“To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate with Mary the face of Christ.”
“Meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion, and desire. This mobilization of faculties is necessary in order to deepen our convictions of faith, prompt the conversion of our heart, and strengthen our will to follow Christ. Christian prayer tries above all to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, as in lectio divina or the rosary. This form of prayerful reflection is of great value, but Christian prayer should go further: to the knowledge of the love of the Lord Jesus, to union with him.”
Rosary is meditation on the the mysteries of the life of Christ and can lead to contemplative prayer of the heart. You can combine praying Rosary and Lectio Divina to deepen your meditative experience and open up to encounters with the Holy Spirit. We invite you to start with praying one decade of Rosary daily and use Lectio Divina movements to dive into the heart of Jesus.
What you will need: Bible, pen and journal or our Rosary with Lectio Divina Booklet (if you want to journal).
Rosary with Lectio Divina booklet includes all instructions on how to pray. You see several pages above.
Rosary with Lectio Divina can be prayed anywhere and at any time, by all ages. John Paul II in his APOSTOLIC LETTER ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE reminds us of the universal character of this prayer and encourages all to pray Rosary with Scripture reading and meditation. As some of the fruit of such prayer, he mentions experiencing deep peace and becoming people of peace:
“When prayed well in a truly meditative way, the Rosary leads to an encounter with Christ in his mysteries and so cannot fail to draw attention to the face of Christ in others, especially in the most afflicted. How could one possibly contemplate the mystery of the Child of Bethlehem, in the joyful mysteries, without experiencing the desire to welcome, defend and promote life, and to shoulder the burdens of suffering children all over the world? How could one possibly follow in the footsteps of Christ the Revealer, in the mysteries of light, without resolving to bear witness to his “Beatitudes” in daily life? And how could one contemplate Christ carrying the Cross and Christ Crucified, without feeling the need to act as a “Simon of Cyrene” for our brothers and sisters weighed down by grief or crushed by despair? Finally, how could one possibly gaze upon the glory of the Risen Christ or of Mary Queen of Heaven, without yearning to make this world more beautiful, more just, more closely conformed to God’s plan?
In a word, by focusing our eyes on Christ, the Rosary also makes us peacemakers in the world. By its nature as an insistent choral petition in harmony with Christ’s invitation to “pray ceaselessly” (Lk 18:1), the Rosary allows us to hope that, even today, the difficult “battle” for peace can be won.”