Prayers of the Rosary
The two prayers we pray on the crucifix of the Rosary.
What are the Sign of the Cross and the Apostles Creed?
The prayer that is said most in the Rosary.
What is the Hail Mary?
The set of mysteries that includes the crucifixion of Jesus.
What are the Sorrowful Mysteries?
The five sorrowful Mysteries are: 1) the Agony in the Garden, 2) the Scourging at the Pillar, 3) the Crowning with Thorns, 4) the Carrying of the Cross, and 5) the Crucifixion of Jesus.
The name for the group of 10 Hail Mary's said in each mystery.
What is a decade?
Outward signs that provide us tangible ways to encounter the intangible.
What are sacramentals?
"The ultimate reality we encounter-- the mystery of God -- is intangible. And so Catholics turn toward outward signs as a tangible means of encountering the intangible God." Practice Makes Catholic, by Joe Paprocki, p.4.
We pray 10 of these in each decade of the Rosary.
What is the Hail Mary?
The number of decades said in one Rosary.
What is 5?
The set of mysteries that tell us about Jesus's birth and early life.
What are the Joyful Mysteries?
The five Joyful Mysteries are: 1) the Annunciation, 2) the Visitation, 3) The Nativity, 4) The Presentation in the Temple, and 5) The finding of the boy Jesus in the Temple.
In the Joyful mysteries during the Annunciation, he is the angel who appeared to Mary to tell her that she was going to bear a son.
Who is the Angel Gabriel?
These are the two categories of sacramentals.
What are sacramental actions and objects?
We say this prayer after we announce each mystery.
What is the Our Father?
The total number of mysteries in the Rosary.
What is 20?
The set of mysteries that pertain to the public ministry of Jesus.
What are the Luminous Mysteries?
The Five Luminous Mysteries are: 1) The Baptism of Jesus, 2) The Wedding Feast at Cana, 3) the Transfiguration; 4) Proclamation of the Kingdom; and 5) The Institution of the Eucharist.
In 2002, Pope John Paul II added this set of Mysteries to the Traditional Rosary.
What are the Luminous Mysteries?
Fun Fact: This addition was the first change to the mysteries of the Holy Rosary in over 400 years.
Perhaps no other sacramental is more associated with the Catholic Church than this.
What is the Holy Rosary?
We say these two prayers after the 10 Hail Mary's.
What is the Glory Be and Fatima Prayer?
The number of sets of mysteries there are in the Rosary.
What is 4 (Joyful, Glorious, Sorrowful, and Luminous)?
This set of mysteries teaches us about Jesus's resurrection from the dead and life that awaits us in heaven.
What are the Glorious Mysteries?
The Five Glorious Mysteries are: 1) the Resurrection, 2) the Ascension of Jesus; 3) descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples at Pentecost; 4) The Assumption of Mary into heaven, and 5) The coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven.
The 3 Hail Mary's that we say in the beginning of the Rosary represent our prayers for an increase in these 3 Theological Virtues.
What is Faith, Hope, and Charity?
Sacramentals such as medals, scapulars and rosaries are used for their magical powers. True or false?
Answer: False.
"Catholics wear medals and scapulars and dangle rosaries from their rearview mirrors not out of superstition but as reminders of God's ever-present grace." Practice Makes Catholic, by Joe Paprocki, p.7.
This is the last prayer of the Rosary.
What is the Hail Holy Queen (Salve Regina)?
The number of Hail Mary's we say to begin the Rosary.
What is 3?
Name the four sets of mysteries in the order they happened in Jesus' life.
What are the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious mysteries?
In the Luminous mysteries, this was Jesus' first miracle.
What is turning water into wine at the Wedding in Cana?
When we say that we can "find God in all things," we are not equating God with any one thing or object. True or False (and why?).
Answer: True.
"A beautiful rock or cyrstal can reflect the beauty and majesty of God, reminding us of God's presence and majesty. That does not mean that God is in the rock or that the rock is sacred." Practice Makes Catholic, by Joe Paprocki, p.7-8.