1. The Rosary Prayers Joyful Mysteries Luminous Mysteries
Sorrowful Mysteries
Glorious Mysteries

2. Praying The Rosary

3. What is the Rosary
The word “Rosary” comes from the latin word meaning “a garland of roses”. Roses are one of the flowers used to symbolise the Virgin Mary.

4. The Rosary is a devotion in honour of the Virgin Mary.
It consists of a set number of specific prayers. After making the sign of the cross, are the introductory prayers –
One apostles creed
One Our Father
Three Hail Marys
One Glory Be

5. The Rosary is then made up of 5 decades that is 5 lots of 10 beads on which we pray a 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.

6. The Mysteries of the Rosary
Praying the rosary is not just reciting the prayers but meditating on the mysteries regarding the life of Jesus and his Mother Mary.
This is the essence of the rosary – it isn’t just a recital of prayers but a meditation on the Grace of God

7. There are four major mysteries that we reflect on during the rosary prayer
The first mystery is the JOYFUL mystery
The second mystery is the LUMINOUS mystery
The third mystery is the SORROWFUL mystery
The fourth mystery is the GLORIOUS mystery

8. Each of these mysteries has 5 mysteries that we reflect on in each of the decades that we pray.
Each of these mysteries are reflected on particular days of the week

9. Joyful Mysteries Reflected on Monday and Saturday
The Joyful Mysteries are marked by the joy radiating from the event of the Incarnation. To meditate upon the joyful mysteries is to enter into the ultimate causes and the deepest meaning of Christian joy. It is to focus on the realism of the mystery of the Incarnation and on the obscure foreshadowing of the mystery of the saving Passion. Mary leads us to discover the secret of Christian joy, reminding us that Christianity is, first and foremost, evangelization, "good news", which has as its heart and its whole content the person of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, the one Savior of the world.                                                               - Pope John Paul II 

10. 1st Joyful Mystery
The Annunciation:
The messenger of God announces
to Mary that she is to be the
Mother of God.

11. 2nd Joyful Mystery
The Visitation:
Mary visits and helps her
cousin Elizabeth.

12. 3rd Joyful Mystery
The Nativity:
Mary gives birth to Jesus in a
stable in Bethlehem.

13. 4th Joyful Mystery
The Presentation:
Jesus is presented in the Temple.

14. 5th Joyful Mystery
The Finding in the Temple:
Jesus is found in the Temple.

15. Luminous Mysteries Reflected on Thursdays
Moving on from the infancy and the hidden life in Nazareth to the public life of Jesus, our contemplation brings us to those mysteries which may be called in a special way “mysteries of light”. Certainly the whole mystery of Christ is a mystery of light. He is the “light of the world” (Jn 8:12). Yet this truth emerges in a special way during the years of his public life, when he proclaims the Gospel of the Kingdom....  Each of these mysteries is a revelation of the Kingdom now present in the very person of Jesus.      Pope John Paul II

16. 1st Luminous Mystery
The Baptism:
Jesus is baptized in the River Jordan.

17. 2nd Luminous Mystery
The Wedding at Cana:
The Self-Manifestation of Our Lord
at the Wedding at Cana.

18. 3rd Luminous Mystery
The Proclamation of the Kingdom:
Christ’s announcement of
the Kingdom of God.

19. 4th Luminous Mystery
The Transfiguration:
The transfiguration of Our Lord revealing more about Jesus.

20. 5th Luminous Mystery
The Institution of the Eucharist:
Jesus gave himself to His own under the appearance of bread and wine
at the Last Supper.

21. Sorrowful Mysteries Reflected on Tuesday and Friday
In the Sorrowful Mysteries we stand beneath the Cross of Jesus, coming face to face with the truth of his insistence that the Christ must suffer and die. No matter that we long to cry out, if only we had been there; we still encounter the reality of our human position and the truth that is Our Lord's. We sense the sword piercing the heart of his Mother, and pray that it may open our whole being to the agony and the power that the infinite love of Jesus in his Passion chose and endured for us

22. 1st Sorrowful Mystery
The Agony in the Garden:
Jesus undergoes His agony in the garden of Gethsemane.

23. 2nd Sorrowful Mystery
The Scourging at the Pillar:
Jesus is scourged at the pillar.

24. 3rd Sorrowful Mystery
The Crowning with Thorns:
Jesus is crowned with thorns.

25. 4th Sorrowful Mystery
The Carrying of the Cross:
Jesus carries the cross to Calvary.

26. 5th Sorrowful Mystery
The Crucifixion:
Jesus dies on the cross for our sins.

27. Glorious Mysteries Reflected on Wednesday and Sunday
The Glorious Mysteries reveal the mediation of the great Virgin, still more abundant in fruitfulness. She rejoices in heart over the glory of her Son triumphant over death, and follows Him with a mother's love in His Ascension to His eternal kingdom; but, though worthy of Heaven, she abides a while on earth, so that the infant Church may be directed and comforted by her "who penetrated, beyond all belief, into the deep secrets of Divine wisdom" (St. Bernard).       Pope Leo XIII

28. 1st Glorious Mystery
The Resurrection:
Jesus rises from the dead.

29. 2nd Glorious Mystery
The Ascension into Heaven:
Jesus ascends into Heaven.

30. 3rd Glorious Mystery
The Descent of the Holy Spirit:
The Holy Spirit comes to the apostles and the Blessed Mother.

31. 4th Glorious Mystery
The Assumption:
The Mother of Jesus is taken into Heaven.

32. 5th Glorious Mystery
The Coronation:
Mary is crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth.

33. Hail Mary
Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death. Amen.
The Our Father
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.

34. Glory Be 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.
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.
            Pray for us, O holy Mother of God
            That we may be made worthy of the             promises of Christ.

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