Real Life Rosary has generously offered a family six pack (yes 6!) of rosaries and a rosary meditation booklet to be given away here at Suscipio.
Let’s keep this simple shall we?
Just leave a comment on this post before Saturday morning. I will draw Saturday morning and announce the winner.
Real Life Rosaries are very durable, untangleable (is that a word?) and can survive the washing machine. (Ahem)
Some information on the rosary:
The 150 Davidic Psalms (the Psalter of David) have always been prayed by Old Testament Israel, post-Temple Jews, and by Christians for personal prayer, communal prayer, lamentations, praise, thanksgiving, and, in the case of Christians, to demonstrate the fulfillment of prophecy.
They came to form a large part of the Divine Office sung at the various canonical hours by religious. Lay people who didn’t have copies of Scripture or the Breviary and lay people and religious who were illiterate would substitute 150 Pater Nosters (Our Fathers) or Aves (Hail Marys) in place of the 150 Psalms they could not read.
The prayers were originally counted by transferring pebbles from one bag to another, but soon enough Christians began to tie a rope with knots on which to count. This evolved further into using beads or pieces of wood in place of the knots, and this soon came to be called the “Psalter of the Laity.” Around the end of the first millennium, Rosaries contained the present five decades (sets of ten beads), with the Ave beads shaped like white lilies for the purity of the Virgin, and the Pater beads shaped like red roses for the wounds and Passion of Christ.
St. Dominic de Guzman popularized the Marian Psalter in the form we have it today (150 Aves with a Pater after each 10) when Our Lady encouraged him to pray it that way in response to the Albigensian heresy. So associated with the Rosary is St. Dominic that the Rosary is often called the “Dominican Rosary.”
A partial indulgence is gained, under the usual conditions, when praying a third of the Rosary (5 decades) continuously (i.e., one can’t say a decade, go wash the dishes, and return to say the other decades).
A plenary indulgence is gained, under the usual conditions, when it is prayed by a family group or publicly in a church or oratory. The decades’ Mysteries must be announced, and the Mysteries meditated on.
Additional information can be found here:
The Complete Still Waters Rosary
Praying the Rosary with St. Therese of Lisieux Cd
{Hm, our of stock}
Mysteries
{These are songs about the rosary, not the rosary itself. This is one of my favorite CD’s.}
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Beautiful! Six granddaughters. How perfect would that be.
These look lovely. Thanks for the chance to win them.
So beautiful! I would love to win.
Beautiful rosaries!!
I’d love to win..they’re gorgeous!
What a great gift! Enough for everyone in my family and a “spare”!
Please enter me. Thank you.
How nice! I have a ten bead bracelet at my desk that my sister brought me from Italy that I love. And a beautiful crystal rosary by my bed my family gave me for my 40th birthday. I love the idea of this portable rosary to always have by my side.
Love these Rosaries, I bought some last year for kids stockings but can always use more ~ 1 for the purse, 1 for the car, 1 for the nightstand, a basket full for family Rosary…
Thanks for hosting these awesome giveaways!
Wonderful gift! I’ve decided these are they way to go….
Love these rosaries! I have been teaching my boys how to pray the rosary this year and these would be wonderful for little hands! They are lovely.
Without question, 2012 has been the most trying year of my husband and I’s marriage. Thank you for a post providing nourishment and hope. Praying to the blessed mother is all we have.
These thread rosaries are great! I used to have one many years ago but I think I gave it away. You definitely don’t have to worry about breaking them.
Those Rosaries look wonderful!
Beautiful! Thank you for the offer!
Oh these are lovely! I’m just learning to be faithful to praying the rosary every day, and I’m sure these would help:)
Beautiful rosaries. Great for little hands! Thanks for the rosary history refresher, too!
Love the rosaries! Love that the kids can touch them without breaking the beads off
love the baby friendly rosaries. ALL FOR!
Very nice. I love the history of the rosary.
just beautiful.
Such beautiful colors! Inspiring!
Wonderful rosaries!
Love these rosaries! A Peruvian priest friend can make one in I believe it was 3 minutes!