Mysteries are meditated on Mondays and Thursdays, Sundays of Advent and after Epiphany until Lent.
The Sorrowful Mysteries are meditated on Tuesdays and Fridays, and Sundays in Lent.
The Glorious Mysteries are meditated on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and Sundays after Easter until Advent.
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theworkofgod.org/Devotns/Rosary/how2pray.htm

This was written before the Luminous Mysteries were promulgated. It is usual to say the Luminous Mysteries on Thursday, changing the Joyful to Saturday in honor of Our Lady.

However, being a devotion rather than a Sacrament, you are not bound by any hard and fast rules. You can choose whichever set of Mysteries to contemplate whatever day you like. The important thing is to pray.
 
Hope this helps…

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.

Taken from easterbrooks.com/personal/calendar/rosary.html
 
Here is a great tool for learning the Rosary…
virtualrosary.org/

There are illustrations and scripture passages to help with meditating the mysteries.

(you can use the enter button instead of clicking the Amen as you move along) 🙂
 
The way I remeber and pray is as such:
  • Christ was Crucified on Friday, so we pray the Sorrowful
  • He was dead, but we have hope, on Saturday, so Joyful
  • He rose from the dead on Sunday, so the Glorious (except during Advent we pray the Joyful so as to contemplate His Nativity as often as possible, and Lent we pray the Sorrowful, in accord with the Season)
  • He wants us to start the week positively, so we do the Joyful
  • I remember Tuesday as being Sorrowful because the others I remember being on different days, 😛
  • Wednesday and Thursday we pray the Glorious, because Christ instituted the Eucharist on Thursday, and so I always sort of think as Wednesday as ‘Thursday Eve’ in this respect, it’s such an important day it get’s an ‘eve’.
I don’t pray the Luminous because I prefer to keep in mind the 150 Psalms and 150 Hail Mary’s, but you can always remember them on Thursday because they include the Institution of the Eucharist as a mystery (…don’t they? It’s been a while, LoL)
 
Here’s mine:
The mysteries rotate in order of Christ’s life-- first is joyful relating to His childhood, second is sorrowful relating to His passion and third glorious relating to His ressurrection. Glorious for Sundays and then, in rotation, Monday is joyful, Tues, is sorrowful, etc. The exception is the Luminous which I just memorize as Thurs.
I think all the other posters are right in saying that it doesn’t matter what mysteries you pray as long as you do it.
 
SPQR said:
I do it a little differently. Not sure if this is the right way, though.

Mon: Joyful
Tues: Luminous
Wed: Sorrowful
Thurs: Glorious
Fri: Sorrowful
Sat: Depends on the season - Joyful in Advent and Christmas, Sorrowful in Lent, Glorious in Easter, and Luminous in Ordinary Time
Sun: Glorious

This way I get to go through things sequentially from Monday, keeping Friday and Sunday fixed with their days’ respective meanings and leaving Saturday open for the season. Will say Glorious ones on any major feast day, though, regardless of where it falls in the week.
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This is exactly how we say it. When we started saying a family rosary, we were doing well to get to it 3 or 4 days a week, so we started doing them in ‘chronological’ order. Now that we say it every day, we’ve continued with the plan.

I’m thinking that soon, we may switch to the order suggested by Pope John Paul II when he introduced the Luminous Mysteries, just so we are on plan with everyone else.
 
baltobetsy said:
Here’s how I do them, although it might not be exactly what is recommended now that we have the Luminous Mysteries. I must admit, I don’t always do the Luminous - too set in my ways.

Monday - Joyful
Tuesday - Sorrowful
Wednesday - Glorious
Thursday - Luminous (new) or Joyful (old)
Friday - Sorrowful
Saturday - Glorious
Sunday - Glorious or seasonal (Joyful in Advent, Sorrowful in Lent)

Betsy
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PhilotheaZ said:
That sounds about right, except I think Saturday is Joyful. Of course, those are just suggestions, we are free to choose any Mysteries on any day.
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I have a printout that shows one or two in a slightly different order, or maybe it’s the wording that’s confusing it between Lent and Advent. Plus, I think it switched the “O my Jesus…” prayer, and “Glory be…” prayer.

I don’t think it matters so much if you mix them up, or say the Luminous mystery on a Wednesday when you think it’s Thursday as it is the thought that counts. It’s not a magical enchantment. 🙂
 
THATS what I was looking for to help me remember!!! Thanks to everybody that contributed!!!🙂
 
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