The Rosary

[Protrident]

great way to put it!

[jovan66102]

The Mass and the Divine Office (the Psalter) are the official public prayers of the Church. They are the greatest prayers we can offer and participate in. The Rosary is the greatest of the private, or non-public prayers of the Church. Our Lady has recommended it to us, but we are not bound to pray it, as we are bound to hear Mass, and the clergy are bound to pray the Office. But there is great merit in the Rosary, and it has a special application outside of official public prayer. These prayers are not the same types. It is like saying is silent contemplation greater than the Mass. The Mass and Office are on a whole different level than these other prayers.

This is what I was trying to express. Thank you, Scriptorium.

[Jackson K. Eskew]

I did look up the Rosary on fisheaters.  My Pocket Rosary (book) has 4 mysteries, the 4th being Luminous.  I take it that is a VII thing, yes?

Hi onosurf, the suggested addition of the "Luminous Mysteries" isn't directly from Vatican II, but is in total accord with its cult of novelty. Tinkering with the Rosary like this would have been unthinkable before that disaster. This is a great article about the addition of the "Luminous Mysteries," and you'll also learn much about the Rosary itself:

http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20021108_The_Twenty_Mysteries_of_the_Rosary.html

There's nothing wrong, of course, with those mysteries that JP II called the "Luminous Mysteries." It's great to meditate on them. But they're no part of the Rosary.

[Jackson K. Eskew]

And typing the word Rosary into the search box at audiosancto.org will yield wonderful results.

[City Smurf]

Well it isn't completely unthinkable.  The Brigittine Rosary is somewhat of a precedence.

[jovan66102]

Well it isn't completely unthinkable.  The Brigittine Rosary is somewhat of a precedence.

The Brigettine and Servite Rosaries as well as the Franciscan Crown are all natural, organic growths, unlike the so-called 'Luminous Mysteries', foisted upon people as an attempt to continue the revolution.

[City Smurf]

The Brigettine and Servite Rosaries as well as the Franciscan Crown are all natural, organic growths, unlike the so-called 'Luminous Mysteries', foisted upon people as an attempt to continue the revolution.

The Luminous Mysteries have no been forced on anyone.  For example, the Rosary Confraternity still only requires the Joyful, Sorrow and Glorious mysteries.  They are completely optional and even Blessed Pope John Paul II at most suggested them as simply that, a suggestion.  I don't pray them my self.  But they're hardly the machinations of Satan that so many people make them out to be.  It should just be made clear that they should be viewed as a separate chaplet and that if one prayers the daily rosary (a chaplet a day) like Our Lady asks for, the Luminious Mysteries don't count towards that.

[jovan66102]

The Brigettine and Servite Rosaries as well as the Franciscan Crown are all natural, organic growths, unlike the so-called 'Luminous Mysteries', foisted upon people as an attempt to continue the revolution.

The Luminous Mysteries have no been forced on anyone.  For example, the Rosary Confraternity still only requires the Joyful, Sorrow and Glorious mysteries.  They are completely optional and even Blessed Pope John Paul II at most suggested them as simply that, a suggestion.  I don't pray them my self.  But they're hardly the machinations of Satan that so many people make them out to be.  It should just be made clear that they should be viewed as a separate chaplet and that if one prayers the daily rosary (a chaplet a day) like Our Lady asks for, the Luminious Mysteries don't count towards that.

And yet it is virtually impossible, outside of Trad circles, to obtain a Rosary booklet that does not include them in the daily cycle with no explanation that they are optional and not part of the ordinary Rosary.  It may be a gentle 'forcing', but they are indeed being forced on the general Catholic who knows no better.

[City Smurf]

I wasn't aware Divine Mercy Publications was the official publishing arm of the Catholic Church.

[jovan66102]

I wasn't aware Divine Mercy Publications was the official publishing arm of the Catholic Church.

I've yet to see a Rosary booklet in a 'regular' Catholic bookshop that didn't include them, regardless of publisher.