Let's Pray the Rosary
Before praying, ask for the grace to pray with the heart. Many graces come from prayer with the heart.
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While holding the crucifix make the Sign of the Cross, and then recite the Apostles Creed.
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Recite Matthew 6:9-13, Our Father, on the first large bead.
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Recite the Hail Mary for an increase of faith, hope, and charity on each of the three small beads.
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Recite the Glory Be to the Father on the next large bead.
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Recall the first Rosary Mystery and recite the Our Father on the large bead.
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On each of the adjacent ten small beads (also referred to as a decade) recite a Hail Mary while reflecting on the mystery.
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On the next large bead, recite the Glory Be to the Father.
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Each succeeding decade is prayed similarly by recalling the appropriate mystery, reciting the Our Father, ten Hail Marys while reflecting on the mystery, and the Glory Be to the Father.
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When the fifth mystery is completed, the Rosary is Customary concluded with the Hail Holy Queen and the Sign of the Cross.
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Traditionally, the Joyful Mysteries are recited on Mondays and Saturdays; the Sorrowful Mysteries are recited on Tuesdays and Fridays; the Glorious Mysteries are recited on Wednesdays and Sundays, and the Luminous Mysteries are recited on Thursdays.
Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9
Our Father which art in Heaven, Hollowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespass, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever, and ever. Amen.
The Most Important Command
Matthew 22:37-40
Jesus replied: "Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and of the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
God's Commandments
Exodus 20: 1-10
1- And God spoke all these words, saying: 2- "I am the Lord thy God, which has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3- Thou shall not have no other gods before me.
4- Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that this in the earn beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5- thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6- and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7- Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. 8- Remember the sabbath day, to keep it Holy. 9- Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10- but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it, thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;