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<blockquote data-quote="AnonymousBosch" data-source="post: 1251214" data-attributes="member: 5255"><p>Understand you can't take the advice of Non-Catholic about this particular devotion. They misunderstand it as 'worshipping' Mary, rather than experiencing an understanding of God through the experiences of the Mother. She functions here as an intercessor, the way she asked Jesus to spare the embarrassment of the bridal couple at Cana. If you pray the Rosary regularly, she will lead you to Jesus, deposit you safely in his hands, and then humbly-recede back into the background.</p><p></p><p>Start with Five Mysteries a day</p><p></p><p>The daily schedule is here:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/" target="_blank">https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/</a></p><p></p><p>Note that the Luminous were only recently-added, and are optional. I don't pray them.</p><p></p><p>My schedule used to be:</p><p></p><p>Mon / Thurs - Joyful Mysteries</p><p>Tues / Friday - Sorrowful Mysteries</p><p>Wed / Sat - Glorious Mysteries</p><p></p><p>Sunday depends on the time of year:</p><p></p><p>Advent / Christmas - Joyful</p><p>Lent - Sorrowful</p><p>Rest of Year - Glorious</p><p></p><p>However, sometime last December with the closing of the Monastery here, I shifted into Eucharistic Adoration from 6-7 am every day, Daily Mass from 7-7:40 am, the Stations of the Cross until 8:10, and then started praying the full 15 mysteries later each day, usually mid-morning, silently whilst walking, but that kind of 'power rosary' - as my Priest calls it, meaning prayer during activity - is for later on down the track. For now, <em>be still and pray it vocally</em>. The Rosary as a vocal prayer that is your training wheels for meditation: you are learning to do something uncomfortable and seemingly-initially-tedious, <em>choosing to give up your will to be uncomfortable for God</em>, until you start receiving infused knowledge during it.</p><p></p><p>You are training yourself to, in a month of so, start sitting down for 15 minutes at another time of day, and to practice Catholic Meditation with a scriptural or Meditative Reading, without getting distracted and fidgeting. That's where you'd use <em>The Little Catechism of Prayer</em> I linked earlier. I used to think in terms of 'doing' the Rosary in the early days, eventually you start 'praying' it, because the sense of burden and inconvenience is removed.</p><p></p><p>Since you're starting out, and if you're unfamiliar with the Mysteries, you could use this method, which has a particular point of meditation for each bead of the decade. Once you're relatively familiar with each mystery in this manner, give up that structure let your mind go where it takes you in each mysteries. You might pray 10 beads thinking on 'And the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.'.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/joyful-mysteries-without-distractions/" target="_blank">https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/joyful-mysteries-without-distractions/</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/sorrowful-without-distractions/" target="_blank">https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/sorrowful-without-distractions/</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/glorious-without-distractions/" target="_blank">https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/glorious-without-distractions/</a></p><p></p><p>This is Father Chad Ripperger, a Catholic Exorcist, explaining the Promises of the Rosary. He's a Thomist Priest, and his advice has been always reliable for me.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]b_R_S4y-S-0[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>A longer video on its effects in Spiritual Warfare.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]CRQBaYfD1Go[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>It would also be worth listening to this when you have an hour and identifying your Spiritual Temperament, then follow his advice. Doing what was suggested for my Temperament - Melancholic - means I can now no longer call myself one, and am now showing more Choleric tendencies. With perfection, you should have an equal balance of the positive qualities of all four temperaments with none of the negatives.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Cg9hfOtcjJs[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnonymousBosch, post: 1251214, member: 5255"] Understand you can't take the advice of Non-Catholic about this particular devotion. They misunderstand it as 'worshipping' Mary, rather than experiencing an understanding of God through the experiences of the Mother. She functions here as an intercessor, the way she asked Jesus to spare the embarrassment of the bridal couple at Cana. If you pray the Rosary regularly, she will lead you to Jesus, deposit you safely in his hands, and then humbly-recede back into the background. Start with Five Mysteries a day The daily schedule is here: [url]https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/[/url] Note that the Luminous were only recently-added, and are optional. I don't pray them. My schedule used to be: Mon / Thurs - Joyful Mysteries Tues / Friday - Sorrowful Mysteries Wed / Sat - Glorious Mysteries Sunday depends on the time of year: Advent / Christmas - Joyful Lent - Sorrowful Rest of Year - Glorious However, sometime last December with the closing of the Monastery here, I shifted into Eucharistic Adoration from 6-7 am every day, Daily Mass from 7-7:40 am, the Stations of the Cross until 8:10, and then started praying the full 15 mysteries later each day, usually mid-morning, silently whilst walking, but that kind of 'power rosary' - as my Priest calls it, meaning prayer during activity - is for later on down the track. For now, [i]be still and pray it vocally[/i]. The Rosary as a vocal prayer that is your training wheels for meditation: you are learning to do something uncomfortable and seemingly-initially-tedious, [i]choosing to give up your will to be uncomfortable for God[/i], until you start receiving infused knowledge during it. You are training yourself to, in a month of so, start sitting down for 15 minutes at another time of day, and to practice Catholic Meditation with a scriptural or Meditative Reading, without getting distracted and fidgeting. That's where you'd use [i]The Little Catechism of Prayer[/i] I linked earlier. I used to think in terms of 'doing' the Rosary in the early days, eventually you start 'praying' it, because the sense of burden and inconvenience is removed. Since you're starting out, and if you're unfamiliar with the Mysteries, you could use this method, which has a particular point of meditation for each bead of the decade. Once you're relatively familiar with each mystery in this manner, give up that structure let your mind go where it takes you in each mysteries. You might pray 10 beads thinking on 'And the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.'. [url]https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/joyful-mysteries-without-distractions/[/url] [url]https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/sorrowful-without-distractions/[/url] [url]https://www.rosarycenter.org/homepage-2/rosary/how-to-pray-the-rosary/glorious-without-distractions/[/url] This is Father Chad Ripperger, a Catholic Exorcist, explaining the Promises of the Rosary. He's a Thomist Priest, and his advice has been always reliable for me. [MEDIA=youtube]b_R_S4y-S-0[/MEDIA] A longer video on its effects in Spiritual Warfare. [MEDIA=youtube]CRQBaYfD1Go[/MEDIA] It would also be worth listening to this when you have an hour and identifying your Spiritual Temperament, then follow his advice. Doing what was suggested for my Temperament - Melancholic - means I can now no longer call myself one, and am now showing more Choleric tendencies. With perfection, you should have an equal balance of the positive qualities of all four temperaments with none of the negatives. [MEDIA=youtube]Cg9hfOtcjJs[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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