How to pray the Rosary with Father Matthew Cashmore

Hello, my name is Father Matthew and today I am going to teach you very very simply how to pray the rosary. Now the rosary has a very long history across centuries of Christian worship and every denomination of Christianity has its own ways of praying the rosary. It is at his most basic simply a way of counting prayers and over the centuries this has ranged from counting the roses that were that adorned the Christians that were put into the Colosseum through to ropes with knots in it and perhaps something that looks like this which is really what we think of when we say the words 'rosary'. Now the version of the Rosary I'm going to teach you today is the most common in the Western Church you'll recognize it immediately from very very simple rosaries like this wooden one to something more elaborate with machined metal or glass or precious stones but it doesn't matter what the Rosary looks like what matters is praying it what matters is finding a rhythm to your prayer life that allows you to step above the bustle and the noise and the chaos of everyday life and to connect to God and so in this short video I will teach you how to pray what we call the Marian rosary and so let's start with the structure of the Rosary once you understand how the Rosary is constructed how it's made then you will understand how the prayers work and every rosary is made in the same way you start and end the Rosary with Christ with the crucifix or with a cross this is where you begin and this is where you end then you have the first section of beads there are five beads in total two that sit on their own and three beads in the middle you then move along the rope and what you will find is these groupings of 10 beads now these groupings 1 2 3 4 4 five six seven eight nine ten are called decades and it's on these decades that we pray the Hail Mary before each decade we say the Our Father and we end each decade with a glory be then on the beads that sit on their own we pray what are called the mysteries now there are lots of ways of praying the mysteries and there are lots of sets of mysteries out there there are some on this website to get you started but essentially what we are doing is reading Scripture together remembering Christ's life and trying to meditate on what that means in our life today that's the first decade the second decade is exactly the same our Father 10 Hail Marys and a glory be a bead on its own for the mystery and our Father 10 Hail Marys a glory be bead on its own for the mystery our Father 10 Hail Marys a glory be a bead on its own for the mystery and our Father 10 Hail Marys a glory be and then we come to the end there are five decades in all and most sets of rosaries have five mysteries to pray so let's try stepping through just a decade and see how we get on 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 full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among 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 glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen and that is very simply a decade of the Rosary and you say that and repeat that five times around the Rosary interspersing it with the mysteries so let's look at how you start and you end the rosary you start with the crucifix you start by holding the cross and saying in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit are meant and then on your first bead the bead that sits on its own just above the cross you say the Creed I believe in one God then you pray the Our Father before saying three Hail Marys pray the glory be and then start the first mystery the first of the five mysteries and then you proceed around the Rosary you finish when you come to the final decade with the final glory be and then you say to praise hail holy Queen and we say thank you to marry for interceding on our behalf and you'll find both of those final prayers the Creed and the whole structure of how to pray the rosary in the resources section of this website thank you very much for watching and if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact us via the contact us page god bless

Channel: Fr. Matthew Cashmore

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Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 19 2018