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amplification of intro explaining a "Rosary implement" with a tally of the total number of beads of a normal "five-decade Rosary" and the larger "lasso" of fifteen, or with the "Luminous Mysteries", twenty decades
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'''The Rosary''' (Latin: rosarium, "rose garden", Spanish:Rosario), is a traditional devotion in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], originally inspired by the [[Monastery|monastic]] praying of the 150 Psalms. The Rosary is also prayed by some in the [[Anglican Communion]], most notably [[Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]]s.
'''The Rosary of the Blessed Virgin [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Mary]]''' (Latin: rosarium, "rose garden", Spanish:Rosario, English: "rosary"), is a traditional [[prayer]] devotion in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], originally inspired by the [[Monastery|monastic]] praying of the 150 [[Psalms]]. The Rosary is also prayed by some in the [[Anglican Communion]], most notably [[Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]]s.
The Rosary is a compact summation of Christian doctrine directed toward Almighty God. It begins with the [[Sign of the Cross]], the [[Apostles' Creed]] and the [[Lord's Prayer|Our Father]], followed by a prayer combining the Angelic Salutation of [[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] when he first appeared to Mary and announced the [[Incarnation]], with the declaration of Elizabeth to Mary when she was filled with the Holy Spirit and cried out, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb", and a petition to Mary to [[Intercession of the saints|pray for sinners]], "now and at the hour of our death", concluding with an [[Amen]] and a prayer of [[praise]] directed to the [[Trinity|Holy Trinity]], "Glory be to the [[God the Father|Father]] and to the [[Jesus Christ|Son]] and to the [[Holy Spirit]]'''!'''. It concludes with a prayer to Mary to look on us with mercy and pray for us ([[intercession]]), and a final prayer to Almighty God, "whose Only-begotten Son, by his life, death and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life<ref>"rewards of eternal life". See Acts 20:28; Ephesians 1:14; 2:11-22; also Matthew 5:12; 10:41-42; 16:27; Romans 2:10; Colossians 2:18; 3:24; Hebrews 12:28; 2 John 8; see verses referring to Christ's sacrifice on the Cross as meriting for us our unmerited salvation as the free gift of God, Romans 5:15-18; 2 Corinthians 9:15; Ephesians 4:7; Hebrews 6:4-6.</ref>, grant, we beseech thee, that in meditating upon the mysteries in the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may both imitate what they contain, and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ Our Lord, amen." The prayers of the Rosary are concluded with the Sign of the Cross, orienting the whole to salvation in and through Christ Jesus alone. <blockquote>"In the Rosary is contained in compact form the whole of the Christian doctrine of salvation."</blockquote>
'''A Rosary''' also refers to the Rosary implement, which is simply called a Rosary. It is a circular string or chain, usually of fifty-five beads, a "five-decade Rosary", beginning with a pendant [[crucifix]] and four additional beads representing one ''Our Father'' prayer and three ''Hail Mary'' prayers for faith, hope and charity, followed by a spacing for the ''Glory Be'' prayer, and a single ''Our Father'' bead representing the first of the five decades, which is attached to the circlet of five groupings of beads called decades (Latin ''decade'': "ten"), representing five sets of one ''Our Father'' prayer and ten groupings of the ''Hail Mary'' prayer each set separated by a space for the ''Glory Be'' prayer. The circlet and the pendant of the crucifix with the four introductory prayer beads with the single Our Father bead for the first decade are usually joined together with a small medallion representing Mary in prayer to God bestowing His divine graces on the world. The "five-decade Rosary" used three times equals fifteen decades in representation of the 150 Psalms.
A larger "fifteen-decade Rosary" implement is made up of the full number of fifteen decades, sometimes referred to in Spanish terminology as a ''lasso''<ref>"a lasso". Not only because of its physical form, but in reference to devoutly capturing souls for Christ and the Kingdom of God by prayer, and "rounding them up" in the gathering of the Church.</ref>. Together with the pendant crucifix with four introductory beads and the fifteen Our Father beads with each of the fifteen decades divided by fifteen spaces, the number of Rosary beads in the "full Rosary" totals 169 beads (150 + 15 + 4).
The additional five decades of the ''Luminous Mysteries'', the "Mysteries of Light" promulgated by [[Pope John Paul II]], makes a "full Rosary" of twenty decades. A ''lasso'' made for the purpose of including these decades as an integral part of the whole would total 224 beads (169 + 55).
The Catholic Church teaches that the words of prayers said without intention from the heart, soul and mind, merely "going through the motions" [[Indifference|indifferently]]<ref>What the Bible calls "vain repetition"—also called "rattling them off" as a dead [[habit]] having no significant meaning, empty of content.</ref>, offering only empty "lip service"<ref>Isaiah 29:13; Matthew 15:8; Mark 7:6</ref> with the willful distraction of thinking of other things as more important, without reverence and love in the lifting up of the heart and mind toward God, is a serious [[sin]] of irreverence. See [[Sacrilege]] and [[Blasphemy]], also [[Hypocrites]] and [[Pharisees]].
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