Posted on 10/14/2002 9:50:58 AM PDT by 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
"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."
How exactly is meditation on the Baptism in the Jordan, the temptation in the desert, the proclamation of the Kingdom, the Transfigurations, and the entry into Jerusalem "Mary Worship?
At this point, my whole being screams out to you, [deteleted phrase]!" But I'm not allowed to say that here, or as a Christian for that matter.
So I'll simply pray a Rosary for all you anti-Catholic bigots, and in honer of JPII I'll include these new mysteries too.
It always seemed like a big hunk of the life of Jesus Christ was missing.
Another thought-- Proclamation -- I suppose that would include the multiplication of loaves and fishes. Actually I can see that it would go beyond any one miracle to including all of them.
How exactly is meditation on the Baptism in the Jordan, the temptation in the desert, the proclamation of the Kingdom, the Transfigurations, and the entry into Jerusalem "Mary Worship?
At this point, my whole being screams out to you, [deteleted phrase]!" But I'm not allowed to say that here, or as a Christian for that matter.
So I'll simply pray a Rosary for all you anti-Catholic bigots, and in honer of JPII I'll include these new mysteries too.
How many times is Mary's name spoken in the Rosary? What in the world is a 'luminous mystery' anyway? RC's abolutely love naming things don't they. I expecially love the 'magnificat' name for few verses where Mary actually says something.
Sorry my entire being doesn't scream at RC's anymore, I'm used to the false doctrines and only seek to lay them open.
Sorry my entire being does scream at anti-Catholic bigots, I'll never get used to their false doctrines and and willful lies and I only seek to lay them open.
Isn't there quite a few hail Mary's in there?
What worship consists up is the subject of many many debates here. Let's just say that your statement doesn't quite do it for me.
Does the verse in the bible about vain repetitions, or the verse that says God already knows what you are going to pray or the verse about the hypocracy of praying long prayers and much repetition mean anything? Why would God be interested in hearing what amounts to a chant? He wouldn't.
I guess He must tell you what he thinks personally? Not. I love when one of us, His creatures, decide they know what He, our Creator, thinks. And then tells everybody else.
Well, that is bothersome!
So, YOU speak for God, huh? Notice it says VAIN repititions. Do you think repititon is VAIN?
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.Fr. Roland Walls wrote a booklet entitled "The Royal Mysteries." Following is an excerpt from "The Rose Garden"
How then is one to use the traditional mysteries, the joyful, sorrowful, and glorious mysteries, in a fruitful and helpful way ? for as soon as the Rosary is absorbed as a permanent constituent of devotion, the limitation of the mysteries becomes apparent. Fr. Roland Walls in 1990 published a chaplet consisting of the key events of the life and ministry of Jesus as Royal Mysteries. He singled out the Baptism, the Temptation, the Transfiguration, the Triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and the Institution of the Holy Eucharist as fully demanding consistent spiritual reflection. It is hard to say whether they have met a real need. Perhaps it is truer to say that their purpose is to create a need, that is to widen or to deepen the Scriptural focus of the devotion.Personally, I'm partial to Fr. Roland's choice of the Holy Eucharist over the Proclamation of the Kingdom.
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