The
Rosary is a powerful prayer of devotion to God through
devotion to Mary by means of a series of prayers
and meditations on the life of Jesus and Mary. In
it we find all that life offers: pains and joys,
but also always the hope that only a loving, protecting,
saving Father can truly give. The Rosary is a prayer
of hope.
The complete Rosary
is composed of twenty decades. It is divided into
four distinct parts of five decades each, which
may be said separately at different times of the
day. They comprise:
The Joyful Mysteries(Said
on Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays of Advent, and
Sundays from Epiphany until Lent)
If you
say only five decades a day, it is customary to
say the Joyful Mysteries on Monday and Saturday,
the Luminous Mysteries on Thursday, the Sorrowful
Mysteries on Tuesday and Friday, and the Glorious
Mysteries on Wednesday and Sunday.
