Rosary Beads. An iconic symbol of a religion. To a catholic - a gift from our lady. Read the words of St Bernadette, can you picture the beads held by our lady? Beads slipping through her fingers. A way to structure and focus on prayer. A devotion, and a means to meditation, and memory of the [...]
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People who are uncertain of what rosary beads are , tend to use a variety of spellings. We have seen -rosemary beads – rosary beeds – rosery beads – roseary beads – rossery beads – roseery beads and others. The correct name is “rosary beads” – because the name derives from the latin rosarium describing [...]
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It is easy to believe that catholic rosary beads are just a catholic thing. It is not so! – Since the beads represent the gospels, rosary beads are far more universal than that, and are used by protestants too. Members of both Anglican and Lutheran communities use them in their own modified forms. Usage in [...]
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The rosary beads comprise decades of beads. Each decade reflects on one rosary mystery. The decades are separated by a single large bead, and on each bead one of the rosary prayers are said. Before each decade is said the our father – the prayer instituted by Christ himself in Matthew 6:9 And without wanting [...]
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The luminous mysteries were not part of the rosary till the last century, but now the rosary seems incomplete without them. Whilst the first three mysteries celebrate the birth death and resurrection, the key events needed for salvation history. They omit the life as told in the series of mystical events that make up the [...]
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The glorious mysteries are the third part of the Rosary Mysteries They remind of the purpose of what went before, as told in the gospel. The conquering of death and the resurrection. And the queen of heaven Glorious Mysteries Each decade of rosary beads represents one mystery and meditation. The Resurrection. Reminding of the need [...]
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The sorrowful mysteries are the second of the Rosary Mysteries They are a harrowing account of the journey to the cross, but also of subservience to the will of God. Each mystery reminds of a virtue too. Sorrowful Mysteries The Agony in the Garden. Reminding of Uniformity to the will of God The Scourging at [...]
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The Joyful Mysteries are the first of the Rosary Mysteries Each mystery comprises five decades of beads – each decade remembers an event of the gospel – also each of the events remembers a virtue. Joyful Mysteries 1. The Annunciation of Christ . Reminding of Humility 2. The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth: Reminding of [...]
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The catholic rosary is divided into Rosary Mysteries to be said in sequence, each commemorating a phase in the gospels. Traditionally the mysteries are said once a day, although the devout often recite all of the mysteries in sequence as part of a devotion. The Joyful Mysteries (sometimes Joyous Mysteries) celebrate the annunciation through to [...]
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To outsiders the rosary – reciting prayer using rosary beads may seem like dumb and fruitless repetition, but this just is not so. Consider: The most efficient way to do anything, take for example business operation and organisation, is with structure and organisation, and planning. That is the way that business copes with the frailty [...]
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