Starting the rosary

It is a wonderful devotion, good on you for committing to it.

Brooklyn Knight said:

And, my God, how much have I forgotten!

I'm actually using this for aid. There are multiple mysteries? Or maybe I had just forgotten them, but all this looks so new, aside from the Our Father, Hail Mary, Apostle's Creed and Glory Be.

Today and the first week are going to bumpy...but have to get back in the habit.

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That's the source i learned from. May it bring you peace as it did me.

This site helped me learn. Its quite helpful because it is an interactive rosary and you click on the different parts and it says which prayers are to be said on which beads, etc. It is from a more traditional Catholic source since it only includes the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries.

http://www.fatima.org/essentials/requests/rosary.html

Hope it helps!

Brooklyn Knight said:

And, my God, how much have I forgotten!

I'm actually using this for aid. There are multiple mysteries? Or maybe I had just forgotten them, but all this looks so new, aside from the Our Father, Hail Mary, Apostle's Creed and Glory Be.

Today and the first week are going to bumpy...but have to get back in the habit.

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Pray the rosary with Catholics all over the world:

Come, Pray the Rosary | An online Rosary for participation in worldwide or individual prayer

I directed my focus to the rosary last week. The challenge would be to focus on the rosary for a month. G_d bless!@

Brooklyn Knight said:

And, my God, how much have I forgotten!

I'm actually using this for aid. There are multiple mysteries? Or maybe I had just forgotten them, but all this looks so new, aside from the Our Father, Hail Mary, Apostle's Creed and Glory Be.

Today and the first week are going to bumpy...but have to get back in the habit.

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I watched it tonight on EWTN. Rosary = STRUGGLE for me.

I don't get it.

I'm definitely starting my Lent with the holy Rosary today. I prayed it at work on my lunch break, alone in my classroom. Having been in the Orthodox Church for a while now, I decided to go to Mass today at my old Catholic parish and start the Lenten discipline. The rosary is always powerful. It was a great blessing to see my little daughter, Veronica, starting to pray it, too! She's already learning it!

It can be a struggle....to focus. I think in this day and age, with cellphones, texting, internet anytime anywhere, overstimulation, and bombastic media, it's tougher to lead the quiet life and just pray the rosary.

I tell myself that I won't pray it perfectly but to try to focus on certain parts. When I pray the Hail Mary, for example, I focus on the "blessed art though among women" on one beed, how tremendously blessed the BVM is to have been chosen to carry the Son of Man, our salvation.

Then on another beed I concentrate on "pray for us sinners, now..." to ask Mary's help to bring me in line with the Lord NOW!

Then on another beed I concentrate on "and at the hour of our death" linking it to mortality and "thou art dust..." etc.

I think it helps to focus on some things knowing you're only human and might drift mentally. We lead busy lives. The Lord knows that. But He wants us to grow spiritually and we can do that by focusing on key things related to our salvation. The rosary really covers it all!

Michie said:

I watched it tonight on EWTN. Rosary = STRUGGLE for me.

I don't get it.

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For me - the rosary is something like *

a) [I intend to pray]

b) [I intend to focus]

c) [I want to become good at prayer]

gurneyhalleck1 said:

It can be a struggle....to focus. I think in this day and age, with cellphones, texting, internet anytime anywhere, overstimulation, and bombastic media, it's tougher to lead the quiet life and just pray the rosary.

I tell myself that I won't pray it perfectly but to try to focus on certain parts. When I pray the Hail Mary, for example, I focus on the "blessed art though among women" on one beed, how tremendously blessed the BVM is to have been chosen to carry the Son of Man, our salvation.

Then on another beed I concentrate on "pray for us sinners, now..." to ask Mary's help to bring me in line with the Lord NOW!

Then on another beed I concentrate on "and at the hour of our death" linking it to mortality and "thou art dust..." etc.

I think it helps to focus on some things knowing you're only human and might drift mentally. We lead busy lives. The Lord knows that. But He wants us to grow spiritually and we can do that by focusing on key things related to our salvation. The rosary really covers it all!

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I understand that. I took to the Divine Mercy like a duck to water. I just don't understand why I struggle with the rosary so much.

Michie said:

I understand that. I took to the Divine Mercy like a duck to water. I just don't understand why I struggle with the rosary so much.

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Let's be honest. The Rosary is strange. It's a set of prayers dominated quantitatively by the Hail Mary and originally designed for ignorant, uneducated peasants to pretend to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Think about that for a second. Monastic superiority aside, it's connected to many visions and revelations, some of which have been disavowed by the Church as questionable or dangerous. Still, the beast rolls on. For me, it's just another way to feel Mary holding me like her baby as I am, at all times. Other times, I just like to worship her as my goddess. Wait, that's not right...

By the way, sorry for resurrecting this thread. I saw the recent months in the posts and didn't realize it was 2012 instead of 2013. Mea maxima culpa.

Michie said:

I watched it tonight on EWTN. Rosary = STRUGGLE for me.

I don't get it.

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Me either. Actually, it's all the Hail Marying I don't get. If she is really pointing to her son - shouldn't it be something like 10 Our Fathers or Oh My Jesus' to 1 Hail Mary?

Come, Pray the Rosary | An online Rosary for participation in worldwide or individual prayer

The above is another good resource for learning or relearning how to pray the Rosary. I would strongly recommend praying the Rosary every day. There are many benefits to praying the Rosary such as these promises:

Our Lady's 15 Promises for Praying the Rosary

Well done BK. It really is a lovely devotion.

I also tried to learn it. But so far, I still couldn't pray it without aids.
It is really a nice prayer, very meditative.
Maybe I'll start going to the May rosary-prayers in our parish with my grandma.

Esdra said:

I also tried to learn it. But so far, I still couldn't pray it without aids.
It is really a nice prayer, very meditative.
Maybe I'll start going to the May rosary-prayers in our parish with my grandma.

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If you got AIDS from the Rosary, you're doing it wrong...