RCIA and Rosary question

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I am currently going through RCIA and the Priest told the class he could get us Rosaries if we wanted them. Is there much need for a Rosary at this stage of my Spiritual jouney? I am sorry if this sounds really dumb…Thanks for the help. God Bless:)
 
eo_chibears said:
I am currently going through RCIA and the Priest told the class he could get us Rosaries if we wanted them. Is there much need for a Rosary at this stage of my Spiritual jouney? I am sorry if this sounds really dumb…Thanks for the help. God Bless:)
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Really, it is up to you. For many people, the Rosary is an important part of their spiritual life, for others it isn’t. If you are interested in praying the Rosary, then go for it, it not, don’t worry about it. 😃
 
KarenElissa said:
Really, it is up to you. For many people, the Rosary is an important part of their spiritual life, for others it isn’t. If you are interested in praying the Rosary, then go for it, it not, don’t worry about it. 😃
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Alright thanks:thumbsup:
 
eo_chibears said:
I am currently going through RCIA and the Priest told the class he could get us Rosaries if we wanted them. Is there much need for a Rosary at this stage of my Spiritual jouney? I am sorry if this sounds really dumb…Thanks for the help. God Bless:)
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No you don’t have to have a Rosary or even pray one. I would suggest that you might as well get the Rosary anyway and try praying it at least once just to see how you feel about it. It is after all a meditation on the life of Christ.
 
DJK100 said:
No you don’t have to have a Rosary or even pray one. I would suggest that you might as well get the Rosary anyway and try praying it at least once just to see how you feel about it. It is after all a meditation on the life of Christ.
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Thanks for the advice, I will do that. God Bless
 
Kinda hard to get to know this important Catholic devotion if you don’t have one.

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eo_chibears said:
I am currently going through RCIA and the Priest told the class he could get us Rosaries if we wanted them. Is there much need for a Rosary at this stage of my Spiritual jouney? I am sorry if this sounds really dumb…Thanks for the help. God Bless:)
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Entirely up to you. The Rosary is a meditative devotion. The beads are a tool to help with the meditation.

As one meditations and ponders on various aspects of Our Lord and Our Lady, one prays the Our Father and the Hail Mary as background prayers.

One is not required to have a devotion to the Rosary, and for it it took awhile because whn I was going the RCIA I was focused more on the basics of the Catholic faith. It may not be something that you are interested in right now, but sometime as you grow more into the faith you may find it then something you are drawn to. For me it was a couple of years.

God Bless your RCIA journey
 
eo_chibears said:
I am currently going through RCIA and the Priest told the class he could get us Rosaries if we wanted them. Is there much need for a Rosary at this stage of my Spiritual jouney? I am sorry if this sounds really dumb…Thanks for the help. God Bless:)
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I would say to definitely pray the rosary at least once a week. It’s a sure thing to push you further along in your faith through the Blessed Mother’s intercession! 😃
josephback said:
Hi everybody,
What are the five mysteries of the rosary?
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catholic.org/prayers/mystery.php
 
josephback said:
Hi everybody,
What are the five mysteries of the rosary?
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Joseph, the older version of the Rosary had 3 sets of Mysteries

The Joyful Mysteries ( The Annuciation, The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, the Nativity, the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, and the Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple by Mary and Joseph)

The Sorrowful Mysteries (The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, The Scurging at the Piller, The Crowing of Thorns, The Carrying of the Cross, The Crucifixion)

and

The Glorious Mysteries (The Resurrection, The Acsention, the Descent of the Holy Spirit, The Assumption of Mary and the Corronation of Mary as Queen of Heave)

In the 90’s Pope John Paul II added the

Luminious Mysteries…(The baptism of Our Lord, The Wedding Feast at Cana, The Proclamation of the Kingdom, The Transfiguration, and the Instituion of the Eucharist)

With all that said, there isnt any right or wrong way to pray the Rosary and there are many variations. The above is just the most well known. 🙂
 
eo_chibears said:
Thanks for the advice, I will do that. God Bless
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Here is a good print out you can have that teaches you how to pray the rosary. It goes through the mysteries as well so you can read them in the bible. What I like to do is I like to read the bible verse that correspond to the mysteries that I am praying. That way it helps me focus more on the life of Christ.

newadvent.org/images/rosary.pdf
 
As others have said it’s up to you, though if your priest is willing to get and bless one for you I’d go for it, even if you don’t use it much at least to start with.

My journey to the Catholic Church took several years and by the time I had entered RCIA I was already quite Catholic in my beliefs and attitudes, but I remember that at an earlier stage I really couldn’t get comfortable with the Rosary, but connected very well to the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, which provided a sort of gateway if you will to this kind of prayer. You can pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy on a rosary, so you might want to consider using the rosary primarily for that if you are also more comfortable with it starting out.

thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/praythechaplet.php
 
Aelred_Minor said:
, but I remember that at an earlier stage I really couldn’t get comfortable with the Rosary, but connected very well to the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, which provided a sort of gateway if you will to this kind of prayer.
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This is pretty much how it happened for me too. 🙂

I got used to this style of meditative prayers while saying “background prayers” by praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

It was a nice way of getting used to this style.
 
eo_chibears said:
I am currently going through RCIA and the Priest told the class he could get us Rosaries if we wanted them. Is there much need for a Rosary at this stage of my Spiritual jouney? I am sorry if this sounds really dumb…Thanks for the help. God Bless:)
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Never refuse free rosaries. 🙂

If you want to learn how to pray the Rosary, check out Come Pray the Rosary, where you can actually pray with people.
 
When I converted to the Catholic Church, I received a rosary as a confirmation gift from my wife. Having a rosary is part of being Catholic, whether you use it once in awhile or every day, it is a wonderful addition to your prayer life. There are different forms of prayer you can use a rosary for; the traditional form of the rosary, the scriptural rosary (my favorite) or you can pray the divine mercy prayer on it. In short, take the free rosary. 👍
 
CalCatholic said:
When I converted to the Catholic Church, I received a rosary as a confirmation gift from my wife. Having a rosary is part of being Catholic, whether you use it once in awhile or every day, it is a wonderful addition to your prayer life. There are different forms of prayer you can use a rosary for; the traditional form of the rosary, the scriptural rosary (my favorite) or you can pray the divine mercy prayer on it. In short, take the free rosary. 👍
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What’s the difference between traditional and scriptural? I pray one of them, I’m just not sure which one. lol
 
RyanK said:
What’s the difference between traditional and scriptural? I pray one of them, I’m just not sure which one. lol
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The traditional Rosary is when you think of the mystery at the beginning of the decade, and then proceed to say one Our Father and ten Hail Mary prayers.

The scriptural Rosary is when you say a line of scripture appropriate to the mystery before each Hail Mary prayer, wait a couple of seconds and then proceed with the Hail Mary.

At this site it will explain about the scriptural Rosary and when you click on a particular set of mysteries, it will give the scripture passages before each Hail Mary prayer.

holyspiritinteractive.net/prayers/therosary/scripturalrosary.asp
 
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