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The Hail Mary is quite scriptural:
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As is the rosary:
The Hail Mary
The prayer:
"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst 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 our death. Amen. "
The prayer, Scripturally analyzed:
Lk 1:28 "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee...
Lk 1:38 "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!"
blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
1 Cor 7:34 "And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit."
Holy Mary,
Lk 2:6-7 "And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. 7 And she gave birth to her first-born son..."
Mother of God,
2 Cor 1:11 "You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers."
pray for us sinners now...
Mt 10:22 "But he who endures to the end will be saved."
and at the hour of our death. Amen.
---
The Rosary
The Rosary is an extended meditation on the life of Christ and His salvific mission. A complete Rosary consists of fifteen decades: five Joyful Mysteries, five Sorrowful Mysteries, and five Glorious Mysteries. Each decade of the Rosary consists of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys. While the Doxology (the "Glory Be") is not a strictly necessary part of the Rosary, it is almost always said at the end of every decade. Generally, a set of five decades (i.e., the Joyful, or the Sorrowful, or the Glorious Mysteries) is prayed in one session.
Joyful
Annunciation Lk 1:26-38
Visitation Lk 1:39-45
Birth Mt 1:25, Lk 2:6-7
Presentation Lk 2:22-38
Finding in the Temple Lk 2:41-52
Sorrowful
Agony in the Garden Mt 26:36-46, Mk 14:32-42, Lk 22:39-46
Scourging at the Pillar Mt 20:19, 27:26, Mk 15:15, Lk 23:22, Jn 19:1
Crowning with Thorns Mt 27:29-30, Mk 15:16-20, Jn 19:2-5
Carrying of the Cross Mt 27:31-34, Mk 15:22-23, Lk 23:26-33, Jn 19:16-17
Dying on the Cross Mt 27:45-56, Mk 15:33-41, Lk 23:44-49, Jn 19:30-37
Glorious
Resurrection Mt 28:1-10, Mk 16:1-11, Lk 24:1-12, Jn 20:1-18
Ascension Mk 16:19, Lk 24:50-51
Descent of the Holy Spirit Acts 2:1-12
Mary's Assumption Psalm 132:8, Rev 12:1-18
Mary, Crowned Heaven's Queen 1 Cor 9:25, 2 Tim 4:8, Jas 1:12, 1 Pet 5:4, Rev 2:10, Rev 12:1
Every mystery of the Rosary is a meditation on Christ. Some say the last two mysteries, which meditate on Mary's Bodily Assumption into Heaven and her being crowned Queen of Heaven, is detraction from Christ. However, she is the archetypical Christian - by meditating on the glories given her by God, we come to a deeper understanding of the glories God has in store for us at the Final Judgement. We must always keep in mind these glories are reserved for those who are most obedient, most humble, and most docile to God's will, as Mary was.
A second argument asserts that this is a profane prayer, since each decade has ten Hail Marys as opposed to a single Our Father. However, Scripture indicates that this is as it should be:
1 Cor 3:10-11 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Is 28:16 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'He who believes will not be in haste.'
Christ is the cornerstone, the first stone laid in a foundation. Thus, the prayer Christ taught us is the cornerstone prayer, the first prayer prayed in a decade of the Rosary.
1 Pet 2:5 and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
We are to build ourselves up like many living stones. Mary was such a perfect follower of God that God gifted her with allowing the Second Person of the Trinity to enter creation through her womb. The better we imitate Mary, the more fully Jesus the Christ will take form within us. Each Hail Mary is a request for Mary to pray to God for us, that He might give us the grace to become perfect followers of Christ as she was - that each of us become living stones. We are praying that God allows us to become like living stones, built up into a spiritual house. Praying ten Hail Marys symbolizes praying for the completion of that formation of Christ within us, for Scripture counts the gestation of pregnancy according to the lunar cycle - ten months:
Wis 7:1-2 I also am mortal, like all men, a descendant of the first-formed child of earth; and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh, 2 within the period of ten months, compacted with blood, from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage.
The Rosary is the prayer for the building up of the Church. It follows the design laid out by Scripture, for the completion of the Body of Christ.
---
Hail Holy Queen
The Prayer: "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 vale of tears.
Turn then, O most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Pray for us, O Most Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Almighty and everlasting God, by the cooperation of the Holy Spirit you prepared the body and soul of Mary, glorious Virgin and Mother, to become the worthy habitation of your Son; grant that by her gracious intercession, in whose commemoration we rejoice, we may be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
May the divine assistance remain always with us. Amen."
Rev 12:1 And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Hail holy Queen...
Mt 1:25, 2:1 but knew her not until she had borne a son; and he called his name Jesus.... born in Bethlehem of Judea...
Tob 3:2 "Righteous art thou, O Lord; all thy deeds and all thy ways are mercy and truth..."
Mother of Mercy...
Rev 12:2,17 She was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery... Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus.
our life, our sweetness, and our hope, to thee do we cry ...
Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image...
poor banished children of Eve,
2 Sam 14:15 "and your handmaid thought, 'I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant...' "
to thee do we send up our sighs,
Psalm 6:6 every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
mourning and weeping in this vale of tears.
Jn 2:3 When the wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."
Turn then, O most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us,
Gen 3:23-24 therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man...
and after this our exile,
Gal 4:4-5 But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Lk 1:38 And Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word."
Lk 1:36, 39-40, 56 "And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren." ...In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, 40 and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth..... And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her home.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
2 Cor 1:10-11 on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. 11 You also must help us by prayer
Pray for us, O Most Holy Mother of God,
Heb 6:11-12 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Dan 13:42 Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said: "O eternal God, who dost discern what is secret, who art aware of all things before they come to be... "
Almighty and everlasting God,
1 Cor 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own...
by the cooperation of the Holy Spirit you prepared the body and soul of Mary, glorious Virgin and Mother,
Jn 2:5 His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
to become the worthy habitation of your Son;
1 Kings 2:20 Then she said, "I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me." And the king said to her, "Make your request, my mother; for I will not refuse you."
grant that by her gracious intercession, in whose commemoration we rejoice,
Esther 4:8-9 Mordecai also gave [the messenger] a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction... to show it to [her] and explain to her and charge her to go to the king to make supplication to him and entreat him for her people. "Beseech the Lord and speak to the king concerning us; and deliver us from death."
we may be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death.
Rom 2:16 God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
2 Chron 14:10 O Lord, there is none like thee to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on thee, and in thy name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
May the divine assistance remain always with us. Amen.
As is the rosary:
The Hail Mary
The prayer:
"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst 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 our death. Amen. "
The prayer, Scripturally analyzed:
Lk 1:28 "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee...
Lk 1:38 "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!"
blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
1 Cor 7:34 "And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit."
Holy Mary,
Lk 2:6-7 "And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. 7 And she gave birth to her first-born son..."
Mother of God,
2 Cor 1:11 "You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers."
pray for us sinners now...
Mt 10:22 "But he who endures to the end will be saved."
and at the hour of our death. Amen.
---
The Rosary
The Rosary is an extended meditation on the life of Christ and His salvific mission. A complete Rosary consists of fifteen decades: five Joyful Mysteries, five Sorrowful Mysteries, and five Glorious Mysteries. Each decade of the Rosary consists of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys. While the Doxology (the "Glory Be") is not a strictly necessary part of the Rosary, it is almost always said at the end of every decade. Generally, a set of five decades (i.e., the Joyful, or the Sorrowful, or the Glorious Mysteries) is prayed in one session.
Joyful
Annunciation Lk 1:26-38
Visitation Lk 1:39-45
Birth Mt 1:25, Lk 2:6-7
Presentation Lk 2:22-38
Finding in the Temple Lk 2:41-52
Sorrowful
Agony in the Garden Mt 26:36-46, Mk 14:32-42, Lk 22:39-46
Scourging at the Pillar Mt 20:19, 27:26, Mk 15:15, Lk 23:22, Jn 19:1
Crowning with Thorns Mt 27:29-30, Mk 15:16-20, Jn 19:2-5
Carrying of the Cross Mt 27:31-34, Mk 15:22-23, Lk 23:26-33, Jn 19:16-17
Dying on the Cross Mt 27:45-56, Mk 15:33-41, Lk 23:44-49, Jn 19:30-37
Glorious
Resurrection Mt 28:1-10, Mk 16:1-11, Lk 24:1-12, Jn 20:1-18
Ascension Mk 16:19, Lk 24:50-51
Descent of the Holy Spirit Acts 2:1-12
Mary's Assumption Psalm 132:8, Rev 12:1-18
Mary, Crowned Heaven's Queen 1 Cor 9:25, 2 Tim 4:8, Jas 1:12, 1 Pet 5:4, Rev 2:10, Rev 12:1
Every mystery of the Rosary is a meditation on Christ. Some say the last two mysteries, which meditate on Mary's Bodily Assumption into Heaven and her being crowned Queen of Heaven, is detraction from Christ. However, she is the archetypical Christian - by meditating on the glories given her by God, we come to a deeper understanding of the glories God has in store for us at the Final Judgement. We must always keep in mind these glories are reserved for those who are most obedient, most humble, and most docile to God's will, as Mary was.
A second argument asserts that this is a profane prayer, since each decade has ten Hail Marys as opposed to a single Our Father. However, Scripture indicates that this is as it should be:
1 Cor 3:10-11 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Is 28:16 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'He who believes will not be in haste.'
Christ is the cornerstone, the first stone laid in a foundation. Thus, the prayer Christ taught us is the cornerstone prayer, the first prayer prayed in a decade of the Rosary.
1 Pet 2:5 and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
We are to build ourselves up like many living stones. Mary was such a perfect follower of God that God gifted her with allowing the Second Person of the Trinity to enter creation through her womb. The better we imitate Mary, the more fully Jesus the Christ will take form within us. Each Hail Mary is a request for Mary to pray to God for us, that He might give us the grace to become perfect followers of Christ as she was - that each of us become living stones. We are praying that God allows us to become like living stones, built up into a spiritual house. Praying ten Hail Marys symbolizes praying for the completion of that formation of Christ within us, for Scripture counts the gestation of pregnancy according to the lunar cycle - ten months:
Wis 7:1-2 I also am mortal, like all men, a descendant of the first-formed child of earth; and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh, 2 within the period of ten months, compacted with blood, from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage.
The Rosary is the prayer for the building up of the Church. It follows the design laid out by Scripture, for the completion of the Body of Christ.
---
Hail Holy Queen
The Prayer: "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 vale of tears.
Turn then, O most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Pray for us, O Most Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Almighty and everlasting God, by the cooperation of the Holy Spirit you prepared the body and soul of Mary, glorious Virgin and Mother, to become the worthy habitation of your Son; grant that by her gracious intercession, in whose commemoration we rejoice, we may be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
May the divine assistance remain always with us. Amen."
Rev 12:1 And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Hail holy Queen...
Mt 1:25, 2:1 but knew her not until she had borne a son; and he called his name Jesus.... born in Bethlehem of Judea...
Tob 3:2 "Righteous art thou, O Lord; all thy deeds and all thy ways are mercy and truth..."
Mother of Mercy...
Rev 12:2,17 She was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery... Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus.
our life, our sweetness, and our hope, to thee do we cry ...
Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image...
poor banished children of Eve,
2 Sam 14:15 "and your handmaid thought, 'I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant...' "
to thee do we send up our sighs,
Psalm 6:6 every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
mourning and weeping in this vale of tears.
Jn 2:3 When the wine failed, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."
Turn then, O most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us,
Gen 3:23-24 therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man...
and after this our exile,
Gal 4:4-5 But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Lk 1:38 And Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word."
Lk 1:36, 39-40, 56 "And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren." ...In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, 40 and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth..... And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her home.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
2 Cor 1:10-11 on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. 11 You also must help us by prayer
Pray for us, O Most Holy Mother of God,
Heb 6:11-12 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Dan 13:42 Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said: "O eternal God, who dost discern what is secret, who art aware of all things before they come to be... "
Almighty and everlasting God,
1 Cor 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own...
by the cooperation of the Holy Spirit you prepared the body and soul of Mary, glorious Virgin and Mother,
Jn 2:5 His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
to become the worthy habitation of your Son;
1 Kings 2:20 Then she said, "I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me." And the king said to her, "Make your request, my mother; for I will not refuse you."
grant that by her gracious intercession, in whose commemoration we rejoice,
Esther 4:8-9 Mordecai also gave [the messenger] a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction... to show it to [her] and explain to her and charge her to go to the king to make supplication to him and entreat him for her people. "Beseech the Lord and speak to the king concerning us; and deliver us from death."
we may be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death.
Rom 2:16 God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
2 Chron 14:10 O Lord, there is none like thee to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on thee, and in thy name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
May the divine assistance remain always with us. Amen.
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The Hail Mary is quite scriptural: - JeffB MU - 9/4 21:00:30