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Catholic Caucus: Rosary Meditations - Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous
The Gregorian Institute at Benedictine College ^ | June 24th through 27th, 2016 | by Tom Hoopes

Posted on 10/28/2017 1:26:24 AM PDT by topher

“With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives,” said Pope Benedict XVI in October.

He was recommending praying the Rosary daily during the Year of Faith. These scriptures and meditations, a version of which first appeared in the National Catholic Register in the Year of the Rosary, can help.

Rosary Meditations: The Joyful Mysteries

Rosary Meditations: The Sorrowful Mysteries

Rosary Meditations: The Luminous Mysteries

Rosary Meditations: The Glorious Mysteries

(Excerpt) Read more at thegregorian.org ...


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KEYWORDS: meditations; rosary
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These are on separate web pages. I am just posting the links so that you can read/print the mysteries you want...
1 posted on 10/28/2017 1:26:24 AM PDT by topher
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To: topher

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2 posted on 10/28/2017 8:58:29 AM PDT by simpson96
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Rosary BTTT!


3 posted on 10/28/2017 9:05:00 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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So, has everyone just gone ahead and adopted the Luminous Mysteries?


4 posted on 10/28/2017 1:04:03 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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The other Mysteries are about the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Is it wrong to pray and meditate about the life of Jesus?

Originally, people (monks) would read the books of Psalms to meditate. But because it was not easy to make copies of the Book of Psalms, the Rosary was developed (which means Crown of Roses).

5 posted on 10/28/2017 1:18:32 PM PDT by topher (America, please Do The Right Thing!)
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Wow, no need to get so defensive.

I just asked what people are doing.


6 posted on 10/28/2017 1:53:40 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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Apologies. I was trying explain a little about the history of the Rosary.

Probably should not have had that language.

Apologies again.

God bless.

7 posted on 10/28/2017 4:57:30 PM PDT by topher (America, please Do The Right Thing!)
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No problem.

I just wanted to know if anyone else was made uncomfortable by this innovation.


8 posted on 10/28/2017 5:00:15 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: topher

How are the sorrowful mysteries not about Jesus?


9 posted on 10/28/2017 6:32:46 PM PDT by Mercat (I know my redeemer lives.)
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There is no Church legislation of any kind on how the Rosary is to be recited. Even when it's done in public, it is still considered a private devotion. Different religious orders long have different customary forms. Even the Chaplet of Divine Mercy can be seen as a distinctively different variation on the Rosary.

I have heard a little --- but only a very little ---- objection to the Luminous Mysteries: not because they're doctrinally wrong, of course but simply because they are, in the context of the Rosary, an innovation.

There may be some who simply would prefer the 15 mystery version for more personal reasons. I'm thinking of Rumer Godden's novel, "Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy" --- she liked to examine the balance between the mystical, spiritual aspects of religion and the practical, human realities of a believer's life.)

10 posted on 10/28/2017 7:19:10 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (O Mary, He whom the whole Universe cannot contain, enclosed Himself in your womb and was made man.)
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“I have heard a little -— but only a very little —— objection to the Luminous Mysteries: not because they’re doctrinally wrong, of course but simply because they are, in the context of the Rosary, an innovation.”

I’m not firmly against them, but I have come to resent innovations.


11 posted on 10/28/2017 8:16:38 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Mercat

You are right. My mistake. I guess some mysteries of the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious are about Jesus and some about Mary.


12 posted on 10/29/2017 5:37:32 AM PDT by topher (America, please Do The Right Thing!)
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I hear ya there. Innovations are so rarely improvements.


13 posted on 10/29/2017 7:57:55 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Unless I am mistaken, I'm infallible.)
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No problem. I say the rosary daily. I started doing that before I felt a strong devotion. All the mysteries are biblically based except arguably the Assumption of Mary and her Coronation but I did a Bible study on Mary and they are again, arguably foreshadowed in the Bible.


14 posted on 10/29/2017 8:39:38 AM PDT by Mercat (I know my redeemer lives.)
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No. Prayer is good, and the so-called luminous mysteries may be fine in themselves, but have nothing to do with the Rosary. The Rosary is also known as Mary’s Psalter, being essentially 150 prayers mirroring the 150 Psalms read regularly by Priests, but oriented to laymen who may be illiterate and certainly have no hand-copied Psalter available. The advent of the printing press changed the circumstances, but the Rosary is ‘canonized’ by immemorial custom and promoted as such by many Popes.


15 posted on 10/29/2017 10:52:03 AM PDT by DumbestOx ("Where is everybody?" - Enrico Fermi, 1950)
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I just wanted to know if anyone else was made uncomfortable by this innovation.

I am uncomfortable. I have never prayed the glow-in-the-dark mysteries; never will.

16 posted on 10/29/2017 11:10:13 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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“the Rosary is ‘canonized’ by immemorial custom and promoted as such by many Popes.”

Right? It made me want to ask, “Who does he think he is to alter the Rosary?”

The answer, of course, is, “He’s the pope. Who are you?”

But is that enough? Does even the pope have the authority to do such a thing?


17 posted on 10/29/2017 1:44:16 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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I haven’t come down that hard, yet, but I can’t criticize those who do, either.


18 posted on 10/29/2017 2:02:33 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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I saw something on Ireland trying to say the rosary along its coast like Poland did on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

I may suggest this to our Church to say it around the Church.

19 posted on 10/29/2017 2:39:32 PM PDT by topher (America, please Do The Right Thing!)
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All 20 of the mysteries, excepting two, pertain to Christ in some way.


20 posted on 10/29/2017 2:42:48 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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