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buffalo82
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I have a question when you pray the rosary who are you praying to are asking something from? Jesus, Mary? God Bless
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Jennifoo
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Hi there. The Rosary is mainly a meditative prayer, but also has supplications built in the prayers themselves- the Our Father, Hail Mary and the Fatima Prayer. You also have several options in regards to intercessions: you can offer your Rosary for certain intentions, for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and/or the Immaculate Heart of Mary; you can also offer each decade to focus on a certain virtue.
There are many good Rosary booklets available if you’re interested. I recommend the Magnificat Rosary Companion and the Anointing Rosary booklet.
May God richly bless you in your desire to pray the Rosary.
There are many good Rosary booklets available if you’re interested. I recommend the Magnificat Rosary Companion and the Anointing Rosary booklet.
May God richly bless you in your desire to pray the Rosary.
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Brassring
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First, the semantics:
While the Rosary is called a prayer, it is actually a devotion consisting of 296 individual prayers (74 for each of four sets of mysteries).
Each set of mysteries consists of:
The Apostles Creed (x1)
Our Father (x1)
Hail Mary (x3)
Glory Be (x1)
Fatima Prayer (x1)
Then five decades, each consisting of:
Our Father (x1)
Hail Mary (x10)
Glory be (x1)
Fatima Prayer (x1)
Ending with:
Hail Holy Queen (x1)
Memorare (x1)
Second, to answer your question, when we say the Rosary, we are communing with God and the Blessed Mother. While the Blessed Mother hears our prayers, she doesn’t have the power to help us directly. We implore for her to intercede on our behalf with Jesus. While she does not have power of her own, she is a powerful and influential advocate.
While the Rosary is called a prayer, it is actually a devotion consisting of 296 individual prayers (74 for each of four sets of mysteries).
Each set of mysteries consists of:
The Apostles Creed (x1)
Our Father (x1)
Hail Mary (x3)
Glory Be (x1)
Fatima Prayer (x1)
Then five decades, each consisting of:
Our Father (x1)
Hail Mary (x10)
Glory be (x1)
Fatima Prayer (x1)
Ending with:
Hail Holy Queen (x1)
Memorare (x1)
Second, to answer your question, when we say the Rosary, we are communing with God and the Blessed Mother. While the Blessed Mother hears our prayers, she doesn’t have the power to help us directly. We implore for her to intercede on our behalf with Jesus. While she does not have power of her own, she is a powerful and influential advocate.
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buffalo82
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Very helpful. Thank you so much!
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friardchips
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While Mary intercedes for our intentions and what is best for us, she is the Mystical Spouse of the Holy Spirit and, with the power of God, can of course help us directly. She has been known to communicate her calm and her intentions to Saints over the course of Salvation History and can appropriate grace where she deems necessary. All grace comes from God yet this does not mean Our Lady has no direct means. All this is within the power of God of course because everything good is His Willing.
God knows all of our thoughts and actions. The easiest way to understand this is to know that when you are praying the Rosary, you are praying to God, to and with, and through Mary. Yet, this truth, does not in anyway mean that one cannot just speak with Mary in conversation with Mary. It is just that God will know that we’re having that conversation and already knew that we would.
And it is the same with the Church as it is with the Rosary.
God is the Beginning and the End. So, all is ultimately in and to Him. So, one is, at all times, in effect, praying the Rosary to and with Mary, to God. Also, Jesus and Mary are inseparable, and therefore, if one is praying to Mary, then one is praying to Jesus.
God knows all of our thoughts and actions. The easiest way to understand this is to know that when you are praying the Rosary, you are praying to God, to and with, and through Mary. Yet, this truth, does not in anyway mean that one cannot just speak with Mary in conversation with Mary. It is just that God will know that we’re having that conversation and already knew that we would.
And it is the same with the Church as it is with the Rosary.
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DebChris
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I like Jennifoo’s answer.
The rosary is mainly a meditative prayer.
I like to pray a scriptural rosary, and the best booklet that I have found is My Complete Rosary Prayer Book.
I like to begin my Rosary with St. Louis de MontFort’s Prayer, which may help answer the question.
“…I unite with Thee, O my Jesus, in order to praise worthily Thy holy Mother and to praise Thee in her and through her…
We offer Thee, O most Holy Trinity, this Creed in honor of all the mysteries of our Faith, this Our Father and these three Hail Marys in honor of the unity of Thy Essence and the Trinity of Thy Persons. We ask of Thee a lively faith, a firm hope, and an ardent charity. Amen.”
The Marian Movement of Priests recommends consecrating the family when praying the rosary; and after the Fatima prayer adding “Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Conception, your well beloved Spouse.”
A missionary rosary is a multi-colored rosary. The color of each decade represents a different continent. Blue is Oceania. It is a way of interceding for the world while praying the rosary.
To help me with my meditation, and to keep my focus on the Christocentric nature of the rosary, I use a technique that I learned as a catechist. Depending on the mystery, when I pray the Hail Mary, I add a word or phrase after “and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus…” For example, with the First Joyful Mystery, I add the word “incarnate.”
Prayer is the “raising of heart and mind to God.”
The rosary is mainly a meditative prayer.
I like to pray a scriptural rosary, and the best booklet that I have found is My Complete Rosary Prayer Book.
I like to begin my Rosary with St. Louis de MontFort’s Prayer, which may help answer the question.
“…I unite with Thee, O my Jesus, in order to praise worthily Thy holy Mother and to praise Thee in her and through her…
We offer Thee, O most Holy Trinity, this Creed in honor of all the mysteries of our Faith, this Our Father and these three Hail Marys in honor of the unity of Thy Essence and the Trinity of Thy Persons. We ask of Thee a lively faith, a firm hope, and an ardent charity. Amen.”
The Marian Movement of Priests recommends consecrating the family when praying the rosary; and after the Fatima prayer adding “Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Conception, your well beloved Spouse.”
A missionary rosary is a multi-colored rosary. The color of each decade represents a different continent. Blue is Oceania. It is a way of interceding for the world while praying the rosary.
To help me with my meditation, and to keep my focus on the Christocentric nature of the rosary, I use a technique that I learned as a catechist. Depending on the mystery, when I pray the Hail Mary, I add a word or phrase after “and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus…” For example, with the First Joyful Mystery, I add the word “incarnate.”
Prayer is the “raising of heart and mind to God.”
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buffalo82
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Thanks for all the replies.
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poche
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz wrote a series of meditations on the 15 mysteries of the rosary and they were quite different than what we have today.
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Roseeurekacross
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I usually have an intention that might last a day or a week. I might just pray thanks. Tonight is a full moon and wonderful clear winter night. I went for a walk praying the Rosary and thinking about the Heavens.
The dogs were thinking about kangaroo and possumss
. So it was an active Rosary.
The dogs were thinking about kangaroo and possumss
. So it was an active Rosary.
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GLam8833
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The Rosary, to me, is a Centering Prayer,
it turns our attention away from the things
of earth and this life and to the things or
Mysteries of Heaven, of which we are
Citizens!!
it turns our attention away from the things
of earth and this life and to the things or
Mysteries of Heaven, of which we are
Citizens!!
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