Rosary Primer: The Prayers the Mysteries and the New Testament

This book a primer serves as an introduction to a devotional practice known as the Rosary. Rosary means garden of flowers or necklace of beads. The word bead comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning prayer. Thus the rosary is a garden of prayer or a necklace of prayer. After explaining how one prays the Rosary the author presents eighty reflections on what is known as the Mysteries of the Rosary four sets of five mysteries each with four options for each of the twenty mysteries. Each entry contains a Scripture verse from the Christian Bible (New Testament) which illustrates the mystery under consideration a Celebrated notation indicating when the mystery appears on the annual liturgical calendar a short reflection and a suggested focus for the pray-er in making a personal application of the reflection as he or she mediates on the specific decade of the rosary. Each entry leads the pray-er down a path to deeper insight into the mystery being prayed.