What Is The Rosary Really All About?

[AwesomeMachine]

The Rosary is a Crucifix attached to a circular string of beads. If one says the Rosary properly, every day, they shall not sin. The Rosary was given to St. Dominic, by the virgin Mary Herself, who appeared to him. The first Rosary had rose buds for beads, and was rather large. Since roses were really not very plentiful to make all the Rosaries needed, beads were used as substitutes.

When a person says the Rosary, spiritual rose blossoms come out of their mouth for the virgin Mary. Since Mary is the highest saint in Heaven, he intercession is crucial to our spiritual development. Jesus is how we get to God, but we get to Jesus through the immaculate heart of Mary. Hence the prayer:

Jesus, through the immaculate heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day; for all the intentions of Your Sacred Heart, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in reparation for sin, for all the intentions of my friends and associates, and especially for the intentions of The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI.

This prayer is not in the Rosary, but it is a very good prayer. What is spoken during a Rosary has a twofold use. The first, which was described above, gives our Mother, Mary a wonderful spiritual bouquet of roses. It is important to realize these are only rose blossoms, as there are no thorns given to Mary. In order for our verbal prayers to bear such fruit, one must be meditation on one of the mysteries of Christ. These mysteries are described in the Bible, and are documented in countless Catholic prayer books, which include instructions for the Rosary. There are four sets of five mysteries. When meditating on a specific mystery, such as "The Crucifixion, which is the fifth mystery in "The Sorrowful Mysteries", all the "Hail Marys" you say during the Rosary bring forth beautiful spiritual rose blossoms from your mouth. The Mother Mary accepts these as your gift to her for bringing Jesus into the world.

The second purpose of the verbal prayers is to act as a mantra, preventing evil spirits from entering into your meditation on the mysteries of Christ. Satan can distort these mysteries and lead you to demise if you meditate gnostically. By meditating on the mysteries of Christ, saying the prayers according to the Rosary beads, and letting The Holy Spirit lead you, you will be given a tree of life in your soul, which will bear the fruit of Jesus Christ.

 

[xxdaggerxx]

Jesus is how we get to God, but we get to Jesus through the immaculate heart of Mary. Hence the prayer
Its, To God, through Jesus in the Spirit
not
To God, through Jesus by mary in the Spirit..

God, Holy Spirit, Jesus and Mary. Quadrinity

I think these traditions occupies time we could be using to build our relationship with Jesus.

 

[Lynn73]

Wrong. I came to Jesus and Mary didn't have a thing to do with it. We don't need Mary to come to Christ. God Himself wooed me and drew me and Mary figured in the equation nowhere. Nothing in the Bible says we have to come to Christ through Mary, your statement is unbiblical. I'm living proof as well as millions of other Christians in the word that Mary is NOT necessary to come to the Lord. Her role is over. She's died and gone on home like every other Christian through the ages.

 

[Iollain]

All it is is something man has made up with the help of apparitions. It started out with saying Psalms.

 

[Isaiah 53]

Wrong. I came to Jesus and Mary didn't have a thing to do with it. We don't need Mary to come to Christ.

Yeah, she had NOTHING to do with it...oh, except for giving birth to Christ...so He could walk among us, live, die for our sins and live again....your right, who cares about Mary....

PAX CHRISTI

 

[Iollain]

I'm sure Lynn73 knows about the virgin birth, and Mary's testamony from the Bible.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

Yeah, she had NOTHING to do with it...oh, except for giving birth to Christ...so He could walk among us, live, die for our sins and live again....your right, who cares about Mary....

PAX CHRISTI

That's the equivalent of saying Mary is equal to God right there. Mary had nothing to do with his Ressurection, nor his Crufifixion. Her role was to give birth and raise Jesus until he was to go out on his own for the Mission, that's it. I didn't see where she went out to and made fishers of men, so how can she be considered a Saint? Look, I'm not saying that Mary wasn't important, I'm just saying that statments like this and Awesome Machine's make it appear awfully close to equating Mary to the same level as Jesus, and she's not. Nowhere near his Holiness, and noone will ever be that way. God Bless.

Brother-in-Christ,

Jerry

 

[QuantaCura]

The Rosary is really all about looking upon and contemplating Jesus through the eyes of His mother, the woman who knows Him best, whom He physically dwelled within for 9 months and was the only one who stayed by His side from His birth until He was layed in the sepulchre. It's a beautiful thing.

 

[Glenda]

God bless Mary for being the obedient servant she was..

God bless Joseph for accepting God's Divine Plan..

Both of them sacrificed greatly to bring the Son of God, Jesus Christ into this world so that we could receive Salvation.. but we don't need either of them to intercede for us with Jesus.. Jesus himself intercedes for us to the Father..

So I can go directly to Jesus.. for salvation.. to be a daughter of God, the Father.. seen by the Father through the Blessed Blood of the Lamb..
None come to the Father except through Jesus..

 

[Iollain]

I don't think i'd call bringing up Jesus a sacrafice, it would be a wonder a second

 

[Isaiah 53]

That's the equivalent of saying Mary is equal to God right there. Mary had nothing to do with his Ressurection, nor his Crufifixion. Her role was to give birth and raise Jesus until he was to go out on his own for the Mission, that's it. I didn't see where she went out to and made fishers of men, so how can she be considered a Saint? Look, I'm not saying that Mary wasn't important, I'm just saying that statments like this and Awesome Machine's make it appear awfully close to equating Mary to the same level as Jesus, and she's not. Nowhere near his Holiness, and noone will ever be that way. God Bless.

Brother-in-Christ,

Jerry

Well perhaps this is where the misunderstanding of Marion doctrine begins. Nowhere have I, or any other Catholic, said or made Mary the equal of Christ. It is misunderstanding or perhaps a preconceived notion that would allow you to gleen that from my statement.

Your right Mary had nothing to do with the Resurrection of Christ, but if he were not born....how would he have redeemed us? That is my point. The majority of Protestants would minimize the Role of Mary to "just another servant"...well that is not the case. She is the Mother of God! She raised him she fed him, changed his diaper, held him when he was sick or hurt. She loves him like noone else ever can! Why can't you see that? He performed a miracle at Cana ONLY BECAUSE SHE ASKED HIM TOO!!!!

Perhaps, instead of trying to tell Catholics what we believe, it would be more beneficial to find out what it is we believe. We DO NOT WORSHIP MARY!!!!

PAX CHRISTI

 

[Isaiah 53]

I don't think i'd call bringing up Jesus a sacrafice, it would be a wonder a second

Yeah a wonder a second...until you see YOUR SON flogged and crucified....no sacrafice there. Would you consider watching your child tortured and killed on a cross for the benefit of the WHOLE WORLD a sacrafice?? Give me a break...


PAX CHRISTI

 

[SoliDeoGloria]

Perhaps, instead of trying to tell Catholics what we believe, it would be more beneficial to find out what it is we believe. We DO NOT WORSHIP MARY!!!!
PAX CHRISTI

Amen! (as a Protestant)

Adoration is directed only to God alone. The veneration of Mary as the "theotokos" - the Mother of God, the analogous Ark of the Covenant, does not equate to worship of the Divine.

Caricatures and straw men make poor arguments. We protestants have this sinful habit of casting the first stone, of pointing out the beam in another's eye. A scourge of fundamentalism.

 

[Polycarp1]

A bunch of things need to be addressed here.

First, Awesome Machine's post is a witness to the Rosary, not the actual practice generally taught by Catholic piety. Second, it's a "devotional," an optional practice and not mandatory for anyone to do.

Third, most people completely misunderstand the purpose of the Rosary. This is important; even if you're dead opposed to it, you ought to be arguing against what it is, not what you misunderstand it as.

Ever have trouble praying, because your mind insists on wandering to the noises outside, the worries on your mind, or whatever? You can't stay focused on prayer?

The methodology of the Rosary is this: set your body to saying the rote prayers of the Rosary: the Hail Mary ten times, then the Lord's Prayer. While you're doing this, focus your mind on one aspect of the Lord's work in saving you and all of mankind. Then repeat, focusing on another aspect of it. After five aspects, recite the Apostles Creed and start over with a new aspect. The traditional 15 "mysteries" and the five new ones promulgated last year by John Paul II are described here. The intent is to keep that part of your mind that tends to wander in obedience to your purpose, by setting it to rote recitals of traditional prayers while you occupy the rest of your mind with God's saving purpose.

Certainly for many Christians the idea that the Hail Mary is not an appropriate prayer because for them prayer is to be devoted to God alone, no matter what the teaching on intercessory prayer is, is a valid one. But the same process can be done effectually by non-Catholics using the Jesus Prayer in place of the Hail Mary.

The entire point to it is to occupy all of your mind in devotion to our Lord. There are a lot of promises supposedly attached to it; you can believe them or not as your choice. But for His love's sake, at least argue against what it is, not a mistaken understanding of it.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

Well perhaps this is where the misunderstanding of Marion doctrine begins. Nowhere have I, or any other Catholic, said or made Mary the equal of Christ. It is misunderstanding or perhaps a preconceived notion that would allow you to gleen that from my statement.

Your right Mary had nothing to do with the Resurrection of Christ, but if he were not born....how would he have redeemed us? That is my point. The majority of Protestants would minimize the Role of Mary to "just another servant"...well that is not the case. She is the Mother of God! She raised him she fed him, changed his diaper, held him when he was sick or hurt. She loves him like noone else ever can! Why can't you see that? He performed a miracle at Cana ONLY BECAUSE SHE ASKED HIM TOO!!!!

Perhaps, instead of trying to tell Catholics what we believe, it would be more beneficial to find out what it is we believe. We DO NOT WORSHIP MARY!!!!

PAX CHRISTI

Hence, I'm not Protestant. I'm trying to figure out why Catholics and Protestants are the way they are in their fight, and I'm still confused here. Look, I don't deny her role as his mother while the Lord was here on Earth, but once his ministry began, she seeped into the background. Maybe it is a misunderstanding, but it's definitely not a pre-concieved notion. Yes, she was just an obedient servant, albeit through her actions as the mother of his fleshly shell. What makes her any different than Peter, or Paul? Her obedience to the Lord was rewarded when she gave birth to Christ, however, and she followed him around not just as his mother, but as a follower of her Saviour and Redeemer. I'm not trying to dictate how you run your faith, I'm just looking at it from an un-biased objective. You may not see it that way, but that's what it is, un-biased. God Bless.

Brother-in-Christ,
Jerry

 

[Isaiah 53]

Hence, I'm not Protestant. I'm trying to figure out why Catholics and Protestants are the way they are in their fight, and I'm still confused here. Look, I don't deny her role as his mother while the Lord was here on Earth, but once his ministry began, she seeped into the background. Maybe it is a misunderstanding, but it's definitely not a pre-concieved notion. Yes, she was just an obedient servant, albeit through her actions as the mother of his fleshly shell. What makes her any different than Peter, or Paul? Her obedience to the Lord was rewarded when she gave birth to Christ, however, and she followed him around not just as his mother, but as a follower of her Saviour and Redeemer. I'm not trying to dictate how you run your faith, I'm just looking at it from an un-biased objective. You may not see it that way, but that's what it is, un-biased. God Bless.

Brother-in-Christ,
Jerry

Did she seep into the background? Was she not at the foot of the Cross with St. John? Did Christ, with one of the few breaths he had left, entrust her well being? She does differ from St. Peter and St. Paul--she is his mother! Christ is 100% Man and 100% God, thus he has every feeling you would have for your mother. God taught us to honor our parents, would Christ have wanted/did anything different?

As an unbiased individual--can you not see the position Mary has in the life of Christ?

PAX CHRISTI

 

[Yusuf Evans]

Did she seep into the background? Was she not at the foot of the Cross with St. John? Did Christ, with one of the few breaths he had left, entrust her well being? She does differ from St. Peter and St. Paul--she is his mother! Christ is 100% Man and 100% God, thus he has every feeling you would have for your mother. God taught us to honor our parents, would Christ have wanted/did anything different?

As an unbiased individual--can you not see the position Mary has in the life of Christ?

PAX CHRISTI

Which is why I acknowledged her role as his mother. Was it John she gave Mary too? I'm not sure, either way, once he left the Earth, he was no longer human, but all God.

 

[Lynn73]

I'm sure Lynn73 knows about the virgin birth, and Mary's testamony from the Bible.

Yep, I know all about it. And I refuse to put her in a position the Lord nor God's word gives her. I won't dishonor her that way.

 

[Lynn73]

Yeah a wonder a second...until you see YOUR SON flogged and crucified....no sacrafice there. Would you consider watching your child tortured and killed on a cross for the benefit of the WHOLE WORLD a sacrafice?? Give me a break...


PAX CHRISTI

That doesn't make her in anyway a savior or mediator.

 

[Isaiah 53]

That doesn't make her in anyway a savior or mediator.

She is a mediator...but did I or anyone ever say she was a Savior?

PAX CHRISTI