#rosary mysteries

[helloparkerrose]

[jh-newman-opn]

Mary Crowned Queen of Heaven

[tinyshe]

[fictionadventurer]

Slumber party question! What's your earliest memory of encountering beauty? The first thing you can recall where you looked at something and were struck by how beautiful it was?

[apenitentialprayer]

I already knew that Seraphim of Sarov recommended what was essentially the Catholic Rosary as a prayer rule, but TIL that the Orthodox Church has its own set of fifteen mysteries (articulated by a Russian bishop, the martyr Saint Seraphim Zvezdinsky) which differs from the Catholic mysteries. They are:

The Nativity (of Mary)

The Presentation (of Mary) in the Temple

The Annunciation

The Visitation

The Nativity (of Christ)

The Presentation (of Christ) in the Temple

The Flight into Egypt

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

The Wedding of Cana

The Crucifixion of Christ

The Resurrection of Christ

The Ascension of Christ

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

The Bodily Assumption of Mary

The Coronation of Mary

So we have a type of Rosary that is actually a little more Mary-centric than the Catholic version, with two mysteries that occur before the Incarnation of Christ. It's also, at first glance at least, a little less organized than the Catholic Rosary; the last five are essentially the Catholic Glorious Mysteries, and all fit together because they follow the Passion of Our Lord. There isn't really a way to split the first ten into two discrete groups without doing violence to the structure of the devotion, however.

Source.

[purplespacecats]

so i started reading harrow the ninth then needed to set it down and none of my actual bookmarks were within arm's reach so i fumbled around on my nightstand and grabbed the closest bookmarkesque thing i could find, which.

yeah that's apropos

[beloved-of-john]

Different anon here to ask more rosary questions!! So, you said that you're supposed to pray while contemplating the holy mysteries: does that mean there are like specific prayers you're meant to say? Sorry if this is kind of a dumb question, I'm still a baby Christian and I'm definitely not very familiar with Catholic traditions and practices.

There are no dumb questions, only questions you've never been taught the answer to, and I'm happy to help if I can! I think a visual demonstration would be easier than me describing it so...

These ↓ are my rosary beads, and where my fingers are spanning is a decade.

You can identify a decade because they're separated by isolated beads. It's called a decade because it consists of 10 beads. In the traditional rosary, a Hail Mary is prayed on each of the beads in a decade. The Hail Mary prayer is as follows:

Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our deaths. Amen.

So now the mysteries. A different mystery is contemplated on each decade, while praying the Hail Marys. For example, today (at time of writing) is Tuesday, so you would contemplate the sorrowful mysteries. The first sorrowful mystery is The Agony in the Garden, so I would contemplate Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane while praying the 10 Hail Marys and keeping track of them on the beads. As you can see there are 5 decades in a rosary, and there are 5 mysteries in each 'set' of mysteries. A mystery for every decade.

And that's how you contemplate the mysteries! For a list of all the mysteries and what days to pray them, check my previous ask (just search the #asks tag on my blog) and for what to do with the rest of the beads, I'll attach a helpful guide below.

[cheerfullycatholic]

Thought I'd redo this poll since there seems to be more and new Catholics on here

[myremnantarmy]

"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘔𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶."

[thehermittheywarnedyouabout]

[unironicallytes]

Night Mother and Sithis having children is soooo couched in Biblical metaphor to me (thank u Mr. Emil for the Catholicism actually, I'm having a great time) but anyways they do not fuck nasty in the HCs I'm currently writing fic in. Evil Immaculate Conception. They put their evil hands on the Void keyboard together, hit ~, and typed in "player.placeatme demonbaby 5", and I think that's beautiful.

[pinnedbishop]

the funeral is going to be on wednesday.

[halloweeniethings]

I’m going on a ghost hunt in October and though I’d like to believe that I’m gonna be like Shane, taunting and making fun of everything, I know I’m gonna be more like Ryan, screaming and spraying holy water into thin air.

[fictionadventurer]

After

Someone had to remove the crown of thorns With its hundred spikes shoved deep into his head Like all head wounds They had bled And bled And bled Until He had no more to give

Blood would have dried, crusted, congealed Around every wicked spine Someone had to pry each one loose Gently withdraw it from the tender (Lifeless) (Precious) Flesh

It would have been a Woman’s office A Mother’s A Queen’s To uncrown her kingly, wounded son If she could have borne it (How could she have borne it?) When all her strength and life had drained away

Unthinkable pain An unthinkable task Undertaken because of my sin

Lord, have mercy on me Lord, have mercy on me Lord, have mercy on me

[catholic-saint-tournament]

Rosary Polls

Best Rosary Mysteries

Best Joyful Mystery

Best Luminous Mystery

Best Sorrowful Mystery

Best Glorious Mystery

To read up on the mysteries of the Rosary, click here.

[truedevotiondesign]

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