Posted on 06/01/2014 5:57:47 PM PDT by narses
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That doesn’t prevent you from saying something nice.
Some Lutherans do. Others do also.
Which Lutherans?
Super post! Thank you so much. ;-)
Here are two more resources:
Scriptural Rosary - http://www.renewalministries.net/files/freeliterature/SCRIPTURES%20IN%20ROSARY.pdf
New Testament Rosary - http://www.renewalministries.net/files/freeliterature/A%20GOSPEL%20ROSARY.pdf
The Rosary isn’t praying - it’s a request for intercession on the part of the Queen Mother.
That’s made plain at the end of the Rosary, when you finish by saying, “Let us pray. O God, who by the life, death and resurrection of thine only Son, our saviour, Jesus Christ, hath gained for us the fruits of everlasting life; grant that we, by meditating on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary, may imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ Our Lord, Amen.”
You’re not praying to Mary when you say the Rosary - the Hail Mary is a request for her help. And each 10 beads you are supposed to be meditating on an event in the life of Christ — if you look up the 20 Mysteries (there are 4 sets of 5) you will see that all but 2 are incidents from the Life of Christ (other than the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin at the very end — which can be seen as the ultimate reward of a holy life.) The Our Father, the Glory Be, and the Fatima Prayer (after every 10 beads) are all directed to God - The Our Father to God the Father, the Fatima Prayer to Christ, and the Glory Be to the Trinity.
You’re not praying to Mary any more than you’re praying to your Sunday School classmates when you ask them to pray for you. “Pray for us sinners . . . “
13 posted on June 5, 2007 at 3:32:39 PM EDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies’ Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
Great explaining on that old comments post. Amen.
Great biblical references and great scriptural Rosary.
I didn’t know ecumenical meant ‘catholic caucus’
You might want to read the article again.
BTW, plenty of Episcopalians/Anglicans pray the Rosary as well as Lutherans. There is an "Anglican Rosary" that substitutes the Last Judgment and the Kingdom Without End for the Assumption and Coronation, but nobody I knew ever prayed it - they just prayed the regular Dominican Rosary. Episcopalians who pray the Rosary tend to be very "high". There are also a Franciscan Rosary and a Seven Sorrows of Mary and a Chaplet of Divine Mercy, among others.
Amen.
I think it means “If you want to question, bend over backwards to be as courteous as you know how to be.”
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