fatima rosary

I understand from EWTN's website that it's OPTIONAL per Pius XII, but I can't find a church encyclical or document that refers to this. Does anyone know? Serious answers, please...
Thank you (!) for your opinions on religion, but I'm only looking for this info. (Not debates or judgements).

after 1918 the prayers started to spread with the growth of popularity of fatima and the apparation was approved fairly soon after (before WWII) and became very popular after WWII and in the early Cold War

Jesus,(Mat26"44)prayed repeatively and repeatedly
the emphasis is on VAIN or empty. I find repeating prayers like "Jesus" very fulfilling and meaningful

I love the rosary and i get much out of it

The Angels in Heaven in Rev4:8pray repetively day and night or unceassingly

I also use the rosary beads(Dominican) topray the Chaplet of mercy, the Kyrie, Christ is Risen and Veni ,Sancte Spiritus

2008-05-11 18:32:51 by jlc

Celebration of The 90th Anniversary of the Fatima apparition Of Our Lady of the Rosary This is a video of Fatima in 2006 Public Square Rosary ...

He does not want you to sleep with the rope on; wear it only during the day.

What is this talking about the rosary ...the scapula.....are we not to wear these during the night?

The children had been asked to make sacrifices for the reparation of sin by the Angel before their first encounter with Our Lady of Fatima.

One day while playing the children came across a piece of rope.
They decided to divide it into three pieces and each wore it tightly around their waist as a act of sacrifice.
They wore these so tightly around their waists that sometimes it drew blood.

The Virgin Mary told the children that although God was very pleased with their act of reparation ...they were in their youth exuberance going to far when they wore it day and night.


She therefore told them to not wear it during the night.

Peace

2009-02-19 21:50:55 by STONER

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my bf asked his dad to buy a rosary for me while visited Lady Fatima church in Portugal. I'm not Christian & I didn't ask him to buy. He is Catholic & he never has intention to convert me to christianity. So what do u think he thought of giving me a rosary?Does he really serious & commited to our relationship?

His Catholicism is very important to him and the rosary is a common tool and important symbol of the Catholic faith. Many Catholics find peace in owning a rosary.
Rather than trying to convert you, it seems to me that he simply wants to share something special with you, even if you don't believe or understand the significance.

I do wonder, however, how serious your relationship is. Has marriage been brought up? The Catholic church has a series of ridiculous rules concerning Catholics marrying non-Catholics. The process and procedure of getting permission from the church to marry can take a long time. I wonder if your boyfriend could be hinting at converting you for the sake of making it easier to marry you.

Either way, it couldn't hurt to ask him why he wants to give you a rosary.

2008-07-16 05:22:03 by ling

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well they say no wer only prayin thru Mary,but how can u pray thru sum1 dat is not present u firstly av 2 pray 2 her in order for her to hear u.but how do u kno that she hears u?please show me a scripture that backs up the notion that ppl in "heaven" can hear our prayers
n furthermore how do we kno that she is in heaven,not sayin dat shes not but wer is da scriptural proof?please let us as a people use the Bible as our first source of Godly knowledge.
why do people go before the statues and pray please don't deny it because there are numerous pictures of people bowing down before these stautues and praying.
How do we kno what the virgin Mary and Jesus even looked like?
our lady fatima n rosary cud it not av bin an illusion,have u read the promises that come with the reciting of the rosary,thats not biblical?
why do u allow gay priests?
papal infallibility please explain and please scripture to back it up
To Fundie-Yes in revelations 8:3-4, it says that the prayers of the saints were going up as incense …… however no where in the Bible was there ever an occurrence of somebody praying to an angel or any other heavenly being besides God. So just because an angel was holding it could just mean that that’s the angel’s duty is to hold the prayers of the saints. It doesn’t justify us praying to saints/angels because they can probably not hear us if God doesn’t enable them to. Are guardian angels and saints the same because I feel that according to Fundie they are. Asking a person to intercede for you is a totally different ball game to asking somebody who is not present and is in “ heaven” because who will need to pray to this person why go through that way when you can go straight to Jesus who said that we should approach his throne with boldness. For the record that book of Maccabees is not the Bible I read so sorry, I don’t accept its testimony.
To Erwin- Statues were needed to as teaching aids, and what exactly does the statue teach you about God? Mary /Jesus
To Denise – Sacred traditions now are they?Didnt the Pharisees have Sacred Traditions and they placed their Traditions above God’s law, and the entire issue about Mary giving St. Dominic the rosary, well questionable source???? The Bible is the only true word of God Why do you need holy reminders ,U can only worship God in Spirit and in truth, no need for imagery to remind you, that was the problem with the Israelites they needed something visible to look to.
for all the people with wonderful grammar ,please look past my appalling grammar and answer the questions at hand.
I came here for answers if you haven't got them feel free to exit this page.

Do Those in Heaven Pray for us

Not only do those in heaven pray with us, they also pray for us. In the book of Revelation, we read: "[An] angel came and stood at the altar [in heaven] with a golden censer; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God" (Rev. 8:3-4).


Fundamentalists often challenge the Catholic practice of asking saints and angels to pray on our behalf. But the Bible directs us to invoke those in heaven and ask them to pray with us.

Does the Bible Invoke those in Heaven to pray for us

Thus, in Psalm 103 we pray, "Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will!" (Ps. 103:20–21). And in the opening verses of Psalms 148 we pray, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!"

Jesus himself warned us not to offend small children, because their guardian angels have guaranteed intercessory access to the Father: "See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven" (Matt. 18:10).


Because he is the only God-man and the Mediator of the New Covenant, Jesus is the only mediator between man and God (1 Tim. 2:5), but this in no way means we cannot or should not ask our fellow Christians to pray with us and for us (1 Tim. 2:1–4). In particular, we should ask the intercession of those Christians in heaven, who have already had their sanctification completed, for "[t]he prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects" (Jas. 5:16).


"But not the high priest [Christ] alone prays for those who pray sincerely, but also the angels . . . as also the souls of the saints who have already fallen asleep


Rom 6:3-4
Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.

Col 2:12
You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, the saints, and also for me, that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak" (Ephesians 6:18-20).


"First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way. This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:1-4).


But doesn't the Bible says Jesus is the only Mediator between God and man?
A: Yes, it does; in 1 Timothy 2:5 ("For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus"), but we just quoted the four verses immediately preceding this one, and you will remember that in them Paul said: "I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men."

So the fact that Jesus is the one Mediator between God and man does not prevent other people from acting as intercessors. And we know intercessory prayer certainly does not displease God, for in the same passage we just cited, Paul tells us: "This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior
I am sometimes stunned at how people can hop up and down about what Paul says in 1 Timothy 2:5 and yet miss the subject of intercessory prayer, which is not only the topic of the preceding four verses, but the segue into the discussion of Jesus' unique Mediatorship.

Second, he is the only Mediator between God and man because he is the Mediator of the New Covenant, by which we obtain salvation. This sense of his unique Mediatorship, however, does not prevent other people from being mediators in a parallel sense, for Moses is described as the mediator of the Old Covenant (Galatians 3:19-20), just as Jesus is the Mediator of the New Covenant (Hebrews 8:6, 9:15, 12:24; note that the Greek word used in the Galatians and Hebrews passages, mesites = mediator, is the same as in 1 Timothy 2:5). However, since the Mosaic covenant is now defunct, that leaves Jesus as the only covenant Mediator today.


"But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you mamay be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:44-45)

The unique Mediatorship of Christ thus no more prevents our brother and sister Christians in heaven from praying for us than it prevents our brother and sister Christians here on earth from praying for us. It is intercessory prayer in both cases

In fact, the saints in heaven are even more suited to this than living Christians (the saints on earth) because they have undivided devotion toward God. Here on earth we are afflicted with lethargy, distractions, difficulty in concentration, and lack of fervor in prayer, but in heaven none of these are the case. Our brothers and sisters in heaven are the perfect prayer warriors, having been freed of the distractions of the body.

For example, consider the following verses and the concern they show those in heaven having for what happens on earth:
"Then one of the elders [who represent the hierarchy of the people of God in heaven] addressed me, saying, 'Who are these, clothed in white robes, and whence have they come?' I said to him, 'Sir, you know.' And he said to me, 'These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" (Revelation 7:13-14).
"[A]nd they [the elders] sang a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth'" (Revelation 5:9-10).
"Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ [this tells us these are the voices of humans], and he shall reign for ever and ever'" (Revelation 11:15).
"And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshipped God, saying, 'We give thanks to thee, Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast, that thou hast taken thy great power and begun to reign. The nations raged, but thy wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for rewarding thy servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear thy name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth'" (Revelation 11:16-18).
"And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, 'Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren [this indicates it is a human voice] has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!'" (Revelation 12:10-12).
After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying, 'Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.' Once

How do you know the saints in heaven are praying for us

"And Onias spoke, saying, 'This is a man who loves the brethren and prays much for the people and the holy city, Jeremiah, the prophet of God'" (2 Maccabees 15:14).

What makes you think the saints can hear our prayers?
A: The very verses we just quoted. It goes without saying, for example, that our guardian angels are aware of what we are doing. It is their job to guard us, after all, so we can be sure they know what we are doing and when we are asking them to pray for us.
And in the same way, when we read of the saints in heaven offering our prayers to God in the form of incense (Revelation 5:8, 8:3-4), we know they are aware of our prayers.
Remember: Most of the saints don't have physical bodies right now. They furthermore don't have physical prayer request cards or physical incense or anything like that. This means that when they are pictured as presenting God with our prayers, they are not physically presenting him with our prayers, so they must be mentally presenting them to him. But if they are mentally presenting our prayers to God then they must be aware of our prayers.

2009-02-12 05:20:36 by IloveJesus

I believe that Mary's messages at Fatima and at other times she has appeared are more important now than ever before. At first she warned that if people did not turn away from sin and selfindulgences and anti God beliefs and activites, that great wars and punishments would happen to the world. But since most people did not heed her, it looks like all those things are happening, It is not because God wants to punish us but because we have failed Him, and, for our own good, we have to be humbled. There is too much selfishness, arrogance, and intellectual pride going on today and that truly is a tragedy. But it is never too late to try to turn it around. Prayer from the heart is a wonderful instrument that can change God's plans, and it has worked before, and will work now if we commit.
For those who do not know what the rosary is, it's a beautiful meditation on the mysteries of Jesus' life prayed on beads with a cross at the end. All of the prayers are based in the Bible.
God bless you!
I am so impressed with the personal emails I have recieved in such a short time with wonderful people saying they want to pray the rosary for peace. Thank you all and don't stop responding.

Hey, even those who don't pray the rosary but still want to join us in prayer, please get in touch, and I know that no matter what prayers we choose to pray, if we all pray together for a common noble cause, it will work.

I have already told those who have responded, that when I fill this calendar of commited prayers, I will send it to the Pope asking for a
special blessing on all of us and our effort.

Thanks and God bless all o you.

I WILL!! You can count on me for every Saturday morning. I promise to stick to this commitment because it is such a hugely important task. I already do pray the Rosary often whenever I have a chance, but I will commit to Saturday morning for the just cause of World Peace.

Wouldn't it be great if enough people heard the call and commited to praying the Rosary, that it would be prayed by someone somewhere everyday or even hourly around the clock?
Even the wars we are seeing now that threaten our peace and way of life could be overted or lessened if we all pray for it.

Thank you for a great idea. Love you and God bless!

2006-10-09 05:19:19 by cnsrvtvbabe