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Examine the importance and place of religious symbols within the Catholic Church. Understand the role of art in worship and how art and statues help those in the Church.

Part of Religious StudiesBeliefs, teachings & practices - Unit 3

Rosary

are an aid to worship that focus on a set order of prayers.

Woman praying with wooden rosary beads
The use of rosary beads allows an individual to keep track of their prayers without becoming distracted and losing their place

Mysteries of the Rosary

When the rosary is used in prayer, one of the Mysteries of the Rosary is said. Each of the mysteries is split into five events of the life of Jesus. The rosary allows the individual to focus on the life of Christ as the of God.

Joyful Mysteries

  1. The Annunciation. Fruit of the Mystery: Humility.
  2. The Visitation. Fruit of the Mystery: Love of Neighbour.
  3. The Nativity. Fruit of the Mystery: Poverty, Detachment from the things of the world, Contempt of Riches, Love of the Poor.
  4. The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Fruit of the Mystery: Gift of Wisdom and Purity of mind and body (Obedience).
  5. The Finding of Jesus in the Temple. Fruit of the Mystery: True Conversion (Piety, Joy of Finding Jesus).

Sorrowful Mysteries

  1. The Agony in the Garden. Fruit of the Mystery: Sorrow for Sin, Uniformity with the Will of God.
  2. The Scourging at the Pillar. Fruit of the Mystery: Mortification (Purity).
  3. The Crowning with Thorns. Fruit of the Mystery: Contempt of the world (moral courage).
  4. The Carrying of the Cross. Fruit of the Mystery: Patience.
  5. The Crucifixion and Death of our Lord. Fruit of the Mystery: Perseverance in faith, grace for a holy death (Forgiveness).

Glorious Mysteries

  1. The Resurrection. Fruit of the Mystery: Faith.
  2. The Ascension. Fruit of the Mystery: Hope, Desire for ascension to Heaven.
  3. The Descent of the Holy Spirit. Fruit of the Mystery: Love of God, Holy Wisdom to know the truth and share with everyone, Divine Charity, Worship of the Holy Spirit.
  4. The Assumption of Mary. Fruit of the Mystery: Grace of a Happy Death and True Devotion towards Mary.
  5. The Coronation of the Virgin. Fruit of the Mystery: Perseverance and increase in virtue (Trust in Mary's Intercession).

Luminous Mysteries (Light)

  1. The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan. Fruit of the Mystery: Openness to the Holy Spirit, the Healer.
  2. The Wedding at Cana. Fruit of the Mystery: To Jesus through Mary. The understanding of the ability to manifest through faith.
  3. Jesus' Proclamation of the Kingdom of God. Fruit of the Mystery: Trust in God (Call of Conversion to Messiah).
  4. The Transfiguration. Fruit of the Mystery: Desire for Holiness.
  5. The Institution of the Eucharist. Fruit of the Mystery: Adoration.

At the end of each decade, the and are recited. The Gloria makes explicit the Catholic belief in the Trinity. This prayer outlines the Trinity as well as the omnipresent nature of it.

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.
鈥 Gloria Patri, also known as the Glory Be
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