Rosary - Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, Rosary Devotions and Spirituality, History of the Rosary, Gloria Patri, Ecumenical Miracle Rosary, Lestovka (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, Rosary devotions and spirituality, History of the rosary, Gloria Patri, Ecumenical Miracle Rosary, Lestovka, Anglican prayer beads, Franciscan Crown, Secret of the Rosary, Methods of praying the rosary, Chaplet, Fifteen rosary promises, Our Lady of the Rosary, Basque ring rosary, Irish penal rosary, The Power of the Rosary, Lists of promoters of the Rosary, Bead-roll. Excerpt: The rosary (from Latin rosarium, meaning "rose garden") or "garland of roses" is a traditional Catholic devotion. The term denotes the prayer beads used to count the series of prayers that make up the rosary. The prayers consist of repeated sequences of the Lord's Prayer followed by ten prayings of the Hail Mary and a single praying of "Glory Be to the Father" and is sometimes accompanied by the Fatima Prayer; each of these sequences is known as a decade. The praying of each decade is accompanied by meditation on one of the Mysteries of the Rosary, which recall the life of Jesus Christ. The traditional 15 Mysteries of the Rosary were standardized, based on the long-standing custom, by Pope St. Pius V in the 16th century. The mysteries are grouped into three sets: the joyful mysteries, the sorrowful mysteries, and the glorious mysteries. In 2002, Pope John Paul II announced five new optional mysteries, the luminous mysteries, bringing the total number of mysteries to 20. The term has come to be used to refer to similar beads in other religions. Our Lady of Lourdes appearing at Lourdes with Rosary beads.The rosary is part of the Catholic veneration of Mary, which has been promoted by numerous popes, especially Leo XIII, known as "The Rosary Pope," who issued twelve encyclicals and five apostolic letters on the rosary and added the invocation Queen of the most Holy Rosary to the Litany of Loreto. Pope Pius V introduced t...