THE LIVING ROSARY.
To enable all to join the more readily in the recitation of the Rosary, an association has been instituted called the “Living Rosary,” the members of which, by reciting daily one decade, enjoy the privileges accorded as above. It is thus arranged : Fifteen persons form themselves in to a circle, and. divide amongst them by lot the fifteen mysteries. Each recites his Our Father and ten Hail Marys daily ; and by this means the entire Rosary is gone through by the circle every day. The association was confirmed by a brief of Gregory XVI.,
January, 1832.
THE FIVE JOYFUL MYSTERIES.
I. The Annunciation,
Let us contemplate, in this mystery, how the angel Gabriel saluted Our Blessed Lady with the title, “Full of grace,” and declared unto her the Incarnation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Our Father, &c. once; Hail Mary, ten times; Glory, &c., once.
1 By the Archangel’s word of love
That announced thee from above;
By the grace to Mary given;
By thy first descent from heav'n ;
Child of Mary, hear our cry ;
Thou wert helpless once as we ;
Now enthroned in majesty,
Countless angels sing to thee.
The Prayer.
O Holy Mary, Queen of Virgins, by the most high mystery of the Incarnation of thy beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, by which our salvation was so happily begun ; obtain for us, by thy intercession, light to know this so great benefit which he hath bestowed upon us, in vouchsafing to become our brother, and making thee, his own most beloved Mother, to be our Mother also, Amen,
II. The Visitation.
Let us contemplate, in this mystery, how the Blessed
