the rosary is a quiet contemplative prayer with enormous spiritual power its very repetitiveness makes it a kind of mantra designed to slow us down calm our restless hearts and allow the mysteries of the life of christ to appear before our mind's eye but how exactly do we pray it well the rosary actually consists of a series of smaller prayers all which take about 20 minutes to pray for our purposes today i will say the names of each prayer hail mary our father etc for the text of each prayer visit wordonfire.org rosary now let's walk through
the rosary together holding the crucifix of the rosary we pray the ancient apostles creed which is a summary of our baptismal promises holding the first speed above the crucifix we then pray the our father which is of course the prayer jesus taught us to pray for each of the three beads that follow we pray the hail mary which is derived from the biblical text where an angel asks mary if she's willing to become the mother of god one thing we might pray for during this introductory triplet is an increase in faith hope and love next
we pray the glory be which gives praise to the three persons of our one god now we move into the heart of the rosary the five decades so called these are groupings of ten beads separated by an individual bead each of these decades corresponds to a mystery in the lives of christ and his mother when we pray the rosary we pray it following one of the four categories of mysteries the joyful mysteries the sorrowful mysteries the glorious mysteries and the luminous mysteries again to learn more about the mysteries of the rosary visit wordonfire.org rosary so
let's begin the decades before the first decade we announce the mystery and then pray in our father then on each of the ten beads we say a hail mary contemplating the mystery as we pray after we pray the tenth hail mary in each decade we pray the glory be followed by the prayer requested by the blessed virgin mary in her apparition at fatima oh my jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of hell lead all souls to heaven especially those who have most need of your mercy in summary we repeat this cycle
of prayers announcement of the mystery our father ten hail marys glory be and the fatima prayer for each of the five decades meditating on each of the five mysteries as we move through each decade after saying the five decades we pray the hail holy queen then we may recite the concluding prayer finally we end in the same way we began with the sign of the cross having gone around in a circle and reached the end we are right back where we started and in a way that's the point the rosary hasn't taken us anywhere or
accomplished anything in a worldly sense but it has drawn us into the courts of the lord that we might simply gaze upon him thanks for watching if you enjoyed that video i encourage you to share it and be sure to subscribe to my youtube channel you
