The Rosary devotion is comprised of several prayers, which are all rooted in Scripture. Traditionally a Catholic prayer, you might recognize it from Mass. Each line comes from Scripture but from different books, including the Gospels , 1 Peter, 1 Corinthians, Acts, and more.
Although the repeated Hail Mary is addressed directly to Mary, it is to Jesus that the act of love is ultimately directed, with her and through her. The Hail Mary prayer is the heart of the Rosary. This prayer, in which we ask Mary for her intercession, is rooted in Scripture. The Glory Be is often referred to as the doxology , a word that comes from Greek, meaning an expression of praise or glory.
This prayer is quite common and straightforward — we pray for God to be glorified. Each of the five decades of the Rosary highlights a mystery from the life of Jesus. There are four sets of mysteries, each containing five pivotal moments from the life of Jesus — including the Joyful, Sorrowful, Luminous, and Glorious mysteries. The Church traditionally prays certain mysteries on certain days of the week, as follows:.
The Joyful mysteries invite us to enter into the wonder of Jesus coming to earth as a baby. The Sorrowful mysteries help us relive the death of Jesus.
We not only remember it, but we also enter into it — we sit beside Jesus in the garden before he is arrested The Agony in the Garden. Through meditating on these events, we attempt to encounter the suffering Jesus endured for us truly. We feel this pain and loss even more deeply as we imagine seeing it happen through the eyes of his mother.
We experience the joy of the risen Christ, imagining ourselves as Mary or the first disciples The Resurrection. The last two mysteries are the only two that are not explicitly mentioned in Scripture but rather come from hundreds of years of tradition based on passages from Revelation and Song of Songs. Optional Leader: Let us pray. All: O God whose only begotten Son by his life, death, and Resurrection has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life; grant we beseech thee, that meditating on these mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise through the same Christ our Lord.
Leader: O Mother of the Redeemer Living Tabernacle of the Eucharist, and Luminous Rose of Heaven, with humble confidence we ask you to bestow upon the Holy Father all the graces and blessings reserved for him by the Holy Trinity from all eternity.
Leader: Help his friends Leader: Saint Joseph The Glorious Mysteries are then prayed on Saturday and Sunday. Now that the Luminous Mysteries have recently been added, the schedule is:. Try to place yourself "into" the scene of the particular mystery as you pray, imagining the sights, smells, sounds, and emotions that Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and other participants experienced during the actual events.
It is also okay to meditate on the meaning of the words of the prayers as you pray them, or even to meditate on the person for whom you are offering the Rosary. Some people offer particular intentions before each decade. You can ask God to grant you a favor, heal a sick person, or convert a sinner. Some people offer the same intention every day--sometimes for years on end--especially when asking the Father for the conversion of a particular person.
Intentions are as varied as the people who pray. Ask for big and small gifts. Be bold! In this sense, the Rosary is an exchange of gifts between friends.
It is widely known that Our Lady answers seemingly impossible intentions to those who are first beginning to pray the Rosary. This is her way of drawing you closer to Her and to Jesus. If you are praying your first Rosary, or returning to the Rosary after years of not talking to Our Lady, ask for something big, spectacular, "impossible. The Catholic Church, exercising its authority to "bind and loose on heaven and earth," and in perfect accord with God's Mercy, has set the following conditions for the granting of a plenary indulgence for those who pray the Rosary:.
By fulfilling these simple but often difficult conditions, you merit the grace to release one soul from Purgatory. While we are free to ask God to apply this grace to a particular soul, God can do as he pleases, according to His Will and Mercy. You can also ask God to apply this special grace to your own soul.
A plenary indulgence will relieve the temporal punishment due to sin it will not absolve the sin or cause the sin to be forgiven. Consequently, one who recites the twenty mysteries of the Rosary in one day reflects on the whole liturgical cycle that the Church commemorates during the course of each year. That is why some of the Popes have referred to the Rosary as a compendium of the Gospel. One cannot change the mysteries of the Rosary without losing the indulgences that the Church grants for the recitation of the Rosary.
Here is a chart:. For more information on the Rosary, please visit our page What is the Rosary? There is also a manner of praying the Rosary according to the Order of Preachers. It is identical to the normal Roman Catholic manner, except the introductory prayers are based on the opening prayers from the Liturgy of the Hours.
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