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fivenoises
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Posted: Aug 29 2008 at 6:42pm \| IP Logged

I've been praying rosary novenas recently, and following along with the mysteries outlined in Michelle Quigley's planner (awesome planner!). I seem to remember that this is what the Church advises as well. But what I would prefer to do would be to pray the mysteries chronologically: Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, Glorious with the Glorious always falling on Sunday (and praying the Luminous only once each week).

So here is my silly question: Is that plan okay? Would it be preferable to pray the mysteries in the prescribed order for any spiritual reason, ie: they are more powerful because many in the Church are meditating on the same mysteries?

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Posted: Aug 29 2008 at 8:38pm \| IP Logged

I don't know about the official answer, but I also seem to *get more out of it* when I meditate on the mysteries in chronological order.

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Posted: Aug 29 2008 at 9:18pm \| IP Logged

I was thinking about this the other night. Right now I am doing the 54 Day Rosary Novena and the mysteries are said in chronological order without respect to the day of the week. The only problem with that is that you can end up praying the Sorrowful on Sunday or Glorious on Friday!

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Posted: Aug 30 2008 at 2:11am \| IP Logged

I guess you could get through them once in order and then three out of order if you started on Monday with Joyful, but I think there is spiritual significance in doing the Sorrowful on Friday and the Glorious on Sunday.

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Posted: Aug 30 2008 at 8:22am \| IP Logged

Oh I'm glad I'm not the only one who's wondered about this! I am also doing the 54 day novena right now, but I didn't realize the mysteries go in order for that.

I hadn't thought about Friday; I forgot that it's always supposed to be a penitential day. Hm. My heart says just go chronologically, it's not like we don't touch on some pretty sorrowful topics during the readings at Mass, you know? Though if anyone can give me a "definite" reason for not doing it that way I'd be interested to hear it.

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