Penitential Rosary

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I see people have looked at this thread, but no responses yet. Nobody knows? :confused:
 
This might be the one you mean, from giftstor.org/trisagion.html

"The Penitential Rosary of St.Padre Pio:

The Mysteries of the Rosary are commemorated on each of the large beads. On each of the 50 small beads, say: one Our Father, one Hail Mary, one Glory Be to the Father and the ejaculation: Hail Mary Most Pure, conceived without original sin. As in the Traditional Rosary, the Creed is said on the Crucifix."

Hope it helps.
 
Oh, yes it does help, LilyM! I was looking it up for a friend, and that’s it. She’ll be very happy. Thanks so much! :aok:
 
As I recall, it is a rosary with six decades instead of five. It’s the rosary Our Blessed Mother and Saint Bernadette used at Lourdes.
 
Miserissima,

Actually I was wrong. The link LilyM gave me is different from what I thought it was (although it was still good, so thanks for pointing it out!).

Can you tell me more about the rosary you’re thinking about? Maybe a link?

Thanks 🙂
 
I heard it when CA Radio went on pilgrimage to Lourdes…I don’t know the episode, but I am sure it’s in the archives. Anyone else remember that bit of trivia from the radio show? As I recall, the extra decade was to be said for lost and/or penitent souls.

The six decade rosary is also called the “Brigittine Rosary;” here’s a little more info: ctocds.com/saints/rosary.htm
 
Because this has really piqued my interest:
  1. We know that the whole rosary consists of 15 decades, and the rosaries that are made of 5 decades are “chaplets,” on which we go around three times with the three sets of mysteries, or meditations [traditionally, not including the Luminous Mysteries] Well, Roman Catholic Replies is offering a booklet of a full fifteen sorrowful mysteries, instead of the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious, and calling it the Lenten Penitential Rosary:
Lenten Penitential Rosary (Booklet)
This is a Scriptural rosary presented as 15 Sorrowful Mysteries. This rosary is a wonderful tool to meditate upon the sufferings of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother. It was originally compiled and developed for Lent to enable the person praying the Rosary to remain in the penitential spirit of Lent. The 15 Sorrowful Mysteries include; The flight into Egypt, the death of John the Baptist, The betrayal by Judas, the trial by the Sanhedrin, The mockery of Herod and more. In the future other 15 Mystery Rosaries will be available on The Glorious Mysteries, The Joyful Mysteries and the Miraculous Mysteries.
$5.95 plus shipping and handling
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  1. From here, under the heading “The Rosary,” is mentioned:
The Monastic Penitential Rosary of the Order of Atonement.

The Penitential Rosary of St.Padre Pio: The Mysteries of the Rosary are commemorated on each of the large beads. On each of the 50 small beads, say: one Our Father, one Hail Mary, one Glory Be to the Father and the ejaculation: Hail Mary Most Pure, conceived without original sin. As in the Traditional Rosary, the Creed is said on the Crucifix.
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  1. After a bit of googling, there seems to be a “Penitential Rosary Crusade Prayer” here.
I’m beginning to think that a Penitential Rosary is a rosary said with contrition, or in sorrow for one’s sins or the sins of another, or offered as atonement. It could be offered with a specific prayer (such as an Act of Contrition at the beginning of each decade) or focusing solely on the sorrowful mysteries.

I would be very interested in learning more about the “The Monastic Penitential Rosary of the Order of Atonement” from #2 above.
 
The booklet might be what I’m looking for, because my friend said she learned this form of the rosary from a booklet. I’m reluctant to mail a check to a group I’ve never heard of though. I don’t see a phone number either. Have you ever bought anything from Roman Catholic Replies?
 
I don’t know anything about Roman Catholic Replies…either the webhost or the group(s) with which it may be affiliated.

I did a search on the “15 sorrowful mysteries” and found some bizarre private revelations/devotions. Perhaps someone here can list the 15 mentioned “include; The flight into Egypt, the death of John the Baptist, The betrayal by Judas, the trial by the Sanhedrin, The mockery of Herod and more”] and you could look up the scriptures yourself.

(…and my apologies to LilyM, I didn’t notice that we had linked to the same site!)
 
Through some research I found this statement by P. (=Fr.) Andreas Endl (a traditional Sacred-Heart-Franciscan in Vienna. his “congregation” claims to have been founded by the sedevacantist Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Ðình Thuc, but their website claims their adherence to the Holy See): It was of Palmerian origin! The Palmerians are a anti-catholic sect with their own popes. The say the Roman Catholic Church is satanic.
Andreas Endl warns against it’s use. But Andreas Endl seems to be a suspect person, too, a sedevacantist website claims him to have recieved “Mormon orders” by a Mariavite bishop who, according to this website by a crazy sedevacantist (who denies the Holocaust and the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany), had converted to Mormonism and then allegedly ordained Endl. (According to the polish wikipedia Mass has converted several times, including Lutheranism and the religious movement “Catholic Apostolic Church”.) According to the german Mariavite website he is still Mariavite.
But not only this website linking the Penitential Rosary to the Palmerians , this website writes in an article about the Palmerian Church: “The Penitential Rosary or the Rosary of St. Pio of Pietrelcina is prayed daily.” (The website belongs obviously to a traditional catholic prayer circle.)
This Palmerian Website writes about the Penitential Rosary:
“We exhort the whole Church, they might get used to the deeply pious custom, to pray the Holy Penitential Rosary, also called Padre-Pio-Rosary or Palmar-Rosary. The Penitential Rosary consists of 50 Our Father, 50 Hail Mary, 50 Glory Be, and 50 Be Hailed, purest Virgin Mary**[NOTE: Probably a Palmerian Invention]**, concieved without sin. He who prays this Penitential Rosary make atonement to the Most Holy Trinity and the Most Holy Virgin Mary. He who prays this Penitential Rosary has prayed the Traditional Rosary, because it is included into the Penitential Rosary.”

Then the Anti-Pope Gregory XVII tries to concede an indulgence (for every bead) for those praying this “Holy Penitential Rosary” and live a truly Christian life and pray for his intentions.

In literature about Padre Pio he is always described as reciting the “usual” rosary (but continuously).

Here, on this tripod member page a alleged personal revelation (by a mexican nun who hasn’t revealed her name, probably already dead) to “God’s Loudspeaker” (Pertavoz) in 1970 postulating to recite it “with arms extended in the form of a Cross”.
To pray with arms outstreched is (at least) already known from St. Dominic, but this website obviously links Palmerian inventions to obscure personal revelation.

Of course, there a many variations of the Rosary, thus this Penitential Rosary isn’t wrong or even sinful, but before praying it we should consider if we want to use prayers by schismatic, heretic apparition-based sects.

Hope to help.

I’m sorry for any grammatical errors.
 
A Penitential Rosary is one in which a person prays on their knees with arms outstretched, like Christ on the cross. Check out the battle of Leponto, it was won by such means. It’s rough to keep your arms up and not rush the rosary but so possible! When I pray it I’m like,“Maybe I should’ve taken advantage of gym class” and “Poor Jesus, His pain is truly greater than all the suffering of man”. It’s taking on the cross of victimhood, nuturing the rose that is suffering in order to console the hearts of Jesus and Mary so wounded by sin; yet so loving of man. I hope you pray this special rosary and please check out Alliance of the Holy Family International, the religious of this order pray this type rosary daily. Maybe you can go to one of their retreats and pray with your arms outstretched with them! God bless you and may Mary keep you forever!
 
GIMJ said:
Has anyone heard of the Penitential Rosary? How do you pray it?
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You might be talking about this:

Penitential Rosary Crusade

For the conversion from sin of the Archdiocese of Boston:
From sins of pride of its members, from sins of lust of its members, from sins of envy of its members, from sins of anger of its members, from sins of greed of its members, from sins of gluttony of its members, from sins of sloth of its members.
Help us, Blessed Mother, to pray your Rosary to you, now, and until all our sins we no longer commit, against your Divine Son. Help us, Our Lady of Fatima, in your spreading of your Rosary of penance for sin, throughout our Archdiocese of Boston and throughout God’s entire World on Earth. Help us enter penance now with permanence, through our perpetual recitation of your Rosary. And begin now, Blessed Mother, to increase the efficacy of the rosaries we pray to you for the conversion from sins of all of us here in the Archdiocese of Boston. And spread that efficacy of your Rosary throughout Dioceses and Archdioceses in God’s entire World on Earth, until finally it extends to all nations and lands.
Fulfill your promise to us now, Blessed Mother, that someday you would bring your Divine Son’s Graces of conversion from sin to God’s entire World on Earth through your Rosary and Scapular. Begin now, Blessed Mother, to bring the Archdiocese of Boston into its conversion from sins, to bring us into conversion from our sins, and to bring us into penance to your Divine Son because of our sins against Him. Bring to us God’s Graces of Perseverance, in praying your Rosary more and more now, in remorse and contrition for our sins.
Help us, Refuge of Sinners, to pray rosary after rosary after rosary, with remorse and contrition for our sins against the Infinite Goodness of Our Lord, your Divine Son. Help us, Blessed Mother, to reject all of our sins now, with finality, through rosary after rosary after rosary.
Amen

The name of any Archdiocese or Diocese in the entire world can be substituted for “Boston” in the above Penitential Rosary Crusade Prayer.
 
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