New Rosary Order

[Caedmon]

The new sequence of Mysteries, according to the New Advent site is as follows:

Monday -- Joyful
Tuesday -- Sorrowful
Wednesday -- Glorious
Thursday -- Luminous
Friday -- Sorrowful
Saturday -- Joyful
Sunday -- Glorious

This just doesn't seem right to me. With the Luminous on Thursday, we miss the Joyful just before Friday's Sorrowful, and I can't imagine skipping things like Christ's birth. It just goes together: Birth, then Death. Now, the purely chronological way of doing it would be to have Luminous on Friday right after Thursday's Joyful, but that doesn't work because the Lord traditionally died on Friday, which would match the Sorrowful. And I wouldn't have a huge problem with the Luminous being on Saturday, except for the Lord having "already died" on Friday.

I like the Luminous mysteries, but I'm having a really hard time sorting the sequence out in my heart. If I had to settle on a sequence, I think my compromise would be to have either the Luminous on Saturday and the Glorious on Sunday, or the Glorious on Saturday and the Luminous on Sunday. I just can't figure out a perfect way to fit in the Luminous mysteries, really. I wish I knew what to do with them.

What are your thoughts? Do you think that New Advent has given the best possible sequence? How do you think the sequence should be organized?

 

[sklippstein]

Why was it changed?

 

[fragmentsofdreams]

They needed to add the Luminous mysteries into the rotation.

 

[nyj]

Relax Joe.

The following is an excerpt of the Apostolic Letter: Rosarium Virginis Mariae ( http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/j...apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae_en.html ):

The Rosary can be recited in full every day, and there are those who most laudably do so. In this way it fills with prayer the days of many a contemplative, or keeps company with the sick and the elderly who have abundant time at their disposal. Yet it is clear – and this applies all the more if the new series of mysteria lucis is included – that many people will not be able to recite more than a part of the Rosary, according to a certain weekly pattern. This weekly distribution has the effect of giving the different days of the week a certain spiritual “colour”, by analogy with the way in which the Liturgy colours the different seasons of the liturgical year.

According to current practice, Monday and Thursday are dedicated to the “joyful mysteries”, Tuesday and Friday to the “sorrowful mysteries”, and Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday to the “glorious mysteries”. Where might the “mysteries of light” be inserted? If we consider that the “glorious mysteries” are said on both Saturday and Sunday, and that Saturday has always had a special Marian flavour, the second weekly meditation on the “joyful mysteries”, mysteries in which Mary's presence is especially pronounced, could be moved to Saturday. Thursday would then be free for meditating on the “mysteries of light”.

This indication is not intended to limit a rightful freedom in personal and community prayer, where account needs to be taken of spiritual and pastoral needs and of the occurrence of particular liturgical celebrations which might call for suitable adaptations. What is really important is that the Rosary should always be seen and experienced as a path of contemplation. In the Rosary, in a way similar to what takes place in the Liturgy, the Christian week, centred on Sunday, the day of Resurrection, becomes a journey through the mysteries of the life of Christ, and he is revealed in the lives of his disciples as the Lord of time and of history.

Joe, no Catholics (or non-Catholics) are bound to recite the rosary in the order indicated by the Pope. You can place the Luminous Mysteries anywhere within the week that you wish, or not recite them at all. You can simply pray on particular mystery every day of the week, or like me, not use them at all (I do admit that I want to start doing it, but I can't remember them all by heart and I hate toting around a pamphlet while I'm trying to focus on praying... any distractions always veer me off track). It's entirely up to you Joe, just pray and be glad.

 

[panterapat]

humbleJoe,

I also thought I had a better idea for the insertion of the Luminous Mysteries. But I guess I'll be humble and accept the pope's version, for he knows quite a bit more than I know. But I do pray the Luminious Mysteries at times other than Thursday in order to become more acquainted with them.

In Christ, Patrick

 

[Caedmon]

Today at 12:03 PM panterapat said this in Post #5 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=685222#post685222)

I also thought I had a better idea for the insertion of the Luminous Mysteries. But I guess I'll be humble and accept the pope's version, for he knows quite a bit more than I know. But I do pray the Luminious Mysteries at times other than Thursday in order to become more acquainted with them.

Well I'm not too crazy about doing that. It's a devotion and open to individual preference. I'm not going to follow his devotional system just because he's the pope. It's still his system, and not mine. I prefer to think on my own. I mean, it's not like it's the doctrine of the Trinity.

 

[Wolseley]

Good heavens, I haven't prayed the old traditional rotation in years. I pray whatever inspires me on the particular day, be it Sorrowful, Joyful, Luminous, or Other.

I have prayed decades based on Jesus' miracles, or on His parables, or even on the lyrics of Good King Wenceslaus; it all depends on what will keep my mind from wandering.

Back in the old days, the Rosary was controlled not only by day, but by the liturgical season as well, and I have known dear old ladies who refused to budge off that system. If it works for them, great; but I don't think God is that legalistic that He's going to hit us with a lightning bolt if we do it whatever way works best for us.

Joe, don't worry about "The Rotation". Pray the Rosary whatever way works best for you, and rejoice.

 

[chelcb]

Well actual you can pray all 4 mysteries a day if you want. I will start with what ever day were on but then I'll go as I am inspired. During lent I think we are supposed to only pray the sorrowful mysteries, But you can pray others if you like.

 

[panterapat]

ditto - ditto