Jesus Rosary?

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Greetings all,

Has anyone come across a Jesus Rosary? Someone mentioned it in another thread and I am totally unfamiliar with it.

I am interested to know if anyone is familiar with the history and practice of it. Apparently it is not connected with the “Jesus Prayer” or “Prayer of the Heart” (at least I don’t think it is). All I know is there are 150 ‘Alleluias’.

Thanks,
Michael
 
a rosary for Jesus?, its only for Mother Mary Queen of Heaven and Earth
 
KeVin711cent said:
a rosary for Jesus?, its only for Mother Mary Queen of Heaven and Earth
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Every Rosary is for Jesus! Whether it is the popular way we say the Rosary, or a Rosary with a different focus.

All the Mysteries of the Rosary are because of Jesus, the Son of God Incarnate. As we say the Hail Marys it is like our Blessed Mother holding us by the hand as we meditate on the particular mystery for that decade.

Even the two Glorious Mysteries that are particularly about our Blessed Mother (Assumption of Blessed Mother, and the Crowning of Our Blessed Mother), is all about Jesus. If it weren’t for Him those wonderful Mysteries just wouldn’t be.

And, so we thank our Blessed Mother that she said “Yes”, and clothed the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity with our humanity!

Peace,

Dorothy
 
Hesychios said:
Greetings all,

Has anyone come across a Jesus Rosary? Someone mentioned it in another thread and I am totally unfamiliar with it.

I am interested to know if anyone is familiar with the history and practice of it. Apparently it is not connected with the “Jesus Prayer” or “Prayer of the Heart” (at least I don’t think it is). All I know is there are 150 ‘Alleluias’.

Thanks,
Michael
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I also have heard of the Orthodox refer to the “Jesus Prayer” as the Jesus Rosary… The only other time I have heard of a rosary called the “Jesus Rosary” it was associated with a visionary who shall remain nameless as per the rules of the forum for there are too many contradictory stories concerning the visionary. I found nothing in this “Jesus Rosary” connected with this visionary that contained “150 alleluia’s”…This “Jesus Rosary” involved reflecting on Jesus’ passion.

You sure they weren’t referring to the 150 Psalms from which evolved the Catholic rosary?

God bless
 
Maryam said:
I also have heard of the Orthodox refer to the “Jesus Prayer” as the Jesus Rosary… The only other time I have heard of a rosary called the “Jesus Rosary” it was associated with a visionary who shall remain nameless as per the rules of the forum for there are too many contradictory stories concerning the visionary. I found nothing in this “Jesus Rosary” connected with this visionary that contained “150 alleluia’s”…This “Jesus Rosary” involved reflecting on Jesus’ passion.

** You sure they weren’t referring to the 150 Psalms from which evolved the Catholic rosary?**

God bless
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No, that was my first thought. Since I started this thread the other poster stated that it has origins in the Syriac tradition, but I don’t know, it doesn’t sound quite right.

I pray the chotki myself, and that uses the Jesus Prayer, or ‘Prayer of the Heart’ as it is also known, but we don’t sing 150 alleluias with it so I am sure that’s not it.

I have been encouraging people to modify the rosary to fit their needs, so nothing like this surprises me. I like various chaplets and there is no reason why people could not form a new prayer rule if they need to. I was just hoping to find out a bit more about this one.

I guess it’s a dry well, sorry!

Michael
 
Not a dry well! 😃 The Jesus Rosary is apparently very old but is coming back. It consists of the Apostles Creed, 33 Our Father’s, and 7 Glory Be’s. It is divided into 7 Mysteries which are: the Birth of Jesus, Jesus’ love & compassion for the poor and afflicted, Jesus trusted in His Father and trusted in His will, Jesus willingly came to earth, suffered and died because He loved us so much, Jess gave up His life as a sacrifice for us, the Resurrection of Jesus and His victory over Satan and death, and the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven. For each mystery, there is a prayer intention, a meditation, 5 Our Father’s, and an ejaculation. I found this in a prayer book called the Gold Book of Prayers, put out by Queenship Publishing Co. The book is wonderful and is very reasonable, under $5.00.

Peace,
Linda
 
LindaS said:
Not a dry well! 😃 The Jesus Rosary is apparently very old but is coming back. It consists of the Apostles Creed, 33 Our Father’s, and 7 Glory Be’s. It is divided into 7 Mysteries which are: the Birth of Jesus, Jesus’ love & compassion for the poor and afflicted, Jesus trusted in His Father and trusted in His will, Jesus willingly came to earth, suffered and died because He loved us so much, Jess gave up His life as a sacrifice for us, the Resurrection of Jesus and His victory over Satan and death, and the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven. For each mystery, there is a prayer intention, a meditation, 5 Our Father’s, and an ejaculation.
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I’m not sure I like this. When people promote things that are “very old but are coming back,” I can’t help but wonder if they are just trying to change things for the sake of changing them. Things such as tubs for baptismal fonts, celebrating Mass facing the congregation, the way of light (to correspond with the way of the cross), and many other things that those promoting them brand as “something from the early church.” It’s like they want to run away from the Latin Tradition that was respected pretty much universally among Catholics (Latin Rite Catholics at least) until recently.

The “Jesus Rosary” seems to be little more than something to steer Catholics away from Marian devotion- probably in the name of ecumenism. All true Marian devotion is Christ-centered anyway, so it shouldn’t even be an issue. Jesus and Mary don’t compete for your devotion.

Jesus and Mary don’t have to have the same kinds of devotions. There are many devotions honoring our Lord- Eucharistic Adoration, Corpus Christi processions, Stations of the Cross, the Divine Mercy Chaplet, and First Friday devotions (a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus) are just a few of them.
 
Hesychios said:
No, that was my first thought. Since I started this thread the other poster stated that it has origins in the Syriac tradition, but I don’t know, it doesn’t sound quite right.

I pray the chotki myself, and that uses the Jesus Prayer, or ‘Prayer of the Heart’ as it is also known, but we don’t sing 150 alleluias with it so I am sure that’s not it.

I have been encouraging people to modify the rosary to fit their needs, so nothing like this surprises me. I like various chaplets and there is no reason why people could not form a new prayer rule if they need to. I was just hoping to find out a bit more about this one.

I guess it’s a dry well, sorry!

Michael
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No need to be sorry ever… 😃 It is wonderful that you are interested in knowing more about the devotions of the Eastern Rites that are not very well known.

As a matter of fact you made so curious about it that I searched for the thread mentioning the Jesus Rosary and wrote to the Eparchy of Van Nuys asking them about this devotion.

I shall let you know if/when I get a response from them.

Christos Anesti!

God bless
 
cyberwolf001 said:
I dunno somthing about it makes me think Protestantism…
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HI Cyber!

Would you care to expand on this thought? Perhaps this is something that deserves to be explored.

Do you feel uneasy about…?

What about the practice of prayer makes it identifiably Catholic?..or perhaps Protestant?

Christus resurrexit!*
Michael
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I have a stations of the cross “rosary”. It has the crucifix, and then a medal for each station, and three beads between each…presumably for an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be. There is a Mater Dolorosa medal right after the crucifix, and a Lamb of God medal five beads down. The images are Catholic, and some of the medals have Latin on them. The station medals have the picture stamped on one side and the station in English on the other.

I purchased it at a Thrift store many years ago, and it was old then.

I’ve never seen another like it.
 
UPDATE: I was surprised to have received such a super quick response from someone in the Eparchy of Van Nuys concerning my questions on the “Jesus Rosary”… I will copy/paste some of what was written to me:
To tell you the truth, although I am of the Eparchy of Van Nuys, I have never heard of the Rosary form you described. There may be some local developments in devotions that gave rise to the rosary you spoke of either in the last century in Ukraine or Slovakia, or just in the last few years at some local parish. I don’t know which category the prayer in question falls.
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Well folks…seems as if we are back to square one. It may be that this is a devotion practiced only on a local level in only a few Ruthenian parishes and is not widely known.

God bless
 
Hesychios said:
HI Cyber!

Would you care to expand on this thought? Perhaps this is something that deserves to be explored.

Do you feel uneasy about…?

What about the practice of prayer makes it identifiably Catholic?..or perhaps Protestant?

Christus resurrexit!*
Michael
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Hiya Hesychios!

Well for starters there is the “connection” to the ‘Ancient Church.’

Last I checked don’t we, as Catholics believe we ARE the Ancient Church?

Also the fact the Rosary didn’t get revealed / developed until about the medevil period. Add to this I’ve yet to see a single Catholic DEVOTION that didn’t include saying a Hail Mary.
 
water said:
I googled and found it here:
iipg.org/prayers.htm

It has something related to: Medjugorje
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The Jesus Rosary you linked to doesn’t contain the 150 Alleluia’s and isn’t from an Eastern rite. After my first post on this thread Hesychios posted that the Jesus Rosary he heard about came from the Syriac tradition so that would make it an Eastern rite devotion.

Plus, its against forum rules to post anything on the “M” apparitions.

Edited to add:

**Cyberwolf **there are plenty of devotions that don’t contain a Hail Mary…so I don’t see how a devotion containing a Hail Mary would be a problem as the Hail Mary comes directly from scripture. Last time I looked the bible is the inspired word of God and that the Hail Mary is taken from scripture pretty much makes it part of the “ancient church”.

Remember Luke 1:42-44 where the Virgin Mary goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth… Elizabeth says: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb…”

I don’t see the logic in thinking that a “Hail Mary” in a devotion somehow takes away from the “ancientness” of the Catholic church.

God bless
 
Maryam said:
The Jesus Rosary you linked to doesn’t contain the 150 Alleluia’s and isn’t from an Eastern rite. After my first post on this thread Hesychios posted that the Jesus Rosary he heard about came from the Syriac tradition so that would make it an Eastern rite devotion.
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Oh, I must’ve missed that part.
Maryam said:
Plus, its against forum rules to post anything on the “M” apparitions.
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yes. I thought it was against the forum rule and thus I did not want to mention anything further. If my answer is still violating the rules, please Mod edit my post. 🙂

Thanks!
 
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