The Perpetual Rosary at Saints

[odhiambo]

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.

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O my Jesus, forgive us our sins,
 save us from the fires of hell,
and lead all souls to Heaven,
 especially those in most need of Your Mercy.

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The Fifth Joyful Mystery

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple.

Meditation.

'And his parents went every year to Jerusalem, at the solemn day of the pasch, and when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast, and having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem; and his parents knew it not. And thinking that he was in the company, they came a day's journey, and sought him among their kinsfolks and acquaintance. And not finding him, they returned into Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his wisdom and his answers. And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? did you not know, that I must be about my father's business? And they understood not the word that he spoke unto them. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.'

Luke 2:41-51

'Oh blessed Virgin, why art thou afflicted, seeking thy lost Son? Is it because thou dost not know where he is? But dost thou not know that he is in thy heart? Dost thou not see that he is feeding among the lilies? Thou thyself hast said it: "My beloved to me and I to him who feedeth among the lilies." These, thy humble, pure, and holy thoughts and affections, are all lilies, that invite the divine spouse to dwell with thee. Ah, Mary, dost thou sigh after Jesus, thou who lovest none but Jesus? Leave sighing to me and so many other sinners who do not love him, and who have lost him by offending him. My most amiable mother, if through my fault thy Son hast not yet returned to my soul, wilt thou obtain for me that I may find him. I know well that he allows himself to be found by all who seek him: The Lord is good to the soul that seeketh him: "Bonus est Dominus . . . animae quaerenti illum." Make me to seek him as I ought to seek him. Thou art the gate through which all find Jesus; through the I too hope to find him.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
 

'If the Lord departs from the sight of that soul who loves him, he does not therefore depart from the heart. He often hides himself that she may seek him with greater desire and love. But those who would find Jesus must seek him, not amid the delights and pleasures of the world, but amid crosses and mortifications, as Mary sought him: We sought thee sorrowing, as she said to her Son: "Dolentes quaerebamus te." Learn from Mary to seek Jesus, says Origen: "Disce a Maria quaerere Jesum."'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[odhiambo]

The Our Father:
 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.

[odhiambo]

1
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.
Amen

[Shin]

2

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.
Amen

3

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.
Amen

4

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.
Amen

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5

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.
Amen

6

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.
Amen

7

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.
Amen

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I love the meditations! 

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8

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.
Amen

9

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.
Amen

10

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.
Amen

[odhiambo]

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.

[odhiambo]

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins,
 save us from the fires of hell,
and lead all souls to Heaven,
 especially those in most need of Your Mercy.

[odhiambo]

First Sorrowful Mystery.

The Agony in the Garden.

Meditation:

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”
He took along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to feel sorrow and distress.
Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me.”
He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.”
When he returned to his disciples he found them asleep. He said to Peter, “So you could not keep watch with me for one hour?
Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Withdrawing a second time, he prayed again, “My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass without my drinking it, your will be done!”
Then he returned once more and found them asleep, for they could not keep their eyes open.
He left them and withdrew again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing again.
w Then he returned to his disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Behold, the hour is at hand when the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners.
Get up, let us go. Look, my betrayer is at hand.”

Matt. 26:36-46

"He began to be heavy, He began to feel a great weariness on account of the torments that were prepared for Him." When one is weary, even pleasures are painful. Oh, what anguish united to this weariness must Jesus Christ have felt at the horrible representation which then came before his mind, of all the torments, both exterior and interior, which, during the short remainder of his life, were so cruelly to afflict his body and his blessed soul!'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Ah, my loving Jesus, I do not behold in this garden either scourges or thorns or nails that pierce Thee; how, then, is it that I see Thee all bathed in blood from Thy head to Thy feet? Alas, my sins were the cruel press which, by dint of affliction and sorrow, drew so much blood from Thy heart. I was, then, one of Thy most cruel executioners, who contributed the most to crucify Thee with my sins. It is certain that, if I had sinned less, Thou, my Jesus, wouldst have suffered less. As much pleasure, therefore, as I have taken in offending Thee, so much the more did I increase the sorrow of Thy heart, already full of anguish. How, then, does not this thought make me die of grief, when I see that I have repaid the love Thou hast shown me in Thy Passion by adding to Thy sorrow and suffering? I, then, have tormented this heart, so loving and so worthy of love, which has shown so much love to me. My Lord, since I have now no otiier means left of consoling Thee than to weep over my offences towards Thee, I will now, my Jesus, sorrow for them and lament over them with my whole heart.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Then did all the sufferings he was to endure pass distinctly before his eyes, as well as all the insults that he should endure from the Jews and from the Romans; all the injustice of which the judges of his cause would be guilty towards him; and, above all, he had before him the vision of that death of desolation which he should have to endure, forsaken by all, by men and by God, in the midst of a sea of sufferings and contempt. And this it was that caused him so heavy grief that he was obliged to pray for consolation to his eternal Father. O my Jesus! I compassionate Thee, I thank Thee, and I love Thee.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
 

'"And there appeared to Him an angel. . . strengthening Him," Strength came, but, says the Venerable Bede, this rather increased than lightened his sufferings: "Strength did not diminish, but increased his sorrow." Yes, for the angel strengthened him, that he might suffer still more for the love of men and the glory of his Father.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Oh, what sufferings did not this first combat bring Thee, my beloved Lord! During the progress of Thy Passion, the scourges, the thorns, the nails, came one after the other to torment Thee. But in the garden all the sufferings of Thy whole Passion assaulted Thee all together and tormented Thee. And Thou didst accept all for my sake and my good. O my God! how much I regret not having loved Thee in times past, and having preferred my own accursed pleasures to Thy will!'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Was it not he who had so much desired this hour of his Passion, and who had said shortly before, With desire have I desired to eat this Pasch with you? And yet how is it that he was seized with such a fear of death, that he even prayed his Father to deliver him from it? My Father if it be possible let this chalice pass from Me. The Venerable Bede answers this, and says, "He prays that the chalice may pass from him, in order to show that he was truly man." He, our loving Saviour, chose indeed to die for us in order by his death to prove to us the love that he bore us; but in order that men might not suppose that he had assumed a fantastic body (as some heretics have blasphemously asserted), or that by virtue of his divinity he had died without suffering any pain, He therefore made this prayer to his heavenly Father, not indeed with a view of being heard, but to give us to understand that he died as man, and afflicted with a great fear of death and of the sufferings which should accompany his death.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'Behold, our most loving Saviour, having come to the Garden of Gethsemani, did of his own accord make a beginning of his bitter Passion by giving full liberty to the passions of fear, of weariness, and of sorrow to come and afflict him with all their torments: He began to fear; and to be heavy, to grow sorrowfull, and to be sad.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

'My most loving Saviour, who when weighed down with faintness and grief of heart, in the garden of Gethsemani, didst turn in fervent prayer to the Eternal Father, while the drops of Thy bloody sweat ran down profusely to the ground; grant me the grace that, in memory of Thy most holy passion, I may, at least, shed abundant tears of grief and contrition, as Thou Thy bloody sweat of agony that night. Amen.'
St. Leonard of Port Maurice

It was, above all, according to some saints, during His bloody Agony in Gethsemani, that Our Lord repaired for the sins of thought. Are those sins, then, so grave? Yes. . .'
St. Peter Julian Eymard

'But let us take heart. . . Let us glance at the Divine Master who prayed in the Garden and we will discover the true ladder which unites the earth to Heaven. We will discover that humility, contrition and prayer make the distance between man and God disappear, and act in such a way that God descends to man, and man ascends to God, so that they end up understanding, loving and possessing one another.'
St. Padre Pio

[odhiambo]

The Our Father:
 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.

[odhiambo]

1

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.
Amen

2

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.
Amen

3

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.
Amen

[odhiambo]

4

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.
Amen

5

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.
Amen

6

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.
Amen

[Shin]

7

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.
Amen

8

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.
Amen

9

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.
Amen