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I have a few questions about the Rosary.

What exactly do I do for the Mysteries? I can’t get anything more specific than “Meditate on them.”

What is the main purpose of praying the Rosary?

Why do YOU pray the Rosary?

If you could answer these questions, thank you.
 
The mysteries are parts of Jesus Christ’s life, to meditate on, meaning deep prayer thinking about them is bringing Christ’s life into your prayer and thus into your life. If you meditate, you are taken out of your normal life so that you focus in more fully on prayer.

The rosary is a prayer that brings you deeper into prayer and centers on Jesus Christ with the intercession of Mary who is favored among women and is right next to Christ. It’s like forming a prayer team with Mary to Jesus.

I pray the Rosary to get closer to Christ by deepening my prayer life. With the power of the Holy Spirit and a union with Christ and Mary, I receive graces and can ask for help for me or for others from God through the Rosary. It’s a different form of prayer that’s been proven to be very fruitful and as scriptures say we should pray continuously. This is just one part of my prayer life, but I usually have one with me. Hold one in your hand and it’s an 'entire handful of prayers".🙂
 
SubCulture said:
I have a few questions about the Rosary.

What exactly do I do for the Mysteries? I can’t get anything more specific than “Meditate on them.”

What is the main purpose of praying the Rosary?

Why do YOU pray the Rosary?

If you could answer these questions, thank you.
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You think about the mysteries. Picture what’s going on in the mystery in your mind. If it is the agony in the garden, picture Jesus praying, sweating blood, feeling sorrowful, etc…think about what this means and what that should make you do in your life. Why is this happening in Jesus’ life? Can you understand any of what He feels and why? Picture yourself kneeling next to Him, how does what He’s going through effect you etc. These are just some examples and suggestions. You will be led as you go a lot of the time. At least in my experience that’s what happens. Reading about it in good spiritual books by the Saints can really help. St. Alphonsus Liguori has good meditations on the sorrowful mysteries.

The Main purpose to pray the rosary is the meditation. Once you start meditating God can take you to higher prayer Himself.

I pray the Rosary because Our Lady asks us over and over to pray the rosary daily. That’s a good enough reason for me.
 
SubCulture said:
I have a few questions about the Rosary.

What exactly do I do for the Mysteries? I can’t get anything more specific than “Meditate on them.”

What is the main purpose of praying the Rosary?

Why do YOU pray the Rosary?

If you could answer these questions, thank you.
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You just think about each of them for a moment, or longer. Recall these events in Christ’s and Mary’s lives.

Some have called the mysteries of the rosary, the “backbone” of it.

Look at the mysteries. They are VERY profound, like a mini summary of our faith!

The Blessed Virgin Mary, in a number of apparitions which have been accepted by the Catholic Church as “worthy of belief” say that she ASKED us to say the rosary, daily, for peace in the world, and end to the war(s).

Some saints have said that we can obtain ANYTHING through the rosary.
Here are what some saints have said about praying the rosary.
stmary.sg/emmaus/rosary/quotes.html

Here’s a summary of the mysteries, which is also a** summary of many of the key events of our faith**!

Joyful Mysteries
  1. The annunciation
  2. The visitation
  3. The birth of Christ
  4. The presentation in the temple
  5. The finding in the temple
Luminous mysteries
  1. The baptism of Jesus
  2. The Wedding of Cana (his first public miracle)
  3. The proclamation of the kingdom
  4. The transfiguration
  5. The institution of the Eucharist
Sorrowful mysteries
  1. The agony in the garden
  2. The scourging
  3. The crowning with thorns
  4. The carrying of the cross
  5. The crucifixion
Glorious mysteries
  1. The resurrection
  2. The ascension
  3. The descent of the Holy Spirit
  4. The assumption
  5. The coronation of Mary
I pray the rosary, daily, because in a number of apparitions, our lady asked us to. I would pray it for that reason, alone. She said that it has the power to convert sinners, bring world peace, and more. She has told us if we would ALL pray the rosary, daily, we could diminish the upcoming chastisement. If not, it would come, full force.

Mary asked that we pray for peace in the world, the conversion of sinners, and of Russia, especially. So, in obedience, I do that.
 
Great! This helped a lot! A few more questions:

Do you have to focus on the scene itself in the meditation, or can you just focus on a certain aspect of it. For example, do you have to focus on the Crucifixion itself, or if it draws you, ponder on the different last words of Jesus while meditating on the Mystery?

Is there any 9 day novenas for the rosary? I know of the 54 day one, but not a 9 day one. Just curious.
 
I start the rosary by kissing the crucifix and making the sign of the cross on me with the words "In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and then praying the Apostles Creed while still holding the crucifix. The Rosary ends with the Hail Holy Queen prayer at the center medal.

. That’s a general guideline and the link below provides a guide. And each of the type of mysteries, whether luminous, or sorrowful, etc, are prayed on certain days. The mysteries are summed up in the previous posters general guideline, take note that there are scriptures that go along with these scenes if you want to read them. I have a very simple little trifold flyer that cost about a dollar that has the scriptures and a picture that I can look at and pray about. It’s focus is on the stories in the gospels and the life of Christ. I love the scriptures so I have simple guide where I pray and meditate about those scriptures.

how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com/rosary-guide.html

There are many different novenas. I’ve perused the internet to find a couple different 9 day novenas. I’m praying a 33 day novena of sorts that my daughter shared with me to the consecration of Mary so I can understand her better. I’ve already learned some things. like Why would we give ourselves to Mary? Because God gave Himself to her through her womb and how that connection is important to us as the body of Christ.
 
So I prayed one rosary today. I felt really peaceful, but I don’t think I got the full brunt of it. That’s mainly because I’m not familiar with two of the Luminous Mysteries, didn’t have the prayers memorized, and was interrupted at the end of the decade. But hey, you have to start somewhere.
 
Im glad you liked it! You know I don’t believe there is an exact right way to pray the Rosary I believe all prayer is good! Like I said, just holding a rosary is like holding a handful of prayers. .🙂 many nights I hold one when I go to sleep maybe only praying a decade or two, and it gives me calm peace, and at times my husband wakes up on top of it… The family that prays together stays together! HAHA! It’s all for the love of God…

PS… I’m not advocating not praying the entire rosary in any way. That’s a good to do and you might have to do that earlier in the day. But we are supposed to always be praying… God knows that we like to touch faith with our senses like touch, hearing, seeing, tasting…, throughout our whole being Ie. We Taste and See Our Lord in the Eucharist…,
 
SubCulture said:
So I prayed one rosary today. I felt really peaceful, but I don’t think I got the full brunt of it. That’s mainly because I’m not familiar with two of the Luminous Mysteries, didn’t have the prayers memorized, and was interrupted at the end of the decade. But hey, you have to start somewhere.
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Good Job 👍

Don’t worry you’ll get the prayers memorized eventually took me awhile 🙂
 
SubCulture said:
I have a few questions about the Rosary.

What exactly do I do for the Mysteries? I can’t get anything more specific than “Meditate on them.”

What is the main purpose of praying the Rosary?

Why do YOU pray the Rosary?

If you could answer these questions, thank you.
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I recommend a good book called The Rosary: Chain of Hope by Father Benedict Groeschel.
 
SubCulture said:
I have a few questions about the Rosary.

What exactly do I do for the Mysteries? I can’t get anything more specific than “Meditate on them.”

What is the main purpose of praying the Rosary?

Why do YOU pray the Rosary?

If you could answer these questions, thank you.
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I try to keep a picture in mind of the event during the decade of Hail Marys, and think even deeper between the Our Father and Hail Mary.

My purpose is to pray, quiet my soul, give attention to God, and honor Mary at the same time. I will often ‘dedicate’ a Rosary or a decade of Hail Marys to a particular cause or person.

Since praying the Rosary on a very regular basis since February, I’ve been drawn much closer to God; at times, that’s one of the main things I do outside of Mass. Even if I don’t have time to read, reach out or blog, I always have time to pray the Rosary. There isn’t anywhere I can’t pray it!

By the way, I have the Laudate app that I use when praying the Rosary many times. It actually helps me to focus more on the mysteries.
 
One way is to think about each mystery as though you’re watching Jesus through John’s eyes, or thru the eyes of his mother.
 
I just got the iRosary app. I will be using that until I have all the prayers memorized, or when I don’t have my rosary with me. I’m gonna make myself do one decade a day, and add a decade every week until I have the full Rosary.

Any advantage to getting my rosary blessed? Why do people get their rosaries blessed?
 
The rosary will destroy wars.
  1. Whosoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
  2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
  3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin and defeat heresies.
  4. It will cause good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for Eternal Things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
  5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
    Since Our Lady is our Mother and Advocate, She always assists those who call on Her implicitly by praying the Rosary. The Church reminds us of this in the Memorare prayer,
  6. Whosoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of Eternal Life.
  7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
  8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the Light of God and the plenitude of His Graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the Merits of the Saints in Paradise.
  9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
    Should one require Purgatorial cleansing after death, Our Lady will make a special effort to obtain our release from Purgatory through Her intercession as Advocate.
  10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of Glory in Heaven.
  11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by recitation of the Rosary.
  12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
  13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.
  14. All who recite the Rosary are my Sons, and brothers of my Only Son Jesus Christ.
  15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
 
HI SubCulture,

I like to pray the rosary using a little rosary booklet with pictures. It helps my mind to focus.

If you have a Catholic bookstore in your area, you should be able to find a rosary booklet there, if you are interested in using something like this.

When we pray through/to Our Lady, she takes our prayers and intercedes before our Lord on our behalf.

The rosary is powerful against evil and against temptations, too.
 
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