Catholic find prayer rosary sayMany
Catholics seek to find the correct prayers to say on a rosary.
Either they
were never taught the rosary before or they find they can
no longer say it
because of years of neglecting the rosary prayer.
Catholics can find the
prayers to say on a rosary here, at this site,
and at several other web sites
on the web. The difficulty is not to
learn the prayers but to find the time
to say the rosary
consistently. Many Catholics, like people all over, find
they only
have time to say a quick prayer during the day, but if you can
set
aside even five minutes a day for the rosary prayer, you will be able
to say a decade of the rosary, which would be a good start. The main
rosary prayers that Catholics say are the Our Father, the Hail Mary
and the
Glory Be. These are said in groups of ten, or decades, with
each decade having
its own meditation, called a Mystery. Since 2002,
Catholics have had twenty
Mysteries, grouped in fives, to say on a
rosary. Many find the newest Mysteries,
the Mysteries of Light,
instated by Pope John Paul II to be most inspiring,
since they are
meditations on Jesus’ ministry. The other Mysteries are
the Joyful
Mysteries, the Sorrowful Mysteries and the Glorious Mysteries.
To
say the rosary prayer you choose which group of Mysteries you want to
meditate on and then begin the traditional Catholic prayers on the
rosary.
The first prayer is the Creed which you say while holding
the crucifix. Next
you pray an Our Father while fingering the single
bead after the crucifix.
Then you say three Hail Mary’s on the
following three beads and conclude
this part with a Glory Be for
which there is no bead. Then you start to say
the main body of the
Catholic rosary. Begin on the next single bead with
an Our Father.
Follow it with ten Hail Mary’s on the next ten beads.
Finish this
decade with a Glory Be for which there is no bead. All the while
you
say these prayers you are meditating on the first of the Mysteries
that you decided to pray. You continue in this manner until you have
said
all five decades of the rosary. Then, it is traditional to
finish the rosary
with a Hail Holy Queen. It is not unusual for
Catholics to find the rosary
boring at first, and to have their minds
wandering throughout the prayer,
but those who continue to pray it
faithfully will gradually find their concentration
lengthening and
all worldly thoughts being left behind as they say the rosary.
It is
worth the consistent effort, even if you can only find time to say
one decade a day. You are joining many other Catholics in
rediscovering
the rosary prayer. |
