[SoothingDave]

Historically speaking, how big of a change is the proposal of adding the "luminous mysteries" to the rosary prayer? Has a change like this ever been proposed before, or has the basic prayer been the same since it began?

Historically speaking, I think it's pretty momentous. To think that for years and years (OK, decades and decades) people will be changed by this.

I am not a big Rosary buff and am not sure. But I imagine that it would be pretty surprising if the devotion in the present form spontaneously appeared. Let me see what I can find.

(I don't need to tell you that this is not a matter of dogma, not even of public liturgy, just a private devotion. I don't think it possible to pray, the Rosary or anything, "wrong.")

[malakhi]

OK, decades and decades

No pun intended, of course! ;o)

Historically speaking, I think it's pretty momentous.

as it is his reintroducing the rosary to a generation of post-conciliar Catholics that is otherwise in danger of seeing this living devotion die of neglect.

Thank you, gentlemen.