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Offline Miseremini

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Can you pray only sorrowful mysteries during Lent?
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2017, 01:51:07 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus.  These are all just CUSTOMS and not rules.

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    Customs become tradition, and when it's in the Raccolta it's more than just a local custom.
    Rome was obviously giving instruction.
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    Re: Can you pray only sorrowful mysteries during Lent?
    « Reply #16 on: March 02, 2020, 05:11:27 PM »
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    • Quote from: Miseremini on March 09, 2017, 11:21:34 AM
    The oldest book I have with instructions on the rosary is the Raccolta 1857, the first published in English.  It states:

    Joyful, every day from the 1st Sunday of Advent 'til the Feast of the Purification Feb 2nd
    Sorrowful every day from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
    Glorious every day from Easter Sunday to Trinity Sunday.

    Any other day of the year the mysteries alternate with the Glorious on Sunday

    The book states that in this way the Rosary is prayed according to the calendar of the Church.

    I've found this method stated in Missals and Prayerbooks as late as the 1961 Ideal Missal.  Only after the 2nd WW did the people start this alternating method all year.

    I started paying the rosary this way and it sure helps you focus on the liturgical season.





    Can you please take a picture of the rosary instructions of your 1857 Raccolta, or is there a link and page # you can send me. Thanks
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    Re: Can you pray only sorrowful mysteries during Lent?
    « Reply #17 on: March 02, 2020, 05:57:51 PM »
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    • Yes I can take a picture but I don't know how to post it here.
    The above is found in the:
    1857 Raccolta on page 555
    1934 and 1952 Ideal Missal on page 49
    1888- 1967 Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers manual " Mother Love"  page 17 (not sure what later editions say)

    Remember,  people before WWII prayed in union with the liturgy of the church season.
    The above guidelines were for people (the majority) who pray five decades per day.
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