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Anyone have peculiar rosary habits in which they celebrate the Mysteries.?

Do you say just one mystery or do them all? Say it with family or by yourself? Are you prone to saying it slow, or very fast? Have a special place in where you say it?
 
punisherthunder said:
Anyone have peculiar rosary habits in which they celebrate the Mysteries.?
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I have a booklet I use to aid my concentration on the mysteries. Like most of us, my mind can wander if I don’t have something to “ground” my meditation.
Do you say just one mystery or do them all?
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I pray 5 decades per day following various chronological events in the Gospels.
Say it with family or by yourself?
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Since my family is only my dh and me, I tend to pray it alone.
Are you prone to saying it slow, or very fast?
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I breath the prayers in and out, so I pray them at neither a slow or fast pace, but at a pace natural for me. I find this the best way for me.
Have a special place in where you say it?
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In my lounge chair actually–often with a cat on my lap. As St. Teresa of Avila recommended, the best way to pray is to be comfortable, if one wants to actually pray not offer penance. 😉
 
I follow the schedule I found:
M-Joyful
T- Sorrowful
W-Glorious
Th- Luminous
F- Sorrowful
Sa-Joyful
Su-Glorious

I do one 5-decade Rosary per day.

Typically I do them at home, in my bedroom, shortly before bed. I generally offer the Rosary for an intention, or several intentions. It try to say it slowly and mindfully, and to focus on the individual mystery as I say the prayers. I may see in my minds eye the scene the mystery is about, or perhaps I will focus more on something important about that scene, or perhaps on the fruit of the mystery. As an example, on the Sorrowful mysteries on the first mystery of our Lord’s Agony in the Garden, I may see in my minds eye our Lord praying, his closest 3 apostles sleeping, our Lord begging for the cup to be taken from him and then saying “But not my will but Yours be done” (and I’ll focus on how important that was) and then Judas coming with the guards, kissing Jesus, and the guards tying Jesus up. Or I may focus specifically on how important prayer is and how our Lord showed us in this mystery how we must seek our Father in prayer. Or I might focus on the fruit, which is sorrow for sin, and ask that I be given more sorrow for my own sins. My focus changes sometimes on it’s own, as though Our Lady might be helping me to focus on something specific that will be helpful to me that day.

I also try to say a Rosary in Church on Sunday either before or after Mass, and also on Friday evenings when I do a Holy Hour/Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.

Edit to add: I also sometimes will do a Rosary for the Holy Souls in Purgatory where before each Ave bead I will say the name of someone who has passed and offer the Ave for them.
 
I usually pray the rosary in my car or during Mass. My default is the sorrowful mysteries with the joyful mysteries my second choice.
I’m glad you asked the question as I am going to put more energy into the glorious mysteries now that I see I see that I have been neglecting them.
May Our Lady pray for us.
Amen.
 
I have a beautiful rosary that was sent to me from Paris, France by my granddaughter – I carry it with me always – the first two decades I say with my first cup of coffee – the next decade I say at my computer when I’m checking to see what’s going to be on EWTN that day – the next decade I say when I’m walking to public transportation or to Church – and the last decade I say before I turn out the light at night - I couldn’t get along without my rosary – it truly keeps me"going"!!!
 
I pray the rosary (five decades) every day when I’m out walking. Sometimes I mouth the words quietly to myself as I go, but since more people started talking on their hands-free cell phones when they’re out and about, I look less conspicuous.

If my schedule doesn’t permit the daily walk, I pray a decade or two when I’m driving from place to place. I always figure some of the rosary is better than none at all.
 
punisherthunder said:
Anyone have peculiar rosary habits in which they celebrate the Mysteries.?

Do you say just one mystery or do them all? Say it with family or by yourself? Are you prone to saying it slow, or very fast? Have a special place in where you say it?
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I say a perpetual Rosary novena everyday by myself where I circulate between the Sorrowful, Glorious, and Joyful mysteries (one mystery per decade). Everyone couple days I’ll say an extra Rosary and I’ll meditate on the Mysteries for that day.
 
I pray the mysteries in this order: Sunday-Glorious, Monday-Joyful, Tuesday-Sorrowful, Wednesday-Glorious, Thursday-Joyful, Friday-Sorrowful, and Saturday-Glorious. I rotate the Sundays to match the Liturgical season.

I always pray the rosary alone in front of my altar kneeling. Since I pray the rosary in Latin, I also announce the mysteries in Latin as such: in primo mysterio doloroso, agoniam Domini Nostri Iesu Christi in hortu contemplemur, et contritionem pro peccatis nostris petamus (In the First Sorrowful Mystery, let us contemplate the Agony in the Garden of Our Lord Jesus Christ and seek contrition for our sins).
 
I pray the Rosary everyday and rotate thru the Four
Mysteries:- Glorious, Joyful, Sorrowful and Luminous
saying the Luminous mysteries on Thursdays.
 
Confiteor_Deo said:
I pray the mysteries in this order: Sunday-Glorious, Monday-Joyful, Tuesday-Sorrowful, Wednesday-Glorious, Thursday-Joyful, Friday-Sorrowful, and Saturday-Glorious. I rotate the Sundays to match the Liturgical season.

I always pray the rosary alone in front of my altar kneeling. Since I pray the rosary in Latin, I also announce the mysteries in Latin as such: in primo mysterio doloroso, agoniam Domini Nostri Iesu Christi in hortu contemplemur, et contritionem pro peccatis nostris petamus (In the First Sorrowful Mystery, let us contemplate the Agony in the Garden of Our Lord Jesus Christ and seek contrition for our sins).
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Why do you skip the Luminous?
It’s the life of Christ, His public ministry. It’s likely VERY pleasing to Our Lady to remember the life of her Son.
 
pianistclare said:
Why do you skip the Luminous?
It’s the life of Christ, His public ministry. It’s likely VERY pleasing to Our Lady to remember the life of her Son.
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I don’t pray the Luminous Mysteries because it makes everything go out of order. In the traditional order, you complete the rosary twice in consecutive order of Joyful-Sorrowful-Glorious.
 
Confiteor_Deo said:
I don’t pray the Luminous Mysteries because it makes everything go out of order. In the traditional order, you complete the rosary twice in consecutive order of Joyful-Sorrowful-Glorious.
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Quite the contrary. The Luminous Mysteries are the missing parts.
In Christ’s life, it didn’t jump from Christmas to the Agony in the Garden.
There’s all those Gospels.
His Baptism.
His first miracle at Cana. (public ministry)
The Proclamation of the Kingdom.
The Transfiguration
The Institution of the Holy Eucharist ( A VERY important mystery)

which leads right into to the Passion.

Who cares what day of the week they fall on?
The meditation on the life of Christ is the point, and Our Lady always points to her Son.
I hope you will prayerfully reconsider.
 
I only started this past june. I qdo follow the JP II order. ive been waking up around 4 in the morning feeling dread of my daily life, i’ll say the 5 decade for that day, if I don’t complete it, I finish on my drive to work. i’ve discovered I can complete the entire set while driving home, then again just prior to bed. it does make me feel less stressed out. i plan to keep it up as long as I can!
 
pianistclare said:
Quite the contrary. The Luminous Mysteries are the missing parts.
In Christ’s life, it didn’t jump from Christmas to the Agony in the Garden.
There’s all those Gospels.
His Baptism.
His first miracle at Cana. (public ministry)
The Proclamation of the Kingdom.
The Transfiguration
The Institution of the Holy Eucharist ( A VERY important mystery)

which leads right into to the Passion.

Who cares what day of the week they fall on?
The meditation on the life of Christ is the point, and Our Lady always points to her Son.
I hope you will prayerfully reconsider.
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I used to pray the Luminous Mysteries, but I found myself continually drawn to the other mysteries over the Luminous ones. I guess I find those mysteries as much more profound than the Luminous. All of my books don’t include the Luminous Mysteries, so I wouldn’t know where to read up about them.
 
I never say the Luminous mysteries either, unless it’s with a group in church.
 
Confiteor_Deo said:
I used to pray the Luminous Mysteries, but I found myself continually drawn to the other mysteries over the Luminous ones. I guess I find those mysteries as much more profound than the Luminous. All of my books don’t include the Luminous Mysteries, so I wouldn’t know where to read up about them.
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More profound than the Eucharist?
Wow. read the Bible. All of these mysteries are in great detail there.
If you’d like a new Rosary book I will send you one.
 
Seamus_L said:
I never say the Luminous mysteries either, unless it’s with a group in church.
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I teach.
I have found that with the addition of the Luminous Mysteries, the students much more readily remember and grasp the others because it is the complete chronological order of the life of Christ, It makes sense, so they can easily memorize them.
 
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