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Offline St Giles

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Re: Rosary Meditations
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2025, 11:23:29 AM »
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    • Quote from: Stubborn on January 13, 2025, 05:36:53 AM
    Yesterday before Mass we prayed the Scriptural Rosary. What you do is read a little Scripture that pertains to each mystery, before each Hail Mary.  I see there are various different editions online, but I posted a link to one that I think most closely matches what we said yesterday. I really like praying the rosary this way.
    I think that would be best for the public Rosary before Mass, because of all the distractions.
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    Re: Rosary Meditations
    « Reply #16 on: January 14, 2025, 05:02:23 AM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on January 13, 2025, 07:21:13 AM
    I actually do my own meditations before each mystery, take a few minutes to mediate, and then start into the Out Father, Haily Marys ... and this is by far the most preferred method.  I don't like just rattling off the words.
    I sometimes still do it that way, but I've been able to meditate on the mysteries and pray the prayers at the same time for a while. For example, I googled how far did Our Lord carry his cross, google says 2000 feet which is what I've used ever since. Although I think that's correct, whether that distance is right or not does not really matter to me, for me, it gives me a good distance to meditate on, for me, I would probably forget to say the prayers or have an overly extended pause if I didn't pray and meditate at the same time. It's the same way with all the mysteries.

    After a while, it really is like +Fellay said - "the mysteries are center stage, like watching them on the screen, the prayers are the background music." Anyway, he said something along those lines, wish I could remember exactly what it was he said because he put it really well.  
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    Re: Rosary Meditations
    « Reply #17 on: January 24, 2025, 05:18:18 PM »
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    Re: Rosary Meditations
    « Reply #18 on: January 24, 2025, 07:20:59 PM »
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    Re: Rosary Meditations
    « Reply #19 on: January 28, 2025, 02:12:24 PM »
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    • Some meditation ideas for the Joyful mysteries. Some are my ideas, some I've heard from others, some from meditation books. These could be printed out in small font, narrow spacing, narrow column format to fit on a little card to go in the pages of a little meditation book. It's a start, but I'm not done with the joyful mysteries.

    1st Joyful:

    I desire... To honor the Incarnation, the grace of profound humility, that I love humility & hate pride.

    Think of...      
    - The humility of the Blessed Virgin when the Angel Gabriel greeted her: “Hail full of grace”, and her response: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord, Be it done unto me according to thy word.” God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. As God’s creature, I should do what He wants.

    - Hail full of grace.

    - “The Holy which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.”

    - Be prepared to receive God’s blessings/work/gifts/ect by living a holy life.

    - Jesus sanctified our flesh by taking it upon Himself; Mary participated in this.

    - Pride is the fatal principle of all ruin & corruption; humility is the principle of salvation, the corner-stone of our perfection.




    2nd:

    I desire... Perfect charity toward my neighbor.

    Think of...
    - Mary’s charity in visiting her cousin Elizabeth 200 miles round trip on foot and remaining with her for 3 months until the birth of John the Baptist.

    - Charity is expensive. (Fr. Chazal)

    - She serves another, though she is of such great dignity even carrying God/Savior.

    - Jesus serving at the last supper.

    - 1 Cor 13:4  “Charity is patient, is kind: charity envies not, deals not perversely; is not puffed up;  is not ambitious, seeks not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinks no evil; bears, hopes and endures all things.”




    3rd:

    I desire...  I Desire Detachment and Indifference Toward Worldly Things.

    Think of...
    - The poverty so lovingly accepted by Mary when she placed the Infant Jesus, our God and Redeemer, in a manger in the cold stable of Bethlehem away from all their preparations back home. In such poverty they were rich with the presence of God Himself.

    - The frustration Mary & Joseph must have felt after having likely made preparations at home for Jesus, just to have Him born homeless & travelling.

    - “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”

    - The beasts knew their Master & kept Him warm. The shepherds and kings of gentiles came to adore.

    - We should visit and adore Him whenever, however, and as often as we can.



    4th:

    I desire...  The spirit of sacrifice, Purity of Soul, and Obedience to God’s Laws. The grace to obey all lawful authority that we may be blameless.

    Think of...
    - The presentation as the 1st mass: God offering God to God.

    - They obeyed the law without necessity. (stopping at sign with no traffic around?)

    - Authority & laws from God are a good thing. He knows what is best. His will be done. Jesus, Mary & Joseph set an example of perfect obedience.

    - “Narrow is the way that leads to life"; "The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent bear it away." Self sacrifice, denying our will to conform to another's will or to suffer the deprivation of any sensual pleasure is violence.

    - 3 possible reasons for the Sacraments: for humiliation, instruction, &
    exercise. Since man disobeyed his superior, God, and subjected himself to things below him, the forbidden fruit and Satan, he became subject to these inferior worldly things through concupiscence. Since man abandoned God through pride, he must now seek him through humility. God instructs the human mind to recognize the invisible virtue through the visible things of the earth (Rom 1:20, Ps 8:4, 19:2, Sir 17:8-10, Is 40:26, Acts 14:17, 17:26-29). These signs and matter stimulate the mind of man and restore his communion with God. Man exercises his relationship with God by carrying out what God has provided him to cultivate.




    5th:

    I desire...  I Desire True Wisdom, Joy in Finding Jesus, Zeal for God’s Glory, Grace to Seek His Will.


    Think of...
    - Mary saying to us: “Son (daughter), why hast thou done so to us? Behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.”

    - God doesn’t need us. We may lose Him if we are careless.

    - Always check to make sure you have Jesus with you.

    - He can be found in the temple teaching.

    - Pray Jesus teaches us all that is valuable to our salvation, knowledge, love, and service of God. We must work to do our part studying and reviewing.

    - Obedience is the necessary condition of all order. Suppress obedience and you will at once inaugurate the reign of caprice and folly.

    - It is the spirit of independence and revolt that troubles at present the family, the state, and the church itself.


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    Re: Rosary Meditations
    « Reply #20 on: January 29, 2025, 05:16:35 AM »
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    How to pray the Rosary by St. Francis de Sales

    From his youth, Francis de Sales had formed the habit of saying his chaplet daily. Later, he made a vow to do so… To recite it, he employed a time which seemed to him brief, lingering in pious consideration on the mysteries of the Rosary; it was a familiar, childlike talk with his heavenly Mother, and he readily forgot himself near her.
    Instruction on how to pray the Rosary:

            “Kiss the cross of your chaplet after having signed yourself therewith, and place yourself in the presence of God, saying the Creed.
            On the first large bead, beg God to accept the service you wish to render Him, and to assist you by His grace to accomplish it worthily.
            On the first three small beads, implore the intercession of the Sacred Virgin, saluting her on the first as the most cherished daughter of God the Father; on the second, as Mother of God the Son, and on the third, as beloved Spouse of God the Holy Ghost.
            At each decade think of one of the mysteries of the Rosary according to your leisure, remembering it principally when pronouncing the holy names of Jesus and Mary, with great reverence of heart and body. If any other sentiment should animate you (sorrow for past sin or a purpose of amendment) meditate thereon throughout the chaplet as well as you can, recalling this sentiment or any other that God may inspire in a special manner when murmuring the sacred names of Jesus and Mary.

    (The Saint then finishes off the recitation of the Rosary in a way that is not common to us.)

            On the large bead at the end of the last decade, thank God for having been permitted to recite your chaplet.
            Passing to the three following small beads, salute the most holy Virgin Mary, entreating her
            at the first to offer your understanding to the Eternal Father that you may continually consider His mercies;
            at the second, supplicate her to offer your memory to the Son that your thoughts may constantly turn to His Passion and Death;
            at the third, implore her to offer your will to the Holy Ghost that it may ever be inflamed with His holy love.
            On the large bead at the end, beg the divine Majesty to accept all for His glory and the good of His Church, asking Him to keep you ever in its pale and to bring back those who have wandered; pray for your friends, and conclude as you commenced by the profession of faith, the Creed and Sign of the Cross.”

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    Re: Rosary Meditations
    « Reply #21 on: February 04, 2025, 08:42:29 PM »
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    • Feel free to post your favorite pictures of the mysteries, whether painting, drawn, stained glass, church ceiling, or altar theme. There's too many soft silly images out there. It's hard to meditate on the Passion when our Lord has no blood on Him, or no suffering on His face. Though I do often try to imagine my own scenes with success, it still helps to have something to look at.
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    Re: Rosary Meditations
    « Reply #22 on: March 12, 2025, 05:04:34 PM »
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    • My goal now is to try to spend just a half hour each day reading a book on the Passion and write down a quote or thought that stands out to me to use for meditation whether on the Sorrowful mysteries or the Way of the Cross. I highly recommend doing the same this Lent. 

    Saint Alphonsus says a Fr. Balthasar Alvarez used to say that, one should not think of having done anything so long as one has not succeeded in constantly keeping in one's heart Jesus crucified.

    It helps extend a meditation/prayer if you also remember "ACTS". 
    -Adoration
    -Contrition
    -Thanksgiving
    -Supplication
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    Re: Rosary Meditations
    « Reply #23 on: March 12, 2025, 05:50:21 PM »
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    • About the best book you'll find is Father Peyton's Rosary Prayer Book (1953 NOT the reprint) about 5"X3-1/2"
    It contains meditations for 12 different fifteen decade rosaries.

    https://archive.org/details/fatherpeytonsros00char/page/n5/mode/2up

    There are a couple available on Ebay right now for around $10.00.  The originals look like this.



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    Re: Rosary Meditations
    « Reply #24 on: May 15, 2025, 06:27:07 AM »
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    • Consider the mysteries may be in the order that we should progress in the spiritual life.
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