About the Rosary

THE ROSARY
A Christian Devotional

Most spiritual traditions have a prayer series similar to The Rosary. In early times people used knots in strings, or beads on a string, to keep track of prayers offered to God. In Western Christianity the most popular form of The Rosary was set by The Dominican Order and is called The Dominican Rosary.

The sets of repetitive prayer are actually a doorway into deeper communion with God, and as one's mind rests on the prayer, or the mystery of each series, beautiful things happen. The gifts of this type of prayer are intangible and transcendent, and one would do well to focus on God "the giver, not the gift." That said, the form is simple, and once the prayers are known, the process becomes pretty automatic, and lets real meditative communion begin, alone or with others.

The saying of The Rosary can be done by anyone, and can be altered to suit your own inclinations and comfort levels of worship and meditation needs.

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