How to pray the rosary step by step with the mysteries

He rosary beads It is, par excellence, the most widespread and loved prayer by over a billion Catholics in the world. And it has a history that accompanies the beauty and refinement of prayer itself.

Is called rosary beads to the structure of this sentence (mental and verbal) and, also, to the necklace with the cross of 50 beads divided into 5 tens with a larger bead separating them. It is the object used when praying the rosary.

The Catholic Press Agency ACI Press he tells us that “The prayer of the Holy Rosary was born around the year 800 when the lay psalter was created. At that time the monks recited the 150 psalms, but since most lay people could not read, they were taught to pray 150 Our Fathers.

Subsequently, 150 Hail Marys were divided into 15 tens, which were always recited with an Our Father recited first for each ten. In the year 1500, adds ACI Prensa, «for every decade the meditation of an event in the life of Jesus or Mary was established, and thus the Rosary of the fifteen mysteries”.

These fifteen mysteries were prayed with great popularity for more than 500 years until, in 2002, Pope John Paul II introduced five more mysteries, the so-called Luminous Mysteries, which were added to the traditional 15.

A prayer from the New Testament

The extraordinary validity of the Rosary in believers is given by the fact that each of its mysteries, a topic on which we must reflect and meditate starting first with the Our Father and then with the 10 Hail Marys which many end with a Gloria, It refers to a transcendental event in the life of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary during their passage on earth.

On their religious site, the Dominicans talk about the rosary which “has a broad and solid scriptural basis: its mysteries and prayers are taken from biblical texts. This prayer is a summary of the New Testament. It is difficult to find a more harmonious synthesis of the mental and vocal prayer of the rosary; In it you pray with your lips, you meditate with your mind and you love with your heart.”

For Catholic orthodoxy, the rosary in its current form was donated by the Virgin Mary herself to Saint Dominic of Guzmán in the year 1214, in one of her famous apparitions. And she gave it to him to fight the heretics and sinners of those times and she also entrusted him with the task of teaching him to pray to it and spreading devotion to it.

The 20 mysteries of the Rosary

Every time we go to pray the Rosary, with the beads with the cross in our hands, we must think about each of the mysteries, which have been divided into four groups of 5 mysteries. Here we remind you, with a possible organization for praying every day:

Joyful Mysteries (Monday and Saturday)

• The Incarnation of the Son of God.
• The Visitation of the Madonna to her cousin Saint Elizabeth.
• The birth of the Son of God at the gate of Bethlehem.
• The presentation of Jesus in the temple.
• The Child Jesus lost and found in the Temple.

Sorrowful Mysteries (Tuesday and Friday)

• Prayer in the garden.
• The flagellation of Jesus tied to the column.
• The Crowning with Thorns.
• Jesus with the cross on his shoulders on the way to Calvary.
• The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus.

Glorious Mysteries (Wednesday and Sunday)

• The Resurrection of the Son of God.
• The Ascension of the Lord into Heaven.
• The coming of the Holy Spirit.
• The Assumption of Mary into Heaven.
• The Coronation of Mary as Queen and Lady of all creation.

Luminous mysteries (Thursday)

• Baptism in the Jordan.
• The wedding at Cana.
• The announcement of the Kingdom of God.
• The Transfiguration.
• The institution of the Eucharist.