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Rosary Workshop - Prayers index
SPECIAL PRAYERS
PRAY FOR WORLD PEACE
Because God did not make death, nor does
he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
SCRIPTURAL
ROSARY - DIVINE
MERCY CHAPLET
COMMUNION
OF SAINTS - ROSARY.NETWORK
GATE OF HEAVEN
- PRAY FOR THE PRE-BORN
PROTESTANTS AND
THE ROSARY - COMMENTS
DO PROTESTANTS PRAY THE ROSARY?
We receive many emails that start off ' I would
love to make rosaries but I am a Protestant - is it ok? Some ask, 'I
want to pray the rosary but do not know if I should,' is it just a 'Catholic
thing'. What a treasure! How beautiful it is that people are discovering
the rosary regardless of their faith. Even had one lady ask if praying
the rosary would make her 'Catholic'. No, praying the rosary will not make
one become a Catholic, and Yes, it is ok to pray or make a the rosary regardless
of ones faith. The rosary is simply made up of scriptural passages that
tell the life of Jesus. A powerful way to count prayers and meditate on
Him. It makes one realize that to fully know and understand who Jesus is,
you must know scripture - both Old and New Testaments.
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HOW DOES MARY FIT IN?
I was raised a Protestant and could not quite figure
out how Mary fit into all of this - other than the fact that she takes
our hand and tells us the story of her son like any proud mom would do.
I heard a man say once about Mary, 'if she was good enough for Jesus,
she is good enough for me.' That really stuck in my heart and made
me realize that if Jesus is my brother, then Mary is my mother. I have
noticed that more and more Protestants are understanding this mystery of
Mary and are embracing her roll without feeling it is a 'Catholic thing'or
that they are putting Mary before Jesus when actually one of her most famous
quotes in scripture (Cana, sign of the first miracle) is 'do as He tells
you'.
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WE ARE ALL THE FAMILY OF GOD
This is great news as we are all the family of God,
the body of Christ, regardless of our church preferences. The Ave (Hail
Mary) and the Pater (Our Father) beads simply keep track of these passages
so we can meditate on this, the greatest of all stories.
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For he fashioned all things that they might have
being; and the creatures of the world are wholesome, And there is
not a destructive drug among them nor any domain of the nether world on
earth, For justice is undying. Wisdom 1:13-15
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... bind me forever ...
"O Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,
I would like to be filled with love for You; keep me closely united with
You, may my heart be near to Yours. I want to be to You like the apostle
John. O Mary of the Rosary,keep me recollected when I say these prayers
of yours; bind me forever, with your rosary, to Jesus of the Blessed Sacrament.
Blessed be Jesus, my love, blessed be the Immaculate Virgin Mary." Pope
John XXIII, Journal of a Soul
~ SCRIPTURAL ROSARY ~
PRAY THE LIFE OF CHRIST THROUGH
THE ROSARY AND UNLOCK THE POWER
OF THE GOSPEL MYSTERY IN YOUR HEART.
SCRIPTURAL
ROSARY PRAYERS
... grant, we beseech Thee, that meditating
on these mysteries
... we may imitate what they contain and
obtain what they promise ....
(Prayer said after the rosary)
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Read about some surprizing events that have taken
place in peoples lives because of the Rosary.
~ DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET ~
THIS CHAPLET IS LIKE
NONE OTHER FOR THOSE
IN GREAT NEED - AND
AREN'T WE ALL?
DIVINE
MERCY CHAPLET
‘By saying this chaplet, you will bring mankind
closer to Me.'
(Jesus to Saint Maria Faustina of the Holy Eucharist)
~ COMMUNION of SAINTS ~
DEVOTIONAL CHAPLETS AND PRAYERS FOR THE
INTERCESSION OF FAVORITE SAINTS - THERESE',
PRAGUE, PHILOMENA AND ALL THEIR HEAVENLY FRIENDS.
COMMUNION
OF THE SAINTS
"If two of you shall consent
upon earth concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done
to them by My Father who is in heaven. For where there are two or three
gathered in My name, there am I in their midst.
(Matt.18:19, 20)
~ ROSARY NETWORK ~
BECOME A BEAD IN A LIVING PRAYER
THAT EMBRACES THE EARTH IN PEACE
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AND THANKSGIVING
ROSARY
NETWORK
"Let us gather into an assembly and congregation
that we may, as it were,
make up a band and solicit God ...."
(Tertullian)
~ GATE of HEAVEN ~
A SIMPLE DIALOGUE WITH
REVELATIONS 22 - A GLORIOUS PRAYER
FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM.
GATE
OF HEAVEN
"Blessed are they who wash their robes so
as to have the right to
the tree of life and enter the city through its
gates."
Revelations 22: 14
~ PRAY for the PRE BORN ~
~ PROTESTANTS and the ROSARY ~
... a quieting of the spirit ...
'In saying the rosary, truth sinks into the subconscious like
a slow and heavy downpour. The hammered sentences of the Gospel receive
and indelible validity for precisely the little ones, the least, to who
belongs the Kingdom of Heaven ... the Rosary is a long and persevering
gaze, a meditation , a quieting of the spirit in praise of God, the value
of which we Protestants are learning more and more.' Richard
Baumann (German Lutheran Minister)
~ COMMENTS ~
... a former Southern Baptist ...
Last fall I started thinking about starting a Rosary making
group at our local parish but kept putting it off . Since I'm housebound
with bad lungs I thought I'd invite people to my home and form a
group! When I finally put my plans into action about 6 weeks ago,
our parish priest put a notice in the church bulletin every week for several
weeks, asking people to call me. WELL!!!!!!!!! I now have an
afternoon group and an evening group! We have a list of 14 places
where we want to send finished rosaries and a Sister at our parish school
wants to learn so she can teach her students. The CCD director also wants
the CCD children to make them for a service project. Next fall
Father wants each of the school children to make a rosary they can keep
at school and USE at least once a month if not once a week.
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I've made each Group member a rosary bracelet and because
several women have chosen to wear them to work, new groups are forming
at 2 other parishes!!! Conversations were started over the bracelets
and the plans began because someone was wearing a sacramental for the world
to see!
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Isn't all this wonderful? Especially when you consider
that my husband and I are not cradle Catholics! We joined the Church
on Nov. 24 of 1994. A former Southern Baptist is now making rosaries
in her living room!
Pray for peace, Phyllis
... rolling thunder - 2002 ...
A little over two years ago several men from my home parish would
meet a say a Rosary every Friday at 6:00 am. We have been as few
as two and sometimes up to a dozen. In April of this year one of
our parish priests, Fr. Bill challenged us to bring 200 men together to
say the rosary on Fridays during May. While we were not completely
successful in meeting the 200 voices ... we were able to bring between
120 and 150 men's voices together on those Fridays. To hear the church
filed with those voices was extraordinary. Fr. Bill called
it "rolling thunder." It was a true blessing to be present.
Again, thank you for your work. I look forward to receiving my rosary.
Kelly
G (IA)
... using the scriptural method ...
I wish to give you my heart-felt thanks for your beautiful gift
you've given me and I want you to know I'm praying my rosary using the
scriptural method. Some days I go through the 15 mysteries and other
days I use the one for specific days of the week. I really enjoyed reading
the history of the rosary, I never knew all that. Claudia Valencia
(USA)
"My life line"
- about the rosary while in prison in China
for 12 years Bishop James E Walsh
... The rosary is not a road - but a place ...
… speaks of the rosary's contemplative and liturgical nature
as "a sojourn" which offers a "quiet, holy world that envelops the person
who is praying . . . The rosary is not a road - but a place - it has no
goal but a depth. To linger in it has great compensations."
Romano
Guardini
... bind me forever ...
"O Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,
I would like to be filled with love for You; keep me closely united with
You, may my heart be near to Yours. I want to be to You like the apostle
John. O Mary of the Rosary,keep me recollected when I say these prayers
of yours; bind me forever, with your rosary, to Jesus of the Blessed Sacrament.
Blessed be Jesus, my love, blessed be the Immaculate Virgin Mary." Pope
John XXIII, Journal of a Soul
... shining beads of prayer ...
'I wish that my friendship's fingers, might take the dark beads
of care,
and leave on the rosary of your life, the shining beads of prayer.'
Old
Victorian Postcard
I pray the Rosary all the time
with my brother and my grandma.
Romeo P (NJ)
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