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What is a rosary?

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The Rosary is a set of prayer beads. Each bead represents a prayer. In the beginning and after every decade of the rosary, there is a bead that is slightly isolated from the others. This is an Our Father bead. The rest of the other beads are Hail Mary prayer beads. There are 5 decades (Set of ten Hail Mary beads and one Our Father bead). Each decade actually has the ten hail Mary prayers, one Glory be prayer before the Our Father prayer, one My Jesus prayer also before the Our Father bead, and one Our Father bead). Try looking up a picture of a rosary, this will help you for when I describe the rosary (See related links).

O =1 Our Father prayer bead (You always say 1 Glory be and one My Jesus before saying the Our Father).

0 = One Hail Mary Prayer.

The beginning beads of prayers are like this:

(Crucifix where you say 1 Apostles Creed) O 000 O

The rest is like this:

0000000000 O (x5 for the whole prayer) (This is one decade. Do this 5x to complete

a whole rosary)

There are five decades in each Rosary prayer but some people do 20 decades to say all the mysteries.

The main purpose of the rosary prayer is to ask Mary to pray for us and to ask God to forgive our sins and save us from hell. You can also make intentions for each decade or an intention for the whole rosary.

Our Father:

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen

Hail Mary:

Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy whom Jesus. holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

Amen

Glory be:

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning, it was and ever shall be, world without end.

Amen

My Jesus:

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell and lead all souls into heaven especially those most needed of thy mercy.

Amen

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