Dear friends, today, October 7th is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. This feast was instituted by Pope St. Pius V in thanksgiving for the great naval victory over the Turks at the battle of Lepanto on this day in the year 1570, a favor due to the recitation of the Rosary. I bring you ten great tips that will augment our Rosary devotion and consequently better our devotion to Mary.

1. Less Is More

"It is not necessary to ramble through the whole Rosary; it is better to say only one or two decades, and to say them right. quality is more important than quantity."...Msgr. Romano Guardini (The Rosary Of Our Lady)

2. You Are Not Alone

A great proponent of Marian devotion, St. Louis de Montfort urges us to be aware of our company while praying the rosary. In The Secret of the Rosary, Montfort reminds us that, when we pray the Rosary, we should put ourselves in God’s presence and imagine that He (along with the Blessed Mother) is watching us and that our guardian angel is standing to our right. If we say the prayers well, our angel will use them to make crowns for Jesus and Mary. Thinking about this before beginning to pray helps us to realize that we are doing A LOT more than just repeating pious words!

3. Watch What You Say

St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, contributes a simple, but often overlooked suggestion. He encourages us to pronounce each Our Father and Hail Mary clearly and without rushing. In doing so, we will better express our love for Mary and Jesus. When praying the Rosary, it’s easy to fall into the trap of mumbling and our rushing through the prayers. Remembering that the Our Father was handed down to us from Jesus and that most of the Hail Mary is taken directly from Scripture should help us to recall that the words DO mean something!

4. Been There, Done That.

“In the Rosary we rejoice, sorrow and triumph with Our Lady as she walks the same path we have to walk. But now she has reached the end.”....Maisie Ward

When we pray the Rosary, we should remember that Mary understands our problems and confusion. By meditating on the events in her life and the life of her Son, we can obtain help for our daily struggles from someone who is now in a place where we’d like to someday be!

5. Listen To The Word

In his Apostolic Letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae (On The Most Holy Rosary), Pope Saint John Paul II recommends that we supplement our Rosary meditations with Bible reading. After announcing the individual mystery, the late Holy Father encourages us to read an appropriate Bible passage. While this is not always possible (if we are praying while walking or driving, for instance), we can still mentally recall the details of an appropriate Bible story. This underscores the importance of becoming familiar with Sacred Scripture.

6. Savour The Repititions

Sometimes it feels as if praying the Rosary is just “repeating a bunch of words”! In fact, one of the criticisms of the Rosary is that it is nothing more than “vain repetition”. In his book, The World’s First Love: Mary, Mother of God, Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen addresses those who consider the rosary to be monotonous. Using the analogy of a husband telling his wife “I love you” or a mother proclaiming “you’re a good boy” to her child, Sheen stresses that the words mean something different at each point in time that they are repeated. In the same way, each time we pray the Rosary, we are saying “I love you” to God, the Trinity, to Jesus and to Mary. With each successive bead (or decade) the meaning shifts as we contemplate a new aspect of Jesus or Mary’s love.

7. Do Whatever He Tells You

Praying the Rosary, no matter how devoutly, is never a substitute for following the commands of Jesus and His Church. The Rosary should spur us on to live the mysteries in our daily life. In his book, The Sermons of St. Francis de Sales on Our Lady, St. Francis de Sales had this to say:

“The worldly-minded imagine that devotion to Our Lady usually consists in carrying a rosary in their cincture. It seems to them that it is enough to pray it a number of times without doing anything else. In this they are greatly mistaken. For our dear Mistress wants us to do what her Son commands us (John 2:5) and considers as done to herself the honor we give to her Son by keeping His commandments.”

8. Think

The Rosary is more than a series of prayers to be recited. Rather, it is “a series of thoughts to be dwelt on, to be turned over in the mind, to be applied in daily life.”.....Father Peyton (Rosary Prayer Book)

While we are saying the words of the prayers, we should be meditating upon the mysteries for it’s the key to unleashing the power of the Rosary.

9. Grow In Virtue

Mother Angelica, In her book, (The Prayers and Personal Devotions of Mother Angelica) discusses how to use the Rosary to grow in Virtue:

“If you’re not making progress in one virtue, say your Rosary and meditate on that virtue as Our Lord practiced it. I cannot get over my faults and weaknesses if I don’t substitute those faults and weaknesses for something of God. This is precisely why the life of Jesus and the reading of Scripture and the rosary never seem to change us – why we remain the same: Because to change you need to admire someone other than yourself.”

10. Ask Mary For Help

This one’s so obvious that it’s easy to overlook!. Before beginning the Rosary, we should ask Our Blessed Mother to help us pray devoutly. Although the Rosary follows a simple pattern, it can be a very challenging prayer to master. Rest assured that many of the Saints struggled with it too. If you find it difficult to pray the Rosary, try out these tips and see what happens. It might take a little time, but eventually your persistence will pay off. The next time you pick up your rosary beads, imagine that you’re holding Mary’s hand and taking a trip to visit Jesus. For when we pray the Rosary, that’s exactly what happens!

Obliged to; www.followingthetruth.com/10-great-tips-to-help-you-pray-not-just-say-the-rosary/

Things to Do in honour of this great feast.

1. Attend Mass

2. Pray 5 decade of the rosary

3. Present a blessed Rosary to a friend/relation/stranger and urge him/her to pray it. (It should be presented as a gift)

4. Read the encyclicals on the rosary, and the latest apostolic letter

5. Share Testimonies on favours obtained from praying the rosary

6. Post the angelic salutation (Hail mary...) in your native language.

7. Live the holy Rosary

Ave! Maria.

You are very correct at least No verse of the bible was mentioned in your write-ups above.

Anyway Jesus in the book of Pope Peter 1 vs 2 says Whatever we ask God in the name of Mary(via the rosary), God will answer.

Thanks for the tips @ damerry

Nice one @ OP, God bless you.

Quick Facts about The Rosary

*.According to tradition, St. Dominic spread the devotion to the Holy Rosary in the thirtheenth century.

*.The Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary is observed on October 7th.

* The word Rosary means “crown of roses.”

* Praying the Rosary beads from right to left or left to right is perfectly okay.

*The crucifix and the first five beads are known as the pendent of the Rosary

*The Rosary has a crucifix, 59 beads, and oftentimes a centerpiece.

*Some other names for the Holy Rosary include: the Rosary, The Most Holy Rosary, the “Psalter of Mary,” the “prayer of the saints,” the Marian Rosary, “the beads,” and the “prayer weapon.”

*.Pope Piux XI dedicated the month of October to the Rosary in the twentieth century.

www.bellaonline.com/articles/art69090.asp

damerry:
Quick Facts about The Rosary

*.According to tradition, St. Dominic spread the devotion to the Holy Rosary in the thirtheenth century.

*.The Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary is observed on October 7th.

* The word Rosary means “crown of roses.”

* Praying the Rosary beads from right to left or left to right is perfectly okay.

*The crucifix and the first five beads are known as the pendent of the Rosary

*The Rosary has a crucifix, 59 beads, and oftentimes a centerpiece.

*Some other names for the Holy Rosary include: the Rosary, The Most Holy Rosary, the “Psalter of Mary,” the “prayer of the saints,” the Marian Rosary, “the beads,” and the “prayer weapon.”

*.Pope Piux XI dedicated the month of October to the Rosary in the twentieth century.

www.bellaonline.com/articles/art69090.asp

Ye Christians your traditions have made the word of God not to be effective

I wish I could do all these.

It's well!

Ave Maria gracia plena.

All around the world, from the rising of the sun to its setting, the Rosary is prayed by many. Unite your Rosary prayers with those of eveyone praying. Chances are, someone somewhere is praying/meditating on the same mysteries with you.

Been there, experinced it, St. Louis De Monfort counsels on distractions.

one must not be looking for sensible devotion and spiritual consolation in the recitation of the Rosary; nor should one give it up because his mind is flooded with countless involuntary distractions or one experiences a strange distaste in the soul and an almost continual and oppressive fatigue in the body. Neither feeling, nor consolation, nor sighs, nor transports, nor the continual attention of the imagination are needed; faith and good intentions are quite enough. "Faith alone suffices." (C.F secrets of the rosary by St. Louis de monfort.)

Savouring the beauty of the Angelic salutation (Hail mary..) in Nigerian language.

Hail mary in hausa

Agaishe ki Mariyamu, Ka da ki ke mai samu alheri: Ubangiji yana tare de ke, mai albarka ki ke chikin mata, abin haifuwa na chikinki kuma mai-albarka ne Isa.
Mai-Tsarki Mariyamu, uwa Allah, ka yi ma mu maizunubi adua, yanzu dalokoci mutua mu. Amin.