HOLY ROSARY
The word “ Rosary” comes from
the latin word meaning “ a
garland of roses”. Roses are one
of the flower used to symbolize
the Virgin Mary.
It is widely believed that in 1214 St. Dominic
had a vision of Mary. She is said to have
presented him with the rosary, both the beads
and the prayers to be prayed. Dominic had a
tremendous devotion to Mary and the rosary,
which he promoted wherever he traveled to
preach.
The Rosary is a devotion in honour of the
Virgin Mary.
It consists of a set number of specific prayer.
After making the sign of the cross are the
introductory prayer-
One Apostles creed, one Our Father, Three
Hail Marys, One Glory Be
The Rosary is then made up of 5 decades that
is 5 lots of 10 beads on which we pray hail
Mary for each bead.
*Before we start a decade of hail Marys we
say the Our Father and we conclude each
decade with a Glory Be prayer
*We say 12 prayers in each decade.
After praying the 5 decades we end with a hail
Holy Queen prayer.
*Praying the rosary is not just reciting the
prayers but meditating on the mysteries
regarding the life of Jesus and his Month Mary
* This is the essence of the rosary- it isn’t just a
recital of prayers but a meditation of the Grace
of God
The Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to Mary.
The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth.
The Birth of Jesus in Bethlehem of Judea.
The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.
The Finding of Jesus in the Temple.
The Agony of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.
The Scourging of Jesus at the Pillar.
The Crowning of Jesus with Thorns.
The Carrying of the Cross.
The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus.
Jesus' Baptism in the Jordan.
The Wedding at Cana.
The Proclamation of the Kingdom.
The Transfiguration.
The Institution of the Eucharist.
The Resurrection of Jesus.
The Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.
The Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
The Assumption of Mary into Heaven.
The Coronation of Our Lady in Heaven.
The
LORD’S
PRAYER
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
This prayer is a perfect model
of how we should pray and for
what things we should pray.
This prayer teaches us that we should desire
the glory and honor of God as the first
intention of our prayer, no matter what we
may be praying for.
Thus, we pray that God’s name be honored
and held holy.
Then we pray that his will be done as perfectly
among us on earth as his angels accomplish it
in his heavenly kingdom.
Then, after these universal intentions—for
God’s glory and for his will—we pray for the
things we need in order to glorify him and
be united to him.
“Our daily bread” means all that we need to
serve him here and now: first of all, his
supernatural gift of his Body in the Holy
Eucharist, and then the necessities of life we
need each day.
But there are also obstacles to his glory and
his gifts.
These are our sins and other people’s sins
against us.
We need God’s forgiveness for our
ungratefulness in sinning, especially when we
are in the act of asking him for good things,
and of course we have to be willing to forgive
others if we ourselves want to be forgiven.
This is the hardest petition of the Lord’s
Prayer, the one we struggle with the most.
It is so important that it is the only part of
the prayer given in St. Mark’s Gospel.
If we can forgive those who have hurt us, we
will receive what we ask from God, because
we will be acting like him and pleasing him.
God loves a forgiving heart more than
anything.
But there is not only sin, there is also the
struggle against sin we have to endure when
we are tempted.
Here we are in complete need of help and
grace, even though we realize that it’s for our
good that we need to struggle in order to be
faithful to God.
He will be faithful to us as well in time of trial
There is the devil, our spiritual enemy who
constantly tries to remove us from God’s glory, his
holiness, his kingdom, his Eucharist, his pardon, and
his help.
Although the English and Latin versions of the Our
Father pray simply for us to be delivered from “evil,”
the Greek original clearly prays for us to be
delivered from the “Evil One.”
Thus, our most common prayer taught us by the
Lord himself contains a little exorcism against the
devil.
APOSTLE’S
CREED
Article of catholic faith
Article 1: I believe in God, the Father
Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.
This affirms that God exists, that he’s a Triune God (one God
in three persons, known as the Holy Trinity), and that he
created the known universe.
Article 2: And in Jesus Christ, his only Son,
our Lord.
This attests that Jesus is the Son of God and that he’s most certainly
divine. The word Lord implies divinity, because the Greek Kyrios and
the Hebrew Adonai both mean “lord” and are ascribed only to God. So
the use of Lord with Jesus is meant to profess his divinity. The name
Jesus comes from the Hebrew Jeshua, meaning “God saves.” So
Catholics believe that Jesus is Savior.
Article 3: Who was conceived by the power of the
Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
This affirms the human nature of Christ, meaning he had a real, true human
mother, and also affirms his divine nature, meaning he had no human father
but by the power of the Holy Spirit was conceived in the womb of the
Virgin Mary. He’s therefore considered both God and man by Christians—
fully divine and fully human.
Article 4: He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
The human nature of Christ could feel pain and actually die, and he did on
Good Friday. The mention of Pontius Pilate by name wasn’t meant so much
to vilify him forever in history but to place the Crucifixion within human
history.
Article 5: He descended into hell. The third day he arose
again from the dead.
The hell Jesus descended into wasn’t the hell of the damned, where Jews and
Christians believe the devil and his demons reside. Hell was merely a word
that Jews and early Christians used to describe the place of the dead. This
passage affirms that on the third day he rose, meaning Jesus came back from
the dead of his own divine power. He wasn’t just clinically dead for a few
minutes; he was dead dead — then he rose from the dead. More than a
resuscitated corpse, Jesus possessed a glorified and risen body.
Article 6: He ascended into heaven and is seated at
the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
The Ascension reminds the faithful that after the human and divine natures
of Christ were united in the Incarnation, they could never be separated. In
other words, after the saving death and Resurrection, Jesus didn’t dump his
human body as if he didn’t need it anymore. Catholicism teaches that his
human body will exist forever. Where Jesus went, body and soul, into
heaven, the faithful hope one day to follow.
Article 7: He will come again to judge the living
and the dead.
This article affirms the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the world to
be its judge. Judgment Day, Day of Reckoning, Doomsday—they’re all
metaphors for the end of time when what’s known as the General Judgment
will occur. Catholics believe that after the death of any human person,
immediate private judgment occurs and the person goes directly to heaven,
hell, or purgatory (an intermediate place in preparation for heaven).
Article 8: I believe in the Holy Spirit,
This part reminds the believer that God exists in three persons — the Holy Trinity
— God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. What’s referred to as the
Force in the movie Star Wars isn’t the same as the Holy Spirit, who is a distinct
person equal to the other two — God the Father and God the Son.
Article 9: the holy catholic Church, the
Communion of Saints,
Catholics believe that the Church is more than a mere institution and
certainly not a necessary evil. It’s an essential dimension and aspect of
spiritual life. Christ explicitly uses the word church (ekklesia in Greek)
in Matthew 16 when he says, “I will build My Church.”
Article 10: the forgiveness of sins,
Christ came to save the world from sin. Belief in the forgiveness of
sins is essential to Christianity. Catholicism believes sins are forgiven
in Baptism and in the Sacrament of Penance.
Article 11: the resurrection of the body,
From the Catholic perspective, a human being is a union of body and soul, so
death is just the momentary separation of body and soul until the end of the
world, the Second Coming of Christ, the General Judgment, and the
resurrection of the dead. The just go, body and soul, into heaven, and the
damned go, body and soul, into hell.
Article 12: And in life everlasting.
As Christ Our Savior died, so, too, must mere mortals. As he rose,
so shall all human beings. Death is the only way to cross from this
life into the next. At the very moment of death, private judgment
occurs; Christ judges the soul:
Hail Mary, full of Grace Luke 1:28 (Hail, full of Grace)
The Lord is with You Luke 1:28 (The Lord is with you)
Blessed are you among Luke 1:41 (Blessed are you women
among women)
And Blessed is the fruit Luke 1:42 (and blessed is the
of thy womb Jesus fruit of your womb)
Holy Mary, Mother of God Luke 1:43 (And why is this
granted me, that the
mother of my Lord should
come to me?)
Pray for us sinners, now James 5:16 (Therefore confess
and at the hour of our death your sins to one another,
and pray for one another,
that you may be healed.
The prayer of a righteous
man has great power in its
effects)
Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was
in the beginning, is now, and ever
shall be, world without end. Amen.
Doxology in the Bible
"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and
knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the
mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
“Who has ever given to God, that God should repay
them?” For from him and through him and for him are
all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen."
