The "proper" Rosary

[jnjinnc]

My wife and I attend daily Mass and Rosary. On occasion, we have a former Anglican Priest (now Roman Catholic) lead the Rosary.

I don’t doubt his spirituality. However, his wording is “different” than the wording of the Rosary that I have used these past 65+ years. Example, in the Apostles Creed, he uses words from the Athanasian Creed… “He will come to judge the quick and the dead”. Is there any problem here, or is this just a different way of praying the same beliefs?

There are several other prayers that differ from what I have used these many years, but you get the idea.

John

 

[AndrewRuki]

My wife and I attend daily Mass and Rosary. On occasion, we have a former Anglican Priest (now Roman Catholic) lead the Rosary.

I don’t doubt his spirituality. However, his wording is “different” than the wording of the Rosary that I have used these past 65+ years. Example, in the Apostles Creed, he uses words from the Athanasian Creed… “He will come to judge the quick and the dead”. Is there any problem here, or is this just a different way of praying the same beliefs?

There are several other prayers that differ from what I have used these many years, but you get the idea.

John

Peace be with you Brother John.

I too have come across several people praying different creeds. In our church we use the Niocene creed as well as the Apostles’ creed. I too have heard a few of these versions, including the “quick and the dead”.
I seriously doubt that the faith is any different from ours. I believe that is the upbringing, guiding and teaching that they have received in the earlier years.
Hope this makes sense.
Dominus vobiscum.

 

[Murmurs]

My wife and I attend daily Mass and Rosary. On occasion, we have a former Anglican Priest (now Roman Catholic) lead the Rosary.

I don’t doubt his spirituality. However, his wording is “different” than the wording of the Rosary that I have used these past 65+ years. Example, in the Apostles Creed, he uses words from the Athanasian Creed… “He will come to judge the quick and the dead”. Is there any problem here, or is this just a different way of praying the same beliefs?

There are several other prayers that differ from what I have used these many years, but you get the idea.

John

A former Anglican myself, the traditional (Book of Common Prayer) wordings of many of the common prayers are so ingrained in me that unless I concentrate very hard I will half the time say “the quick and the dead” in either Creed; similarly “Holy Ghost” in the Glory Be or even “in Earth as it is in Heaven”, and probably a number of other minor differences too - even after several years.

I once asked a priest about it, more out of curiosity, and he confirmed there’s absolutely nothing wrong, or different, in either use (except the specific words themselves!) - they might originate from a different tradition but they are used for exactly the same intent and with the same beliefs behind them. Indeed where Anglicans and Roman Catholics can happily find common ground is in their inheritance of these Creeds, and these sorts of standard prayers, and what meaning to derive from them. ‘Quick’, for instance, is merely a sixteenth-century English word for ‘alive’ or ‘living’ (we still sometimes talk of a pregnant woman ‘quickening’ when she first feels foetal movements).

God bless,
Ellie

 

[CB_Catholic]

My wife and I attend daily Mass and Rosary. On occasion, we have a former Anglican Priest (now Roman Catholic) lead the Rosary.

I don’t doubt his spirituality. However, his wording is “different” than the wording of the Rosary that I have used these past 65+ years. Example, in the Apostles Creed, he uses words from the Athanasian Creed… “He will come to judge the quick and the dead”. Is there any problem here, or is this just a different way of praying the same beliefs?

There are several other prayers that differ from what I have used these many years, but you get the idea.

John

Besides what others have said, the Rosary is a private devotion–there is no “official” version. One may pray it as they wish.