The Ave Guide to the Scriptural Rosary

By Ave Maria Press

Winner of a honorable mention award in the collections of prayers category from the Catholic Media Association.

The Ave Guide to the Scriptural Rosary is an attractively designed resource that will help you pray the devotion more deeply by including short scripture passages to read in each decade.

This hardcover keepsake includes all of the directions, prayers, and Bible verses you need to understand and pray a Scriptural Rosary for each of the four mysteries—Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious.

“In the prayer of the Rosary we turn to the Virgin Mary so that she may bring us ever closer to her Son Jesus, so as to know him and to love him more and more. This simple prayer, in fact, helps us to contemplate all that God in his love has done for us and for our salvation, and allows us to understand that our life is united to that of Christ.” —Pope Francis

The Rosary is one of the most valued and practiced prayers in the Catholic Church and the greatest and most popular devotion to Mary, the Mother of God. A Scriptural Rosary takes the devotion a step further, allowing you to contemplate the lives of Jesus and Mary through God’s Word. With the announcement of each mystery, a short excerpt from the corresponding Gospel story—taken from the New American Bible Revised Edition, the scripture translation used in the Mass—is read to describe the event from Jesus’s life. Then, before each Hail Mary, a psalm or short line or two from scripture is read, echoing the feelings and spiritual attitude related to the mystery.

The book also includes background on the Rosary and its spiritual graces, how to pray with the sacramental, and how to use a scriptural version of the prayer. An appendix includes Marian prayers, a litany, a novena, and information about Marian consecration.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Release date: Apr 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9781646801916

Ave Maria Press

Founded in 1865 by Fr. Edward Sorin, CSC, Ave Maria Press is an apostolate of the Congregation of Holy Cross, United States Province of Priests and Brothers. Ave is a nonprofit Catholic publishing ministry that serves the spiritual and formative needs of the Church and its schools, institutions, and ministers; Christian individuals and families; and others seeking spiritual nourishment. Ave remains one of the oldest continually operating Catholic publishing houses in the country and a leader in publishing Catholic high school religion textbooks, ministry resources, and books on prayer and spirituality. In the tradition of Holy Cross, Ave is committed, as an educator in the faith, to help people know, love, and serve God and to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ through books and other resources. Ave Maria Press perpetuates Fr. Sorin's vision to honor Mary and provide an important outlet for good Catholic writing.

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

What Is the Rosary?

How to Pray the Rosary

Spiritual Graces of the Rosary

How to Use a Scriptural Rosary

Joyful Mysteries

First Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation

Second Joyful Mystery: The Visitation

Third Joyful Mystery: The Nativity

Fourth Joyful Mystery: The Presentation

Fifth Joyful Mystery: The Finding in the Temple

Luminous Mysteries

First Luminous Mystery: The Baptism of Jesus

Second Luminous Mystery: The Wedding Feast at Cana

Third Luminous Mystery: The Proclamation of the Kingdom

Fourth Luminous Mystery: The Transfiguration

Fifth Luminous Mystery: The Institution of the Eucharist

Sorrowful Mysteries

First Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden

Second Sorrowful Mystery: The Scourging at the Pillar

Third Sorrowful Mystery: The Crowning with Thorns

Fourth Sorrowful Mystery: The Carrying of the Cross

Fifth Sorrowful Mystery: The Crucifixion

Glorious Mysteries

First Glorious Mystery: The Resurrection

Second Glorious Mystery: The Ascension

Third Glorious Mystery: The Descent of the Holy Spirit

Fourth Glorious Mystery: The Assumption of Mary

Fifth Glorious Mystery: The Coronation of Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth

Appendix

Marian Prayers

Marian Litany

Marian Novena

Marian Consecration

Preface

More than 155 years since our founding, Ave Maria Press, an apostolate of the Congregation of Holy Cross, with our home on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, brings you this book of scriptural reflections on the culmination of God’s redemption in the Divine Person of his Son, Jesus Christ, through the intimate cooperation of his Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. The prayerful reflections are organized around the four mysteries of the Holy Rosary.

A perennial part of the mission of Ave Maria Press is to honor Mary, for whom we are named. Fr. Edward Sorin, CSC, our founder, believed that the company’s original weekly magazine, The Ave Maria, and all of its subsequent publications would be the source of most abundant blessings, one of the best things ever done in the Congregation, and ultimately a glorious work for our Blessed Mother.

The Holy Rosary—Mary’s prayer—is interwoven with our company’s history and tradition. We have published dozens of books on the practice and graces of the Rosary over the years. The Congregation of Holy Cross is also the proud home of the Venerable Fr. Patrick Peyton, known as the Rosary priest who led millions to pray the Rosary in the mid-twentieth century. Fr. Peyton studied at Holy Cross Minor Seminary, just across the road from our current location in between St. Joseph’s and St. Mary’s Lakes at Notre