rosary

     

The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, meaning "rose garen" or "garland of roses") is a popular traditional Roman Catholic devotion. The term denotes both a set of prayer beads and the devotional prayer itself, which combines vocal (or silent) prayer and meditation. The prayers consist of repeated sequences of the Lord's Prayer followed by ten recitations of the Hail Mary and a single recitation of "Glory Be to the Father"; each of these sequences is known as a decade. The recitation of each decade is accompanied by meditation on one of the Mysteries of the Rosary, which are events in the lives of Jesus Christ and his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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  • An aid to the faithful since the 13th century, one standard version has parts arranged in groups of 1, 3 or 10
  • Used by lamas in prayer, it has 108 beads, about twice as many as the typical Catholic version
  • In 2002 the Pope added 5 meditations to this prayer aid that has a crucifix
  • On the large beads on these you say the Lord's Prayer; on the smaller beads, the Hail Mary
  • Used in the Roman Catholic Church, it's a circle of 50 beads attached to a crucifix
  • On the large beads on these, you say the Lord's Prayer; on the smaller beads, the Hail Mary
  • The small beads on this are called aves; the large ones are paternosters & glorias

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