Which Mysteries Should Be Used?

[aggiecatholic]

Our KC council is hosting a pro-life half-hour of prayer tonight which will include 5 decades of the rosary. Upon which mysteries should we meditate? Just wondering if we should use something specific for “pro-life” or if we should stick with the traditional reciting of the joyful mysteries since it’s a Monday.

Many thanks…

 

[Della]

The Joyful Mysteries would be good if you are emphasizing the positives of being fruitful with children. Although, if you want to emphasize the detrimental effects of contraception, abortion, euthanasia, etc., the Sorrowful Mysteries might be good. But whichever way your folks go, it might be good to explain why you are praying with the mysteries you have chosen so people’s prayers will be focused more on what you want them to be focused on.

 

[LilyM]

I’ve been praying along with EWTN’s Rosary for Life - you can listen or download it here. It uses the joyful mysteries and has some beautiful reflections introducing each one.

 

[Marsha_Adams]

There is no reason why you couldn’t develop your own pro-life mysteries, the Bible is full of women who were blessed with children when they were nearly in dispair of ever having babies: Hannah, Sarah, the woman who was kind to Elisha, and Elizabeth, also there is the Psalm which refers to how blessed a man is when his quiver is full of arrows (arrows being symbolic of sons in this case).

You might not have time to develop them this year, but there is always next.

Marsha

 

[johnnycatholic]

One pro-life mystery you might use for this sad occasion is the slaughter of the Holy Innocents. I think the Joyful are good, too, though for celebrating baby Jesus from conception to childhood.

 

[LilyM]

I suppose you could include a few others - more to do with end-of-life issues, which tend to get pushed aside in favour of abortion.

I’m thinking of things like Jesus healing the young girl who had supposedly died, or the raising of Lazarus or even Noah being commissioned to build the Ark at the age of 500 or whatever it was.

 

[puzzleannie]

Our KC council is hosting a pro-life half-hour of prayer tonight which will include 5 decades of the rosary. Upon which mysteries should we meditate? Just wondering if we should use something specific for “pro-life” or if we should stick with the traditional reciting of the joyful mysteries since it’s a Monday.

Many thanks…

Joyful Mysteries are great for pro-life focus, since the focus on the Incarnation, birth and childhood of Jesus. there are also meditations that announce each mystery which are specifically pro-life in content.

I have in my files a pro-life stations of the cross with meditations by Fr Frank Pavone, and also rosary mediations on the joyful mysteries
www.priestsforlife.org/prayers/rosaryjoyful

hope this helps

the full link does not work but it does get you to priests for life, maybe they still have it.

1st Annunciation, Mary is troubled by the Angel’s greeting yet rejoices to do God’s will. Let us pray that those who are troubled by their pregnancy may have the grace to trust in God’s will.

2d Visitation. John the Baptist leapt for joy in his mother’s womb. We pray that people may realize that abortion is not about children who “might” come into the world, but is about children who are already in the world, living and growing in the womb, yet are scheduled to be killed.

3d Nativity. God himself was born as a child. The greatness of a person does not depend on size for the newborn King is very small. Let us pray for an end to prejudice against tiny babies threatened by abortion.

4th Presentation. The child is presented in the temple because the child belongs to God. Children are not the property of their parents, nor of the bovernment. They, and we, belong to God himself.

5th Finding the Child Jesus in the Temple
The boy Jesus was filled with wisdom because He is God . Let us pray that all people may see the wisdom of his teachings about the dignity of life, and may understand that this teaching is not an opinion, but the truth.

there are also meditations for the other mysteries.