Pope To Add New Mysteries to the Rosary

Catholic World News (Via Diocese Report) ^ | October 14, 2002 | Staff

[Loyalist]

POPE TO ADD NEW MYSTERIES TO THE ROSARY

VATICAN, Oct 16, 02 (CWNews.com) -- Pope John Paul II will release an apostolic letter on devotion to the Virgin Mary on October 16-- the anniversary of his election to the pontificate-- according to informed Vatican sources.

Leaks from the Vatican, in anticipation of the document's release, suggest that the Pope will introduce five new mysteries to the Rosary. The five new mysteries, the "luminous mysteries," will focus on the public life of Jesus Christ, Vatican sources say. They will be: the Baptism in the Jordan, the temptation in the desert, the proclamation of the Kingdom, the Transfigurations, and the entry into Jerusalem.

The Rosary is a traditional Marian devotion, popularized at first by St. Bernard, later by the Dominican order, and still later by St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort. The Rosary is composed of five joyful mysteries (which are recited on Mondays and Thursdays), five sorrowful mysteries (recited on Tuesdays and Saturdays), and five glorious mysteries (Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.) The five new mysteries would reportedly be used on Saturdays.

posted by Brian Barcaro 10/14/2002 08:31:16 AM

[dadwags]

Re #102
Thanks for that post, MarthaB.

[Siobhan]

What an outstanding post. Thank you very much, and God bless you.

[Siobhan]

Let the Bible be your guide

Not on your life! That is the Holy Spirit's job!

[Irisshlass]

Here is a link to a story of a woman who was a Lutheran and had a dream which converted her to the rosary..

http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19980901/STORIES/CONVERSION2.HTM

[Siobhan]

This thread is priceless for the grotesqueries of the usual suspects. I haven't seen such a collection of blasphemy and stupidity in a very long time. And I am delighted to see how wonderfully the Lord gathers together such able Catholic faithful to help instruct the deceived.

Let's all say a Rosary this evening for those on this thread who are outside of Holy Mother Church. Let's pray for them to receive the Light of the Gospel of Christ and to come to know how much Our Blessed Mother loves them even though they don't have a clue who she is.

[Siobhan]

What an awesome testimony! Thanks for the link, dear irishlass.

Siobhan

[drstevej]

***which converted her to the rosary***

Interesting terminology!

[drstevej]

Are all non-Catholics unsaved?
Must a person embrace the rosary to be saved?
Must one understand anything about Mary to be saved?

[Audit_Jesse]

Let the Bible be your guide

Not on your life! That is the Holy Spirit's job!

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Precisely! Amen!

[Siobhan]

God bless you too and your boys as well!

[Audit_Jesse]

You may listen to Jesus or not..He does not hear that prayer..He said it..you waste your breath..

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So did God hear Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane when he prayed it THREE times?

[Campion]

"Pagans use beads, therefore beads are bad."

Please try to grow up beyond the mind-numbed idiotic bigotry of Alexander Hislop. Pagans invented wedding rings, but I'm not stupid enough to claim you're a pagan because you wear one.

[Campion]

Mat 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.

A verse which exists only in a corrupted version of the Bible prepared, using shoddy scholarship, under the aegis of an English king who barely qualifies as a Christian. Look it up! The word in Greek is battalogeo, which means "babbling" or "useless words". It does not carry the sense of "repetition," whether vain or otherwise.

[JMJ333]

Thanks for the flag. I am glad that others still join in and refute the hate-filled jackyl whose venom is on display for all to see. They can't help it. It was predestined that they act like the elitist tyrants they are.

I lurk on the political forum mostly now, avoiding this forum because I can't stand to be in the same cyber-vicinity as people whose existence is nothing more than a culmination of evil.

[JMJ333]

"jackyls" ...not singular.

[drstevej]

Thanks for elevating the discussion... :0)

[JMJ333]

Anytime. I'm back off to self-banishment now...