Rosary - Step One
Rosary - Step One
- Step-By-Step Guide to this Inspirational Catholic Prayer... Use our visual guide to learn
the sequence of prayers. You will find out where to begin and end as well as how to
announce the set of mysteries to be prayed. Always begin the prayer
by holding the crucifix of the rosary beads in your right hand.
After each prayer move your fingers from one bead to the next as
each bead represents a prayer.
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Rosary - Step One
First Decade
Announce the first mystery:
The First Joyful Mystery - The Annunciation
or
The First Sorrowful Mystery - The Agony in
the Garden
or
The First Glorious Mystery - The
Resurrection of Jesus from The Dead
or
The First Luminous Mystery – The Baptism of
Jesus
Then Begin by making the sign of the cross:
In The Name Of The Father,
And Of The Son,
And Of The Holy Spirit.
Amen.
(Using your right hand, Touch your forehead
when you say Father,
Touch your breastbone when you say Son,
Touch your left shoulder when you say Holy,
and touch your right shoulder when you say
Spirit.)
Rosary - Step One
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The rosary prayer is divided into five
decades. Completion of five decades represents a mystery or event in
the life of Jesus. There are four groups of Rosary Mysteries, these
are: Joyful, Glorious, Sorrowful and Luminous. Each group of
mysteries contain five individual mysteries which are said on
different days of the week or times of the church year.
Rosary - Step One - Decades
What is a decade? Each decade of the
rosary is made up of the “Lord’s Prayer”, followed by ten “Hail
Mary’s”. The “Glory Be to the Father" prayer is then prayed once and can be
followed by the ‘Fatima Prayer’ which is often referred to as the
‘Oh My Jesus’ prayer. This sequence of prayers is the same for each
‘Decade’. Each decade represents an individual mystery and the
completion of five decades completes either a Luminous,
Joyful, Sorrowful or Glorious set of Mysteries.
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