What is the view of Eastern orthodox and eastern catholics on the latin rosary?

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What is their opinion , what do they think about the rosary as we pray it.
 
From what I’ve been able to find out, the Eastern Orthodox don’t pray the Marian Rosary. They do have a version of the rosary where they use prayer beads/or ropes to pray the Jesus Prayer.

The EO do have a beautiful version of the Hail Mary (The Angelic Salutation) that they pray. Here’s one translation from the Greek:

Virgin, rejoice, (or: Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos)
Mary full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
for thou hast borne Christ the Saviour,
the Deliverer of our souls.
 
Some Eastern Catholics pray the rosary, I know a lot of Maronites do. But, it is not necessarily an Eastern Christian tradition, Eastern Catholics tend to have more in common with Eastern Orthodox, from a practice standpoint, than they do with Latins. That said, I am a Latin, and I do pray some Eastern Christian prayers. And I think it really depends on whom you ask, some of the Eastern Orthodox Churches have a better relationship than some others with Catholics.
 
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Not that I’ve ever heard, I even had an Eastern Orthodox Professor, that went out of his way, not only an Eastern Orthodox Professor, Eastern Orthodox priest, who went out of his way to tell the class that Catholics do not worship Mary.
 
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It depends on which eastern rite it is… now from what I have seen the eastern catholic churches only differentiate when it comes to the form and rite of liturgy… I have seen members of various eastern catholic churches and even parishes praying the rosary everyday before or after mass or Divine Liturgy (as they call it)… even the religious orders from the eastern catholic churches wear the rosary on their habit… not a general rule but as a devotion its wide spread.
 
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I think they have some kind of rosary in their wrist but they pray saying… Lord Jesus have mercy on my because I’m a sinner.
 
I think there are orthodox who regard us with good eyes and some others who hate our guts
 
As it is not part of Eastern Rite tradition I believe that the induglences attached to the rosary may be applied to the Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God. And what a beautiful hymn it is!
 
What I am referring to is the actual rosary… I have been for their rosary they recite after mass with the Creed, Our Father’s and Hail Mary’s etc… I’m talking about the Syrian Catholic rites.
 
They don’t pray the rosary, but I have never heard or read anything negative about it from Eastern Orthodoxy.
 
deprofundis89 said:
What I am referring to is the actual rosary… I have been for their rosary they recite after mass with the Creed, Our Father’s and Hail Mary’s etc… I’m talking about the Syrian Catholic rites.
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Our local Maronite Church is called Our Lady of the Rosary. I’m guessing that they pray it. 🙂

I’m mostly familiar with Byzantine Catholics and I know many who pray the Rosary, including myself and my pastor. We wouldn’t pray it in church, nor would it be scheduled as a parish activity, but many Eastern Catholics appreciate it as the private devotion that it is. While it did not originate in the East, it has been a part of the prayer lives of Eastern Catholics for hundreds of years.
 
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Miguel25 said:
I think they have some kind of rosary in their wrist but they pray saying… Lord Jesus have mercy on my because I’m a sinner.
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It is a prayer rope, called various names in different languages. The only thing it has in common with the Rosary is that it is used for counting prayers.
 
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As it is not part of Eastern Rite tradition I believe that the induglences attached to the rosary may be applied to the Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God. And what a beautiful hymn it is!
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I’ve never heard that. It is interesting to know. Of course, the Akathist takes about 4x as long as the Rosary, unless you are praying all 20 decades.
 
The rosary is very popular as a private devotion among the Maronites and Chaldeans, at least in the US (I speak to this as a Maronite). The rosary is, as some have pointed out, part of the habits of all the Maronite religious orders I have encountered. It has been a Maronite devotion for centuries, albeit some will lament it as a latinization. But then there are also many Maronites who use a misbaha to count prayers on.

I also know Byzantine Catholics who pray the rosary as a private devotion.

But it is not used by the Orthodox. The Orthodox, however, do have the prayer rule of the Theotokos, which is amazingly similar to the rosary. It is 150 angelic salutations (hail Mary’s), divided into 15 decades and the mysteries are very close to the latin rosary mysteries. It actually predates the Dominican rosary by about 500 or so years…
 
Maybe you are referring to the akathist read/sung in the Church.
It takes me 30 minutes to read an akathist including beginning prayers.
I usually just listen to the Rosary because I don’t know how to pray it and one set of mysteries lasts just as long.
 
We have many prayers to Virgin Mary - akathist, two paraklesis, a collection of prayers called “The Psaltery of the Mother of God”. This is probably one of the reason it never caught up, this and the Schism. Catholic tradition following the Schism is always filtered and brushed of any ideas considered heresies by the Orthodox Church. About Virgin Mary the discussion is about her Immaculate Conception. For us to say that she was born without the original sin is to diminish her own efforts and sainthood. In order to conceive the Redeemer she had to overcome the original sin and she did this before He came, so she did it by herself also like all the saints. To say that she never had to struggle with it since God has prepared her from the start sounds like disrespecting and diminishing her to us.
 
Mary888 said:
Maybe you are referring to the akathist read/sung in the Church.
It takes me 30 minutes to read an akathist including beginning prayers.
I usually just listen to the Rosary because I don’t know how to pray it and one set of mysteries lasts just as long.
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When we chant the Akathist in church, it takes about an hour. This is the only way I’ve ever prayed it, from beginning to end, in one setting. When I pray the Rosary, it takes about 15 minutes.
 
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About Virgin Mary the discussion is about her Immaculate Conception. For us to say that she was born without the original sin is to diminish her own efforts and sainthood. In order to conceive the Redeemer she had to overcome the original sin and she did this before He came, so she did it by herself also like all the saints. To say that she never had to struggle with it since God has prepared her from the start sounds like disrespecting and diminishing her to us
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I think that you misunderstand the concept of the Immaculate Conception. Nowhere does the Catholic Church teach that Mary never had to struggle with temptation, that she never had a choice. She, like Eve before her, was conceived in a state of original innocence. Unlike Eve, she never fell into sin. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception is simply the answer to a question the Eastern Church never needed to ask, because of the divergent concepts of original/ancestral sin.

The East and the West believe the same thing about our Blessed Mother - she was all-holy, immaculate and the Mother of God.
 
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