[smvoice]

Is the Rosary a series of prayers counted on a string of beads? Arranged in groups of ten small beads separated by one large bead? Five sets of these decades. The large bead is the Our Father or Lord’s Prayer, and the Our Father is said on this bead. One each of the small beads, the Hail Mary is prayed by Catholics. Which would be Catechism paragraphs 2676-2677. Is this correct? Thanks for you patience.

[Mad Dawg]

It is right the way it would be right to say that I am a featherless biped endowed with speech, some would say with too much speech.

Try "The Bible is a bunch o' words arranged in a certain order so that they record the religious thoughts and history of some folks in the Mediterranean basin."

See what I mean? It's right while also seeming to miss the point.

To me, you ain't doin' the Rosary all the way if you're not spending at least part of the time on the "mysteries."

Did you read my attempt on "The Baptism of the Lord"? Seriously. That's not the only way to 'meditate' but it's one way, and, to me, without something like that going on, you're missing precisely the "epitome of the Gospel" thing.

[Mad Dawg]

Wow. Be sure to read the whole of Article 2. It's not bad.

BTW, just to show thee weird and wonderful ways of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, the Rosary remains officially unofficial. Nobody MUST pray the Rosary unless they've made promises to some group or order -- or to their mother.