This document provides information about the Rosary prayers and mysteries. It explains that the Rosary consists of introductory prayers followed by 5 decades of Hail Mary prayers that correspond to sets of mysteries from the lives of Jesus and Mary. The mysteries are divided into Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious. Each mystery set contains 5 events that are reflected on while praying the associated decade. The document also provides the prayers included in the Rosary, such as the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be.

1. The Rosary Prayers
Joyful Mysteries
Luminous Mysteries
Sorrowful Mysteries
Glorious Mysteries
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2. Praying The Rosary

3. What is the Rosary
• The word “Rosary” comes from the latin
word meaning “a garland of roses”. Roses
are one of the flowers used to symbolise the
Virgin Mary.

4. • The Rosary is a devotion in honour of the
Virgin Mary.
• It consists of a set number of specific
prayers. After making the sign of the cross,
are the introductory prayers –
One apostles creed
One Our Father
Three Hail Marys
One Glory Be

5. • The Rosary is then made up of 5 decades
that is 5 lots of 10 beads on which we pray a
Hail Mary for each bead.
• Before we start a decade of Hail Marys we
say the Our Father and we conclude each
decade with a Glory Be prayer.
• We say 12 prayers in each decade.
• After praying the 5 decades we end with a
Hail Holy Queen prayer.

6. The Mysteries of the Rosary
• Praying the rosary is not just reciting the
prayers but meditating on the mysteries
regarding the life of Jesus and his Mother
Mary.
• This is the essence of the rosary – it isn’t
just a recital of prayers but a meditation
on the Grace of God

7. • There are four major mysteries that we
reflect on during the rosary prayer
• The first mystery is the JOYFUL mystery
• The second mystery is the LUMINOUS
mystery
• The third mystery is the SORROWFUL
mystery
• The fourth mystery is the GLORIOUS
mystery

8. • Each of these mysteries has 5 mysteries that
we reflect on in each of the decades that we
pray.
• Each of these mysteries are reflected on
particular days of the week

9. Joyful Mysteries
Reflected on Monday and Saturday
The Joyful Mysteries are marked by the joy radiating from
the event of the Incarnation.
To meditate upon the joyful mysteries is to enter into the
ultimate causes and the deepest meaning of Christian joy.
It is to focus on the realism of the mystery of the
Incarnation and on the obscure foreshadowing of the
mystery of the saving Passion. Mary leads us to discover
the secret of Christian joy, reminding us that Christianity
is, first and foremost, evangelization, "good news", which
has as its heart and its whole content the person of Jesus
Christ, the Word made flesh, the one Savior of the world.
- Pope John Paul II

10. 1st Joyful Mystery
The Annunciation:
The messenger of God announces
to Mary that she is to be the
Mother of God.

11. 2nd Joyful Mystery
The Visitation:
Mary visits and helps her
cousin Elizabeth.

12. 3rd Joyful Mystery
The Nativity:
Mary gives birth to Jesus in a
stable in Bethlehem.

13. 4th Joyful Mystery
The Presentation:
Jesus is presented in the Temple.

14. 5th Joyful Mystery
The Finding in the Temple:
Jesus is found in the Temple.

15. Luminous Mysteries
Reflected on Thursdays
Moving on from the infancy and the hidden life in Nazareth to the public life
of Jesus, our contemplation brings us to those mysteries which may be
called in a special way “mysteries of light”. Certainly the whole mystery of
Christ is a mystery of light. He is the “light of the world” (Jn 8:12). Yet this
truth emerges in a special way during the years of his public life, when he
proclaims the Gospel of the Kingdom.... Each of these mysteries is a
revelation of the Kingdom now present in the very person of Jesus.
..... Pope John Paul II

16. 1st Luminous Mystery
The Baptism:
Jesus is baptized in the River Jordan.

17. 2nd Luminous Mystery
The Wedding at Cana:
The Self-Manifestation of Our Lord
at the Wedding at Cana.

18. 3rd Luminous Mystery
The Proclamation of the Kingdom:
Christ’s announcement of
the Kingdom of God.

19. 4th Luminous Mystery
The Transfiguration:
The transfiguration of Our Lord
revealing more about Jesus.

20. 5th Luminous Mystery
The Institution of the Eucharist:
Jesus gave himself to His own under
the appearance of bread and wine
at the Last Supper.

21. Sorrowful Mysteries
Reflected on Tuesday and Friday
In the Sorrowful Mysteries we stand beneath the Cross of Jesus,
coming face to face with the truth of his insistence that the Christ
must suffer and die. No matter that we long to cry out, if only we
had been there; we still encounter the reality of our human position
and the truth that is Our Lord's. We sense the sword piercing the
heart of his Mother, and pray that it may open our whole being to
the agony and the power that the infinite love of Jesus in his
Passion chose and endured for us

22. 1st Sorrowful Mystery
The Agony in the Garden:
Jesus undergoes His agony in the
garden of Gethsemane.

23. 2nd Sorrowful Mystery
The Scourging at the Pillar:
Jesus is scourged at the pillar.

24. 3rd Sorrowful Mystery
The Crowning with Thorns:
Jesus is crowned with thorns.

25. 4th Sorrowful Mystery
The Carrying of the Cross:
Jesus carries the cross to Calvary.

26. 5th Sorrowful Mystery
The Crucifixion:
Jesus dies on the cross for our sins.

27. Glorious Mysteries
Reflected on Wednesday and Sunday
The Glorious Mysteries reveal the mediation of the great
Virgin, still more abundant in fruitfulness. She rejoices in
heart over the glory of her Son triumphant over death, and
follows Him with a mother's love in His Ascension to His
eternal kingdom; but, though worthy of Heaven, she abides a
while on earth, so that the infant Church may be directed and
comforted by her "who penetrated, beyond all belief, into the
deep secrets of Divine wisdom" (St. Bernard).
..... Pope Leo XIII

28. 1st Glorious Mystery
The Resurrection:
Jesus rises from the dead.

29. 2nd Glorious Mystery
The Ascension into Heaven:
Jesus ascends into Heaven.

30. 3rd Glorious Mystery
The Descent of the Holy Spirit:
The Holy Spirit comes to the apostles
and the Blessed Mother.

31. 4th Glorious Mystery
The Assumption:
The Mother of Jesus is taken
into Heaven.

32. 5th Glorious Mystery
The Coronation:
Mary is crowned Queen of
Heaven and Earth.

33. The Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed 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 trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass
against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among
women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.
Amen.

34. Glory Be
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the
Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
Hail, Holy Queen
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy!
Our life, our sweetness, and our hope!
To thee do we cry, poor banished
children of Eve, to thee do we send
up our sighs, mourning and weeping
in this valley, of tears.
Turn, then, most gracious advocate,
thine eyes of mercy toward us; and
after this our exile show unto us the
blessed fruit of thy womb Jesus;
O clement, O loving, O sweet virgin Mary.
Pray for us, O holy Mother of God
That we may be made worthy of the
promises of Christ.

35. • This power point has been adapted from the
following website:
• http://www.catholicwarfare.com/Rosary/Th
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