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Praying The Rosary
Topic Started: Sunday, 23. September 2007, 03:29 (681 Views)
Emee
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There is also a group on Facebook called 3 Million Hail Marys to end Abortion. They are currently at 174,639. If anyone wants to say Hail Marys for this group please let me know how many you have managed and I will post the total on their page. It doesn't matter if it's just 2 or 200 - every little helps!

Alternatively if you're on Facebook yourself and want to join the group send me a PM and I'll send you the link.

Kind regards all
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Mairtin
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Have the Luminous Mysteries introduced by Pope John Paul II become at all popular or do people generally stick with the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries and the days on which they are traditionally said?
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Mrs.Pogle
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I love the Luminous Mysteries, especially the Institution of the Eucharist...but my favourites are the Joyful Mysteries :prayrosary:
Edited by Mrs.Pogle, Thursday, 16. April 2009, 11:39.
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Rose of York
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I don't understand why Pope John Paul II added to the mysteries, which were given by Our Lady. I wonder why he did not institute a new devotion for the Luminous Mysteries.

1. The Baptism in the Jordan
2. The Wedding at Cana
3. Proclamation of the Kingdom
4. The Transfiguration
5. Institution of the Eucharist

They do sort out the problem of three sets of mysteries of seven days. Seven never did divide by three, six does.
Keep the Faith!

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Clare
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I stick with the traditional 15, naturally!
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SeanJ
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Katy,
the link to St. Michael the Archangel doesn't work any more. Their web page seems to have disappeared.
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SeanJ
Friday, 17. April 2009, 19:21
Katy,
the link to St. Michael the Archangel doesn't work any more. Their web page seems to have disappeared.
So it does. I found this link which I think is the same organisation
http://www.saintmichaelthearchangelorganization.org/

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On Friday (May 1st), Saturday (May 2nd), and Sunday (May 3rd), 2009, the ONE MILLION ROSARIES FOR UNBORN BABIES prayer event is scheduled to happen. Participants will pray one or more Rosaries for the following intention: For an end to the surgical and non-surgical killing of unborn human persons. One may register for this prayer event by clicking on "Registration."
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Sometimes when I pray the Rosary I go through all the Mysteries, in sequence of time (and including the flight into and return from Egypt). Having just boasted, I must confess my mind frequently wanders too much.

I am sure Clare will disaprove!

Even when I follow the usual mysteries my mind still wanders.



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Rose of York
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Thought about the Sorrowful Mysteries:

It is natural to meditate on the sacrifice of Jesus, dying for "mankind" who needed to be saved, all down to Original Sin. It is easy to think about "the wicked people" (i.e. the others who are real mega baddies, wicked, not just a bit sinful like one's self).

Are we all less likely to think "He did it for ME. Nobody with sinful thoughts and inclinations is fit to be in God's presence, but for Jesus willingly being crucified I would have no chance."

We have on this forum one priest, one deacon, and one person who will be ordained to the Diaconate next Saturday, then to the priesthood. I would welcome their views on whether they too think we all need to be reminded that "mankind" means one's self (and of course the rest).
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Rose of York
Friday, 17. April 2009, 18:37
I don't understand why Pope John Paul II added to the mysteries, which were given by Our Lady. I wonder why he did not institute a new devotion for the Luminous Mysteries.

1. The Baptism in the Jordan
2. The Wedding at Cana
3. Proclamation of the Kingdom
4. The Transfiguration
5. Institution of the Eucharist

They do sort out the problem of three sets of mysteries of seven days. Seven never did divide by three, six does.
Given by Our Lady?
I dont thik so.

My reading suggests the the Rosary developed from the Psalms. There are 150 Psalms. Those without books and/or who could not read started saying 150 Our Fathers - on beads to count them. This mutated into 150 Hail Marys and so we get our 15 "decades".

My objection to the addition by JPII is that it removes the thing yet further from its roots making it even harder to know its origin.

In a couple of hundred years people will be saying "Our Lady" have us 20 decades of the Rosary and it will be even harder to suggest to them that this all came from the psalms and not Our Lady.

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Gerard

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Saturday, 19. May 2012, 17:52
Thought about the Sorrowful Mysteries:

It is natural to meditate on the sacrifice of Jesus, dying for "mankind" who needed to be saved, all down to Original Sin. It is easy to think about "the wicked people" (i.e. the others who are real mega baddies, wicked, not just a bit sinful like one's self).

Are we all less likely to think "He did it for ME. Nobody with sinful thoughts and inclinations is fit to be in God's presence, but for Jesus willingly being crucified I would have no chance."

We have on this forum one priest, one deacon, and one person who will be ordained to the Diaconate next Saturday, then to the priesthood. I would welcome their views on whether they too think we all need to be reminded that "mankind" means one's self (and of course the rest).
Sorry, not a clergy just me.
And I agree, and actually I have been spending all day today writing a meditation on this for our prayer group tonight.

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Rose of York
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Gerry, it was not my intention to be clericalist and take the attitude that clergy are the only ones who teach, or lead a meditation. For most Catholics the only regular teaching they hear is the homily at Sunday Mass, I just wondered of the clergy on the forum do put, in their preaching, the thoughts I came up with. Funnily enough they came into my head while I was praying the First Joyful Mystery, the Annunciation. Usually when praying that one my thoughts are on Mary the young girl, and her fiancee Joseph, and of course the sheer wonder of God taking on human nature. This morning my mind went off on a different tangent - that the little baby was coming here with the intention of dying for "mankind" then I had thoughts about my own personal need of redemption, not just the communal need of "mankind".
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Gerard

Rose,

I know you were not being clericalist. And it sounds like a good meditation there.

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Rose of York
Saturday, 19. May 2012, 19:58
Gerry, it was not my intention to be clericalist and take the attitude that clergy are the only ones who teach, or lead a meditation. For most Catholics the only regular teaching they hear is the homily at Sunday Mass, I just wondered of the clergy on the forum do put, in their preaching, the thoughts I came up with. Funnily enough they came into my head while I was praying the First Joyful Mystery, the Annunciation. Usually when praying that one my thoughts are on Mary the young girl, and her fiancee Joseph, and of course the sheer wonder of God taking on human nature. This morning my mind went off on a different tangent - that the little baby was coming here with the intention of dying for "mankind" then I had thoughts about my own personal need of redemption, not just the communal need of "mankind".
Theologically speaking, Jesus did die for the whole of mankind, the humanity without exception. But in spiritual life, theological concept has to be broken down into tangibles, and teachings 'personalised', for us to drive much benefit from them. It's when we say that Jesus suffered and died for ME, this sinful human being still subject to the First Adam, weak and open to temptations, who needs redemption as much as anyone else. Otherwise we may all become like a Pharisee in Jesus' parable, thanking God we aren't like the rest of mankind!
You see, our relative sinfulness or culpability is less important than to say that we are all responsible for Jesus' death, and our repeated sins still condemn Christ to an agonising death on the cross.
Edited by Home in Rome, Sunday, 20. May 2012, 23:54.
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