Praying the Rosary?

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Ok, so very quick question. I know you meditate on a Mystery during each decade of Hail Mary’s. Do you meditate on anything during the other prayers? Or are you supposed to pray them just as you would outside the Rosary?

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HI Butaperson,

I guess that it would be a matter of personal preference, as to whether or not you focus on the whole mystery throughout the decade and then through the corresponding prayers too, or whether or not you just pray the other prayers as usual.

As for me personally, I just continue to meditate on the mystery for all of the prayers (meaning the Hail Marys plus the others), until it was time to move on to the next decade.

I tend to use a Rosary booklet that has pictures in it, and that helps to keep me focused, so I tend to be looking at those pictures when I pray, too.
 
Both/and, if you can. You cannot recite a prayer verbally without being conscious of it at some level of your being, even while contemplating something else. The primary point of the Rosary is contemplation, as it is contemplative prayer. Yet, I offer the “Our Father” to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament as if I am repeating Christ’s prayer for us back to Him.
 
I try to concentrate on the mystery until after the Glory be… Then I concentrate on the Oh my Jesus… and the Oh Clement… as petitional prayers.I don’t think there is any rule…We seem to want so many rules…
 
Remember that the Rosary is not rigid; be not distracted by what and how and when you should be thinking of a mystery… May Our Blessed Mother and the Holy Spirit lead you!
 
Dorothy said:
Remember that the Rosary is not rigid; be not distracted by what and how and when you should be thinking of a mystery… May Our Blessed Mother and the Holy Spirit lead you!
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I totally agree with what Dorothy has said.
 
Some people use scripture verses to keep on track. Check out the links in my signature…they are powerpoint that have a scripture verse for each Hail Mary.
 
Butaperson said:
Ok, so very quick question. I know you meditate on a Mystery during each decade of Hail Mary’s. Do you meditate on anything during the other prayers? Or are you supposed to pray them just as you would outside the Rosary?

Thank you xD
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During the other prayers of the Rosary? No, I mostly meditate on the Mysteries as I recite the [Hail Mary]'s in each decade.
 
It only when we say the Rosary,that we meditated on the Mysterys of the day we say it,like when you say the Mysterys for Friday, you would meditated on the Sorrowful Mysterys.I hope you understand what I mean.
 
Miserissima said:
Some people use scripture verses to keep on track. Check out the links in my signature…they are powerpoint that have a scripture verse for each Hail Mary.
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Yes! Before the Blessed Sacrament, I often read the scriptural accounts of the mysteries as I pray. I am with Christ, contemplating the mysteries, offering verbal prayer and reading scripture. That is the most multi-tasking that thatI am capable of!
 
Butaperson said:
Ok, so very quick question. I know you meditate on a Mystery during each decade of Hail Mary’s. Do you meditate on anything during the other prayers? Or are you supposed to pray them just as you would outside the Rosary?

Thank you xD
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You are free to do as you wish. My own practise is to focus strictly on the meaning of the vocal prayers when I recite the opening Credo, Pater Noster, and three Ave Maria as well as the closing Gloria Patri after each decade and the Salve Regina, the preces and collect that traditionally concludes the rosary. I save my meditation for the Pater Noster and ten Ave Maria that constitute a decade.

Yours in Jesus and Mary,
OS.
 
Miserissima said:
Some people use scripture verses to keep on track. Check out the links in my signature…they are powerpoint that have a scripture verse for each Hail Mary.
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I have a small book titled A Scriptural Rosary a friend gave me. I love it. 🙂

Personally I have a hard time concentrating. My thoughts wander. :o
 
I think sometimes people get far too hung up on the “proper” way to say the Rosary. What really matters to Our Lord and Lady is that you are praying it with a good heart and good intentions.

With that said, I pray it daily. I really try to meditate on each mystery properly, but at times, I get so far off the beaten path, that I’ll finish a decade and not even remember which mystery I was meditating on. :o Stress, life events, work etc. etc. can all get in they way. I take great comfort in knowing Our Lord and Lady know this, and that I try. Very hard each day.
 
is there a tradition of meditiating on a ‘mystery’ from Scripture while saying a decade which is not one of the official mysteries. It seems to me that could be an OK form of prayer, albeit unofficial.
 
Godric2 said:
is there a tradition of meditiating on a ‘mystery’ from Scripture while saying a decade which is not one of the official mysteries. It seems to me that could be an OK form of prayer, albeit unofficial.
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Except when praying the Rosary as a group of people, I sincerely doubt if any two people say the Rosary the same way.

I often get lost in a mystery and never finish the Rosary. The Joyful Mysteries are especially distractive for me. When I meditate on the “The Visitation” I find myself thinking of the women in my family, our pregnancies, our children and our sorrows and happiness. I love that story and the paintings that have been made of that scene.
 
TinyButterfly said:
I have a small book titled A Scriptural Rosary a friend gave me. I love it. 🙂

Personally I have a hard time concentrating. My thoughts wander. :o
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That’s where a lot of it came from! 🙂

I tried to do something similar with the Stations of the Cross but it got very confusing.
 
hi,
i usually expand on the third luminious mystery, sometimes; although, in a theme, seems like that jesus/loaves and the fishes miracle/then fits the theme; anyway, i might reflect on anything of jesus’ s earthly mininstry, with a whole decade, on mary magdeline washing the feet of jesus, or jesus near the shore when the nets tear of a large catch of fish, or on occasion-jesus walking on water…i rely on images from those verses in the gospel…
there can be a ‘surprise’ affect measured in -by the end of a decade-something so new-to be of help to faith…here, belief is, not only in the scene/animation of persons, but includes a great gift to use daily-it has been said before-that the rosary is a bible on a string-i should confirm-a time of prayer to receive gifts…(stands to reason-these gifts are of great service-from the one of whom is a great servant) thx patrick
 
I would strongly suggest that you reconsider praying the Luminous Mysteries. Pope John Paul II did not require the faithful to include the Luminous Mysteries, he only recommended it. Which, by itself seems harmless, but the prayer comes from our Lady, the Mother of the Church and she made herself know to be the “Lady of the Rosary” at the apparition of Fatima, she specifically asked the fifteen mysteries be prayed during the First 5 Saturday devotions, not twenty.

See my blog post I did a few weeks back,
joao.machado-family.com/2013/12/22/holy-rosary-traditional-form-without-luminous-mysteries/
 
Miserissima said:
That’s where a lot of it came from! 🙂

I tried to do something similar with the Stations of the Cross but it got very confusing.
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I meditate on the Stations of the Cross when I pray the 4th and 5th Sorrowful Mysteries. Since there are (10) Hail Mary’s and (14) Stations, I meditate on other events from the time of Christ’s Passion, such as Jesus telling His Mother to behold her son and vice versa, for the other (6) Hail Mary’s.

DGB
 
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