Is there an exact official form of the Rosary?

[mkamoski1]

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Please help.

Is there an exact official form of the Rosary?

One that is “Church Approved”?

There are a lot of good “unofficial” sites explaining the Rosary, such as this one…

fisheaters.com/rosary.html

…and they do show the exact form but they are not “official”.

In practice, from attending and listening to various sources, the “basic form” is the same but the “filler prayers” are “all over the map” and they vary QUITE a bit, in my experience.

What I am looking to find is the “core form”, the reduced/minimal form that contains all the necessary parts and sufficient parts (but no others) to make such a prayer set a “Rosary”.

There are a lot of “official” links to the Rosary’s importance and significance and power mentioned in many Church documents such as these…

ENCHIRIDION OF INDULGENCES

dominicanidaho.org/indulg.html#Direct, we beg you, O Lord (Actiones nostras)

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8 Medieval piety in the West developed the prayer of the rosary as a popular substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours. In the East, the litany called the Akathistos and the …
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Christian prayer tries above all to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, as in lectio divina or the rosary. This form of prayerful reflection is of great value, but Christian …
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Church’s sacramental life, such as the veneration of relics, visits to sanctuaries, pilgrimages, processions, the stations of the cross, religious dances, the rosary, medals, etc
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adoration." The liturgical feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, an “epitome of the whole Gospel,” express this devotion to the Virgin Mary
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…and they do not show the exact form but they are “official”.

So where can the “official form of the Rosary” be found?

Please advise.

Thank you.

Slave to Lord Jesus Christ, I am…

• Mark Kamoski

 

[Chris_Etzel]

Try this. It’s pretty detailed and LONG.

ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE

vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae_en.html

 

[Oneofthewomen]

I don’t believe there is an "offical form" of the rosary, as it is a private devotion.

 

[jpjd]

What makes it a rosary is:

1 Apostle’s Creed
1 Our Father
3 Hail Marys
1 Glory Be

1 Our Father
10 Hail Marys
1 Glory Be

repeat the 1 Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, 1 Glory Be four more times

then say 1 Hail Holy Queen.

That is the most bare bones rosary.

Many people add the Fatima Prayer after each decade’s Glory Be. Many people pray after the Hail Holy Queen the prayer that begins “O God, whose only begotten Son has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life…” Many people pray the mysteries with each decade. Many people will pray the first three Hail Marys for intercession for the Pope’s intentions or for an increase in the virtures of faith, hope, and charity.

There are many variations to the bare bones rosary because the rosary is not a liturgy, i.e. it does not have an “exact official form”. It is a private devotion, which means we may pray it with variations that we find helpful to our prayer life.

 

[Alexander_Roman]

Different religious Orders will have different forms of the Rosary i.e. Franciscan, Brigittine/Carmelite etc.

The agreed upon form that is common to the rosary called the “Dominican Rosary” is 15/20 decades of Hail Mary’s. The introductory prayers can be said, but don’t need to be.

This is also the form of the Rosary used in Orthodoxy, prayed on prayer ropes.

It was Pope St Pius V who established the Hail Mary in the form it is now used in the RC Church and at some point the Glory be came to complete a decade of Hail Mary’s.

Alex