The HOLY ROSARY is a GOSPEL PRAYER OF CONTEMPLATION WITH MARY ON THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST AND MARY.
I have been praying the HOLY ROSARY since I was a child, even without thoroughly understanding the beauty and meaning of what it is.Yet over the years praying the HOLY ROSARY played a big role in my family life as the source of the strength that held us together.
2007-02-16 15:47:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I hope you don't mind my sentiments but it is of utmost importance that the HOLY ROSARY BE DESCRIBED OR DEFINED PROPERLY AND RIGHTFULLY,PLEASE.Thank you.
2007-02-16 16:08:07 · update #1
Praying the Rosary properly means combining meditation with vocal prayer. This is what makes the Holy Rosary such a spiritually rewarding experience.
Each Mystery of the Rosary focuses the worshiper's attention on a major event in the lives of Jesus Christ and His Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary. There are 20 Mysteries in all, ordered chronologically into four sets: the five Joyful Mysteries; the five Luminous Mysteries; the five Sorrowful Mysteries; and the five Glorious Mysteries
The rosary is very spiritual
God Bless You
2007-02-16 15:54:05 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Prayer beads with a pass on them have explicitly Christian origins and the Rosary prayers( Lord's Prayer, Gloria Patri, Ave,etc) and meditations( mysteries of Christ's existence) are uniquely Christian yet all religious rituals purely approximately have parallels in different religions Hindus and Buddhists have been using prayer beads all the rituals interior the Bible are the two direct borrowings from the Pre-Israelite rituals and customs or parallels to them Christians does not use something considering each thing has some pagan root or parallel The English language is full of examples such through fact the names of the days of the week
2016-10-15 12:02:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rosary was created by the Roman Catholic church. It is NOT biblical and praying to Mary is a form of idolatry. Mary cannot save anyone. She was a sinner on this earth like everyone else. Even SHE called Christ her Savior. If Mary was so 'holy' and 'perfect', then why would she call Christ her Savior? Praying the rosary will not save anyone. It is also idolatry. Those prayers do not come from the heart, but is merely repeating man-made prayers that was passed down through the centuries of the RC church. God is the ONLY one that people are to pray to - not Mary or any other sinner. TRUE prayers come from the heart - not from some pagan church that dictates what people are to say on a string of meaningless beads! If you can show me in the bible where God tells people to pray the rosary, I'll send you a million bucks!
2007-02-16 15:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Prayed correctly in contemplation of the Christian mysteries, it is far more powerful than any prayer I know, including the prayer of Jabez. Its power was said to be evident during the battle of Lepanto, when Europe drove away the pagan hordes of Islam at the gates of Vienna.
It is called pagan by the anti-Catholics because of its repetitive nature. However the same yardstick if so applied loosely can also label the hymn of the angels pagan. ("Holy , Holy, Holy")
2007-02-16 15:52:29 · answer #4 · answered by defOf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
everything in the catholic church is of Pagan origin.
you worship a Tirune god.
you begin and end your worship with the ringing of bells.
you burn insence to please your god, and to remove negative energy from the worship area.
you light candles to pray.
you gather to worship, even though Jesus tells you not to.
your biggest holidays are directly taken from Pagan holidays, on the same days that the Pagan Holidays were celebrated on.
your priest wears robes and shashes of office to show his station.
you use an altar to hold all of the ritual items that the priest will need.
do you really think that Catholics were the first people to put a holy symbol on a string of beads? Pagans have been doing that for 30,000 years.
what you really need to ask yourself is does it matter that it was a Pagan custom. do you get what you need spiritualy from praying the Rosary. and if you do what does it matter where the custom came from?
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with all that said, you say your prayers to honor your god, and if said to the christian god then it is a christian prayer. if it works for you then do it.
2007-02-16 15:59:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Who is saying that the rosary started as a pagan ritual? Many other catholic holidays and rituals were taken from various pagan religions, but I've never heard that said about the rosary before.
2007-02-16 15:52:06 · answer #6 · answered by Jensenfan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God bless you and thank you. i am a new Catholic and dearly treasure the Holy Rosary. It is one of my most intimate prayers. I thank you also for stating this correctly because a lot of people have serious misconceptions and/or bias against it.
2007-02-16 16:19:24 · answer #7 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing wrong with saying the rosary as long as you find additional time to pray. Praying is communicating with God. It is not repeating words. God wants a relationship with us and all relationships are built upon communication. Say the rosary but also speak to God from your heart and take time to listen as He speaks to your heart.
2007-02-16 16:06:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look up Matthew 6:7. You Cathoilics are not Christian....and Christians are followers of a flawed, man-made book. You are all believers in nonsense and baloney....all religions!
2007-02-16 16:01:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh wow! now I've heard everything. Is there any single thing that they aren't going to say it's a pagan thing? I suppose they are going to say some weird ancient druid guy told them to say the Our Father when talking to their trees?
2007-02-16 15:54:27 · answer #10 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋