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Then as, remember, the Holy Father tells us there are three elements that go to make up a well-meditated rosary. The first of these and you almost want to close your eyes when you hear it, the first says the Pope is mystical contemplation. Your Holiness, thanks for the compliment. Honest, I’m not even a budding Teresa of Avila. Thanks for the suggestion, Your Holiness. [ROFL!] Can you tell me something more simple that will apply to me? Clearly the term, which the Pope uses, “mystical contemplation” needs to be explained.
My notes tell me to tell you we may be confused or turned off to be told that in saying each successive decade we are to practice quote, “mystical contemplation”, unquote. But there’s nothing here either for confusion or being turned off. You know what our problem is – our Mother language, English. I think I’ve spent most of my theological life telling my students the one language that is not Catholic is English. To use the plain Anglo-Saxon, “it ain’t Catholic.” The result is all kinds of meanings, connotations are brought up when we hear words like mystic and contemplation.
First: Mystical Contemplation
Second: Intimate Reflection
Three: Pious Intention
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The origins of the Rosary are generally attributed to Saint Dominic de Guzman (1170-1221 A.D.), a Spaniard who founded the religious Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans. As depicted in the picture on the left, St. Dominic received the concepts of particular prayers that form the Rosary as a gift of religious inspiration from the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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So, as an old altar boy, I was intrigued to learn that WTKM-FM (104.9) in Hartford broadcasts the rosary every day.
And not just before the cock crows or after the cows go to bed: The 15-minute, prerecorded broadcast airs at 4:15 p.m. - drive time for commercial stations - seven days a week.
"It started out as an experiment, and it's been part of our programming for almost 35 years," said WTKM owner Scott Lopas, who is, ironically, a Lutheran.
The rosary is a Roman Catholic devotional in honor of the Virgin Mary and consists of the Apostles' Creed, the Our Father and the Hail Mary. The name comes from the Latin for "garland of roses," and worshipers move their fingers along a garland-like set of beads as they pray.
The rosary "started in the Middle Ages," said Bishop Donald Hying, when "monks would pray the 150 Psalms of the Bible."
A shorter version was developed to allow lay people to participate, said Hying, the West Allis native recently named auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee by Pope Benedict XVI.
The rosary was de-emphasized by the Catholic Church after the second Vatican Council in the 1960s, but today it's "more popular than ever," Hying said. "People are discovering it as a form of meditation."
And although "many young people pray it fervently," said Hying, the worship is associated with older church members like Ron Weber, the sole member of the Holy Name Society of St. Kilian Parish in Hartford, who single-handedly keeps the rosary alive on WTKM.
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