+JMJ+ Greetings, y’all! We’ve been exploring and learning to pray the Rosary and using art to help us. Last week we prayed the Fourth Joyful Mystery, the Presentation. This week we’ll look at the Fifth Joyful Mystery, the Finding in the Temple and I’ll add some words of my own. I hope you find something useful in these posts. And remember, the Rosary on the blog is available 24/7 whenever you want to use it.
+JMJ+ Greetings, y’all! We’ve been exploring and learning to pray the Rosary and using art to help us. Last week we prayed the Third Joyful Mystery, the Nativity. This week we’ll continue the Joyful Mysteries with the Presentation, we’ll add the Apostles’ Creed, and I’ll add some artwork to help you enter into the scene if you like. You can go through what to do, then pray the Rosary, you can use my comments as a jumping off place for your own reflections and meditations. Or ignore me completely. (Well, maybe not completely. That’d be weird. Well, not weird, I mean, it has been done. Oh, never mind.)
Continue reading “Learning to Pray the Rosary Part 6”+JMJ+ Greetings, y’all! We’ve been exploring and learning to pray the Rosary and using art to help us. Last week we prayed the Second Joyful Mystery, the Visitation. This week we’ll continue the Joyful Mysteries with the Nativity and I’ll give you some ideas about and helps for putting yourself into the scene while you meditate on the life of Christ.
Continue reading “Learning to Pray the Rosary Part 5”+JMJ+ Last week we explored the Rosary some more and prayed the First Joyful Mystery, the Annunciation, and included some artwork. This week we’ll pray the Second Joyful Mystery, the Visitation, and include some artwork, too. You can go through the post first and look at the artwork, or you can start the Rosary and then look through the artwork, whichever way you want to do it is fine. There’s a Rosary on the blog that you can use anytime, 24/7/365, too. We’ll add a couple of things this time.
Continue reading “Learning to Pray the Rosary, Part 4”+JMJ+ This week we’ll continue on our quest to learn to pray the Rosary and we’ll also look at some Rosary art along the way. Since it’s Monday as I write this, and we could all probably use something joyful here at the beginning of the work week, I’ve selected the Annunciation, the first of the Joyful Mysteries, for us.
Continue reading “Learn to Pray the Rosary Part 3”+JMJ+ Last week we began looking at how to pray the Rosary, not why but how. We looked at the three basic prayers that make up the body of the Rosary. Well, maybe the bones of it. Oh, let me not get tangled up right here in the intro or we’ll be here all day. We’re here to take a look around and explore in a stress-free way, after all. The basic prayers are the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Glory Be. True, we only took a first and exceedingly brief glance at them in the previous post, but this is not the time or place to go deeper–because we could dive deep with just those prayers or any one of them, and perhaps we will. Later. Right now we’re just getting familiar with the lay of the land, getting a feel for things. And remember, there is a Rosary right here on the blog that you can use while you read this or anytime you like.
Continue reading “Learn to Pray the Rosary Part 2”+JMJ+ There will be more Rosary art posts but today I want to write about a different aspect of the Rosary. I’ve written about why I began praying the Rosary and about my conversion (see links at the end of this post). This is the first post in a short series about how I learned to pray the Rosary. I remember thinking I would “never be able to learn all of those prayers” in those early days. But it didn’t take long at all because it was a lot simpler than I realized at first. I’m going to write about the Rosary and its prayers in a few posts so I can take a closer look at some things without loading down this one post with too much. For now here are some thoughts that helped me. Maybe they’ll help someone else, too.
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+JMJ+ (I’ve got two posts today, this one and later a personal update on my little miniature Dachshund, Miss Lucy Dawg.) Tonight we begin a new series. Since I’ve been posting a Rosary thread on Twitter for the last couple of years—well, I guess it’s been longer than a couple of years now, wow. Anyway, since I’m into this Rosary Project thing and collecting art for the threads, and since from time to time people ask me about the art, and since I don’t know much about it, I thought I’d do a series and share the little I know, and also share some links and books from people who know much more than I do. (This is the first post in the series. Hopefully I will learn more and get better at this as the series progresses.)
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+JMJ+ Greetings, y’all. I’ve got three things to share with you, all time-sensitive: a reminder about our current flash giveaway for Advent, the Worldwide Women’s Rosary, and a Christmas Novena. All of these are soon to take place or happening now, so this post will be brief and to the point. Let’s go!
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+JMJ+ I’m back from summer break, working on the blog. Posts will resume soon. Meanwhile, you are invited to join me in praying the Rosary tonight, Friday, Oct. 7, on Twitter at 8pm ET/7pm CT, in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary. I’ve included a video below in this post, about the Battle of Lepanto and the feast day from Sensus Fidelium, and links to a couple of articles about it, too.
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+JMJ+ Welcome to part 8 of our Catholic Book of the Month for October (and continuing this November), Sanctity Through the Rosary, by Fr. Édouard Hugon, OP. You can get a printed copy or a PDF using the links at the end of this post and view other parts of the series on the Table of Contents page. (Beginning with this post I’m going to try to remember not to use quotation marks within a block quote since it’s pretty much a given that a block quote is, after all, a quote. Note also that during November the Catholic Book of the Month series continues on Thursdays and on Mondays we’ll focus on the Holy Souls.
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+JMJ+ Welcome to part 7 of our Catholic Book of the Month (corrected link) for October, Sanctity Through the Rosary, by Fr. Édouard Hugon, OP. You can get a printed copy or a PDF using the links at the end of this post and view other parts of the series on the Table of Contents (corrected link) page. As I said in my last post, I decided to continue with Sanctity Through the Rosary during November because I think it is timely and it’s important for all of us to get serious about our faith and our spiritual life, so I’ll feature something specifically about the Holy Souls, a video or podcast or something, on Mondays, and continue with Sanctity Through the Rosary on Thursdays.
Continue reading “Book of the Month, November 2021 – Part 7”
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