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
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Rosary BTTT!
So, has everyone just gone ahead and adopted the Luminous Mysteries?
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).
Wow, no need to get so defensive.
I just asked what people are doing.
Probably should not have had that language.
Apologies again.
God bless.
No problem.
I just wanted to know if anyone else was made uncomfortable by this innovation.
How are the sorrowful mysteries not about Jesus?
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.)
“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.
You are right. My mistake. I guess some mysteries of the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious are about Jesus and some about Mary.
I hear ya there. Innovations are so rarely improvements.
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.
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.
I am uncomfortable. I have never prayed the glow-in-the-dark mysteries; never will.
“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?
I haven’t come down that hard, yet, but I can’t criticize those who do, either.
I may suggest this to our Church to say it around the Church.
All 20 of the mysteries, excepting two, pertain to Christ in some way.
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