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You want to love the Rosary, but it feels like a chore. You say the prayers while your mind is somewhere else. You rush through it just so you can say you've done it.
I know the feeling. I was an atheist who came into the Catholic Church as an adult, and for a long time afterwards I found the Rosary repetitive, hard to concentrate on and a string of prayers to get through. Today I pray all four sets of mysteries every day. This book is the thirty days I wish someone had handed me at the start.
The reflections don't explain the mysteries so much as put you inside them. You stand in the courtyard at the pillar. You wait out the silence of Holy Saturday, when nothing at all is happening. You sit in the locked room before the door opens.
Inside:
30 daily reflections, each followed by the Rosary. Some days a single decade, some days a full set of mysteries.
The prayers of the Rosary, and how to pray it step by step
All twenty mysteries (Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious) and the days they're prayed
Scripture from the ESV Catholic Edition
A foreword by Fr Martin Francis Morris
"If you miss a day, simply begin again. If you struggle to concentrate, begin again. If prayer feels dry, begin again. Faithfulness is not measured by perfection, but by continually returning to Christ."
— Christopher Sloanes
You want to love the Rosary, but it feels like a chore. You say the prayers while your mind is somewhere else. You rush through it just so you can say you've done it.
I know the feeling. I was an atheist who came into the Catholic Church as an adult, and for a long time afterwards I found the Rosary repetitive, hard to concentrate on and a string of prayers to get through. Today I pray all four sets of mysteries every day. This book is the thirty days I wish someone had handed me at the start.
The reflections don't explain the mysteries so much as put you inside them. You stand in the courtyard at the pillar. You wait out the silence of Holy Saturday, when nothing at all is happening. You sit in the locked room before the door opens.
Inside:
30 daily reflections, each followed by the Rosary. Some days a single decade, some days a full set of mysteries.
The prayers of the Rosary, and how to pray it step by step
All twenty mysteries (Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious) and the days they're prayed
Scripture from the ESV Catholic Edition
A foreword by Fr Martin Francis Morris
"If you miss a day, simply begin again. If you struggle to concentrate, begin again. If prayer feels dry, begin again. Faithfulness is not measured by perfection, but by continually returning to Christ."
— Christopher Sloanes