Posted on 06/25/2020 7:16:04 PM PDT by ADSUM
We have a powerful weapon - a sword - to defeat Satan and evil. The Rosary. Listen to the “The Rosary:Spiritual Sword of Our Lady.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVdYXyxln0
The Rosary was given to an Indian tribe before the US was a country (1620-1623) in SW US before the Franciscan missionaries arrived. (44:10)
The Rosary saves Western Civilization Malta (28:03) and Le panto (29:12).
Another video: Fr. Donald Calloway: “The Virgin Mary: The Masterpiece of God”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhdAiEVme0I
The rosary also saved a Florida University coed from Ted Bundy.
According to Eph. 6:17 the sword of the Holy Spirit (which IS God), is THE WORD OF GOD. Doesn’t say a thing about a rosary.
Mindless chanting of the rosary is nothing more than the religious equivalent of sending boilerplate letters to members of Congress. A sincere original prayer is much more effective.
People pray the prayers they learned as children. One of the victims of the Salem Witch trials, when asked to pray, began to pray in Gaelic her native language. Her accusers didn't understand Gaeli and she was hanged.
Fortunately we don't have the option to hang people here who want to pray the prayers they learned as children.
Amen. Paul made it quite clear about the Armor of God - and we need all parts that he listed now!
Yes. “Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.”
The Rosary is a prayer from the Bible.
Please tell me where in the Bible I can find it. Thank you
Actually, it’s like background music while you meditate on the mysteries of the faith. There are 3 total sets of 5 different mysteries. They are spread out one set a day. It’s really beautiful.
I'm glad you did not acknowledge JP II's novus "glow in the dark" mysteries.
I have made about 250 corded rosaries in different colored plastic beads. If you would like one, pm me your address and some color choices and I will send you out yours asap! I would love to give them all away!
The rosary is a meditation prayer. You reflect on the life of Our Lord as you repeat the angel Gabriel’s greeting to Mary. “Hail! Full of Grace”. Truly beautiful and a powerful prayer against the powers of evil. The Our Father is of course the prayer Jesus taught to us. Your comments seem dismissive of these two facts from the Bible.
The Apostles’ Creed
The Apostles’ Creed is so called not because it was composed by the apostles themselves, but because it expresses their teachings. The original form of the creed came into use around A.D. 125, and the present form dates from the 400s. It reads this way:
“I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day he arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. From thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.”
The Lord’s Prayer
The next prayer in the rosary—the Our Father or Pater Noster (from its opening words in Latin), also known as the Lord’s
It is given in the Bible in two slightly different versions (Matt. 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4). The one given in Matthew is the one all Christians say.
The Hail Mary
The next prayer in the rosary, and the one that is really at the center of the devotion, is the Hail Mary. the Hail Mary is a prayer to Mary,
The prayer begins, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.” This is nothing other than the greeting the angel Gabriel gave Mary in Luke 1:28 (Confraternity Version). The next part reads this way:
“Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.” This was exactly what Mary’s cousin Elizabeth said to her in Luke 1:42. The only thing that has been added to these two verses are the names “Jesus” and “Mary,” to make clear who is being referred to. So the first part of the Hail Mary is entirely biblical.
The second part of the Hail Mary is not taken straight from Scripture, but it is entirely biblical in the thoughts it expresses. It reads:
“Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”
Mary was a Christian (the first Christian, actually, the first to accept Jesus; see Luke 1:45), and the Bible describes Christians in general as holy. In fact, they are called saints, which means “holy ones” (Eph. 1:1, Phil. 1:1, Col. 1:2). Furthermore, as the mother of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, Mary was certainly a very holy woman.
The Glory Be
The fourth prayer found in the rosary is the Glory Be, sometimes called the Gloria or Gloria Patri. The last two names are taken from the opening words of the Latin version of the prayer, which in English reads:
“Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”
The Closing Prayer
We’ve covered all the prayers of the rosary except the very last one, which is usually the Hail Queen (Salve Regina), sometimes called the Hail Holy Queen. It’s the most commonly recited prayer in praise of Mary after the Hail Mary itself, and was composed at the end of the eleventh century. It generally reads like this (there are several variants):
“Hail holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.”
So those are the prayers of the rosary. Between the introductory prayers and the concluding prayer is the meat of the rosary: the decades. Each decade—there are fifteen in a full rosary (which takes about forty-five minutes to say)—is composed of ten Hail Marys. Each decade is bracketed between an Our Father and a Glory Be, so each decade actually has twelve prayers.
Each decade is devoted to a mystery regarding the life of Jesus or his mother. Here the word mystery refers to a truth of the faith, not to something incomprehensible.
https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-rosary
JP II’s novus “glow in the dark”
Well, let me tell you, JP II glows all the time now. It’s a permanent condition. :)
The Holy Rosary saved my life.
I appreciate your work but something is absent: the Scripture verse that says to pray to Mary. That says that Mary is a sword to believers. That says to use repetition when praying to God. That’s what I’m looking for. In God’s word, where does He direct us to pray the rosary?
Exactly...There are no weapons against Satan other than the words of God...Who but Satan could convince you that you could defeat Satan, not by the words of God but by the words of Jesus' mother???
Then there is this:
, Matthew 6:7: “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
“Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you” (Lk 1:28)
“Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb”
(Lk 1:42).
Are these quotes in your Bible? What’s wrong with repeating them. How often do you repeat other verses in prayer?
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