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SAMPLE PAGES the ROSARY of SAINT JOHN PAUL II SAMPLE Meditations, Prayers, and Practical Aids BOOK PAGES SAMPLE PAGES THE ROSARY of SAINT JOHN PAUL II SAMPLE Meditations, Prayers, and Practical Aids BOOK PAGES TOM HOOPES HOLY HEROES BOOKS . CRAMERTON, NORTH CAROLINA Nihil Obstat approved. Imprimatur to be delivered shortly. CONTENTS The Rosary of Saint John Paul II: Meditations, Prayers, and Practical Aids Copyright ©2018 by Holy Heroes, LLC. All rights reserved. No portion of this Rediscover the Rosary! book may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the 7 publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts in reviews. The Method of Saint John Paul II Text by Tom Hoopes Cover art by Chris Pelicano. Interior art by RestoredTraditions.com. 14 Excerpts from the Apostolic Letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae (The Rosary of the The Joyful Mysteries Virgin Mary) taken from the Vatican website (w2.vatican.va). 18 Excerpts from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, 2nd edition, ©1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of The Luminous Mysteries Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. 40 Some Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition ©2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights The Sorrowful Mysteries Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form 62 without permission in writing from the copyright owner. The Glorious Mysteries Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America. Copyright ©1994, United States 84 Catholic Conference, Inc.—Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission. Closing Prayers 106 Printed in the U.S.A. ISBN: 978-1-936330-77-5 THE ROSARY OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II Rediscover the Rosary! Our family didn’t always pray the Rosary every day. Like many others, we started after September 11, 2001, when Pope John Paul II called for daily Rosaries for peace, and kept it up until, a year later, John Paul II gave our daily Rosary a second wind. It wasn’t until the Year of the Rosary that we started to see SAMPLE just how serious Pope John Paul II was about this. “I look to all of you, brothers and sisters of every state of BOOK PAGES life—to you, Christian families, to you, the sick and elderly, and to you, young people: Confidently take up the Rosary once again,” he wrote in his apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae,“Rediscover the Rosary in the light of Scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives. May this appeal of mine not go unheard!” (Rosarium, 43). How could we refuse that last line? We have said at least a decade (usually five) practically every day since. We have come to realize that we as a family can’t afford to skip our daily Rosary … and I am convinced that the world can’t afford to have Catholics skip our daily Rosaries, either. Here are five things daily Rosaries do. 7 THE ROSARY OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II THE ROSARY OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II Daily Rosaries transform the world. at all times: a Rosary and a Way of the Cross booklet. We have found over the years that when we pray the Rosary, Pope John Paul II was hailed for hastening the collapse of we grow closer and stronger as a family—almost automatically. the Soviet Union by encouraging freedom in his native Poland. This goes for partial Rosaries (sometimes we only say a decade, But he had a different understanding of what happened: or three), hurried Rosaries, bored Rosaries, in-the-car Rosaries, he thought the Rosary did it, thanks to the worldwide daily distracted Rosaries, or any Rosary. Rosaries inspired by the Fatima apparitions. Why? Saint John Paul II describes why in his letter on the “We must be wary of oversimplification,” he wrote in Rosary: “To pray the Rosary for children, and even more, with Crossing the Threshold of Hope, but “what are we to say of the children, training them from their earliest years to experience three children from Fatima who suddenly, on the eve of the this daily ‘pause for prayer’ with the family … is a spiritual aid October Revolution, heard: ‘Russia will convert’ and ‘In the end which should not be underestimated”(Rosarium, 42). my Immaculate Heart will triumph’?” The Rosary stops a busy family in its tracks, quiets the He saw no reason that the same woman who solved the world’s noise, gathers us together, and focuses us on God and Soviet crisis couldn’t solve our world’s problems today. not ourselves. This does wonders for a family psychologically “Today I willingly entrust to the power of this prayer,” he and emotionally. But it does far more. ........... proclaimed, “the cause of peace in the world and the cause of the family” (Rosarium, 39). Daily Rosaries transform families. CONTINUES People think of “the family that prays together stays IN THE BOOK together” as a quaint old saying. But it was a favorite saying of Saint John Paul II and Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and the daily practice of Pope Benedict XVI’s family, according to his brother’s biographer. Pope Francis says he keeps two things in his pockets 8 9 THE ROSARY OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II THE ROSARY OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II The Method of Saint John Paul II 2. Each mystery is accompanied by artwork. THE FIRST JOYFUL MYSTERY THE SECOND JOYFUL MYSTERY THE THIRD JOYFUL MYSTERY THE FOURTH JOYFUL MYSTERY THE FIFTH JOYFUL MYSTERY The Annunciation The Visitation The Nativity The Presentation The Finding in the Temple In his October 2002 apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae (The Rosary of the Virgin Mary), Pope John Paul II proposed a new method for this traditional Catholic contemplative prayer THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES to “help the faithful understand [the Rosary] in the richness of THE FIRST LUMINOUS MYSTERY THE SECOND LUMINOUS MYSTERY THE THIRD LUMINOUS MYSTERY THE FOURTH LUMINOUS MYSTERY THE FIFTH LUMINOUS MYSTERY The Baptism of the Lord The Wedding Feast at Cana The Proclamation The Transfiguration The Institution of the Eucharist its symbolism and in harmony with the demands of daily life … of the Kingdom to produce the intended spiritual effects” (No. 28). This book contains the tools, enumerated below and on page 17, to help you apply his method of praying the Rosary and inspire THE LUMINOUS MYSTERIES your contemplation of the mysteries of the Faith. THE FIRST SORROWFUL MYSTERY THE SECOND SORROWFUL MYSTERY THE THIRD SORROWFUL MYSTERY THE FOURTH SORROWFUL MYSTERY THE FIFTH SORROWFUL MYSTERY The Agony in the Garden The Scourging at the Pillar The Crowning with Thorns The Carrying of the Cross The Crucifixion 1. As an option to introducing the Rosary with the Creed, say the opening words of Psalm 70: “O God, come to my aid; O Lord, make haste to help me.” (No. 37). THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES THE FIRST GLORIOUS MYSTERY THE SECOND GLORIOUS MYSTERY THE THIRD GLORIOUS MYSTERY THE FOURTH GLORIOUS MYSTERY THE FIFTH GLORIOUS MYSTERY 2. Announce each mystery and display a pictorial The Resurrection The Ascension The Descent of the Holy Spirit The Assumption The Coronation representation of the mystery “to open up a scenario on which to focus our attention” (No. 29, italics in original). THE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES 14 15 THE ROSARY OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II THE ROSARY OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II 3. Read a related Biblical passage: “As we listen, we are certain that this is the Word of God, spoken for today and spoken ‘for me’” (No. 30). Mary is asked to be THE FIRST JOYFUL MYSTERY the Mother of Baby Jesus. The Annunciation FRUIT OF THE MYSTERY That I will be quick to follow God’s will. 4. Observe a short silence after the reading. (No. 31) Ten verses from Luke 1:26-38. The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, l to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph. l And he came to her and said, “Hail Mary, full of grace!” l But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. l And the angel said to her, “Do 5. In each Hail, Mary add a clause after saying, “Jesus,” not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. l Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus. l He will be called great, and as a “profession of faith and an aid in concentrating our will be called Son of the Most High.” l And Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I have no husband?” l And the angel said, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the meditation” (No. 33, italics in original). power of the Most High will overshadow you; l Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.” l And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” 6. The Glory Be should be given “due prominence” as “the 3. high point of contemplation” in the Rosary. In public 21 recitation it could be sung (No. 34, italics in original). JOYFUL MYSTERIES Add after “Jesus,” in each Hail Mary 7. Conclude each mystery “with a prayer for the fruits specific The Annunciation 5. ...and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, conceived in you by the Holy Spirit.
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