http://www.praytheholyrosary.com/the-mysteries/luminous-mysteries Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray the Holy Rosary Daily! Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.praytheholyrosary.com/the-mysteries/luminous-mysteries/comment-page-1#comment-14 Michael Ryan Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:42:19 +0000 http://www.praytheholyrosary.com/?p=42#comment-14 I am staying with the Dominican Rosary of 15 Decades. Mon, Thu = Joyful; Tue, Fri = Sorrowful; Wed, Sat = Glorious; Sundays in Advent->end of Epiphany=Joyful; Septuagesima & Lent = Sorrowful; Easter to end of "Ordinary Time" = Glorious. I note that His Holiness Pope John Paul II stated that the Luminous Mysteries were only advisory and optional. To me they destroy the lovely symmetry of the Dominican Rosary; they relegate Our Lady; and they do not fully follow the pattern of specific events to meditate upon. For 30 years I have meditated on 'the Seven Signs of S. John', usually saying Our Father, 10 Hail Marys & Glory Be; but this is external to the 15 Mysteries, 5 per night, that we say as a family and which Our Lady at Fatima requested. With the greatest of respect to the then Holy Father, this was not among his best ideas ... as neither was his public kissing of the Koran, or the inter-faith meetings at Assisi, the second of which Pope Benedict, then Cdl Ratzinger, bluntly refused to attend. We can safely stake our lives on The Faith, but we most certainly are not required to follow every one of a pope's private ideas. I am staying with the Dominican Rosary of 15 Decades. Mon, Thu = Joyful; Tue, Fri = Sorrowful; Wed, Sat = Glorious; Sundays in Advent->end of Epiphany=Joyful; Septuagesima & Lent = Sorrowful; Easter to end of “Ordinary Time” = Glorious. I note that His Holiness Pope John Paul II stated that the Luminous Mysteries were only advisory and optional. To me they destroy the lovely symmetry of the Dominican Rosary; they relegate Our Lady; and they do not fully follow the pattern of specific events to meditate upon. For 30 years I have meditated on ‘the Seven Signs of S. John’, usually saying Our Father, 10 Hail Marys & Glory Be; but this is external to the 15 Mysteries, 5 per night, that we say as a family and which Our Lady at Fatima requested. With the greatest of respect to the then Holy Father, this was not among his best ideas … as neither was his public kissing of the Koran, or the inter-faith meetings at Assisi, the second of which Pope Benedict, then Cdl Ratzinger, bluntly refused to attend. We can safely stake our lives on The Faith, but we most certainly are not required to follow every one of a pope’s private ideas.

]]> http://www.praytheholyrosary.com/the-mysteries/luminous-mysteries/comment-page-1#comment-13 Domingo Fameron Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:04:16 +0000 http://www.praytheholyrosary.com/?p=42#comment-13 It would be nice if you include the significance and relevant readings related to each mystery It would be nice if you include the significance and relevant readings related to each mystery

]]> http://www.praytheholyrosary.com/the-mysteries/luminous-mysteries/comment-page-1#comment-11 peter Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:53:37 +0000 http://www.praytheholyrosary.com/?p=42#comment-11 i did'nt know there was "luminous mysteries...when was this invented? i did’nt know there was “luminous mysteries…when was this invented?

]]> http://www.praytheholyrosary.com/the-mysteries/luminous-mysteries/comment-page-1#comment-9 maryfe escabel Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:20:31 +0000 http://www.praytheholyrosary.com/?p=42#comment-9 i'm so glad to read this on how to pray the rosary,thank you i’m so glad to read this on how to pray the rosary,thank you

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