Rosary Primer

This book, a primer, serves as an introduction to a devotional practice known as the Rosary: Rosary means garden of flowers or necklace of beads. The word bead comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning prayer. Thus, the rosary is a garden of prayer or a necklace of prayer. After explaining how one prays the Rosary, the author presents eighty reflections on what is known as the Mysteries of the Rosary: four sets of five mysteries, each with four options for each of the twenty mysteries. Each entry contains a Scripture verse from The Christian Bible (New Testament) that illustrates the mystery under consideration. A Celebrated notation indicating when the mystery appears on the annual liturgical calendar. A short reflection and a suggested focus for the prayer in making a personal application of the reflection as he or she mediates on the specific decade of the rosary. Each entry leads the prayer down a path to deeper insight into the mystery being prayed.