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How To Pray The Holy Rosary |
the entire day as time permits. You usually pray the Joyful Mysteries on Monday and Saturday. On Tuesday and Friday you pray the Sorrowful Mysteries. On Wednesday and Sunday you pray the Glorious Mysteries. On Thursday you pray the Luminous Mysteries, also known as the Light Mysteries. While it is not necessary to say the Rosary using rosary beads, the beads act as a tool to keep count of the prayers, freeing you to give proper contemplation on the Rosary prayers and Mysteries. You may pray on a traditional 5-decade rosary, or a single 1-decade rosary that you repeat five times to say the full set of five Rosary Mysteries, or you may keep count with your fingers, or a knotted cord. When you recite the preliminary prayers before the start of the first Rosary mystery, pay attention to what you are praying. This is the time to really give close attention to the words of the prayers you are saying, as if listening to a fascinating speaker or reading a great book. Say the prayers slowly enough so you can absorb some of the meaning of the prayers. After the prelimary prayers, you focus on each Mystery, starting with the First Mystery. In order to properly think about each mystery, you need to know something about it, and this is where it helps to take out your Bible and read the chapters pertaining to the Rosary mysteries, to familiarize yourself with the stories behind the mysteries. For convenience, all these Bible passages and corresponding images are found in the online rosary at How-To-Pray-The-Rosary.com |
Basics On How To Pray The Catholic Rosary |
The complete Rosary consists of twenty decades. There are four sets of Mysteries and five stories in each of the sets. When you pray the Rosary, you pray five decades and one of the sets of Rosary Mysteries. Some people pray all twenty decades in a single day, as a special devotion. While others pray only a single decade at a time, and spread out reciting the five Rosary decades throughout |
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