Ive heard that a rosary is used for meditation and prayer, but im don't really know much about them.. or there history. Help please. And God bless u all.
2007-01-21 22:51:39 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The rosary isn't a single set of prayers. There are four or five variants in use at this moment, at the minimum. It is rather a class of prayers or a prayer form. The earliest reference to the rosary is around the year 200 and it was just in passing. Its form was different then, just as its form will be different in 100 years, but even then it was mentioned as an ancient practice. In the same class as the rosary are the chaplets and the tchotki.
As an example, the chaplet of Divine Mercy is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplet_of_Divine_Mercy
Another, the chotki is another descendent of this ancient prayer form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_prayer
None of these were originally used as beads or a rope, it was originally pebbles moved from one pocket to another or one pile to another. It wasn't moved to a rope until the fourth century.
The book of Revelations describes a mother giving birth to a child who is the Lamb, she is given a crown and her children will live forever. Revelations further says that the saints in Heaven's prayers are taken like incense up to the Father. So the Rosary is a meditation with Mary on Jesus' life as it would have been seen through her eyes. She saw not only his entire life, but lived with the apostle John until, according to early Christians, she was taken body and soul up to Heaven. It isn't until very late in Christian history that anyone disputed this. Further, we have the relics of all the early Christian saints, except Mary. The Vatican is a giant church over the tomb of the apostle Peter. Mary has no such thing, which given early Christian history is most remarkable, unless she was assumed body and soul into heaven like Ezekial. So the rosaries are a view of Jesus from his mother's perspective, but not only from her perspective but with her in meditation. It isn't prayer to Mary, it is prayer with Mary about the mysteries of Jesus and his life.
2007-01-22 23:47:14 · answer #1 · answered by OPM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well actually the Catholics are Christians Catholicism is a Christian philosophy that uses images and "props" to remind people about Christ.
The 12 stations of the cross, the rosary, the vestments, the incense etc...
You must remember that illiteracy was a problem because books could only be found by very wealthy people so the rest of the world needed visuals to show them how Christ lived... and the rosary is a visual and tactile reminder of Mary's sacrifice.
It also helps you count off your penitence "our fathers" and "hail Mary's"
2007-01-21 22:56:58 · answer #2 · answered by Loren H 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Catholic
2007-01-21 22:54:16 · answer #3 · answered by fatherf.lotski 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Are you suggesting Catholics are not Christians? Catholics are the only Christians as far as i understand that use a rosary to count quantity the style of prayers. different denominations do no longer value in basic terms repeating an identical prayer repeatedly. Buddhists use malas of 108 beads to count quantity mantra repetitions (a mantra isn't a prayer, that's an help to meditation). Muslims additionally use beads, yet i'm unsure precisely what they count quantity or how many beads there are.
2016-10-31 23:39:04 · answer #4 · answered by pour 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A rosary are beads with a cross and when you say a prayer you move up to the next bead .This is a Catholic custom but catholics are Christian because they believe that Jesus was the Son of God and Jesus suffered and died on the cross for mans sins so we can have a way to God.Jesus is the only way you can go to heaven
2007-01-21 22:59:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The rosary is a Christian form of meditation on the life of Christ or rather it's like praying the Gospel. It consists of 15 or 20 "decades" 1 Our Father and 10 Hail Mary's - and it follows the Gospel story starting with the annunciation trough the birth of Jesus, through His preaching His suffering and His glorification.
2007-01-21 23:03:05 · answer #6 · answered by carl 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The ‘Our Fathers’ and ‘Hail Mary’s’ aside, the Rosary is a meditation on the Gospels; the life of Jesus Christ. While praying the Rosary one mediates on key events in the Gospel. There are twenty such "mysteries" arranged in sets of five. They are the Joyful Mysteries, The Sorrowful Mysteries, the Luminous Mysteries, and the Glorious Mysteries. So long as you are mediating on these mysteries while reciting as little as one decade daily, it will not take long for you to internalize the life of Jesus Christ.
The Joyful Mysteries:
The Annunciation
The Visitation
The Nativity of our Lord
The Presentation
The Finding of Jesus is the Temple
The Sorrowful Mysteries:
The Agony in the Garden
The Scourging of Jesus
The Crowning with Thorns
The Carrying of the Cross
The Crucifixion
The Luminous Mysteries:
The Baptism of Jesus
The Wedding Feast at Cana
The Proclamation of the Kingdom
The Transfiguration
The Institution of the Eucharist
The Glorious Mysteries:
The Resurrection
The Ascension
The Descent of the Holy Spirit
The Assumption of Mary
The Coronation of Mary
As you can see, in spite of the Rosary’s clear Marian tone, the Rosary is primarily about promoting the Gospels.
I find it hard to imagine why any Christian would not want to meditate on said events. The Rosary is simply a tool to allow Catholics to conduct this meditation. A Rosary does not even have to be a Rosary, in the traditional sense. Anything, even pocket change, if it helps you keep track of your progress, can constitute a Rosary.
Whenever you say or hear the phrase, "praying the Rosary", it might just as well have been, "praying the Gospels."
It might interest some non-Catholic Christians to know that there is such a thing as Protestant Rosaries. It doesn’t seem as if they are as renown as Catholic Rosaries, but the mere fact they exist proves there’s nothing inherently wrong with their use.
From an evangelical standpoint, Rosaries are a great way to spread the Good News. Giving out Rosaries is a great way of exposing people to the Gospels.
What’s more, the Blessed Mother gave the following fifteen promises to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan in the twelve century.
1) Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
2) I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3) The Rosary shall be powerful armor against hell. It will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4) It will cause virtue and good works to flourish. It will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God. It will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and it’s vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5) The soul that recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
6) Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of it’s Sacred Mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in his justice. He shall not perish by an unprovided death. If he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life.
7) Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8) Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have, during their life and at their death, the light of God and the plentitude of His graces. At the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
9) I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10) The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
11) You shall obtain all that you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12) I shall aid all those who propagate the holy Rosary in their necessities.
13) I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
14) All those who recite the Rosary are my sons and brothers of my only Son Jesus Christ.
15) Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
Praying the Rosary, that is to say – praying the Gospels – is not nearly as strictly Catholic as many believe. It is a Christian thing to do.
2007-01-22 01:38:09 · answer #7 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rosary is used mainly by the catholic church, Not true protestant churches use it, you may have other idols worshippers using it also that for instance in Africa, Asia & so on. Not True Christians don't use it.,
2007-01-21 22:57:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's Catholic...but Catholics ARE Christians.
2007-01-21 22:54:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
catholic
2007-01-21 22:55:32 · answer #10 · answered by i_confuzzled 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋