Your rosary habits

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I usually pray 5 Mysteries each day, including the Luminous Mysteries on Thursdays. M- Joyful, Tu- Sorrowful, W- Glorious, Th- Luminous, F- Sorrowful, Sa- Joyful, Su- Glorious. Sunday’s Mysteries can change depending on the time of year and on feast days… Lent would be Sorrowful, Advent and Christmas would be Joyful etc.

I usually pray at home alone using beads and pray the 5 straight. If I pray while I’m driving, then no beads and maybe only one or two Mysteries at a time. Lately I’ve enjoyed praying along with Scriptural Rosaries …there are various ones on Youtube that I like. Sometimes I use an audio file. Sometimes with an audio file and Scriptural verses. Sometimes an audio file and images and verses to fill my senses. Sometimes I walk, sometimes I sit, sometimes I kneel. My main focus is the Mysteries.

I pray to the Holy Spirit at the beginning, and for faith, hope and love early on, and for the Pope at the end, and finish with the prayer to the Archangel Michael.
 
I don’t pray the “Luminous Mysteries” because the Pope has no right to change what Our Lady instituted.
 
smead2942 said:
I don’t pray the “Luminous Mysteries” because the Pope has no right to change what Our Lady instituted.
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I’m afraid that’s not true, dear smead. Our Lady does not put herself above the pope’s decisions regarding devotions. He has full authority from Christ in such matters.

The mysteries weren’t given to St. Dominic, rather Our Lady encouraged him to promote the rosary for the conversion of those leaving the Church for heretical sects–that rosary was not the very same one we use today.

The rosary has it’s origins in the Divine Office. People would pray 150 Hail Marys in lieu of the 150 Psalms of the Divine Office. This was due to the average layman’s inability to read the Psalms–most people were illiterate at the time.

The Our Fathers and Glory bes were later additions, as were other prayers now commonly prayed as part of the rosary. The traditional mysteries developed over time. They are not cast in cement. We are perfectly free to meditate on any aspect of the lives of Jesus and Mary we wish while praying the rosary, which is a private devotion, not a matter of doctrine or dogma.
 
smead2942 said:
I don’t pray the “Luminous Mysteries” because the Pope has no right to change what Our Lady instituted.
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He didn’t change anything. He added to them. While I agree with Della that the Pope has authority from Christ to lead His Church, I also don’t see how Our Lady could possibly be offended by us focusing our attention on additional aspects about the life and resurrection of her Divine Son. We still pray the other mysteries - if we follow the normal pattern- twice as much.
 
AKDee said:
He didn’t change anything. He added to them. While I agree with Della that the Pope has authority from Christ to lead His Church, I also don’t see how Our Lady could possibly be offended by us focusing our attention on additional aspects about the life and resurrection of her Divine Son. We still pray the other mysteries - if we follow the normal pattern- twice as much.
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Yes, it’s a private devotion, as opposed to a liturgy of the Church–the public prayers of the Church, such as Mass or the Divine Office, which have a definite rubrics we are supposed to follow. We are free to meditate on any aspect of the Gospel we like while praying the rosary or any other such private devotion.
 
hereagain said:
For me, I enjoy the Luminous as much as the others. It’s sort of like the Deuterocanonical books of the OT compared to the non-Catholic Bibles without them as it fills a gap. In this case, in the life of Christ.

Personally, I wouldn’t mind there being even more mysteries of even more aspects of the life of Christ! Variance keeps things fresher for me.
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I wouldn’t mind seeing that, either. It would tie in nicely with my “Bible in one year.”
Della said:
I composed such a rosary which sold through Our Sunday Visitor a few years ago, but when the Luminous Mysteries came out, they decided to not reprint my book. I think it was a mistake, but I’m not in the publishing business. Perhaps I should remind them that they have it. Maybe they’d reissue it, so people can benefit from using it., once again It has 5 mysteries for each day beginning with Mary’s Immaculate Conception. It includes things like the Flight into Egypt, Jesus’ Baptism, the Wedding at Cana, etc. I dedicated Saturdays to Mary and started Mondays with Jesus’ birth. It was called “The Beautiful Gate Rosary.” I doubt there are any copies out there, but a Google search might find one for you. I have it on my computer, of course. Not trying to sell you anything–just letting you know it’s possible to reflect on more than the traditional mysteries. I simply did the work so others wouldn’t have to–hopefully it wasn’t in vain. :o
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Thanks for posting.

There are in fact a few copies on Amazon.
 
Deditus_Domina said:
I am not particularly fond of the rosary and it is always the first thing to drop from my prayer life. I usually pray it Saturday mornings when I make my 1 1/2 mile walk to morning mass and so usually say the joyous mysteries (glorious during Easter, sorrowful during Lent). If I am seated somewhere where I can read along, I like to do the Carthusian/Life of Christ Rosary which takes you through a different moment of Jesus life on each Hail Mary.
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csrcia said:
The Life of Christ Rosary sounds like a wonderful Rosary!
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Thanks to the posters for bringing it up.

There’s a website that seems reliable where it’s available for free:

lifeofchristrosary.com/
 
Della said:
We are free to meditate on any aspect of the Gospel we like while praying the rosary or any other such private devotion.
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Agreed. My priest once gave me as a penance to say a decade of the Rosary while meditating on the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt.
 
I prayed the Life of Christ Rosary this morning before heading out to work. It really is a wonderful Rosary.

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Can anyone tell where I can find the “Oh, my Jesus” prayer in Latin? I can find the Glory be, the Our Father and the Hail Mary.

We want to say a decade in Latin at the abortion clinic tomorrow.

Thanks.
 
Thanks for posting that, the monthly Latin Mass I go to is having the rosary beforehand in Latin this month so I was looking for something like this.
 
Mystrx said:
I try to pray the rosary daily. I follow the traditional weekly schedule from before the luminous mysteries were introduced. I used to pray the luminous and I still do sometimes. Lately I’ve been seriously considering adding the Fatima prayer into it as well.

Anyone else use the Fatima prayer during their rosary?

Its usually a night prayer before bed. Before mass sometimes also.
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I say five decades daily by myself and include the luminous mysteries according to Rosary Center’s advice. I say the Fatima prayer after each Glory Be. I like to sing the Hail Holy Queen and after each rosary pray two more Fatima prayers three times each, the Angel prayer and the simple “O my God,I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you. I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love you.”
I like to pray it at home mostly. The worst is to say it while driving and have someone cut me off.
 
My resolve to pray the Rosary every day fluctuates. When I am at my best, I pray Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, in that order from Monday to Wednesday and from Thursday to Saurday; with whatever set of mysteries matches the liturgical season on Sunday. The only problem with this is that Sundays in Lent are supposed to be a bit of a break from the bleakness. Sundays are mini-Easters in Lent and you are not supposed to be bound by whatever penance you took for Lent since it is Sunday and you celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection. So, Sorrowful mysteries seem out of place on Sunday’s in Lent, but, for uniformity’s sake, it works well.

I don’t pray the Luminous mysteries because they disrupt the chronology of the week. If you keep the traditional mysteries, you journey through Christ’s life in a three-day period chronologically. Other than that, I don’t have any disdain or suspicion towards them. Occasionally, I pray them, but they are certainly not a part of my regular devotion.

I think the internal strife in the Western Church over the Luminous mysteries is one of the silliest things. There are some who freak out every time they hear a Traditionalist Catholic say they don’t pray the Luminous Mysteries; something that is contrary to their founder since he himself said they were a suggestion, at best. Something pastoral, almost. However, likewise I find much Traditionalist disdain for the Luminous mysteries to be grounded in inconsistent thinking. Some will say you’re not supposed to mess with the Rosary as it came down from our Lady, forgetting the immense amount of change it went through in the long time before the Luminous Mysteries were suggested. Some will also say that, ordinarily, only the saints can make changes to such things. Well, now John Paul II IS a saint, so, I don’t know where that’s gonna put ya.
 
As a lifelong Catholic I was never a rosary prayer until about 5 weeks ago. I decided to give it a try after reading so many testimonials. I must admit it seemed a bit monotonous at first and I had trouble staying focused. However, I used a book that someone at adoration gave me a while back that helps me meditate on each decade. Also, there are a lot of you tube videos that are really good for the different mysteries and there’s always went. These help keep me focused and provide some variety. I haven’t missed a day in 5 weeks and hope it will be a daily habit for life. It’s very soothing and peaceful.
 
Today was a great day. I prayed the full 15 decades of the rosary. I figured since it’s summer this would be a good habit to get into, instead of just sitting around all day. I hope that I will be able to keep up this practice throughout the summer and into the future.
 
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