1ère Rose — L'excellence du saint rosaire dans son origine et son nom
The Harmony of Vocal and Mental Prayer
The Rosary is defined as a sacred union of vocal prayer and mental meditation on the life, death, and glory of Jesus and Mary.
9. The Rosary involves two things: mental prayer and vocal prayer. The mental prayer of the holy Rosary is simply meditation on the principal mysteries of the life, death, and glory of Jesus Christ and his most holy Mother. The vocal prayer of the Rosary consists of saying fifteen decades of Hail Marys, each preceded by an Our Father, while you meditate on and contemplate the fifteen principal virtues that Jesus and Mary practiced in the fifteen mysteries of the holy Rosary. In the first chaplet, which is of five decades, you honor and consider the five joyful mysteries; in the second, the five sorrowful mysteries; and in the third, the five glorious mysteries. Thus, the holy Rosary is a sacred composition of vocal and mental prayer for honoring and imitating the mysteries and virtues of the life, death, passion, and glory of Jesus Christ and of Mary.1
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9. Le Rosaire renferme deux choses, savoir: l'oraison mentale et l'oraison vocale. L'oraison mentale du saint Rosaire n'est autre chose que la méditation des principaux mystères de la vie, de la mort et de la gloire de Jésus-Christ et de sa très sainte Mère. L'oraison vocale du Rosaire consiste à dire quinze dizaines d'Ave Maria précédées par un Pater pendant qu'on médite et qu'on contemple les quinze vertus principales que Jésus et Marie ont pratiquées dans les quinze mystères du saint Rosaire. Dans le premier chapelet, qui est de cinq dizaines, on honore et on considère les cinq mystères joyeux; au second les cinq mystères douloureux, et au troisième les cinq mystères glorieux. Ainsi le saint Rosaire est un sacré composé de l'oraison vocale et mentale pour honorer et imiter les mystères et les vertus de la vie, de la mort et de la passion et de la gloire de Jésus-Christ et de Marie.
Notes
- 1 ↩French «sacré composé» rendered as «sacred composition»; it names the Rosary as a holy compound of the two forms of prayer rather than a loose mixture.
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