BASIC PRAYERS • PRAYING THE HOLY ROSARY • STATIONS OF THE CROSS

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THE MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY

Joyful Mysteries • audio format

1) The Annunciation
2) The Visitation
3) The Birth of Our Lord
4) The Presentation in the Temple
5) The finding of Jesus in the temple

Sorrowful Mysteries • audio format

1) The agony in the Garden
2) The scourging at the pillar
3) The crowning with thorns
4) The carrying of the cross
5) The crucifixion

 

Glorious Mysteries • audio format

1) The Resurrection
2) The Ascension
3) The descent of the Holy Spirit
4) The Assumption
5) The crowning of Our Lady Queen of Heaven

Mysteries of Light • audio format

1) The Baptism in the Jordan
2) The wedding feast of Cana
3) The proclamation of the kingdom of God
4) The Transfiguration
5) The institution of the Eucharist

 

Steps on how to pray the Holy Rosary

1. While holding the crucifix make the Sign of the Cross. and then recite the Apostles Creed.

2. Recite the Our Father on the first large bead.

3. Recite a Hail Mary for an increase of faith, hope and charity on each of the three small beads.

4. Recite the Doxology on the next large bead.

5. Recite the Fatima Prayer "O my Jesus" on the large bead.

6. Recall the first Rosary Mystery and recite the Our Father on the large bead.

7. On each of the adjacent ten small beads (also refered to as a decade) recite a Hail Mary while reflecting on the mystery.

8. On the next large bead, recite the Glory Be to the Father, the Fatima prayer.

9. Each succeeding decade is prayed in a similar manner by recalling the appropriate mystery, reciting the Our Father, ten Hail Marys, the Glory Be to the Father, and the Fatima prayer while reflecting on the mystery.

10. When the fifth mystery is completed, the Rosary is Customarily concluded with the Hail Holy Queen, and the Sign of the Cross.

Customary prayers in approximate order

DECADE PRAYER - (prayer for priests): God, our Father, please send us holy priests, all for the sacred and eucharistic heart of Jesus, all for the sorrowful and immaculate heart of Mary, in union with saint Joseph. Amen.

THE SALVE REGINA (Hail Holy Queen): Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!

V: Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God

R: That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

LET US PRAY: O God, by the life, death and resurrection of Your only begotten Son, You purchased for us the rewards of eternal life; grant, we beseech You that while meditation on these mysteries of the Holy rosary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

FATIMA PRAYER: Most Holy Trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - I adore thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences whereby He is offended. And through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.

"Let this prayer be echoed all over the world." - Mary

Fatima Prayer: My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love You. I beg pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love You.

Mary, Queen of the Holy Rosary, pray for us. Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for us. Mary, Our Loving Mother, pray for us.

MEMORARE: Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary that never was it known that anyone who fled to Your protection, implored Your help, or sought Your intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, we fly to you, O Virgin of virgins, our Mother. To You we come; before You we stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in Your mercy, hear and answer us. Amen.

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